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Dan Siemon

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Networking geek, product manager, start-up founder. https://www.coverfire.com Please take a look at https://bsky.app/profile/coverfire.com/feed/networking feed if you are interested in computer networking.

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Dan Siemon @coverfire.com · 4d

Read “Stanford Just Killed Prompt Engineering With 8 Words (And I Can’t Believe It Worked)“ by Adham Khaled on Medium: generativeai.pub/stanford-jus...

Stanford Just Killed Prompt Engineering With 8 Words (And I Can’t Believe It Worked)

ChatGPT keeps giving you the same boring response? This new technique unlocks 2× more creativity from ANY AI model — no training required…

generativeai.pub

Dan Siemon @coverfire.com · 5d

That doesn't match my mental model of Claude Code. I thought it was local with inference only in the cloud.

Dan Siemon @coverfire.com · 5d

Yeah I'm confused. They look like separate implementations so I guess that means the Python one doesn't directly benefit from Claude Code hardening?

Dan Siemon @coverfire.com · 5d

Thanks. I need to dig into this. I thought of Claude Code not as a tool to build upon but an app. Now I'm confused as to whether the two Claude agent SDKs (Python and Typescript) are completely separate implementations... Which seems unfortunate from a systems perspective.

Dan Siemon @coverfire.com · 5d

And the Claude agent SDK?

Dan Siemon @coverfire.com · 5d

Is this suggesting that products should be built using Claude instead of frameworks like PydanticAI or that internal chat agents should be?

Dan Siemon @coverfire.com · 5d

We need a new argumentative fallacy: appeal to AI-authority

Dan Siemon @coverfire.com · 8d

Andor is soo good. Even if you don't like Star Wars, you have to watch it. The big question is whether to watch Rogue One before or after. I think I'd recommend before.

Reposted by Dan Siemon

Hazel Weakly @hazelweakly.me · 8d

As an example, there's a paper out there that describes how one can reduce disk traffic over NVMe by up to 90%+ by applying a 20 line patch to the linux kernel assuming one owns their own smart SSDs, can patch that firmware, and owns the whole stack up through the hypervisor

The perf gains are WILD

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Steve Klabnik @steveklabnik.com · 10d

okay, after using it today, github.com/steveyegge/b... is very cool.

it's built for AI usage but even for projects without AI stuff, I'm gonna consider using it. I love issue tracking, but doing it via a super snappy CLI is much nicer than web-based, i think.

GitHub - steveyegge/beads: Beads - A memory upgrade for your coding agent

Beads - A memory upgrade for your coding agent. Contribute to steveyegge/beads development by creating an account on GitHub.

Reposted by Dan Siemon

Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · 13d

Claude Skills are awesome, maybe a bigger deal than MCP
simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/16/...

Claude Skills are awesome, maybe a bigger deal than MCP

Anthropic this morning introduced Claude Skills, a new pattern for making new abilities available to their models: Claude can now use Skills to improve how it performs specific tasks. Skills …

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Dan Siemon @coverfire.com · 16d

www.ietf.org/archive/id/d...

#networknook

Responsiveness under Working Conditions

For many years, a lack of responsiveness, variously called lag, latency, or bufferbloat, has been recognized as an unfortunate, but common, symptom in today's networks. Even after a decade of work on ...

Dan Siemon @coverfire.com · 20d

codemia.io/blog/path/QU...

Dan Siemon @coverfire.com · 25d

blog.muni.town/atproto-isnt...

ATProto Isn't What You Think

This post takes a look at ATProto from a different angle, and explores the value of some possibly less-noticed pieces of it.

Dan Siemon @coverfire.com · 28d

Read “AI’s First Extinction Event Is Nigh. Here’s Why.“ by Ignacio de Gregorio on Medium: medium.com/@ignacio.de....

AI’s First Extinction Event Is Nigh. Here’s Why.

Why Most AI Startups Are Doomed

Dan Siemon @coverfire.com · 28d

open.substack.com/pub/aaazzam/...

The apology of MCP

Sorry not sorry.

open.substack.com

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dan @danabra.mov · Sep 26

i wrote about atproto and why it matters

Open Social — overreacted

The protocol is the API.

Dan Siemon @coverfire.com · Sep 26

martinalderson.com/posts/what-h...

What happens when coding agents stop feeling like dialup?

From magical to frustrating in months. Why AI coding agents feel like dial-up internet and what ultra-fast inference could unlock for developer productivity.

martinalderson.com

Dan Siemon @coverfire.com · Sep 22

Periodic reminder (for me).

ferd.ca/queues-don-t...

Queues Don't Fix Overload

Dan Siemon @coverfire.com · Sep 14

This is so cool. Models of subway stations around the world.

stations.albertguillaumes.cat

Stations and transfers

A gallery of drawings depicting the topology of metro stations from different European cities.

stations.albertguillaumes.cat

Dan Siemon @coverfire.com · Sep 11

Read “Understanding Palantir’s Ontology: Semantic, Kinetic, and Dynamic Layers Explained“ by Cristian Caruso on Medium: pythonebasta.medium.com/understandin...

Understanding Palantir’s Ontology: Semantic, Kinetic, and Dynamic Layers Explained

If you’ve worked with Palantir Foundry or Gotham, you’ve likely heard the term ontology used again and again. In Palantir’s world, ontology…

pythonebasta.medium.com

Dan Siemon @coverfire.com · Sep 7

Claude's chat interface is much better than Gemini's. Not being able to share or export a whole chat vs. single request response is too limiting.

Dan Siemon @coverfire.com · Sep 1

medium.com/p/the-fast-p...

#networknook

The fast path/slow path mirage

Dividing processing into a fast path and slow path is a common design technique to optimize the common case — we show it’s not all roses

Dan Siemon @coverfire.com · Aug 31

Dario Amodei — Machines of Loving Grace share.google/jzwmQpJ77BL6...

Dario Amodei — Machines of Loving Grace

How AI Could Transform the World for the Better

Dan Siemon @coverfire.com · Aug 31

simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/29/...

Lossy encyclopedia

Since I love collecting questionable analogies for LLMs, here's a new one I just came up with: an LLM is a lossy encyclopedia. They have a huge array of facts …

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