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“The eighties” are way more than 10yrs ago, brain takes a while to catch up when doing the math on that…

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Joined April 2007
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accurate - annoying that the disclaimer is required...
Replying to @SwiftOnSecurity
It is important to remember that despite my nominal status as a professional I have no legal fidelity to you, and our relationship is best described as an amusement park clown doing free gigs to produce positive Yelp reviews.
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It took a minute, but oh my goodness, @basecamp Fizzy is much better than attempting to use chat to organise work. Thankfully Grok @bot can just set it up. The only addition we added was a local relay to get through Cloudflare access controls and wire into bot webhooks.
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Interesting reality I live in now I don’t use any standalone terminal app - only @zeddotdev as I am often in a project that has files or is project related. I basically need the idea of @herdrdev in Zed ❤️
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Grok @bot voice chat seems to be smoother than regular @grok voice chats. which is odd. also @bot doesn't surface a transcript, are these conversations part of any history?
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Please bring back @build can interact with @bot that was awesome and now it’s gone - please Lauren 🙏 @poteto
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also looks like grok @bot has been locked down from outbound ssh for the moment... all good - cause we built a @Cloudflare ZeroTrust mesh overlay already to allow access...
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holy shit - grok build can interact with grok bot now - this is wild! saves me being the go between! grok build has a different grounding to the the bots and i use both
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Grok did a pretty good job of fixing this photo shot through two layers of plastic
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Primary bot is an interesting idea in @bot. However, it's completely naive. My setup had a whole lot defined, and it took a little prodding and jabbing to go read everything. Now, I think it's going to have a good time. should use poteto-mode for the specific bots 🙈
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If you want a desktop free binary on your headless OS ask your agent to repackage it. @Cloudflare warp-cli is now two binaries instead of 800MB desktop suite - I now have the mesh everywhere 💪 github.com/thenicholasnick-g…
15M Aug 28 15:36 /usr/bin/warp-cli however to get that binary we have to install 192 packages and use 792MB of disk? this is ridiculous @Cloudflare ... there is no desktop to render a tray icon...
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15M Aug 28 15:36 /usr/bin/warp-cli however to get that binary we have to install 192 packages and use 792MB of disk? this is ridiculous @Cloudflare ... there is no desktop to render a tray icon...
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@grok reckons this will work
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Lol @onenzofficial Interesting network name team
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I’m actually finding grok @build to be an awesome chief of staff. This one thread/build is ever growing and staying on track, build doesn’t have access to much. Build is helping me figure out grok @bot to a level of competence I wouldn’t have got on my own! NightStack soon
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The outline of NightStack is: grok-files: Internet accessible read only filesystem access to the grok bot computer with human md renderer. It also exposes the git log for a given repo simply. This is the main way @build helps me via gf() shell script git-central: @tobi walgit binary running in an @exedev vm internet accessible (avoiding GitHub issues, Cloud Agents can just use it via gc() simple shell script to pull required token out of env grok-cli: skill to prompt grok cli so can access SuperHeavy subscription and 4.6 flavours - xhigh instead of fable pstack-surface: shims on top of @poteto pstack to bootstrap gf() and gc() into Cloud Agents (Gemini Flash 3.8) and access grok-cli ops-bot: assists with owning and managing infrastructure and maintaining pstack-surface so the other bots can focus From there each @bot instance owns a single product and spawns whatever agent they need to build. Article in a week or two with repo
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geez it is even worse - lol the new grok @bot usage limits basically stop grok bot chat from writing anything useful to disk or commands - what a joke... the whole point is the bots get on with it! if the bot wants to send a paragraph it sends a paragraph... oh well - grok build is onto it and pstack is getting upgrades to work...
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The new @bot usage fixes have completely knee capped poteto-mode it can’t plan anything anymore. Make sure implement a fix in your customised version of the stack to use grok cli to do the work with sand default being a parent coordinator
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Well I mean if watching my 3 kiddos under 10 playing and doing a group activity with zero oversight is the template. Letting the agentic harnesses have a shared space like @bot makes a lot of sense!!! The trick is avoid a process shrine that outputs a process instead of results
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Why is the whole agentic idea for code being coordinated through PRs? Humans benefit from PR coordination to assist with process, do bots? I’m getting positive results with trunk based dev and “prove it works” via pstack “verification is all you need”
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If you’re using @poteto pstack on grok bot via Grok SuperHeavy Plan. Get grok build to add a “pstack-surface” and “grok-cli” skill so you can get access to you SuperHeavy plan credits. My grok @bot usage has stabilised now and getting solid results. No point sharing mine as I’ve gone down an ops bot shared infrastructure setup that is intertwined with this idea. Tightly integrated and bespoke is the way. make pstack yours. The issue is grok @bot is capable however the usage allowance is tiny so hacks to other subscriptions are required and bot is a router for the grunt work!
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getting productive results with @poteto pstack and @bot now. Figured out cloudflare and direct wireguard into grok bot computer instead of tailscale, magic dns is fun, running the tailscale app on all devices isn't. It is still private and fast cause ucg-fiber and 4/4gbps WAN.
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CoS pattern quickly fell a part due to the prompts steering for maintenance of a process instead of achieving a goal. Thankfully found pstack xitter.twitterapi.xyz/poteto/status/20934144… Which as you read through the details highlight exactly this result. @balajis middle to middle is currently SOTA
Grok @bot is next level. Had some pain setting up the multi-bot Chief of Staff pattern at first. Exported the full transcript, brought it over to @grok Heavy, and sorted the prompts. Team is rocking now.
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Which means we the human are still having to put in a bunch of effort up front as the “beginning”. Thankfully we can get the LLMs to explore the idea and form a giant prompts that includes a lot up front. The difference in one off and reproducible process is vast, less time now!
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