Peter "Tadpoled AI Optimist" Marreck (@pmarreck) 's Twitter Profile
Peter "Tadpoled AI Optimist" Marreck

@pmarreck

Secular-humanist technologist/software engineer. Tech, Elixir, PC/Mac gaming, open source, Linux, Apple, 🇩🇪, 🚲 , ⛵️. USAF vet 🇺🇸
Centrist. Bring evidence.

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calendar_today26-08-2008 14:18:22

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On Monday I captured 225,000 photos of the moon to create this 500 gigabyte composite showing more detail and color depth than usually possible through a telescope. Here's a thread about how it was captured, but make sure to load in 4k and zoom in first!

On Monday I captured 225,000 photos of the moon to create this 500 gigabyte composite showing more detail and color depth than usually possible through a telescope. Here's a thread about how it was captured, but make sure to load in 4k and zoom in first!
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Here's an AI-pessimistic prediction- If AI becomes the intermediary interface between ourselves and all Internet content, then it will be ever less useful to produce said content anymore (at least towards a human audience) and there will be a rise of API-only interfaces to

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I made a thing to make working directly with binary data in text-only contexts cooler (albeit at the cost of 0% best-case to 200% worst-case more bytes). LuaJIT and C implementations provided. Advantages over hex (xxd) and base64 (and as I discovered while building this, `bat

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Hey Anthropic , Zed and @windsurf, I think your live/agentic code editors would benefit from keeping some portion of the current project directory file structure visible/in-context. Perhaps filtered somehow or depth-limited etc. Something like what the output of

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I've been working on an automated AI debate tool called "tensor-kombat" (currently only a TUI app for now- Idris Language with the C backend, actually!) to experiment with using a restrictive functional language with LLM code assistance. Here's an example of its most recent output.

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🚨 JUST IN. Anthropic gave Claude $1000 to run a shop. It lost money every single day. But that's not the crazy part. It rejected 566% profit margins and gave away inventory while claiming to wear business clothes. If you think AI will replace workers, you need to see this:

🚨 JUST IN. Anthropic gave Claude $1000 to run a shop. It lost money every single day.

But that's not the crazy part.

It rejected 566% profit margins and gave away inventory while claiming to wear business clothes.

If you think AI will replace workers, you need to see this:
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Hey OpenAI , Grok , and Anthropic : I just had a possibly brilliant and startlingly simple idea: “3-player AI Chat” Basically, an LLM conversation that two real people can participate in at the same time, where the role of the AI could be mediator, factchecker,

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gist.github.com/pmarreck/cf199… I should probably promote this to a proper github project (it's currently just part of my dotfiles) but this is `rm-safe`, an implementation I made of a "safer rm" inspired by Solaris' take on this problem.

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I 100% vibecoded an app as an experiment in 100% vibecoding- an Asteroids clone with some “extra sauce”… Works on mobile and desktop browsers, and is entirely contained in a single html file, including a unit test suite that can also be run via Node in the terminal. Still need