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Tilmon Edwards (Dirigo)

@tilmonedwards.com
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Tilmon Edwards (Dirigo) @tilmonedwards.com · 21/09/2026
You're telling me that I'm not highly paid because I'm extremely smart and cool and fun to be around? It's a purely transactional relationship based on my ability to deliver solutions that allow the company to hire fewer people? And my employer does not care if those solutions are computer programs?
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Tilmon Edwards (Dirigo) @tilmonedwards.com · 21/09/2026
Here, I drew a picture If you own the means of production, you still have to buy the inputs that will become your product. The means of production is the harness, not the model.
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Tilmon Edwards (Dirigo) @tilmonedwards.com · 20/09/2026
Well there you have it
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Tilmon Edwards (Dirigo) @tilmonedwards.com · 18/09/2026
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Tilmon Edwards (Dirigo) @tilmonedwards.com · 16/09/2026
Aella, her friends invited
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Tilmon Edwards (Dirigo) @tilmonedwards.com · 14/09/2026
*taps the sign*
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Tilmon Edwards (Dirigo) @tilmonedwards.com · 11/09/2026
Hell yeah get those numbers up
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Tilmon Edwards (Dirigo) @tilmonedwards.com · 08/09/2026
Heating oil too (it's basically diesel without the road tax) Not great for heading into winter...
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Tilmon Edwards (Dirigo) @tilmonedwards.com · 07/09/2026
Yeah, this part stood out to me, I think you might have pointed to it too. He's been programming for 20 years... is he not involved in _creating_ the tickets? Because the answer to this question is, you're not. That's not a job. But there's a TON of work in deciding what to build, why, and how.
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Tilmon Edwards (Dirigo) @tilmonedwards.com · 04/09/2026
caught in 4k
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Tilmon Edwards (Dirigo) @tilmonedwards.com · 01/09/2026
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Tilmon Edwards (Dirigo) @tilmonedwards.com · 29/08/2026
www.kalzumeus.com/2011/10/28/d...
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Tilmon Edwards (Dirigo) @tilmonedwards.com · 27/08/2026
Unbelievable how free from imagination these AI/datacenter people are. Why are we so obsessed with making infrastructure invisible? Look at what they did in London the first time they figured out how to flush turds!
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Tilmon Edwards (Dirigo) @tilmonedwards.com · 25/08/2026
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Tilmon Edwards (Dirigo) @tilmonedwards.com · 23/08/2026
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Tilmon Edwards (Dirigo) @tilmonedwards.com · 22/08/2026
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Tilmon Edwards (Dirigo) @tilmonedwards.com · 21/08/2026
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Tilmon Edwards (Dirigo) @tilmonedwards.com · 21/08/2026
For a long time I got really good use out of the brainstorming skill from ed3d-plugins which tells the agent explicitly when to ask questions, what those questions should look like, and what the answers will be used for. github.com/ed3dai/ed3d-...
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Tilmon Edwards (Dirigo) @tilmonedwards.com · 21/08/2026
And if you twist my arm and make me produce the questions to obtain the missing information, they would be these. I don't have the legal training or experience to know if these are good questions.
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Tilmon Edwards (Dirigo) @tilmonedwards.com · 21/08/2026
But in any case, in the interests of playing along, I'll submit my own answer.
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Tilmon Edwards (Dirigo) @tilmonedwards.com · 20/08/2026
Like... economic value is one type of value, there are many other types. It is not the most interesting type of value, it is not the most fun kind to create. But if "get paid" is the objective: "Add revenue. Reduce costs. Those are your only goals." www.kalzumeus.com/2011/10/28/d...
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Tilmon Edwards (Dirigo) @tilmonedwards.com · 14/08/2026
I'm blocking both of you for the offense of being tedious without profile pictures
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Tilmon Edwards (Dirigo) @tilmonedwards.com · 27/07/2026
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Tilmon Edwards (Dirigo) @tilmonedwards.com · 15/07/2026
I don't expect to convince Dave of anything, but I was curious what this sort of conversation would look like. I don't know what the standard of evidence would be to falsify a claim like "AI agents have no justified true beliefs", but the agent does prefer the truth enough to do useful work.
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Tilmon Edwards (Dirigo) @tilmonedwards.com · 15/07/2026
Alternatively, and hear me out…
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Tilmon Edwards (Dirigo) @tilmonedwards.com · 03/07/2026
Sea captain gang
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Tilmon Edwards (Dirigo) @tilmonedwards.com · 30/06/2026
I'll bite.
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Tilmon Edwards (Dirigo) @tilmonedwards.com · 21/06/2026
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Tilmon Edwards (Dirigo) @tilmonedwards.com · 21/06/2026
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Tilmon Edwards (Dirigo) @tilmonedwards.com · 20/06/2026
See ya
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Tilmon Edwards (Dirigo) @tilmonedwards.com · 08/06/2026
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Tilmon Edwards (Dirigo) @tilmonedwards.com · 31/05/2026
That’s the story behind this chart, which was presented in the comments as a bad thing.
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Tilmon Edwards (Dirigo) @tilmonedwards.com · 28/05/2026
not a good start
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Tilmon Edwards (Dirigo) @tilmonedwards.com · 23/05/2026
"Build for the agent the way you would build for a careful but tired human, and both will do better work"
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Tilmon Edwards (Dirigo) @tilmonedwards.com · 26/04/2026
Oh man, yes please! A no-nonsense plain language explanation (and reality check) of the economic value of art and design. It would probably make a lot of people very mad.
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Tilmon Edwards (Dirigo) @tilmonedwards.com · 26/04/2026
Say more? I know it’s not a sunshine and rainbows kind of essay, but it actually has brought me a lot of happiness over the years in the form of focusing my energy on things that make change in the lives of myself and my family, both at work and outside it.
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Tilmon Edwards (Dirigo) @tilmonedwards.com · 26/04/2026
Either I'm getting trolled or this is pretty funny
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Tilmon Edwards (Dirigo) @tilmonedwards.com · 26/04/2026
He covers that too.
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Tilmon Edwards (Dirigo) @tilmonedwards.com · 25/04/2026
I don't think the existence of coding agents changes a single word of any of this.
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Tilmon Edwards (Dirigo) @tilmonedwards.com · 20/03/2026
Interest communities are like, oh you like the thing? I like the thing too. hell yeah, brother
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Tilmon Edwards (Dirigo) @tilmonedwards.com · 10/03/2026
BTW I highly recommend "Explanatory Output Style" - it's great
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Tilmon Edwards (Dirigo) @tilmonedwards.com · 07/03/2026
Pupdate
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Tilmon Edwards (Dirigo) @tilmonedwards.com · 07/03/2026
This is what ours thinks of all this
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Tilmon Edwards (Dirigo) @tilmonedwards.com · 07/03/2026
I am dogsitting for a friend and it has been like this ALL DAY 😵‍💫
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Tilmon Edwards (Dirigo) @tilmonedwards.com · 24/02/2026
My partner's design is on Yetee today! ❤️ ➡️ theyetee.com
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Tilmon Edwards (Dirigo) @tilmonedwards.com · 17/02/2026
The thing about AI is you need to stop thinking like a consumer and start thinking like a builder. These are tools, and there actually are wrong ways to use them. You're responsible for the agent's output. Flippant questions get flippant answers, garbage in garbage out. claude.ai/share/02ba84...
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Tilmon Edwards (Dirigo) @tilmonedwards.com · 06/02/2026
Here’s a draft essay that I’ve sent to my local paper.
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Tilmon Edwards (Dirigo) @tilmonedwards.com · 30/01/2026
Oh my god. JEFF. Bro. YOU are the one making it a discussion! It IS explicit! For the love of god, stop engaging extremists on their terms. www.kget.com/hill-politic...
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Tilmon Edwards (Dirigo) @tilmonedwards.com · 29/01/2026
Seems like it's a vscode extension that hosts an SSE endpoint on localhost, and when you point an agent at it, the agent gets these tools.
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Tilmon Edwards (Dirigo) @tilmonedwards.com · 25/01/2026
Pipes froze, which means I’ve got my ass in the half height crawlspace relocating pipes. That’s life in the north babyyyyyy 🤙
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