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Sam Minnée @sminn.ee · 23/06/2026

“Shove your complaints up your arse” screams out as a response.

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Sam Minnée @sminn.ee · 22/04/2026

Functionally, yes; behaviourally, no? I would expect Claude code users to be more likely to tokenmaxx

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Sam Minnée @sminn.ee · 12/04/2026

Congratulations on the outcome!

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Sam Minnée @sminn.ee · 11/04/2026

A great time to re-watch Gravity

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Sam Minnée @sminn.ee · 11/04/2026

My point is that trying create the job market we want rather than live with the job market we have is a good thing to do, and efforts to make workplaces more welcoming for women to to close the gender pay gap are examples of that.

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Sam Minnée @sminn.ee · 11/04/2026

It seems similarly shaped to “nut up and take the lower pay”, which is obviously not the right way to think about the labour market.

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Sam Minnée @sminn.ee · 20/03/2026

At least it’s an election year? 😬

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Sam Minnée @sminn.ee · 20/03/2026

Working from home has been a game changer for school-age parenting. Kids can largely mind themselves for a few hours at this age, but you need to be in the same building.

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Sam Minnée @sminn.ee · 20/03/2026

It saddens me that pronatalist stuff is so right-coded, there’s heaps of left-aligned policies that would be great. People aren’t having children because raising children is tough. Make it less tough!

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Sam Minnée @sminn.ee · 20/03/2026

There’s a legit possibility that Trump does something to retreat from his mess if he can; he’s never been one to hold fast. But it also might turn out that it’s not possible to do that. I think the govt is hoping it will come right before the have to share scary plans. Weak.

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Sam Minnée @sminn.ee · 20/03/2026

A massive gap is the ability to communicate hard truths publicly. I expect that some people know what’s going on behind closed doors, although I expect Luxon himself is washing around in a tub of conflicting experts’ viewpoints. Tough calls will be diluted and delayed.

delayed.th

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Sam Minnée @sminn.ee · 20/03/2026

Prescient of the National govt to tear down all the polices encouraging EV uptake, eh?

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Sam Minnée @sminn.ee · 18/03/2026

Maybe I could be a lobster…

“Scientists say lobsters feel no pain” guardian article

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Sam Minnée @sminn.ee · 18/03/2026

Watching Pluribus and seeing the protagonist say “I’m a very independent person” as she asked for a supermarket to be reassembled for her sole use made me rant at my wife for several minutes about how full-of-crap the character is. (I love my wife, she accepts me as I am 😝)

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Sam Minnée @sminn.ee · 18/03/2026

Yeah I can’t remember the specific reference but “language evolved for persuading people, not for communication” is a meme I’ve been implanted with, and seems very similar. “The Red Queen” by Matt Ridley had a lot on the topic.

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Sam Minnée @sminn.ee · 18/03/2026

I like the the theory that it’s like a peacock’s tail - sexually selected rather that naturally selected, advantageous only because the next generation will prefer it too. Hence the amount of mental energy dedicated to getting laid.

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Sam Minnée @sminn.ee · 17/03/2026

A testament to its value that we put up with it eh.

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Sam Minnée @sminn.ee · 17/03/2026

alias cd=‘rm -rf’

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Sam Minnée @sminn.ee · 17/03/2026

OpenClaw: curl | claude as-a-service.

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Sam Minnée @sminn.ee · 17/03/2026

Open access to the internet, open access to your valuable stuff, and easily adding new skills from open repositories is a dangerous combo and a big part of the appeal. That said, there are inconveniences you can trade for more security that will make sense to people. I doubt it’s one-size-fits-all

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Sam Minnée @sminn.ee · 17/03/2026

I’ve done 0.4/0.5 (it just comes out as a single line in either case) and it’s a bit fragile but okay if you have a thicker frame around it.

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Sam Minnée @sminn.ee · 17/03/2026

White, but only a nozzle-width thick?

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Sam Minnée @sminn.ee · 16/03/2026

I mean as I understand it you’re basically describing model distillation?

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Sam Minnée @sminn.ee · 16/03/2026

Removing the weights would be like switching to thin cut: a travesty!

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Sam Minnée @sminn.ee · 16/03/2026

Turns out it’s a very crinkly surface

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Sam Minnée @sminn.ee · 16/03/2026

Twitter back in the day or Twitter now?

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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

the actual reason to run it when you're using an llm is that it throws so many compile-time errors that it is very difficult to write bad code in it

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Sam Minnée @sminn.ee · 16/03/2026

Nobody’s talking about how grating these posts are

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Sam Minnée @sminn.ee · 15/03/2026

It’s hard to get up at 3:49am and celebrate it properly.

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Sam Minnée @sminn.ee · 14/03/2026

Scooby doo meme, TSMC under the mask.

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Sam Minnée @sminn.ee · 14/03/2026

I had a 2013 MacBook Pro and I loved it. I had an M1 air and I loved it. I sweated that 2013 MBP as long as I could, but there was one more machine in between, of which we do not speak.

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Sam Minnée @sminn.ee · 14/03/2026

I remember a comedian once had a bit about being called “sir” in a supermarket for the first time… “Wait, you mean *no-one* knows what they’re doing?!”

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maia arson crimew 🏴 @crimew.gay · 14/03/2026

guy who does buddhism slightly wrong and ends up in nevada after he dies

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Sam Minnée @sminn.ee · 14/03/2026

This post reminded me of being 8 years old, reconfiguring our IBM PS/2 Model 30 every few weeks, to the confusion and frustration of my parents, trying to work out what you could program with DOS batch files.

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Sameer Vasta @sameervasta.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

This is the best product review I’ve read: samhenri.gold/blog/2026031... It doesn’t matter if you’re interested in the MacBook Neo or not; this is the kind of essay that makes you think about the potential of technology and the joys of exploration.

samhenri.gold

“This Is Not The Computer For You” · Sam Henri Gold

Sam Henri Gold is a product design engineer building playful, useful software.

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Sam Minnée @sminn.ee · 13/03/2026

It’s more reasonable to say “grok is a CSAM generator” IMO, given the competing absence of effort they have put into preventing it.

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Sam Minnée @sminn.ee · 13/03/2026

Yeah it’s the only way I’ve found it to work well - it can write the tests too, of course. Getting tests that don’t make me nauseous to read took a lot of nudging. I found that it took a fair bit of tinkering to get working well for me, and then it really flies.

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Sam Minnée @sminn.ee · 13/03/2026

Is it correcting those bugs in order to get tests to pass, though? A test-based feedback loop is essential for getting anything good out of it.

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Sam Minnée @sminn.ee · 13/03/2026

I find it easier to reply saying “no thanks” or “unsubscribe” rather than have them repeatedly email.

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Sam Minnée @sminn.ee · 13/03/2026

Given that there’s several companies that all offer pretty good options, it seems more likely that costs will stabilise at some sustainable non-extractive profit margin, à la cloud hosting. My bigger concern is whether the max accounts are huge loss-makers atm, given the token subsidies.

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Sam Minnée @sminn.ee · 13/03/2026

A context file of some kind up-front would probably do it; not sure how explicit you would have to be. (Ie just “follow the patterns of XYZ” or list examples and specific do/don’t guides). It tends to go for the mean by default, which… is not great. 😬

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Sam Minnée @sminn.ee · 13/03/2026

LLMs aren’t fancy autocomplete—Chris Luxon is.

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Sam Minnée @sminn.ee · 13/03/2026

Why don’t they just fill up the tanker from a petrol station on the far side? Surely they have petrol stations over there?

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Sam Minnée @sminn.ee · 12/03/2026

But an agent run might take 15 minutes and I don’t want to just wait for that.

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Sam Minnée @sminn.ee · 12/03/2026

I have found doing “planning mode” for a number of tasks can work, it narrows the context to a horizontal slice rather than a vertical slice, if that makes sense. So I have a flow where the finished plans are saved to linear. I’m experimenting a lot with different workflows and where I put my attn.

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Sam Minnée @sminn.ee · 12/03/2026

That’s a very good question, and I do ask myself that. Some days it’s astounding how much faster it is, but not all the time. I think there is an extent to which “the context” becomes all tasks, and so it works best if the tasks are either closely related to very simple.

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Sam Minnée @sminn.ee · 12/03/2026

I’ll often queue up 5 or 6 agents to start a plan each, in separate worktrees. Then review the plans sequentially. Get stuck into one and queue up a 1 or 2 more follow up plans on parallel agents in the same worktree, etc… So while I might have 8 agents, many will be waiting.

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Sam Minnée @sminn.ee · 12/03/2026

When I use auto-steer, am I vibedriving?

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Sam Minnée @sminn.ee · 11/03/2026

You must glory in the cognitive toil of the proletariat.

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