Chris Albon
@chrisalbon
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Notes on machines that help make knowledge at https://t.co/U8VEc0pxWg ||| Director, ML & Data at @Wikimedia
San Francisco
Joined December 2007
For years I’ve been cruelly mocked for carrying a flashlight around. But on December 20, 2025 in Sports Basement I was vindicated.
ALERTSF: There is a large power outage affecting parts of San Francisco, including Richmond, Sunset, Presidio, Golden Gate Park, and parts of downtown. Traffic lights in these areas may be impacted. If a traffic signal has gone dark, always treat it as a
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from what?!
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Alright listen San Francisco. Everyone cant sell shovels. Someone has to mine something.
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Sometimes I go back and give LLM chats a follow up to whatever we were talking about
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“Use our AI to make a ton of money trading stocks!” says person not using their own AI to make a ton of money trading stocks.
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Should I be abandoning the Claude app and just use Claude code for all my stupid random questions?
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Bring back NormConf you coward
every time i try to write a post that's like "you should do this because it's best practices and good engineering is important", it comes out forced and unnatural until i turn it into "here's what i learned about x, y, z, come on a trip with me." every single time.
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I really like plan code. It lets me correct mistakes before claude hides them in a bunch of code. Nice post about how it works
I don't use Claude's plan mode. I made some potentially uninformed statements today about plan mode, so I learned what it does by looking at the code. This might or might not be useful to you.
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