Engineering leader at Ambrook. Running, cycling. Significant other of @jessw. He/him.
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Tom Woolway retweeted
go write 'be thorough' in a prompt and come back and tell me its the same without it
1) this is an LLM, any content can change its nature
2) you need to trigger depth in some scenarios. there are many ways to do it, 'thorough' is one
Take a look at your favourite skill.
Go on, take a look.
Check for lines like:
- "Make the commit message very detailed"
- "Be thorough"
- "Make the implementation easy to read"
What do these lines have in common?
They're no-ops. They do nothing to change the agent's behavior.
Agents always write good commit messages. They always try to be thorough. They always try to create easy-to-read implementations.
Try removing them. Does the output change? No? Then the line was a no-op.
Agent-authored skills are LITTERED with no-ops. Entire paragraphs and sections of text that does nothing to change the agents' behavior.
No-ops make skills harder to evaluate, harder to maintain, and burn tokens uselessly.
Learn to spot them, test them, and remove them. Your skills will thank you.
Request to the Google Meet team to let me turn off the enter/exit meeting sounds they stole from Windows 95
(6/7) We’re rejecting the span of control increase. We’re organizing as lean, customer focused pods led by TLs, focused on a specific problem or group of customers. EMs will coach people, even as the pods they are on change.
(1/7) For many years, the role of an Engineering Manager (EM) has been pretty common across companies. Some looked for leaders who were more or less technical, but the focus has always been people, process and tech.
Now, there’s not even agreement on what’s important: 🧵
(4/7) Leading engineers who are already on the team through this change, and hiring folks with the raw horsepower and entrepreneurialism to thrive in this environment is more important than ever, and doesn’t take less time.
Very happy to announce our Series A, led by Thrive Capital and @zoink. After a week visiting our amazing customers and farms across the country, super happy that we get to continue building for them. ambrook.com/blog/company/ame…
And the impersonator has finally been suspended. Thanks to everyone who let me know and sorry if you've had weird-ass conversations with "me".
This is still going on - doesn't seem to be anyone responding to trust and safety reports anymore. Please take care if someone purporting to be me DMs you.
Hey friends, there is a spammer using a very similar screen name to mine (with an underscore). Apologies if you’ve been contacted. It has been reported.
Tom Woolway retweeted
The problem isn't that the UK budget was inflationary, its that it was moronic. And a small open economy that seems to be run by morons gets a wider risk premium on its assets - currency down, yields up xitter.cf/M_C_Klein/status/15734…
We're hosting the next in our series of Built on Blockchain meetups in SF next Weds. Come hear about what's actually going on in the "crypto winter", what DeFi needs to know about risk and how we've helped solve some of crypto's biggest hacks. sprou.tt/1kfcvq7M5cN
Tom Woolway retweeted
Today we’re introducing the new Chainalysis Academy, a publicly available resource built for the crypto-curious. Get access to quality crypto education directly from our training experts. #LearnCrypto bit.ly/3RsYXaJ
Great panel of our tech leaders at @chainalysis talking about how they got into crypto and web3. Thanks to @agansley for organizing! #builtonchain
#Links22 in NYC is just a few weeks away! Catch the livestream for the best conversation between public and private sectors in the blockchain world xitter.cf/chainalysis/status/152…
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