Tony D’Addeo (@deodad) on Farcaster

Tony D’Addeo

@deodad

@farcaster dev / dad / books, cooks, ski, code ~ there are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant

New York, NY, USA

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my experience of politics has been a continual cycle of going from "lmao this is so stupid and will surely be laughed out" to "oh, wow, nvm"

deodad

granta / commonwealth prize thoughts i. a huge W for LLMs. the writing has been on the wall for future of technical fields for some time now but until yesterday I would’ve said it wasn't yet so for literature ii. we’ve reached peak (micro)craft (hopefully). contemporary writing has been captured by the MfA. tight, t...

deodad

my years of reckless abandon are done watching my cholesterol era begins

deodad

gently correct llm to use camelCase instead of snake llm for remainder of session using names like prePareError for variables

deodad

12d

when i was doing competitive sports and training hard i would often think of Aragorn, Legolas, and Gimli running across the plains of Rohan chasing the Uruk-hai to save Merry and Pippin always got me into the right headspace

deodad

26d

watching llms use tools is so beautiful early in my career i interned at intel on an internal tooling team and there was one dude who was a unix / bash wizard and i was amazed and impressed and tried to master as best i could but in 15 years ive gotten 1/100 of how good llms are at clis

deodad

1mo

wild how fast “i wouldn’t write security critical code with AI” flipped to “i wouldn’t write security critical code without AI”

deodad

1mo

It is easy to understand why cynicism deforms the soul, and not only because it is corrosive. Cynicism deforms the soul because it is a counterfeit of final judgment. It allows condemnation ahead of time. It lets you act as though your role in the world is to sort the worthy from the unworthy, instead of learning to lo...

Will Manidis

@WillManidis

1mo

https://t.co/BRmPwK8w9z

deodad

1mo

this is a good take and the wild part is it been the case for decades gangsta rap to backpack rap, george bush doesn’t care about black people, autotune and emo rap, ima let you finish, sound and substance of MBDTD & Yeezus reality is being a visionary artist gives you leeway that would not be acceptable for many oth...

Erik Torenberg

@eriktorenberg

10mo

For better and for worse, Kanye is the most precise cultural weathervane and performance artist of our era. In the last 5 years alone, Kanye was ahead of his time on the resurgence of Christianity, the resurgence of anti-Semitism, and crashing out.

deodad

1mo

agree w this x.com/_prestwich/s... at Farcaster we spent huge chunks of time exploring wallet strategies that balanced self custody / UX the fragmentation and complexity of AA options resulted in us continually coming to the conclusion that there was no secure, great UX, and reasona...

James Prestwich

@_prestwich

2mo

the EF and ACD need to take responsibility for blessing and maintaining SPECIFIC authentication and authorization schemes, otherwise wallets will not fully integrate the AA spec Frame transactions are the opposite of that. EF and ACD wash their hands and everyone else pays

deodad

1mo

@trupty appreciation cast must be my highest like to view ratio caster

deodad

2mo

the bronze age perspective on violence and sexuality can be insightful in a horrifying kind of way

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deodad

2mo

had been wanting to write down my own thoughts here, this covers a lot it

pirosb3

2mo

Context: I spent 1 year as an engineer at Farcaster. Here's what made the engineering culture genuinely special, and different from anywhere I've worked 🧵

deodad

2mo

baby number two is here, officially ready to start carrying a murse

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deodad

2mo

i'm excited to see a fork of farcaster be attempted there is no double spend problem social so "forking" isn't like in a blockchain where diverging state means incompatible worlds (the core purpose of global consensus in farcaster is to allow for efficient real time sync between nodes) you could have a simple "fork"...