Tony D’Addeo (@deodad) on Farcaster

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

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11d

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

14d

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

16d

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25d

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.

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

1mo

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

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

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

jaccusepaper.co.uk

Fertility Cult

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

pirosb3

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 🧵

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

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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"...

shot: chaser:

leaving the house with my lovely wife i kiss the heads of my three sons, hug my mom, pat our two dogs on the head. what a full life, man

not sure how i got here but at point in life where a woman’s figure skating performance can make me tear up lol

as an illustration of the problem: MM experimented with spending $$$ on getting people to post and build mini apps the feedback from many high quality posters was this made the feed worse since it encouraged engagement bait vs more niche, longer form posts the feedback from many high quality mini app devs is this fil...

dwr

"Why didn't you spend more of the money you raised?" Spending money can help with sign ups, i.e. you can pay to get the users to download and go through onboarding. What it doesn't solve is the most important thing -- retention. If 3 out of every 10 users that signed up continued to use Farcaster after 30 days, we w

after trying out N note taking apps over the years I swore to never not left curve is again and only use apple notes or physical paper obsidian is so tempting though