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joe@abovethewater.co.uk

CTO at Duel

https://www.duel.tech

https://www.linkedin.com/in/abovethewater

Author of Context Capsules

https://contextcapsules.com

https://contextcapsules.com/v2/CONTEXT_CAPSULES.md

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_puk··on Overcooked? Why robotic pizza makers are failing
What makes an amazing coffee?

That's a truly dialled in experience based on many iterations and fine control of input factors.

That's the parallel I'm envisaging.

Robo pizza doesn't need to mean 30 second pizza.

Just a perfect pizza at the end of the process with no humans involved.

I see that as infinitely achievable.

_puk··on Doctors are finally learning to manage antidepressant withdrawal
These comments about brains zaps is the first time I've heard confirmation from what I've experienced.

I've had them every time I've started or stopped a *pine antidepressant.

Like, something rolls off the counter and my natural reaction would catch it.

Instead, my hand doesn't move, and a brain zap.

Physically painful.

_puk··on Overcooked? Why robotic pizza makers are failing
So, the "it'll get better" is the robot pizza learning.

There's no reason it won't improve because we know that there is actually a world in which amazing pizzas exist.

Teleporters seems a rather random comparison for the sibling reply

_puk··on Overcooked? Why robotic pizza makers are failing
If there's financial incentive for it to, why wouldn't it?
_puk··on Tragically, as many as 9625 out of every 10k individuals may be neurotypical
> wont accept clear straightforward plain language explanation of what others want

From experience this feels to me like a very NT thing to say (apologies if you're not NT, no context to determine either way) - it comes across as written: "Why can't you just do what I ask you".

Often it feels atypical people require a logical understanding from first principles of why something should be done.

Then, once they have that they need to come to the same conclusion of what the course of action is.

If they're aligned, awesome.

If not, then the work is to try to make them understand why, given the current constraints and cultural context, their optimal approach is suboptimal in this situation.

Something as simple as "yes your idea is great, it will work better then theirs, but sometimes others need to fail so that they can learn from their failure" - exact quote.

I'm speaking to a very limited subset here based on quite a bit of exposure in many contexts.

"Neuroatypical" shows up in many, many ways.

_puk··on Tragically, as many as 9625 out of every 10k individuals may be neurotypical
Maybe. But this site was last updated in 2002.

A different world.

_puk··on New MCP Roadmap
Authorization for sub-entities is what is needed.

Having to define what an agent can do when it identifies on my behalf is cumbersome, especially when you start to get specialised agents.

Pattern based would be too easy for AI to game, but there's got to be a service independent way to limit permissions based on role.

I am Jack's right ear - awesome you get to hear stuff.

I am jack's right hand - great you get to input stuff.

_puk··on Three important steps in my maturation process
I did quite the opposite.

Ignored all the sage advice, lived a rather tumultuous life, but lived it fast.

Diagnosed ADHD at 45 was a bit of an aha moment!

So I'm stuck on the treadmill for quite a few years yet.

Envious of where you've ended up, but imagine the path there wasn't easy.

All the best with retirement!

_puk··on Three important steps in my maturation process
A bit of financial acumen goes a long way over the long term.

Anything that compounds is better off started early.

It's not about the money at the high level, but relative comfort frees you up to be your best self.

Or so I'm told.

_puk··on There's no reason for software to be slow anymore
What's the stance on Astro?

That still overkill?

I find it decently fast out the box and possible to manage as it grows.

_puk··on Vomit: Clean up Claude 5's token output with a separate LLM
It told me to correct a spelling mistake in some content I was sanity checking earlier..

It was British English.

_puk··on At-home test for infected ticks could improve Lyme Disease diagnosis
The muscles came back over time. She had a droopy face that side for probably a year. But eventually you couldn't notice
_puk··on Cultivating a state of mind where new ideas are born (2023)
I didn't invent IoT. But in 2001 I independently proposed building something we'd now immediately recognise as IoT, and my lecturer dismissed it as simplistic and pointless for my dissertation..

Academia is only as good as the people in it.

I ended up doing traffic shaping in the Linux kernel because my house mate had edonkey running all day..

_puk··on The Dutch community where people live on strips of land in a lake
It is also a fantastic carbon sink.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/02/21/headway/peat-...

"Although peatlands make up just 3 percent of land on Earth, they store twice as much carbon as all the world’s forests combined."

Nice it was historically just dug up and the leftovers turned into expensive holiday homes.

_puk··on At-home test for infected ticks could improve Lyme Disease diagnosis
I think you're being a bit strong with the "So be wary of the grass, not the woods"

In the trees they drop down on you from above. Had them do that many times.

The general consensus is to wear a hat when mushrooming in the places I've been.

_puk··on At-home test for infected ticks could improve Lyme Disease diagnosis
Yep.

About 20 years ago my gran got to the facial palsy stage of Lyme's before it was even considered and diagnosed by a visiting locum doctor who'd grown up in another country.

Antibiotics were given, her face recovered (albeit slowly).

It's a horrendous disease.

_puk··on Coin-sized device can hack a Boeing 737
But you bought the car
_puk··on Show HN: Deltix – AI Driven Testing
By coordinate/ UIAutomator I'm assuming you mean the likes of scrcpy[0]?

Would be great if you have a way to do it programmatically.

https://github.com/Genymobile/scrcpy

_puk··on "Solving a largely imaginary user goal"
Surely the toggle is "system setting is what I want" or the inverse?

That's a CSS @media not

_puk··on Responding to the next frontier of critical cyber capabilities
That was fascinating.

Hijacking the package manager to pass messages between models and agents.. that's next level.

Like "pssst, if you need internet access there's a vulnerability in x service" kind of messages

_puk··on Software development with AI is starting to feel like cooking steak
I compare this to doing my first smoke (was gifted a smoker).

AI gave me the cut, the temp, the timing, the things to watch out for.

Chicken's the best to try first, can't mess that up.

After goodness knows how many hours..

Pretty inedible leathery chicken..

"Oh my bad! I gave you the timings for a different meat"

_puk··on Intelligence Is Not the Main Bottleneck
And if AI wrote a book about these hypnotic powers, then it would be incredibly convoluted, long, and yet worn as a badge of pride to have survived it.

Thinking about it, much of the output I'm seeing nowadays looks like a chapter out of infinite jest.

Maybe that's unfair on infinite jest.

_puk··on Increasing the lifespan of a bulb makes it worse in every other way
A recent rewire saw the electrician fit LED bulbs throughout the house. Modern fire safe housings etc, plenty of ventilation.

These were not cheap off the shelf bulbs from the local store.

3 in the kitchen went after less than a year.

I contacted the manufacturer directly. Turns out they had a "bad batch". How many bulbs did I fit?

About 50..

A box of 48 bulbs turned up 2 days later.

Not a single other bulb has gone 4 years later.

Not sure what the lesson there is. You win some you lose some? It's not always down to cheap bulbs?

_puk··on EU will mandate labels on authentic-looking AI content starting August 2
You suggesting the inverse?

Consciously labelling something as genuine / non AI incorrectly is fraud.

"Forgetting" to add an AI label is an error of omission.

Feels like the former is far more punishable than the latter.

_puk··on Claude: Elevated errors across all models
I was a bit disappointed it wasn't 42 pages long
_puk··on Setting up your spare Mac for Claude Code to control, a step-by-step guide
Cowork gets tangled with git as well. Fails, and then can't delete lock files.

Running a helper from the terminal, making Claude work in a working directory, and then create a .commit file has been my workaround for this for a while now.

Imagine there's a better solution nowadays, but this allows me to use dispatch building on Vercel, so I can check it out from wherever, without too much pain.

_puk··on The state of open source AI
The American industrial revolution is often cited as one such example.

The patent act of 1793 is still relevant today [0] and was established to protect Americans stealing British and European industrial trade secrets.

https://mysteriesofmankind.com/industrial-espionage-the-spie...

_puk··on First atmosphere found on Earth-like planet in habitable zone of distant star
https://neo.gsfc.nasa.gov/servlet/RenderData?si=2050444&cs=r...

Direct link

_puk··on Show HN: Rowboat – Open-source, local-first alternative to Claude Desktop
I have a lot of thoughts on this, I should start writing a bit more publicly.
_puk··on Show HN: Rowboat – Open-source, local-first alternative to Claude Desktop
I'll be watching closely, we're moving this way very quickly. If you get there it'll save me a job!

One thought, the knowledge graph rowboat creates is passive, based on context in emails, transcripts etc. A tool to pull further context from an individual would be amazing. Sit there and chat with it to flush out all of the tribal knowledge (gotchas in this spec).

We have Context Capsules running in production as agent context (amongst other layers of governance) to define metrics etc, so we can guarantee what you see in your dashboard matches exactly what your invoice says, what we're reporting externally, regardless of who is reporting it. Agent or human.

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