Nicolay Gerold
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Daytime: Hacking on @AmpCode Nighttime: I hack on new startup ideas with generative AI Podcast @ How AI Is Built
Munich
Joined May 2021
"Sadly, it's a bit off a snake oil. These long context embedding models have tested basically all of them, not really working well. So it's [best length of chunks] something between like 500 and 1,000 tokens.". Text embeddings are far from perfect. They struggle with long
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The person who can communicate the best what he wants to build will be the best engineer.
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RT @thorstenball: Three of us (and customers) noticed basically at the same time that Claude was behaving weirdly: stops mid-sentence, does….
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RT @kieranklaassen: The hardest part isn't learning the new tools. It's unlearning the need to control every semicolon. Letting go of the….
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Coding is now like watching Redzone. It’s time for the Quadbox!.
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Trying out coding in light mode for the first time in my life. It's interesting. Ghostty light mode is first class.
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~40-50% of Cursor’s code is written from output generated by Cursor. 90% of the code for Claude Code is written by Claude Code. @GeoffreyHuntley we need that for Amp or as a metric in the commits.
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@thorstenball for your swift side project you wanted to try.
www.indragie.com
How I built Context—a native macOS SwiftUI app for debugging MCP servers—almost entirely with Claude Code, and what I learned about building with AI coding agents.
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Nothing like listening to a podcast on the Manhattan Project while working out. „Now I have become death, the destroyer of worlds“.
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two terminals, two vscode instances really bringing my macbook (m4) to its knees.
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coding faster than I can think .=.my agent catches shit I didn’t think of.
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why byok doesn't work: enterprises are where the money is, so enterprises are always the priority. or use @AmpCode
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RT @changelog: 🎉 New episode with @thorstenball!. Thorsten returned to @Sourcegraph to work on @Amp because he believes being able to talk….
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To save the time, I would create an mcp.json in .config/claude/mcp.json. Then set an alias for claude to use the mcp config. alias cl='claude --dangerously-skip-permissions --mcp-config ~/.config/claude/mcp.json'
I figured out how to add the official Playwright browser automation MCP to Claude Code. Run this before you start "claude":. claude mcp add playwright npx '@playwright/mcp@latest'. Now Claude Code can use a Chrome browser directly!. Here's my TIL:
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