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Developing Agents & robotics Analysis 2d ago
agent swarms model economics essay

Agent swarms and the new model economics · Cursor

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Phillip Carter

“Cool post but we got a long way to go before we get (literally) religious dedication to specs fed to agents cursor.com/blog/agent-s...”

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Phillip Carter: Cool post but we got a long way to go before we get (literally) religious dedication to specs fed to agents cursor.com/blog/agent-s...
Doll: Aye
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Established Evaluation & benchmarks Analysis 13d ago
coding model evaluation challenges essay

I don't know how to evaluate coding models

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Phillip Carter

“(deep sigh) yeah www.phillipcarter.dev/posts/i-dont...”

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Tim Kellogg: what’s that meme again?
Phillip Carter: (deep sigh) yeah www.phillipcarter.dev/posts/i-dont...
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4 experts · 20 posts · 4d ago
Phillip Carter austin h.olysh.it apenwarr.ca
apenwarr.ca: Alarmed at this trend of people finally realizing MCP is a pointless abstraction, then skipping right over publishing a regular boring API, and instead launching new CLIs for agents to use for some…
apenwarr.ca: I mean, it’s not *really* baffling. It’s Conway’s Law and the people who own the API wouldn’t listen to you and you weren’t allowed to publish a second API after people saw through the MCP trick, b…
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3 experts · 3 posts · 14d ago
Phillip Carter jeremy.lewi.us jeremymorrell.dev
jeremy.lewi.us: AI writing gets a lot of knocks but I find AI generated bug reports are typically more thorough than what I'd write. I'm increasingly using Codex to draft slack messages which I then review and send.
Phillip Carter: Yeah this (and some other technical reports like what honeycomb's canvas does) are good uses since the style of formatting is often helpful and you often want a ton of detail
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2 experts · 3 posts · 7d ago
Phillip Carter Doll
Doll: Before its said open models needed to get serious to be taken seriously. Its gotten into arguments over this. However it seems now the OSS AI folks seem to actually...be taking it seriously and mak…
Doll: Its criticism was not meant to slam open source AI, but to point out the reality so they could improve so if people could like not yell at us next time thanks
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2 experts · 2 posts · 19d ago
Phillip Carter Marco Z
Phillip Carter: And it's made infinitely worse by the Accenture slopware slingers who build something for Enterprise Goober McGooberton and learn what the tech is on the fly, implementing "hallucination rate" chec…
Marco Z: wdym, a CLAUDE md is not collaboration infra enough?
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2 experts · 2 posts · 16d ago
Phillip Carter alanau.bsky.social
Phillip Carter: this is so fucking funny my dudes right as the Linkedin Lunatic class posts breathlessly about how the entire world is going to move to chinese models, too! A+ work from the CCP
alanau.bsky.social: I wonder if the Chinese market is seeing the same sort of consumer ambivalence towards AI as the North American market?
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