vinney...axkl

WoT/DCoSL R&D with https://brainstorm.world

- Pet project: https://catallax.network - decentralized labor/bounty protocol
- Order print books with bitcoin! https://whitepaperbooks.com
- Convert web pages to nostr longform posts: https://github.com/vcavallo/ReadToRelay

Public Key

npub19ma2w9dmk3kat0nt0k5dwuqzvmg3va9ezwup0zkakhpwv0vcwvcsg8axkl

NIP-05 Address

vcavallo@vinneycavallo.com

NIP-57 Address

vinney@npub.cash

Profile Code

nprofile1qqsza748zkamgmw4he4hm2xhwqpxd5gkwju38wqh3twmtshx8kv8xvgpzpmhxue69uhkummnw3ezumrpdejqzrthwden5te0dehhxtnvdakqk0k6jv

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nostr.land

nos.lol

relay.damus.io

Author Public Key

npub19ma2w9dmk3kat0nt0k5dwuqzvmg3va9ezwup0zkakhpwv0vcwvcsg8axkl

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Last Notes

2026-07-17 11:54:48

🟪

2026-07-17 11:04:41

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So awesome
#nevent1q…q3rr

2026-07-17 11:04:17

Wow, what a demo! He put the blossom server application inside the blossom server application and then keyed a download uniquely to me, I downloaded it and am currently running it on my desktop (a single binary, nothing to install).
Very impressive
https://npub19ma2w9dmk3kat0nt0k5dwuqzvmg3va9ezwup0zkakhpwv0vcwvcsg8axkl.blossom.band/e19ec902e093c1e648ea7cfa375a4bdd43e4cfbf6ff6eeb60fadb19e3bc618a8.png
#nevent1q…qadp

2026-07-16 15:32:10

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eeeee

2026-07-16 15:32:00

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just to be clear, i didn't write it. check the note details, this is a web rip to markdown/nostr

2026-07-16 10:43:21

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whoa cool yes. where is it?

2026-07-16 03:19:39

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👀👀 is this a hypermedia blossom file drive..?

2026-07-15 16:59:01

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yep
#nevent1q…pdf4

2026-07-15 16:57:20

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yea here too, in new england. it's insane and i hate it

2026-07-15 16:54:04

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macbooks legitimately do this. it's fucking annoying.
maybe look into the new dell xps line? my thinkpad sure doesn't last all day...

2026-07-15 16:52:21

this bright, glaring, matte-sepia overcast from distant wildfires is extra terrible on a hot, humid day.

2026-07-15 14:26:31

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i had a question that was answered by the "hashtag", thanks 😆

2026-07-15 02:16:38

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Not done yet, but laying a lot of foundation that will be useful to your "put a review-shaped thing inside the generic social protocol" request.

2026-07-14 18:12:22

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Birdis

2026-07-13 18:41:50

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👀👀👀👀👀👀
you spying on me or something?

2026-07-13 18:40:55

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who are you, then?

2026-07-13 18:39:39

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haven't gotten into our blackberries yet, but there's a black raspberry i visit on my scythe mowing route ;)

2026-07-13 15:33:19

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i believe the dissonance is your priors attempting to loosen themselves
lol sorry that's sort of a joke ❤️
To say a bit more: I'm basically working off the moral framework that as long as something is voluntarily consented to, then it's not a moral infraction / harm. Not everybody agrees with that and it's sort of an extreme position.
But from that position, almost everything is neutral in its own character and becomes harmful or positive based on the context in which it's employed (consent-breaking or not).
I can dream up a scenario in which I agree with you. For instance, you build a super competent robot that interacts with a target person and always does the opposite of what they request, from simple conversational belligerence to extreme stuff like hearing "please don't hurt me", "please don't kill me" and performing the opposite.
...Well, actually now that I'm thinking about it, even that one doesn't fit. You could request of the robot, "Please don't cure cancer for free for everyone". that's a puzzling one - is the fact that it's violating the wishes of one person a "bad thing"? or is extending the life of many others a "good thing"?
What if you built a robot that killed all the "bad guys"? Well, it depends who's building it and what their idea of a "bad guy" is, doesn't it?
I guess I think that to believe certain technologies can be non-neutral or at best non-confusing - that is, straightforwardly good or straightforwardly bad - you must probably first believe that there are objective goods and objective bads, rather than all moral judgements being subjective. I believe all moral judgments are subjective.
The speaker in the video sort of tipped her hand by using the term god-given. She might believe in a god which is probably where she's getting something like an objective moral framework. So naturally she can judge outcomes or technologies as obviously good or obviously bad. I can't do the same.
So I'm left with the condition that only the parties directly involved in an act determine the moral character of the situation, which means the inputs to that situation are sort of undefined with regard to those parties. The technology doesn't know ahead of time what the moral frameworks of those parties may be. and an outside observer (like the lady in the video) doesn't have any ground (from the point of view of those parties involved) to make moral judgements on behalf of them if they didn't explicitly request such a judgement from her. i didn't make such a request of her, so her judgement is meaningless to me :)

2026-07-12 18:50:34

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weird... this is also Ironfox on android:
https://npub19ma2w9dmk3kat0nt0k5dwuqzvmg3va9ezwup0zkakhpwv0vcwvcsg8axkl.blossom.band/17c74be69cad540d8c87ad706828b54ca2839c99b5104b72ac1161a3c74b54a9.jpg
maybe a cookies/session issue

2026-07-12 18:48:28

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she's not engaging with the term "neutral" in the same way as the speaker before her. yes, a gun is designed to threaten or kill - but the concept of killing is value-free - neutral. the context of the use is where the value or moral component lies.
One person has a gun, the other is unarmed.
1. The unarmed person begs to be shot, to be put out of their misery, because they're currently burning to death slowly.
2. The unarmed person is the gunman's hostage and begs to be released and not shot.
Same people, same gun, same act of pulling the trigger. but in the first, it is a kindness; granting someone's wish. in the second, it is harmful.
that's what is meant by "technology is neutral". even something designed to destroy, or to collect data, can be used in victimless ways.
If I want a private AI to collect data on myself in order to perform better for me, if it doesn't "spy on me" and collect data, it's doing me a disservice.

2026-07-11 20:23:32

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this is extremely odd. i see the message on every device and browser i've tested...
what browser are you using? thanks for letting me know

2026-07-09 21:18:30

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i'll take a picture next time i'm out there! got a ditch blade and a grass blade 😎

2026-07-09 21:16:57

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yea this

2026-07-09 20:03:03

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#nevent1q…z2vm

2026-07-09 20:02:23

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how about by hand with a scythe?

2026-07-09 19:29:45

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in limbo, as it says:
https://npub19ma2w9dmk3kat0nt0k5dwuqzvmg3va9ezwup0zkakhpwv0vcwvcsg8axkl.blossom.band/d4c823608803e8d34199d05053a11aa7031a4a80bc3304bb3db23d152468a510.jpg
should be back.. eventually. multiple problems

2026-07-09 00:59:30

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as a belief system that makes truth claims and moral framework.
works just fine as a calendar system. ...so it's got that going for it. might i introduce you to dozens of other calendar systems as proposals to base your worldview upon? 😆

2026-07-09 00:56:28

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why not use a real image if they just built it?

2026-07-09 00:55:01

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in this exchange, he said it's advocating for forcing others to distribute material. not a claim that anyone is a pedo.
and then odell misquoted him immediately misquoted him and accused him of illiteracy because he called out the misquote.
🤔

2026-07-08 23:59:54

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we are aware that some of us don't know how to read 😆😆😆

2026-07-08 23:59:22

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luke is being retarded, but that's also not what he said. which means odell is even more retarded.
"[advocating for] forcing bitcoiners to (unwillingly, hence "forcing") distribute CSAM" is clearly not "calling someone a pedo".

2026-07-08 20:28:29

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This is on a Stack Overflow question from TEN YEARS AGO. This "over a year" is egregiously ambiguous
https://npub19ma2w9dmk3kat0nt0k5dwuqzvmg3va9ezwup0zkakhpwv0vcwvcsg8axkl.blossom.band/96f8678cecaf58766cdc20b5e41d21fa0d0385a1805aca32396fb26d75a67d31.png

2026-07-08 00:13:59

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Narrator:
> And wouldn’t you know, their DMs actually worked… The boys took a look around at their strange little nostr-verse and thought to themselves, ‘Not half bad, for a two-bit operation!’

2026-07-07 23:49:10

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no, you!
lol, now let’s see if nostr DMs work… let me know if you don’t see it

2026-07-07 23:37:47

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🤫 it’s not really back yet, but I can take an order and get it sent out to you. I’ll DM you the password lol

2026-07-07 23:33:43

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yea i remember seeing that on nostr within the last year also. I think it was a @npub12rv…85vg project…? if memory serves, it was similar - a Signal fork with bitcoin/ecash payments inline. But it was just a slick UX demo, not finished software.
I wondered for a moment if this is the final, shipped version of that early prototype..?

2026-07-07 22:58:39

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maybe someone can tell me the answer after that happens.

2026-07-07 22:57:40

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….so connecting in their app means decrypting your Signal data in their client…? I hope it’s open source.

2026-07-07 18:18:30

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would it be less bothersome if it said “about 1 year ago”? is it the dishonesty of the label that’s bugging you?
It’s perfectly true that everything greater than 1 year old is _also_ 1 year old (at least)! 😆

2026-07-07 18:16:14

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looks more like a doody manager to me

2026-07-07 18:15:19

I’d like to know exactly how Radar and Signal interact, and this page doesn’t exactly settle it for me: https://radar.chat/privacy#messaging-data-and-metadata
Anyone know? maybe even @npub104z…d99j ?
#nevent1q…dl00

2026-07-07 02:23:46

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Where is "here"? and does @npub1zj6…2zmp not ship "there"?

2026-07-06 23:37:08

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Can I get somma that Free Moneh?

2026-07-06 23:32:11

I've had this and it is incredible. Bison > Beef
#nevent1q…hdus

2026-07-06 21:20:00

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whoa is that a thing now?

2026-07-06 16:05:53

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i haven’t seen it and this is the first “review” I’m seeing for it. what did you find woke/globalist about it?

2026-07-06 15:46:19

employee management systems were designed for normalized, fungible labor as a sort of commodity. That’s why management systems and methodologies deliver really good results when you wrap them around AIs, and why they make creative humans miserable. Creative humans aren’t uniform, labor never has been fungible - until now.
Upshot being: apply more process than you think you need to AIs, and far less than you feel comfortable with to human employees.

2026-07-06 01:14:52

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the book is widely considered fantastic and it's still criminally under-appreciated.
top 10 for me. it's basically philosophy and economics wearing a dusty sci-fi suit

2026-07-05 22:13:55

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i just got a pair of zero-drop super thin sandals and i feel like my whole life has changed

2026-07-05 22:10:10

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rad

2026-07-05 17:08:44

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you're listing my favorite authors

2026-07-05 17:08:21

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"he", but okay 😆

2026-07-05 17:07:55

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Yes, this is nearly exactly what we're doing. Much of it is already built and there is at least one community actively integrating it.

2026-07-05 13:25:05

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HDT understood economics more deeply than he is given credit for

2026-07-05 13:19:18

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you're wrong about him

2026-07-04 18:06:57

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just put an "n" in front of stuff and it mostly works

2026-07-04 01:42:00

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oh i hadn't even thought about how that "hit musical!" is quietly centralization propaganda. makes sense though, what isn't?

2026-07-03 22:17:09

and my state - rhode island - was the last to join. one of the reasons they held out was to protect their local currency, knowing that the Constitution would outlaw their preferred money...
#nevent1q…0ulc

2026-07-03 22:07:40

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i've eaten sunny-side up eggs with my hands more than once. your kid is gonna do just fine

2026-07-03 22:07:00

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those were the golden years, before the constitution!

2026-07-03 22:05:14

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what about fast in-person payments? like at a coffee shop

2026-07-03 21:59:38

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pretty sure you're ahead of it

2026-07-03 16:26:25

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Nothing to be sad about! The current moment is infinite, as far as your in-realtime-experience of it goes. Go look at a tree or a cat and enjoy it :)

2026-07-03 13:43:32

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my wife owns an independent bookstore ;)

2026-07-03 13:06:16

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libraries and bookstores could not be more different

2026-07-03 12:12:11

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this is not to be taken lightly. this is Our Thing. La Cosa Nostr

2026-07-03 12:10:23

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#nevent1q…z3n8

2026-07-03 11:04:45

How many days do I have left; How many more mornings will I sit and look out this window?
How many with this cat?
How many in this house, with this health?
How many more summer mornings this year?
How many more days this week?
How many hours this day?
How many more moments in this hour?
There is only one, once you put away your ruler and stopwatch. You can't ask "how many more Nows?"

2026-07-02 20:34:07

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the privacy part cannot be overstated

2026-07-02 19:27:53

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The GG Allin of ancient greece?

2026-07-02 19:26:43

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lol YES!

2026-07-02 19:26:16

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the one on the right is a foot (😆)

2026-07-02 18:24:45

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I fuckin loled gotdamn

2026-07-02 18:24:10

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Quill pens for illustration, pocket fountain pens for writing. (and Blackwing pencils for drafts and quick notes)
It's a good life.

2026-07-02 18:15:18

How did I just now learn about Diogenes?

2026-07-02 17:44:27

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last time i bought beef with bitcoin the exchange rate was around $95k/1 btc 😬😬
here's hoping my rancher can hold onto that through this

2026-07-02 17:43:17

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/subscribe

2026-07-02 17:40:14

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correct

2026-07-02 16:44:27

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who knows. i expect nostr to have a lot of slow, lumpy, surprising and organic discovery. my favorite part, actually

2026-07-02 16:20:29

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was it one of those times you see the end sticking out of a drawer and when you pull it out it's a goddamn 3" patch cable?! lololol

2026-07-02 16:19:57

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agreed on all of the above

2026-07-02 16:19:34

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Followed.
how have i never come across you before?

2026-07-02 16:16:30

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I'm seeing this note AFTER your "I'm going for a second ciabatta" note and it's pretty fun - like watching Pulp Fiction or that backwards Seinfeld episode

2026-07-02 16:15:40

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Thuper Cyoooot!

2026-07-02 16:14:29

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exactly. that's what the final option means to people - so they pick it.

2026-07-02 16:12:59

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Noshole was made for Nostr
alternatively:
Noshole _has made_ Nostr

2026-07-02 15:59:46

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YES!

2026-07-02 15:58:38

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shouldn't do that. bad for pan

2026-07-02 15:57:06

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you either learn this the easy way or the hard way

2026-07-02 15:56:16

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dude

2026-07-02 15:43:52

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I almost entirely agree with you, but the ways in which I don't are really significant! 😆

2026-07-02 15:42:23

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Maybe a shorter way of saying it. "Management" of other programmers is actually kind of useful. It's something nobody ever wants to learn, so disguising it in a methodology makes it appealing to nerds.
the "other programmers" can be LLMs.
Bad management is absolutely worse than no management, but I've been on teams that have NO management, and I can say for sure that it's worse than **some good management**.

2026-07-02 15:40:28

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i don't entirely disagree there, but there's not really another great common term that captures the idea of being disciplined about software quality and using shared norms and processes to do so.
(And I would be doing the current moment, a disservice not to mention that putting literal Agile guardrails around an LLM - the make-work process that you're talking about - is actually a really good way to keep it doing the right thing. Surprise, surprise.)

2026-07-02 14:15:32

If you took "Learn to Code" as advice to learn to be an agile software engineer then you're actually very well positioned right now. Agreed that drilling on how to write a sort algorithm was a waste of time. But learning how to arrive at high quality software **systems** was exactly what you need right now.
I don't know how the next crop will learn those skills, but my suspicion is that by the time they need it, it won't be necessary.
#nevent1q…sfsy

2026-07-02 10:15:44

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🤔
https://npub19ma2w9dmk3kat0nt0k5dwuqzvmg3va9ezwup0zkakhpwv0vcwvcsg8axkl.blossom.band/f5152eca0e5cfd178e756f809cb14c6178d80c00e244bd62c7137b984c7e8227.jpg

2026-07-02 10:15:26

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🤔
https://npub19ma2w9dmk3kat0nt0k5dwuqzvmg3va9ezwup0zkakhpwv0vcwvcsg8axkl.blossom.band/f5152eca0e5cfd178e756f809cb14c6178d80c00e244bd62c7137b984c7e8227.jpg

2026-07-02 10:11:13

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👋
unlike modern dictyopterans, we have generally long external ovipositors.

2026-07-02 03:14:54

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The fine print: your reaction to this ad is the assessment.

2026-07-02 03:13:20

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create an invariants doc and make sure your agent knows to follow those rules. and use a set of skills to move through pre-defined phases for work, including reviewing against the invariants. not a guarantee, but it helps a lot!

2026-07-02 01:58:37

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This is an absolute blessing. literal relays should not appear in source code