Phil Cockfield
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πŸ¦β€β¬›<🐡> ← πŸ™ˆπŸ™‰πŸ™Š β†’ /phil β†’ github.com/philcockfield β†’ Ζ’(🌳) β†’ 🧫 /sys ← @cell <T>, 🧠 viva la small-tech (team human).
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The local openclaw dining establishment on the island (🏝️ πŸ‡³πŸ‡Ώ)
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And now for something worse than "technical debt" πŸ₯ "cognitive debt" - a new peril β€œCognitive debt accumulates when AI writes code that humans lose shared understanding of” β€” Margaret-Anne Storey ref: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tk0h... AI Cognitive Debt: The Crisis Nobody Sees Coming β€” Imran Gardezi
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βœŠπŸ»πŸ’― | Q
Proud to have invested in Q. I want to live in a world where the internet is secure and private by default. Cassie is making one of the most credible efforts in that direction. That’s enough for me.
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"turn the universe into a parameter"
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β€œThe world no longer needs to pay for software the way it currently pays for software.” πŸ‘
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GM, World πŸ‘‹
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ref: Q | βœŠπŸ»πŸ’―
In the past three months we launched: - a mobile e2ee messenger and farcaster client with the widest asset support of any built in wallet - AWS-compatible services with more on the way - privacy-capable name service with ZK attestation support - privacy-preserving AI with no reliance on TEE blackboxes amongst other thi
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ref: (@v, @dwr) β†’ tempo.xyz Stable Coins
Tempo: the blockchain designed for payments
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Tempo: the blockchain designed for payments
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I bet there is some kind of "dunbar number" adjacent-equivalent thing going on with a ceiling on how many agents an engineer can run (as in how many parallel disciplined, human owned, responsible for the code in production, you can mentally manage) before which it all just gets away on you, and it moves into a new leve...
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tools == "the harness is the product"
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Getting into a shit-fight with the US defence dept (ministry of war) sure is some all out seat-of-your-pants, high-stakes marketing manoeuvring. (not for the feint of heart)
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There are so many layers of "miracle" going on right now. Sutton’s β€œbitter lesson” is the gospel (β€œgood news”)β€”if you take it from a non-sunk-cost place.
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1. dev's own their code in production 2. practice observability driven development 3. test in production 4. seperate `deploys` from `releases` 5. CI/CD (continuous integration)
"test in prod or live a lie"
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ref: farcaster etymology farcaster.xyz/july/0x0fa51...
Sad to hear about Dan Simmons. RIP. Stumbling across Hyperion in a bookstore in a Bangalore mall was an important fork in the road, down into a world of literature and scifi. Ill always be thankful for that.
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