We use beads for everything. We label them as "human-spec" needed if they are not ready to implement. We label them as "qa-needed" if they cannot be verified through automatic tests.
I wrote beads-skills for Claude that I'll release soon to enforce this process.
2026 will be the year of agent orchestration for those of us who are frustrated having 10 different agents to check on constantly.
We're writing an internal tool to help with planning, which most people don't think is a problem but I think is a serious problem. Most plans are either too long and/or you end up repeating yourself.
Can you please expose the functionality as a self-documenting CLI command with machine readable output? (Or did I misunderstand that MCP isn't the only way to use it?)
I am curious to try it but do not want to adopt MCP servers.
Telling Claude to call the CLI tool is more efficient.
`chunkhound search <query>`, `chunkhound search --regex <query>` and `chunkhound research <query>` are the main cli entry points that you can already use today
A rigorous approach to predicting the future of text was proposed by Li et al 2024, "Evaluating Large Language Models for Generalization and Robustness via Data Compression" (https://ar5iv.labs.arxiv.org/html//2402.00861) and I think that work should get more recognition.
They measure compression (perplexity) on future Wikipedia, news articles, code, arXiv papers, and multi-modal data. Data compression is intimately connected with robustness and generalization.
Thanks for the paper, I just read it and loved the approach. I hope the concept of using data compression as a benchmark will take off. In a sense it is kind of similar to the maxim "If you cannot explain something in simple terms, you do not understand it fully".
You could, and maybe sometimes you would, but generally you won't. If at all possible, it makes a lot more sense to improve your setup to reduce the x noise, either with a better setup or changing your x to be something you can better control.
Depends on how many different financial systems you need to import from. It took me a weekend to set up the importers alone between checking, savings, investments, mortgage, pay slips, and all the credit cards. Some don’t have csv output so had to do pdf to text conversion. There are examples in beancount but each bank was different for me.
Assuming a US startup is considering engineering hires outside the United States, how does one currently assess the likelihood of getting them a visa to work in the USA? And what timeline and cost would be involved?
Unfortunately, a case by case analysis would be required. However, if they are from a country with its own visa (that is, Australia, Canada, Chile, Mexico, and Chile), it's relatively easy to get engineers visas.
Agreed, to me they are very different takes on what is a punk attitude.
Palahniuk: Underneath the veneer of the banal, you will discover everything is rotten and sycophantic but somehow tender and relatable.
Bourdain: Underneath the veneer of the banal, you will discover an honest struggle for something far more respectable than what is typically venerated. Eat their food, dance to their music, and you will enjoy.
I wrote beads-skills for Claude that I'll release soon to enforce this process.
2026 will be the year of agent orchestration for those of us who are frustrated having 10 different agents to check on constantly.
gastown is cool but too opinionated.
I'm excited about this promising new project: https://github.com/jzila/canopy
We're writing an internal tool to help with planning, which most people don't think is a problem but I think is a serious problem. Most plans are either too long and/or you end up repeating yourself.
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