William Saar (saarw)

William Saar

Freelancer | Backend and data engineering for Spotify, Candy Crush, helped build SF-based appsec startup, financial trading systems, JVM perf tools | updab.com

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Built a web app to play poker against LLM-powered Al opponents An interesting challenge in getting smaller models to behave similar to human players in a cost-effective and responsive manner aipokersim.com

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The term "sync engine" was not widely used 6 years ago when I wrote Flushout, so I had to use a description like "distributed data model based on event sourcing. Collaborative applications use it for..." Anyway, updated the repo description so people looking for a sync engine in TypeScript without 3rd-party dependencies can find it! https://github.com/saarw/flushout

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Alice, Friends-level AI reasons against my bluff: "With a Two Pair hand and the opportunity to act first, you should consider that your opponents might be trying to bluff or protect their hands, so you may want to consider raising to build the pot and narrow the field, considering the 2625 chip size to be a reasonable amount to increase the pot and put pressure on opponents."

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The term "sync engine" was not widely used 6 years ago when I wrote Flushout, so I had to use a description like "distributed data model based on event sourcing. Collaborative applications use it for..." Anyway, updated the repo description so people looking for a sync engine in TypeScript without 3rd-party dependencies can find it! https://github.com/saarw/flushout

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Built a MCP server for Kafka management tool AKHQ to let AI assistants like Claude and Cursor work alongside the user in the tool Example interaction from Cursor below. Code and installation instructions at https://github.com/saarw/akhq-mcp-server

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Breakfast in the Virgin Atlantic lounge at London's Heathrow before an 11h flight to San Francisco

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