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prompt engineer @browsercompany | I make apps. My code runs on 100mil+ phones | former iOSdev @Twitter | indie dev @mindGoblinStdio

Seattle, WA
Joined October 2012
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Now this is engineering
Introducing “retardmax” mode for Claude 🥔 "Ultrathink" mode runs the turn at max reasoning... but what if you want lowest? Now you can. Just "retardmax". Need claude do something simple like: "commit the code"? Don't waste tokens 💸, just type 'retardmax' " Yes it's a real Claud mod
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Garblebench. Fantastic name.
> prompt: "Aahl s5ehxaxlizat/icry=0uasv65.s" > Gemini: "The capital of Australia is Canberra." Gemini has really weird niche strengths Introducing GarbleBench: Can models read highly corrupted prompts?
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Well that’s annoying for anyone remixing games. Interesting move. Hilarious that this doesn’t include other apps. Feel free to clone 2000 SaaS apps. But a game, whoa buddy. We can’t have 2000 Mario’s.
ANTHROPIC IS CRACKING DOWN ON VIDEO GAME REWRITES 🚨 Claude Code picked up a new rule around Oct 27, sent from Anthropic’s servers under a flag called "tengu_heron_brook". There’s no setting to turn it off. The full rule: “Do build original games, games in a genre, and games from the user’s own designs and assets. Don’t build a recreation of a specific existing game, even if it is renamed or called original.” Is this the end of game rewrites, modding and everything in between?
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Well said. Programming is dead.
Replying to @josephfcox
Here is Proton CTO's AI manifesto, that I obtained multiple copies of 404media.co/manifestos-fear-…
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What if the software factory is your customers? Why pay software engineers when you can get your users to spend their tokens to make fixes for you? Report bug button -> Just tell their agent to clone the repo, fix it and open a PR.
Day 27/ Run into a bug? Debug it in t3 code itself with cmd+k "triage" This will: - Clone the T3 Code source for your exact version - Give context with a playbook to your agent of choice - Let you debug and fix the problems with your agent - Cut an issue if it's our fault
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Well this is seeming more & more correct
BREAKING: Binance has been hacked with wallets across the Ethereum, Bitcoin, and TRON networks seeing outflows of -$5.7 billion. The hack includes $1.45 billion worth of Bitcoin and $875 million worth of ETH. If confirmed, this would mark the biggest hack in crypto history. We expect more information shortly.
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I am pretty concerned we are in the early stages of a global cyber security incident and we just don't fully realize the extent of it yet.
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Btw AI job interviews have already been happening for the last 20 years. That’s what the neural nets in social media algorithms were doing. People got jobs opportunities, got rich, or didn’t because of their willingness and ability to present themselves via media. This has always been impersonal, such is the nature of media. But, this has never before been so required to participate in society and earn a living. Young people’s income and ability to have children is now decided based on your ability to record yourself on camera and send good slack messages. However with AI the camera talks back. The algorithm that determines your livelihood requires you to dance and please it in all new ways. Hope you brought your dancin shoes.
This is such a bleak story about what it's like to try to land a job right now. nytimes.com/interactive/2026…
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“software development lifecycle” doesn’t end until your feature is incepted into the users mind and regularly adding value to their lives and/or your business.
It is easier to build features than it is to announce them
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AI brain surgery on a mouse. Don’t you worry they had a stop button
Last night an AI agent performed brain surgery on a mouse. We gave it 19 gene therapy vectors in a spreadsheet, a mouse model of epilepsy, access to a motorize surgery rig with cameras and one goal: reduce seizures. It picked the drug. It picked the brain region. It derived the coordinates from three papers. Then it drove the stereotaxic arms into the brain and injected 250 nanolitres while watching the entry site through the rig camera for bleeding. A licensed vet gated every irreversible step and held a physical kill switch to stop the AI agent. Thread on what it decided, what it saw, and the moment it refused to let me override it. [Writing this on the spot out of excitement, but I've been 18hrs in front of my laptop coding and coordinating this, so keeping it brief and descriptive, more cohesive thoughts on this soon...]
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I’m so glad someone is doing this. Can’t wait to see how this scales. Can we build everyone a mansion or skyscraper?
Our robots built this in the city of Almere: curved walls, different types of bricks and bonds, indented text. Real world deployment, insane complexity, 100% of every brick done by our robots, with another 15 houses to come in the coming weeks.
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I need to be going faster. Don’t I? Great post. Recommended read.
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When I tell you I ran to the App Store immediately. Please save me from kindle! Already has deals with publishers!?! Really enjoyed Readwise in the past so stoked to try this.
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I’m actually so bummed they didn’t bring back the touchbar. I’m not sure it makes sense to touch a vertical laptop screen? Like I would rather have a touchbar and touch pad. Or pencil. Not a touchscreen? Idk maybe not for me.
We brought Touch to the Mac! From the all-new iPad mini to the 14-inch MacBook Pro and iMac... and now MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display and Touch, creators have new tools to do their best work yet.
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Nick Dobos retweeted
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is the end of UI for SaaS
Introducing 'stripe pay', for instant business-to-business transfers. Find companies using their Stripe profile handle and send funds for free. Available in the Dashboard and CLI.
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Solving Distribution is a feature
It is easier to build features than it is to announce them
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I remember when anytime you flew to certain cities, you would see multiple people reading this on the plane as they practiced for big tech interviews. What a time. RIP.
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the moat is that i got the dawg in me
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Game engines are dead Long live world models
We got GTA Waymo before GTA 6 (this is fully interactive real-time video from Genie 4)
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