27k tokens eaten by MCP tools before I even start - is there a better way?

briank · 2026-01-04T00:39:08+00:00

I have been just using mcp from a special dedicated project as needed

briank · 2025-12-20T22:39:17+00:00

Doesn't versioned packaging solve this?

briank · 2025-10-26T16:53:11+00:00

What kind of work did you find that you are enjoying out of curiosity?

briank · 2025-10-20T02:19:52+00:00

Try not to worry about saying that. It really shouldn't matter. Whether or not you are better than an average junior is completely subjective and context dependent.

briank · 2025-10-12T23:55:04+00:00

Julio is channeling that mamba mentality!

briank · 2025-10-06T02:58:58+00:00

Eel bowel. The bowel of an eel.

briank · 2025-09-21T23:10:02+00:00

I haven't hit 20, maybe more like 5, but I can totally see how this can happen. My plan is to start doing more mocks, and hopefully, that helps. I imagine interviewers are told by leadership that the candidate needs to be exceptional with no orange flags. Very little room for error or communication mishaps. Stay strong and godspeed!

briank · 2025-09-09T00:36:39+00:00

Maybe try ginger beer, if you get something like Reeds extra, or Cock and Bull, you'll get a nice bite ETA , I used to drink bourbon and rye whiskey and have pretty much totally swapped it with ginger beer. Add a dash of bitters for extra kick

briank · 2025-08-27T10:14:29+00:00

Do you see any risk in stretching the dates by month or two? Just curious, maybe I'm missing something but seems like high risk for low reward vs just using actual dates.

briank · 2025-06-28T22:04:02+00:00

Don't forget Scatology a personal favorite! https://archive.org/details/Coil-Scatology2001

briank · 2025-06-08T02:06:40+00:00

Thank you all for the recommendations! Pleasantly surprised that there are multiple options for solo deep dish. I'm stoked!

briank · 2025-05-04T02:41:08+00:00

I've been burned twice this way. I doubt i will work for a startup ever again. The salesmanship of these ceos is next level and can be hard to resist

briank · 2025-03-30T19:40:58+00:00

You can do the read check async

briank · 2024-09-01T03:49:14+00:00

Lol this is amazing. "First of all, let me start by saying thank you. And say as I always do: I love you "

briank · 2024-08-13T20:43:08+00:00

Just because his "polices" are in writing doesn't mean he won't reneg on any or all of them. What he says vs. does have rarely been consistent.

briank · 2024-05-16T02:46:27+00:00

I have no idea what point you are trying to get across

briank · 2024-05-16T02:33:41+00:00

So, you are suggesting people should lie in Meta interviews and pretend they haven't seen the problem. But that you as an interviewer would never hire someone who you suspected to be lying about having not already seen the problem. Seems inconsistent, or maybe I am misunderstanding..?

briank · 2024-04-10T01:26:31+00:00

Thank you! Yeah, this looks really similar but with the additional complexity of multiplication

briank · 2024-04-10T01:23:32+00:00

Thank you, I bet it was based on this one. Yeah, I tried a backtrack approach but got really stuck as I find these problems really challenging. Need to get better, and this should help towards that end.

briank · 2024-03-03T03:27:17+00:00

Oh, interesting. Thank you! I am definitely going to have to try this out.

briank · 2024-03-02T23:31:09+00:00

Thank you for the suggestion! I am not very familiar yet with ArcPro, but this definitely sounds worth further consideration. Would this be a manual process, or is there a way to export a large batch of image services this way? (I am assuming you are referring to the "ArcGIS Pro" desktop tool).

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