Tyler Burch

Tyler Burch

@tylerjamesburch.com

Lead Data Analyst for the Boston Red Sox. Recovering physicist. Formerly: Argonne, CERN (ATLAS), NIU, Murray State, St. Louis-ish. Tired but hydrated.

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“Claude I need you to dumb this down, it is midnight and I am tired” is the new “I’m toast, guess I’m gonna go to bed”

SE Gyges@segyges.bsky.social

saying that LLMs makes you lazy is mostly incorrect, and ignores one of the actually harmful things about them: it means that as long as you're still capable of talking, you're capable of working. you can overwork yourself in ways that were never remotely possible before

need some help, the parenting books didn't prepare me for this one: what do I do when my kid wakes up at 2 am to tell me that the reason you sneeze is because there's dust or pollen in your nose?

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It was a wicked good summah for the Sox! After being 14 games under .500 in June, the @RedSox are shipping up to the #Postseason! #CLINCHED (MLB x @BudweiserUSA)

Tonight I made a pizza flavored bean skillet so my kids would get some nutrients. I also made bread because you gotta have something to dip in the skillet. Anyway they ate a whole loaf of bread and I was the only one who had beans.

"Thanks for writing all that code claude, now can you walk me through it like I'm a big dum dum and help me understand what in the world you did? Thanks"

Like 80% of my repos have a branch named "list" because I can never remember the dashes in `git branch --list`, and once it's there I'm far too lazy to delete it.

I guess this is how I learn a factoid means a fact, and also not a fact Thanks I hate it 

Grant Brisbee@grantbrisbee.bsky.social

This is a good question! A factlet is a little fact (and not a real word ... yet). A factoid is false or exaggerated fact. Join the factlet revolution.

hello there P = NP is solved thanx to my close friend akhil for asking about it and my other close friend fable for working during the world cup final P=NP N=P/P N=1

bigger picture, if you live on the North Shore and are looking to make charitable contributions, the Northeast Arc is as good of a cause as any, and it sounds like they could use some support.

Apologies to anyone who has to occupy a 4 foot radius around me for the next month, but these cucumbers aren’t going to pickle themselves and smelling like garlic and vinegar is just the cost of doing business, baby.

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And by soon I mean like 4 hours later lol tylerjamesburch.com/blog/tooling...

tylerjamesburch.comLetting Agents Drive Your Interactive Sessions with tmuxA workflow I’ve been using lately - pointing agents at a live REPL through tmux, with a file-redirect trick that makes it reliable.
Tyler Burch@tylerjamesburch.com

So I figured out that you can use tmux send-keys to have an agent backdoor into an interactive session. This is super nice if you want to avoid reloading data on every turn and also reduces the amount of scrap scripts they pile up. Will write a short blog post soon.

And by soon I mean like 4 hours later lol tylerjamesburch.com/blog/tooling...

tylerjamesburch.comLetting Agents Drive Your Interactive Sessions with tmuxA workflow I’ve been using lately - pointing agents at a live REPL through tmux, with a file-redirect trick that makes it reliable.
Tyler Burch@tylerjamesburch.com

So I figured out that you can use tmux send-keys to have an agent backdoor into an interactive session. This is super nice if you want to avoid reloading data on every turn and also reduces the amount of scrap scripts they pile up. Will write a short blog post soon.

So I figured out that you can use tmux send-keys to have an agent backdoor into an interactive session. This is super nice if you want to avoid reloading data on every turn and also reduces the amount of scrap scripts they pile up. Will write a short blog post soon.

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asking an LLM, that thinks in tokens, how many letters are in "strawberry" is like asking a person on the street, who thinks mainly in words, how many ASCII values in "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" are prime numbers i won't answer that question correctly without tools (pen and paper?) either

The thing I'm learning about agent-based development is that you need to do something like: - Let it implement the thing - Let a new agent review the thing - Let another new agent review it again - Repeat until it's happy with it's work - Finally, look at it yourself

Grant me the serenity to accept the problems where I cannot offload my understanding, courage to let the LLM go burrrr on the problems where I can, and the wisdom to know the difference