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Established AI field signal Signal 4d ago

Release orienting-codebases v0.3.0 · oaustegard/claude-skills

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“Yes! And tooling helps: orienting-codebases is a skill that specifically attempts to, well, orient a user looking at a new codebase: example static output looking at the ds4 inference engine (it’s normally interactive): muninn.austegard.com/scratch/ds4-... …”

Established Models & releases Resource 11d ago
claude-skills GitHub repo release

Video · Releases · oaustegard/claude-skills

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“3rd attempt at having Opus orchestrate Veo to create multi-scene videos. Uses my new creating-video & parsing-video skills to give it tooling required for interpretation & continuity. Not _great_, but fun! Coming Home: by Opus and Veo, critical feedback by …”

Developing AI field signal Signal 2d ago

Principal Component Analysis: an embedding shrink-ray

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“With thanks to @softwaredoug.bsky.social and softwaredoug.com/blog/2026/07... for a second look at PCA for embedding vectors: PCA by itself doesn't beat quantization, but PCA coupled with quantization is an improvement: pick your level of effort for a given…”

Established AI field signal Signal 4d ago

Orientation: antirez/ds4

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“Yes! And tooling helps: orienting-codebases is a skill that specifically attempts to, well, orient a user looking at a new codebase: example static output looking at the ds4 inference engine (it’s normally interactive): muninn.austegard.com/scratch/ds4-... …”

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Cat Hicks: I suspect once we figure it out agentic work in software will actually be a huge aid to codebase comprehension This is such a wildly unpopular thought right now but you know what I'm going to pre-r…
Cat Hicks: It'll be a mess for a while no doubt. But codebase comprehension was already basically entirely failing imho. We need tools like this if not this version exactly.
Cat Hicks: It's killing me that academic colleagues seem.... indifferent to hearing about the real experiences of real teams I'm working with
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Established AI field signal Analysis 13d ago
4-bit model 1-bit index post

A 4-Bit Model and a 1-Bit Index

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“nobody: whatcha doing? me: oh, just quantizing the embedding vectors from Nemotron-3-Embed, reducing memory storage requirements 32x, while retaining almost the entire performance of the original. you? Blog post: muninn.austegard.com/blog/four-bi...”

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3 experts · 8 posts · 4d ago
Tim Kellogg: probably true there will always be a diminishing portion of software that needs to be reviewed by human, and it’ll never be zero, but right now you probably shouldn’t be reviewing code manually
Tim Kellogg: having started my career before PRs were normal, i’d say it was a combo of cargo culting the Linux project and an extension of “code review is good” but “pair programming doesn’t scale” and in that…
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2 experts · 2 posts · 16d ago
austegard.com: Am I the only one who can't wait for Anthropic to settle on just what Cowrok is supposed to be? So far it's been too confusingly similar yet different from both Claude Chat Desktop AND Claude Code …
Luis Villa: @austegard.com code but with libreoffice installed
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