12 Grams of Carbon

I'm increasingly certain no one knows anything about anything. Current founder @ noriagentic.com. Previous founder @ soot.com. Before that was googling. Writes about programming, AI, startups, video games, and misc other things. Click to read 12 Grams of Carbon, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.

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There is a shadow hanging over this Fable thing

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Man, I was just trying to relax and (have my agent) code on a Friday

Tokenmaxxing is dead, long live tokenmaxxing

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Alt title: The reports of tokenmaxxing’s death are greatly exaggerated.

Memorizing session transcripts isn't useful

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Keep track of artifacts, not scratch. Alt title: Claude, please stop trying to memorize random crap

Notes from the SF peptide scene

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Pulling together disparate thoughts from two weeks wandering around SF