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Mike Ritchie

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Founder @definiteapp (a data team that never sleeps)

Philadelphia, PA
Joined January 2018
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Mike Ritchie
2 months
It's a massive pain to be "data driven". You need:. * a place to store all your data (datalake).* pipelines to get data into the datalake (ETL).* a workspace to munge data and share analysis (BI).* a data team to set all this up and answer questions. Skip all of this. Get
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Mike Ritchie
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feels weird to pay $8.49/mo to get hundreds in value. what value are you putting on your time?.
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Xeophon
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feels weird to pay $8.49/mo to use a local model
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Why do you see errors like "Tool str_replace_editor not found." in Cursor?. Claude models (e.g. claude-sonnet-4) have built-in tools (e.g. `str_replace_editor`) which they've been trained to use. These tools don't exist in Cursor, but claude really wants to use them.
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Mike Ritchie
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if you include: . * picking the right model for the task (e.g. is the context window big enough for the task? does the latency of the model match the use case? etc.) . * setting the config (e.g. max token output) . * setting the context (e.g. what info does the model need from.
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Is prompt engineering really a skill?.
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Mike Ritchie
10 days
RT @thisritchie: @csallen @Shpigford anthropic has built-in tools (e.g. text_editor_20250429) that claude4 was **trained** to use. Claude C….
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Mike Ritchie
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RT @thisritchie: @dangoldin opus-5.x is going to be fucking nuts. The training set from Claude Code is pure gold.
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Mike Ritchie
26 days
sonnet works better in claude code than cursor. i think this is part of the reason.
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Mike Ritchie
26 days
@robj3d3 @AiAristotle sonnet often tries to use Anthropic's built-in tools which don't exist in cursor but work fine in claude code.
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Mike Ritchie
26 days
RT @ken_wheeler: by the way, the science to prompting is knowing what the fuck you’re talking about in the first place.
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Mike Ritchie
26 days
you have my follow sir.
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Edward A. Perin - Psychologist
26 days
@YWereTheyThere I just call it thinking but yeah it’s great.
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Mike Ritchie
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ducklake @meltanodata target coming soon!. amazing how responsive @duckdb team is. @mraasveldt (DuckDB co-founder) jumping on Github issues within hours.
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Mike Ritchie
27 days
"AI is the next crypto" ≈ "The Industrial Revolution is the next Tulip Mania".
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Mike Ritchie
1 month
did you ever even gpt-3?
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Mike Ritchie
1 month
The duck labs people are too kind. Apparently they reached out to the OP to get their feedback 1:1.
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Mike Ritchie
1 month
ya know, @duckdb is open source, you could help instead of complain
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Mike Ritchie
1 month
i really hope these 2,504 lines brought down GCP. committed this seconds before the outage
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Mike Ritchie
1 month
bonus: the "Go to your account" /servicehealth page shows this:
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Mike Ritchie
1 month
GCP is entirely fucked right now and the status page is all green.
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Jason Victor
1 month
I don't know what's going on but @googlecloud is not working right now.
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