I would love to work for NASA so much even at a significant pay cut, but almost everything I've read in the past was they still do drug screenings for a lot of positions I was interested in. Maybe someday they will pull their heads out of the dark ages.
Normally I would agree but I get it with regards to NASA. They do life and death stuff that has like zero margin of error. They probably shouldn't be in the business of hiring people who's edible might be lasting longer than they expected.
I went to see if I had any replies to a comment I left on a video for the first time today and it's really hidden to get back to them if you don't remember the exact video. I wonder if it's purposeful friction or just not a priority.
In my case I have almost all notifications disabled so maybe there's an option somewhere. Generally find those notification badges too powerful for me to not check and then get waylaid doom scrolling/watching, so I've made it a habit to always disable them everywhere.
Somewhat tempted to re-enable it as I only really comment on videos that are for very very niche communities and I'm usually answering or asking questions.
This is one of the first tech waves where I feel like I'm on the very very groundfloor for a lot of exploration and it only feels like people have been paying closer attention in the last year. I can't imagine too many 'standard' standards becoming a standard that quickly.
It's new enough that Google seems to be throwing pasta against the wall and seeing what products and protocols stick. Antigravity for example seems too early to me, I think they just came out with another type of orchestrator, but the whole field seems to be exploring at the same time.
Everyone and their uncle is making an orchestrator now! I take a very cautious approach lately where I haven't been loading up my tools like agents, ides, browsers, phones with too much extra stuff because as soon as I switch something or something new comes out that doesn't support something I built a workflow around the tool either becomes inaccessible to me, or now a bigger learning curve than I have the patience for.
I've been a big proponent of trying to get all these things working locally for myself (I need to bite the bullet on some beefy video cards finally), and even just getting tool calls to work with some qwen models to be so counterintuitive.
Hah! I made this at work, when I started getting Claude to record the replication and demonstration of the fix as gifs on PRs people finally started asking me about the cool things I was doing.
The reproduction has been one of the things I've been struggling with in regards to consistency of bringing up the right envs. At the moment I've been approaching it as a MCP server that holds a few tools to bring up specific versions or branches of my stack to then find where a bug was introduced, build that commit prove that it wasnt in the previous one, and then fix it and run the full stack again with the fix component, then run through our local integration tests.
This is the stuff that makes me feel like I'm on steroids now, my whole dev debug process can be run with a few instructions, game changing.
Yes, GIF in PR is really nice in my view too :) Our reproduction runs in a sandboxed per-repo environment that we re-verify the fix in before opening the PR. Would love to have your thoughts on beta and to see how it goes on real world apps. I'm reachable on support AT neverbreak.ai
Been working on something that I use daily, and decided I wanted to see what kind of other ideas I could get out of it, it's very basic article to speech using piper models at the moment.
The part I cared about was being able to send links via one click in my browser or two taps on my phone as I want to read every HN article who's title I find interesting, but don't have the time to read right at that moment.
It then at the moment publishes it to an RSS feed so I subscribe to it in Podcast Addict, but I've also just been using the web app as my reading list and tracker.
Been playing around with different settings on the piper models and different techniques for getting the most out of my four dollar instance:
Up next is to work on making the voice better (I'm impressed with the out of the box stuff already), and then making it better at finding the real content on a page and only recording that. It's a problem space I don't know much about, but find fascinating, been fun so far.
I just did this over at Hetzner and Claude admins it for me so I don't need to learn the CLI or anything, describe the proxying I want, and it setups up a bunch of small side project pages for me.
I am also of this opinion that a lot of this can be solved in time with a harness. And whole heartedly agree that there is a class of webapp that has been trivialized that can make a mom and pop shop up to 'enterprise' (80% of our architecture seems to center around the same pattern at my $DAYJOB) run just fine if they accept some of the vibes.
This type of works seems to be happening as a lot of orchestrator projects that pop up here every once in a while, and I've just been waiting for one with a pipeline 'language' malleable enough to work for me that I can then make generic enough for a big class of solutions. I feel doomed to make my own, but I feel like I should do my due diligence.
I tried using hooks for setting up my DIYed version of what channels is now in Claude. I had Claude writing them and not really looking at the results cause the vibes are strong. It struggled with odd behaviors around them. Nice to see some of the possible reasons, I ended up killing that branch of work so I never figured out exactly what was happening.
Now I'm regretting not going deeper on these. This is the type of interface that I think will be perfect for some things I want to demonstrate to a greater audience.
Now that we have the actual internals I have so many things I want to dig through.
Right on. Good luck! You might also want to play around with https://github.com/simple10/agent-super-spy if you want to see the raw prompts claude is sending. It was really helpful for me to see the system prompts and how tool calls and message threads are handled.
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