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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…”

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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-... …”

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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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3 experts · 8 posts · 4d ago
Tim Kellogg jeremymorrell.dev austegard.com
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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