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Applied AI, open source, databases & infrastructure, remote. itinerant businessperson. globalist.

Up In The Air
Joined March 2007
OpenClaw helped @amirulruslan sort out his notes, assist in applying for a grant, that led to his award winning documentary, Lost In Transit. For him, it’s all about stories first, with systems that serve them. The tool matters less than the workflow, and you’ll also notice he makes use of more basic AI subs to get stuff done. You don’t need to be a tokenmaxxer to produce useful work. Keep on rocking it Amirul @prmptcity
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Building personal apps is where AI shines. You don’t have to be technical. You just have to have taste. And keep on extending the app. This is Chloe Sin Yin’s app, made with Claude Code, called First Litter, to help her take care of her dog that was pregnant + her litter. So very cool @prmptcity
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Senior AI product builders command a premium in Malaysia now, via Malaysian PayGap. Interesting to hear that exabytes ceo recently mentioned that for an accounting role, he hired a software engineer. We can build it all! Microsoft paper recently stated that Malaysia ranks low on AI adoption amongst the labour force, despite having the 3rd highest AI compute capacity in the world. Via Edward Yeap @prmptcity who has been using Dots to reply to a lot of his emails. A lot of QA engineers are transitioning to swe’s. They also look at entire SEA market with their data; trying to get stronger outside Malaysia.
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Totally enjoyed making this deck & giving the workshop, prompt to process. How often do you think in flowcharts for the overall process, and trees for the decisions within it? We turned real jobs into repeatable AI process with clear inputs, checked outputs, and human approval before action. Your domain knowledge matters. Thank you @OpenAIDevs @AmpCode @NousResearch for the credits for participants. This video was fully cut with ChatGPT!
Say hi if you're downtown today — attending PROMPT:CITY, part of Urbanscapes, all day. I'm moderating and speaking from 4pm for the How I Solved It session! First up @joonian introducing @bytebot for his workshop
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Replying to @thsottiaux
Click enough, find, get to ChatGPT. lol
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Replying to @alexandr_wang
Can we please get Malaysia next?
🤖 Made with AI
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Do we know how OpenAI Dots will handle chat length limits? Because they do exist and get enforced, even if it feels almost limitless
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When a term makes you an enemy of the state.
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Awful take, just read the thread. .doc: 1983 .docx: 2006 Markdown is great, love it. It’s not going to give us print & pagination fidelity, we’re not going to have granular revision tracking in git for the general population, what about layout complexity & the non-technical barrier? (And I’ve worked on these file formats back in the day with OpenOffice & the Open Document Format)
I give it 5 years until the last docx will be phased out for Markdown. Computers are for agents now, and token-efficient representations will dominate. It's going to be Python, Markdown, and JSON all the way down.
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CTOS so casual about being hacked. Sure they filed with bursa malaysia 23 September 2026 that they had an incident. What about the users of this credit reporting agency? What actual data leaked, and where is it for sale?
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I thought with enough tokens, we could fix everything. Instead XSLT support is going away from Chrome (& other browsers), because libxslt was unmaintained for a while, and being a C codebase, it is seemingly too hard to maintain securely. Wasn't the alpha rewriting in Rust? chromestatus.com/feature/470… Any thoughts @danielveillard ? IIRC you wrote this ages ago!
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