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"I should say, going to Perplexity here, Sebastian Raschka is a machine learning researcher and author known for several influential books."
"my search bar was literally just hooking up WhatsApp to cloud code"
"And switch to Spotify. Switch to streaming, and basically, rebuild the stash of playlists and all this kind of stuff."
"Why do I need my Eight Sleep app to control my bed when I can tell the agent to... The agent already knows where I am, so he can turn off what I don't use."
"I use basically half-and-half Cursor and Claude Code, because they're fundamentally different experiences and both are useful."
"And somebody sent a pull request for Discord support"
"As a general purpose model, Opus is the best. For OpenClaw, Opus is extremely good in terms of role play."
"And I just typed, 'Convert this and this part to Zig,' and then let Codex run off"
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"On Mastodon and Bluesky, I don't... I also use it less because oftentimes I got attacked for my blog posts."
"On Mastodon and Bluesky, I don't... I also use it less because oftentimes I got attacked for my blog posts."
"If you use SwiftUI, like the latest and greatest at Apple, and took them forever to build something to show an image from the web. Now we have async image, but some images would just not show up or be very slow."
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Clear filters"So going to Perplexity. Canute the Great was an early 11th century Danish ruler who became king of England, Denmark and Norway."
"I now use, I think Perplexity or Brave as providers because Google really doesn't make it easy to use Google without Google."
"I should say, going to Perplexity here, Sebastian Raschka is a machine learning researcher and author known for several influential books."
"Let me look this up on Perplexity: what are the technologies we modern humans have that the Mashco Piro do not?"
"Looking it up on Perplexity, real numbers include all the numbers that can be represented on the number line"
"This is gonna be embarrassing. Yeah. I use BIAS FX. I'm sorry."
"I've never used Pro Tools. I've used REAPER, I've used Studio One, that's the most recent that I've used that."
"I've never used Pro Tools. I've used REAPER, I've used Studio One, that's the most recent that I've used that."
"And switch to Spotify. Switch to streaming, and basically, rebuild the stash of playlists and all this kind of stuff."
"And for the most time I've used Ableton Live. I feel like I'm using 1% of the power of the tool."
"And Pandora, I used a lot. Pandora is more prioritizing on the discovery part versus organization part. And that was really wonderful."
"In the last few years, many times I actually prefer Electron apps because they work and native apps often are lacking features."
"When I build simple CLIs, I like Go. I actually don't like Go. I don't like the syntax of Go. But the ecosystem is great, it works great with agents."
"I now use, I think Perplexity or Brave as providers because Google really doesn't make it easy to use Google without Google."
"I pulled in all the data and then just asked him questions like, 'What makes this friendship meaningful?'"
"Why do I need my Eight Sleep app to control my bed when I can tell the agent to... The agent already knows where I am, so he can turn off what I don't use."
"my search bar was literally just hooking up WhatsApp to cloud code"
"For me personally, since we're talking about coding, and you mentioned debugging... the source of enjoyment for me, more on the Cursor side than Claude Code, is that I have a friend, I have a pair programmer."
"I built some agentic browser use in there. And, I mean, it's basically Playwright with a bunch of extras to make it easier for agents."
"If it's something where I care about performance a lot then it's a really interesting language. And agents got so much better over the last six months from not really good to totally valid choice."
"TypeScript is really good. Sometimes the types can get really confusing and the ecosystem is a jungle. So for web stuff it's good. I wouldn't build everything in it."
"I think two MacBooks are real. The main one that drives the two big screens, and there's another MacBook that I sometimes use for testing."
"As a general purpose model, Opus is the best. For OpenClaw, Opus is extremely good in terms of role play."
"And I just typed, 'Convert this and this part to Zig,' and then let Codex run off"
"And somebody sent a pull request for Discord support"