Amy Tobey
@renice.bsky.social
Amy Tobey💙parent🦁😾partner🥰obligate polymath🎶musician👩💻 reliability engineer🔎leader🧙♀️chaotic good🌈buckaroo🏳️⚧️backyard yogi🧘♀️魔法 少女🤦🏻♀
on one hand, with my agents and a clear idea I can crank out 50k LoC in a few weeks. on the other, tech debt is inherent in large codebases and you still gotta pay it off even if robots are doing the bit work
December 21, 2025 at 3:15 PM
on one hand, with my agents and a clear idea I can crank out 50k LoC in a few weeks. on the other, tech debt is inherent in large codebases and you still gotta pay it off even if robots are doing the bit work
I got ffxiv going ok on the gaming rig I moved to arch linux. went with ffxivlauncher which is great. gamma is pretty messed up but I healed a couple dungeons with partner just fine. on ps5 controller over bt. will probably get hdr going today and/or bring in vkBasalt/gamescope
December 21, 2025 at 2:56 PM
I got ffxiv going ok on the gaming rig I moved to arch linux. went with ffxivlauncher which is great. gamma is pretty messed up but I healed a couple dungeons with partner just fine. on ps5 controller over bt. will probably get hdr going today and/or bring in vkBasalt/gamescope
might fuck around with referring to agents as "cognitive amplifiers". which is to say, claude code is a fender amp stack for your language skills
December 21, 2025 at 2:46 PM
might fuck around with referring to agents as "cognitive amplifiers". which is to say, claude code is a fender amp stack for your language skills
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ignore the title about caching, this is the best explanation of how LLMs work, period
Prompt caching: 10x cheaper LLM tokens, but how? | ngrok blog
A far more detailed explanation of prompt caching than anyone asked for.
ngrok.com
December 21, 2025 at 3:23 AM
ignore the title about caching, this is the best explanation of how LLMs work, period
the upstream YuE package is a bit academic so I put this together so it can coexist with other inference in python and runs ok on rocm github.com/tobert/yue-i...
(YuE is a lyrics-to-song generative music model)
(YuE is a lyrics-to-song generative music model)
GitHub - tobert/yue-inference: Clean Python wrapper for YuE lyrics-to-song generation (M-A-P/HKUST)
Clean Python wrapper for YuE lyrics-to-song generation (M-A-P/HKUST) - tobert/yue-inference
github.com
December 20, 2025 at 9:36 PM
the upstream YuE package is a bit academic so I put this together so it can coexist with other inference in python and runs ok on rocm github.com/tobert/yue-i...
(YuE is a lyrics-to-song generative music model)
(YuE is a lyrics-to-song generative music model)
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Having a cat is so cool. There is a little creature in my bed who loves me and vibrates like a tiny motorcycle and is so fuzzy and wants to snuggle. How could I want anything else
December 20, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Having a cat is so cool. There is a little creature in my bed who loves me and vibrates like a tiny motorcycle and is so fuzzy and wants to snuggle. How could I want anything else
ooh claude code 2.0.75 is boasting lsp support neato
December 20, 2025 at 7:50 PM
ooh claude code 2.0.75 is boasting lsp support neato
at first glance it seems like putting prompts directly into git history makes a lot of sense, but then, squash commits rule because we all learn by trying goofy stuff sometimes, and it's great to have a vulnerable space to just try things that would have been laughed out of the datacenters of yore
December 20, 2025 at 3:44 PM
at first glance it seems like putting prompts directly into git history makes a lot of sense, but then, squash commits rule because we all learn by trying goofy stuff sometimes, and it's great to have a vulnerable space to just try things that would have been laughed out of the datacenters of yore
past me: I would never design it that way bc I hate boilerplate even if it makes things more flexible in the end
present me: boilerplate is great, the robots manage it and it keeps them out of trouble
present me: boilerplate is great, the robots manage it and it keeps them out of trouble
December 20, 2025 at 2:59 PM
past me: I would never design it that way bc I hate boilerplate even if it makes things more flexible in the end
present me: boilerplate is great, the robots manage it and it keeps them out of trouble
present me: boilerplate is great, the robots manage it and it keeps them out of trouble
I built what I think is a really nice lua setup and claude just ignores it so now I'm messing with pyo3
claude's planning, parallel agents, and autocompaction are working together well enough now that I just need to iterate on a design doc then it can rip, no need to lay out the plan like I was
claude's planning, parallel agents, and autocompaction are working together well enough now that I just need to iterate on a design doc then it can rip, no need to lay out the plan like I was
December 20, 2025 at 2:20 PM
I built what I think is a really nice lua setup and claude just ignores it so now I'm messing with pyo3
claude's planning, parallel agents, and autocompaction are working together well enough now that I just need to iterate on a design doc then it can rip, no need to lay out the plan like I was
claude's planning, parallel agents, and autocompaction are working together well enough now that I just need to iterate on a design doc then it can rip, no need to lay out the plan like I was
oh neat, claude code shipped on-demand mcp tool loading, right after I wiped out most of my tool descriptions to save context 😆
December 20, 2025 at 12:02 PM
oh neat, claude code shipped on-demand mcp tool loading, right after I wiped out most of my tool descriptions to save context 😆
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hiring for my team: Senior Developer Advocate (Agentic Postgres)
real talk - this role is for people who actually code with Claude Code/Cursor daily, not people who "think AI is neat"
real talk - this role is for people who actually code with Claude Code/Cursor daily, not people who "think AI is neat"
December 19, 2025 at 4:29 PM
hiring for my team: Senior Developer Advocate (Agentic Postgres)
real talk - this role is for people who actually code with Claude Code/Cursor daily, not people who "think AI is neat"
real talk - this role is for people who actually code with Claude Code/Cursor daily, not people who "think AI is neat"
the thing that I think is special about claude opus 4.5 is it will talk me out of doing things. we spent a whole session designing a crate we realized we could accomplish with the lua host we already have and wrote a doc about that
December 19, 2025 at 3:57 PM
the thing that I think is special about claude opus 4.5 is it will talk me out of doing things. we spent a whole session designing a crate we realized we could accomplish with the lua host we already have and wrote a doc about that
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I put some underused #modular instruments - subharmonicon, brains, and original pam's - in a skiff for simple generative beats to go into the ai rig's audio for dev work, but this is actually pretty great!? maybe I should just put the drumbrute on the dev machine and keep this for jamming 🤔
December 18, 2025 at 9:24 PM
I put some underused #modular instruments - subharmonicon, brains, and original pam's - in a skiff for simple generative beats to go into the ai rig's audio for dev work, but this is actually pretty great!? maybe I should just put the drumbrute on the dev machine and keep this for jamming 🤔
left my rt sound daemon recording overnight. 13mb rss, 2.6gb vss. used less cpu than pipewire. 0 underruns. that'll do lil robot, that'll do
December 18, 2025 at 2:09 PM
left my rt sound daemon recording overnight. 13mb rss, 2.6gb vss. used less cpu than pipewire. 0 underruns. that'll do lil robot, that'll do
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Whew. Listen. When you think about it as infinite grace and infinite compassion, you might start to understand what kind of need we're tapping into here.
bsky.app/profile/emil...
bsky.app/profile/emil...
I think about this a lot. I feel like there's a lot of broken trust and bad faith out there, and it's so tempting to turn to a machine that gives you a simulacrum of literally infinite grace and infinite compassion.
December 17, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Whew. Listen. When you think about it as infinite grace and infinite compassion, you might start to understand what kind of need we're tapping into here.
bsky.app/profile/emil...
bsky.app/profile/emil...
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ordering a model to -9 a daemon hits different
December 17, 2025 at 9:25 PM
ordering a model to -9 a daemon hits different
gotta give claude credit where it's due, it tried to talk me out of migrating from msgpack to capnproto bc it would be annoying to do for a few bytes here and there, and it was mostly right
(but allocationless send is a cool feature in the RT-ish part of the stack so here we go...)
(but allocationless send is a cool feature in the RT-ish part of the stack so here we go...)
December 17, 2025 at 2:56 PM
gotta give claude credit where it's due, it tried to talk me out of migrating from msgpack to capnproto bc it would be annoying to do for a few bytes here and there, and it was mostly right
(but allocationless send is a cool feature in the RT-ish part of the stack so here we go...)
(but allocationless send is a cool feature in the RT-ish part of the stack so here we go...)
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vm.overcommit_memory=2 is always the right setting: https://ariadne.space/2025/12/16/vmovercommitmemory-is-always-the-right.html
December 17, 2025 at 12:23 AM
vm.overcommit_memory=2 is always the right setting: https://ariadne.space/2025/12/16/vmovercommitmemory-is-always-the-right.html
probably the reason I do ok with large language models fibbing stuff that sounds like it should be true is I grew up around small town bullshitters
December 16, 2025 at 12:44 PM
probably the reason I do ok with large language models fibbing stuff that sounds like it should be true is I grew up around small town bullshitters
with tab to accept auto-prompts, claude code is becoming the ultimate tool for cat owners who have been Chosen for Sits and can't type for a bit
December 13, 2025 at 2:47 PM
with tab to accept auto-prompts, claude code is becoming the ultimate tool for cat owners who have been Chosen for Sits and can't type for a bit
"docs/agents/plans/tech-debt/07-split-chonkers.md" this is what I mean when I say writing software is a delight again
December 13, 2025 at 1:34 PM
"docs/agents/plans/tech-debt/07-split-chonkers.md" this is what I mean when I say writing software is a delight again