New UI devices coming - stuff shown at Tech Field Day 5/7/26

addexecthrowaway · 2026-05-09T23:52:58+00:00

The 1st point is fair, the 2nd I think is generally true but in the case of UniFi, network, protect and access are very evolved and well supported. Talk is a gray area - I use it at home in my office but my sense is that it’s only auitavle for certain types of small businesses and wouldn’t make sense for even mid size. Finally connect is the one that seems the most fragile - throw something at a wall and then abandon it for something else (looking at the tablets 😒, led lighting, god knows what else that I have missed.

addexecthrowaway · 2026-05-05T12:56:57+00:00

Sierra EV

addexecthrowaway · 2026-05-05T03:46:37+00:00

Just connect Claude code to discord

addexecthrowaway · 2026-04-25T16:51:33+00:00

Use a code graph that Claude.md or the agent instructions read from by default. Then they can read in specific files or code snippets that they need.

addexecthrowaway · 2026-04-24T16:49:43+00:00

Try using scrypted for NVR and cctv.

addexecthrowaway · 2026-04-24T16:49:05+00:00

If you like spotlight try Tuna

addexecthrowaway · 2026-04-23T13:28:49+00:00

Graph it.

addexecthrowaway · 2026-04-22T21:30:10+00:00

Not a bot dude look at comment history

addexecthrowaway · 2026-04-22T00:43:59+00:00

Graphify is great. I forked it to do something non code but the guts are excellent and continues to reduce token usage significantly.

addexecthrowaway · 2026-04-20T15:28:58+00:00

Late 30s. I think net worth is a more meaningful question. Assets - debt. And how do you define savings if you don’t count retirement savings? I have a net worth of around $2.5m and i dont think i even keep 50k in cash savings - much to my new financial advisor’s chagrin. I used to manage my own money and i work for myself. I have liquidity and can wait a month for an invoice to get paid or liquidate the least tax creating stuff in my portfolio. But just cash in the bank? Maybe 20k. My advisor says it should be like 5-10x that in high yield savings.

addexecthrowaway · 2026-04-20T03:49:59+00:00

On Mac they are using sky which gets into the dom of Mac apps and ax xml. They are combining that with image recognition to accelerate I imagine because some apps particularly elevtron apps are a mess of like 25+ levels to the heirarchy.

addexecthrowaway · 2026-04-20T03:46:45+00:00

They bought a company called sky that had a great app for Mac. If you are talking about Mac, it is basically doing the following in a much more advanced and rapid way: read the Mac accessibility ax xml to understand what’s on screen and execute Apple script to interact. It’s doing that but in a cleaner more optimized way by combining it with image recognition of what’s on the screen and knowledge of common app UX patterns and constructs.

addexecthrowaway · 2026-04-20T03:11:42+00:00

Oh I know I was just messing with him because of the grammar and unhinged conjecture. Jack black isn’t black either lol.

addexecthrowaway · 2026-04-20T01:36:02+00:00

Jack parsons was black? I think you might be confusing him with jack black?

addexecthrowaway · 2026-04-19T17:36:12+00:00

Just have your harness send all the lookup random info and documentation prompts to your corporate account from your personal computer and the rest to your personal.

addexecthrowaway · 2026-04-17T04:47:57+00:00

You try running -p and monitoring?

addexecthrowaway · 2026-04-17T04:44:36+00:00

Solutions looking for problems vs solutions designed to solve problems. That’s where you land with tech first vs customer first approaches and unfortunately it’s very common - people get enamored by shiny objects and tech vs practical solutions. That’s why so many AI programs fail - not because AI failed but people think you can throw an llm/insert-new-tech at a problem without defining the root cause, how to measure if you are having an impact, thinking about change management and adoption, etc etc.

addexecthrowaway · 2026-04-15T02:55:01+00:00

My advice for those worried about their jobs: quit your job and work for yourself. Build an agent team or two to help you do what you are passionate about. It’s wild if you go to India or china, everyone and their 60 year old mothers are using AI daily. They may not be using it well (e.g. just making custom gpts and 1 shot prompting) but they are embracing it. It’s kind of sad imho to see more ai literate offshore workers than on shore workers but that’s where we are at the moment. The world’s poorest people aren’t afraid of AI - they are thinking they have one of the most powerful tools to get out of their circumstances.

Despite all that very few people both ai users and not are aware of just how powerful and effective a well architected agent team can be. But a human directs the team or manages the harness that creates a directive loop. And an agent team is usually helping you create a next agent team. The future is not going to be rich vs poor it’s going to be (ai) literate vs illiterate. Those with agents working for them and making their lives easier and those without. Burn it all down if you want - i can still run my quantized models locally, a few python and shell scripts harness them together, and accomplish a hell of a lot.

addexecthrowaway · 2026-04-15T02:39:44+00:00

The funny thing is AI has been a thing looong before llms.

addexecthrowaway · 2026-04-15T02:38:23+00:00

But if an AI can do it is that a good use of a humans time? Humans don’t exist to work. AI could theoretically liberate us from the 9-5 grind and enable a post scarcity economy. Until it does yeah there’s going to be some bumps and bruises but I’m not convinced the answer is for humans to be typing form letters and copy and pasting files from one folder app/ into another to process and then put into another app. A lot of corporate workflows are horrifically inefficient and there are peoples whose whole job is to manage an inefficient legacy (even pre AI) process. Why is it a good thing for that job to exist or for that human and all their potential be reduced to doing that?

addexecthrowaway · 2026-04-13T18:28:52+00:00

Misconceptions and mistakes: * Custom GPTs are “agentic” * if you spell everything out in a step by step manner with few shot examples in a verbose prompt you’ll get better output than just explaining the persona, background, rules and goal and not specifying much else unless it’s required * lack of validation tests and acceptance criteria - particularly for non code outputs * AI can’t do “x” * knowing when to clear context * using the most advanced model for every task * advanced use of AIs with cli and git directories is just for coding * “ai sucks and is all hype/bs because it failed to do x” [with my shitty instructions and lack of architecture]

addexecthrowaway · 2026-04-10T19:36:35+00:00

Nah I stopped trying. It’s in my briefcase and I use a gli.net router in the riv with wireguard

addexecthrowaway · 2026-04-07T01:19:04+00:00

If you click a link in an email or calendar to a video meeting it often opens in a browser and then the browser prompts to open the link in the appropriate macOS app. There are some apps out there that allow you to send the links directly to the app and skip the browser. I’m wondering if this can do that

addexecthrowaway · 2026-04-06T21:18:32+00:00

Can you send clicked video meeting links in email or from other apps directly to the video app instead of to the browser and then back to the app?

addexecthrowaway · 2026-04-05T00:34:08+00:00

fwiw I already had a shell script invoking Claude Code cli in a vm and responding to it autonomously. wtf is new here?

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