Engineer at Grw AI. Production agents for sales, side projects in finance. Bike person, bad guitarist. Half-formed thoughts on what's shipping
Wellington, New Zealand
Joined January 2008
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Now you can really see everything
NZ based, and having fun with a hermes bot doing product research and daydreaming on what if projects for me - but that's powered by OCG and deekseek flash so I'm not spending more than $50USD personally for the privilege (~$500USD for work, monthly)
This really resonates with me
I have zero desire to have agents triage my email, go shopping for me, analyze my kid’s homework or whatever
I’m not mad, these are just not problems I have that need solving. And lmao that most of this crap comes from grifters 😂
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Got rejected from a @Railway job this morning because I put “we should not breach our customers” in my resume.
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Canva’s terms for departing employees are both exceedingly generous and a window into modern tech:
* Six months salary
* A year healthcare
* A year of LinkedIn premium
* A $10k grant to start a business
* Keep your MacBook
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New portfolio site, lovingly vibe coded elliottkember.com/
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We got your back, New York!
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Several figures here aren’t federal results or NY-specific. The $472B combines US wide pledges: Micron's $250B is nationwide (NY site $100B) Anthropic's $50B covers TX and NY. The 48% murder drop is from NY's state run GIVE program (28 departments, Jan – May 2026).
arkolith.com/news/news-micr…
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governor.ny.gov/news/safer-str…
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recommended reading. i have many feelings about this.
rikiyat.github.io/blog/weigh…
Pretty sure in May I had a staff eng ask me to revert to avoid the merge conflicts my refactoring had caused for a long-running pr
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I don’t think enough about how wildly software Eng has changed in the last ~2 years
Maybe I’ll sprinkle some more console.logs in my next pr for old times’ sake
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strong agree
• comments go stale very quickly and confuse agents and people
• they are often used by agents to explain workarounds that would've been better off actually fixing the code instead
• they are not enforceable and waste your agents' tokens
my point is that moving prose (comments, rules, agent.md, skills) into deterministic lint rules, better API design/types, is far more effective, enforceable, and token efficient.
comments are simply a crutch that agents will happily misuse
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Here's some takes on Agentic Dev:
- Force your agent to comment like they're being graded. Allow them to clean up nearby comments too
- Ask for the subtractive fix
- Delete tests that restate the code (Tautological tests considered harmful)
- use t3code nightly
what's yours?
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Other side of this is the most valuable devs from 2+ years ago might not be the most valuable today with how far software dev has shifted
it's crazy how easy it is to spot 10x engineers these days
for a certain set of people LLMs totally unlocked their potential
to the point where imagining their life before this seems totally depressing
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Just told Claude to have some "me time" and work on something that it would enjoy.
Got inspired by UniiChat by @VictorTaelin so vibed a plugin for my Hermes bot - github.com/fourseven/hermes-…
(still back porting my history across though 😅)
Lemme know if this is useful for you
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🗞️ the world hasn’t figured out yet that you can literally just fix everything with a Nix overlay
In this blog post, I go into how I use Nix, why you should use it, and in the tweet below is a runnable demo showing all of the concepts in this post ghuntley.com/nix/
