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Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 1d

My God, the worst fear come true on this.

MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 1d

🚨 NEWS: Colombian President Gustavo Petro accuses U.S. government officials of murder and violating Colombia’s sovereignty and says the Trump-ordered strike of a boat in the Caribbean killed a fisherman named Alejandro Carranza.

Screenshot of a post on X from Colombian President Gustavo Petro’s verified account. The post reads: “US government officials have committed a murder and violated our sovereignty in territorial waters. Fisherman Alejandro Carranza had no ties to the drug trade and his daily activity was fishing. The Colombian boat was adrift and had its distress signal up due to an engine failure. We await explanations from the US government.”

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Kyle Baxter @kbaxter.bsky.social · 1d

I was so pissed. All ready to go watch it again and it’s not there. Time to burn it all down

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Kyle Baxter @kbaxter.bsky.social · 1d

Can we talk about how absurd it is Westworld isn’t available in HBO Max. I feel like this isn’t talked about enough. A true crazy pills moment

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Kyle Baxter @kbaxter.bsky.social · 2d

And not just shared from person to person. They can be shared from agent to agent, model to model. We’re moving closer to reasonably abstracting models themselves, which has been a huge difficulty of the 2023-present era.

Kyle Baxter @kbaxter.bsky.social · 2d

What’s also exciting here about skills vs tools as a construct is they’re universal-ish and shareable. Skills I write can be easily shared with others and vice versa. This is even more flexible than software itself, if within bounds of file system plus code execution.

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Eric L. Robinson @uticaeric.bsky.social · 2d

It brings me an extraordinary amount of joy to know that these people are having their weekends ruined by an outburst of positive liberalism and a nationwide celebration of the rule of law.

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 2d

David Sacks is currently posting AI content of Trump as a king and Dems kneeling if you were wondering where his brain is at

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Kyle Baxter @kbaxter.bsky.social · 2d

I like the idea of a /prds directory. I’ve been doing the same when working in Cursor too (freely refine ideas in Claude and create a PRD, then provide to Cursor). Same with new big-ish shifts in the codebase. It’s helped with Figma Make, too.

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Kyle Baxter @kbaxter.bsky.social · 2d

I’m increasingly convinced that like a von Neumann architecture for computers, we will settle on some basic architecture for agents which can handle arbitrary tasks, rather than reflect the task directly in the architecture. And more importantly that that should be the goal.

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Kyle Baxter @kbaxter.bsky.social · 2d

We also seem to be feeling our way toward separating logic from code implementation of agents or multi-agents. With memory, agents can reflect on their tasks and interactions and alter their behavior later by updating memories. With skills, an agent’s capabilities and logic sit in md files.

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Kyle Baxter @kbaxter.bsky.social · 2d

We seem to be hitting on something here. Filesystem tools are becoming base layer tools to provide general capabilities to models. “Skills” here, flexible and malleable memory and scratchpads and to-do lists elsewhere.

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Kyle Baxter @kbaxter.bsky.social · 2d

Claude Skills seems like a super useful construct. On first blush, it feels like instead of giving someone a tool, giving them a whole manual and multiple tools to use together. Instructions, code to execute (i.e. a “tool”), and hierarchical relationships within the manual.

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zeu @zeu.dev · 3d

got laid off due to restructuring :(

i’m now available for mid+ frontend developer/software engineering positions

in the meantime, we’re back to building the future and fun on the web on atproto :)

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 10d

George was just trying to get to work.

ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process.

This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 10d

"They put me on suicide watch and they put me in the cell, I'm naked, in like a hospital dress and just a concrete bed with like a mattress, like a thin mattress and, they leave the light on 24/7."

@timmiller.bsky.social talked to a veteran who ICE wrongly detained and brutalized

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Kyle Baxter @kbaxter.bsky.social · 14d

At least for this project, I’ve been indefinitely productive with using 4.5. This last spring, with 3.7 and Gemini Pro 2.5, that period of productivity would hit a wall at some point of codebase complexity. It’s all anecdotal, but it feels quite different.

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Kyle Baxter @kbaxter.bsky.social · 14d

Sonnet 4.5 tbh has been extremely good for a recent project for me. Not only is it acting very agentically—taking a significant number of steps in response to a request from me, with each step being quite good—but the apparent depth of thought behind the actions it takes feels better.

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Kyle Baxter @kbaxter.bsky.social · 15d

My POC codebases used to reach a point where Cursor’s agent mode would make a mess of them; I’m not hitting that point as easily now.

Kyle Baxter @kbaxter.bsky.social · 15d

Your note about model improvements making this realistic now is good. I wasn’t able to do more AI-first dev experimentation since the spring until these last couple weeks, and GPT-5 and Sonnet 4.5 are remarkably better.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 15d

Miller’s apparent elevation to shadow president and his seeming intent to declare an end to the constitutional order would, in any other administration, be treated as a executive branch meltdown that was immensely embarrassing for the president and requiring Miller’s immediate removal

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Letta @letta.com · 20d

Letta Cloud now provides Anthropic's `memory` tool, enabling agents to dynamically manage their own memory architecture. Agents can create, delete, view, and modify memory blocks as they learn.

In the video below, we use the memory tool in the ADE with Sonnet 4.5 to create a new memory block.

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Kyle Baxter @kbaxter.bsky.social · 20d

I am so here for Chevelle Bluesky. My dad had a ‘70 SS 396 when I was a kid. I miss that car. His first car was a Chevelle, too, and I think it was a ‘67.

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Kyle Baxter @kbaxter.bsky.social · 20d

yes, yes you did. beautiful car

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Kyle Baxter @kbaxter.bsky.social · 20d

did you just casually drop a beautiful ‘66 or so Chevelle

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22d

one way you could describe lincoln's approach is of never getting ahead of the public on its attitudes, but holding an immovable set of principles on where the country ought to be and where he hopes to lead it

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Kyle Baxter @kbaxter.bsky.social · 23d

The protocol is the API.

I highly recommend this post. Bluesky is great. atproto is the real star.

dan @danabra.mov · 24d

i wrote about atproto and why it matters

Open Social — overreacted

The protocol is the API.

overreacted.io

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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 24d

bit by bit, the administration is laying the groundwork and actually carrying out a system of repressing democratic life in america. redefining opposition as terrorism, targeting critics, investigating civic funders.

we're so far beyond normal and, again, only eight months in.

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