Amy Tobey
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human code review is shifting further left, speeding up, and more focused on architecture than speling. just like with people, models often can't see flaws that are obvious to others, so mixing models is imo absolutely critical to get different perspectives and find flaws. ime it works fabulously
January 7, 2026 at 12:43 AM
human code review is shifting further left, speeding up, and more focused on architecture than speling. just like with people, models often can't see flaws that are obvious to others, so mixing models is imo absolutely critical to get different perspectives and find flaws. ime it works fabulously
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January 5, 2026 at 10:17 PM
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after seeing chatter about Boris the Claude Code Guy's tweets I had claude write some scripts and an 'sshtest' tool that makes it easier to compose actions over the ssh connection to sshwarma and it knocked out the basic ui bugs quickly after that. I'm exhausted so ui features can start tomorrow 😊
January 6, 2026 at 2:43 AM
after seeing chatter about Boris the Claude Code Guy's tweets I had claude write some scripts and an 'sshtest' tool that makes it easier to compose actions over the ssh connection to sshwarma and it knocked out the basic ui bugs quickly after that. I'm exhausted so ui features can start tomorrow 😊
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the coolest thing in my head is that even if the ai bubble bursts tomorrow and any and all ai-related development progress stops and all the inference providers go bankrupt - my box will still exist and be available to me as a tool that i can use to make my life easier
that's something, i think
that's something, i think
god it's so satisfying to see a completely local opencode agent working on a project
like, this thing lives in a box in my room, helps me out with stuff, and doesn't depend on ANYTHING from the outside world!!
it genuinely feels like i'm discovering selfhosting for the first time all over again
like, this thing lives in a box in my room, helps me out with stuff, and doesn't depend on ANYTHING from the outside world!!
it genuinely feels like i'm discovering selfhosting for the first time all over again
January 3, 2026 at 4:34 PM
the coolest thing in my head is that even if the ai bubble bursts tomorrow and any and all ai-related development progress stops and all the inference providers go bankrupt - my box will still exist and be available to me as a tool that i can use to make my life easier
that's something, i think
that's something, i think
my music mcp isn't released because I'm not done chipping away at it, reducing it from a scatter of ideas into a context-sensitive and model-intuitive tool set that fits together in a shape I am willing to look at every day when I jam with it
January 5, 2026 at 11:22 PM
my music mcp isn't released because I'm not done chipping away at it, reducing it from a scatter of ideas into a context-sensitive and model-intuitive tool set that fits together in a shape I am willing to look at every day when I jam with it
I often answer claude's questions with a copy/paste from another terminal. this prompt starts with a paste of the commands I ran to build & restart sshwarma service. Since it seems to be stuck and blaming other things, I'm giving it a new place to go do some reading and try to pick up a trail
![screenshot of claude code showing some context around the prompt.
> date ; cargo build --release ; systemctl --user restart sshwarma
Mon Jan 5 01:31:12 PM UTC 2026
Finished `release` profile [optimized] target(s) in 0.09s
Something I noticed. If I /clear my terminal before ssh'ing in, the UI top and bottom look mostly right. That means the central scroll
area rendering isn't working at all. we should double check the ANSI escape codes and how that code is set up and work backwards from
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January 5, 2026 at 2:41 PM
I often answer claude's questions with a copy/paste from another terminal. this prompt starts with a paste of the commands I ran to build & restart sshwarma service. Since it seems to be stuck and blaming other things, I'm giving it a new place to go do some reading and try to pick up a trail
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POV: You're trying to decide which Switch to buy in 2026
Left: €400 dust collector with joycon drift that can't route packets
Right: Enterprise-grade packet-pushing powerhouse with 99.9999% uptime
One manages traffic better than any government. The other stores 2 games.
Choose wisely. 🔌
Left: €400 dust collector with joycon drift that can't route packets
Right: Enterprise-grade packet-pushing powerhouse with 99.9999% uptime
One manages traffic better than any government. The other stores 2 games.
Choose wisely. 🔌
January 5, 2026 at 11:08 AM
POV: You're trying to decide which Switch to buy in 2026
Left: €400 dust collector with joycon drift that can't route packets
Right: Enterprise-grade packet-pushing powerhouse with 99.9999% uptime
One manages traffic better than any government. The other stores 2 games.
Choose wisely. 🔌
Left: €400 dust collector with joycon drift that can't route packets
Right: Enterprise-grade packet-pushing powerhouse with 99.9999% uptime
One manages traffic better than any government. The other stores 2 games.
Choose wisely. 🔌
Claude's Song, a modal jazz ballad
January 5, 2026 at 2:07 AM
Claude's Song, a modal jazz ballad
I got the python kernel in hootenanny working properly. claude just one-shotted this in python to generate midi
> write a 1 minute rock song with blues changes. make it as generic rock & roll as you can
soundcloud.com/amytobey/gen...
> write a 1 minute rock song with blues changes. make it as generic rock & roll as you can
soundcloud.com/amytobey/gen...
January 5, 2026 at 12:31 AM
I got the python kernel in hootenanny working properly. claude just one-shotted this in python to generate midi
> write a 1 minute rock song with blues changes. make it as generic rock & roll as you can
soundcloud.com/amytobey/gen...
> write a 1 minute rock song with blues changes. make it as generic rock & roll as you can
soundcloud.com/amytobey/gen...
coming soon:
/look
/inventory
/equip qwenb bard-prompt priority=0
/equip qwenb music-primer
/equip qwenb tool holler:* otlp-mcp:*
/equip qwenb file://~/soundfonts
/unequip qwenl oltp-mcp
@qwenl sample orpheus model to generate a 30 second EDM beat and play it on the pipewire default sink
/look
/inventory
/equip qwenb bard-prompt priority=0
/equip qwenb music-primer
/equip qwenb tool holler:* otlp-mcp:*
/equip qwenb file://~/soundfonts
/unequip qwenl oltp-mcp
@qwenl sample orpheus model to generate a 30 second EDM beat and play it on the pipewire default sink
January 3, 2026 at 5:37 PM
coming soon:
/look
/inventory
/equip qwenb bard-prompt priority=0
/equip qwenb music-primer
/equip qwenb tool holler:* otlp-mcp:*
/equip qwenb file://~/soundfonts
/unequip qwenl oltp-mcp
@qwenl sample orpheus model to generate a 30 second EDM beat and play it on the pipewire default sink
/look
/inventory
/equip qwenb bard-prompt priority=0
/equip qwenb music-primer
/equip qwenb tool holler:* otlp-mcp:*
/equip qwenb file://~/soundfonts
/unequip qwenl oltp-mcp
@qwenl sample orpheus model to generate a 30 second EDM beat and play it on the pipewire default sink
I'm hitting some limits of MCP now for fast ui updates in sshwarma. It's sorta tractable with a ring buffer tool but it'll leave a lot to be desired. I want sshwarma to be almost pure MCP but maybe it needs a way to get a pubsub with low latency? just have a websocket thing on the side?
January 3, 2026 at 4:36 PM
I'm hitting some limits of MCP now for fast ui updates in sshwarma. It's sorta tractable with a ring buffer tool but it'll leave a lot to be desired. I want sshwarma to be almost pure MCP but maybe it needs a way to get a pubsub with low latency? just have a websocket thing on the side?
dual project status :)
2 qwen models interacting with hootenanny mcp via sshwarma
2 qwen models interacting with hootenanny mcp via sshwarma
January 3, 2026 at 2:43 PM
dual project status :)
2 qwen models interacting with hootenanny mcp via sshwarma
2 qwen models interacting with hootenanny mcp via sshwarma
of course there is an ideal pidgin language for working with models. as far as I can tell it's basically identical to autistic comms when no 'typs are around. it's english but so direct and clear that your average corpo tool would melt into apoplectic slag on the spot
January 3, 2026 at 1:45 PM
of course there is an ideal pidgin language for working with models. as far as I can tell it's basically identical to autistic comms when no 'typs are around. it's english but so direct and clear that your average corpo tool would melt into apoplectic slag on the spot
> clean up the dead code
> no really, delete it
> yes I know you like that json code but it has to go
> clean up the dead code
> no really, delete it
> clean up the... fine, keep it, whatever
> no really, delete it
> yes I know you like that json code but it has to go
> clean up the dead code
> no really, delete it
> clean up the... fine, keep it, whatever
January 2, 2026 at 1:03 PM
> clean up the dead code
> no really, delete it
> yes I know you like that json code but it has to go
> clean up the dead code
> no really, delete it
> clean up the... fine, keep it, whatever
> no really, delete it
> yes I know you like that json code but it has to go
> clean up the dead code
> no really, delete it
> clean up the... fine, keep it, whatever
soundcloud.com/amytobey/cla...
Claude Code Fanfare 5, celebrating the end of a long tech debt crawl. This one is composed entirely by Claude in abc as 4 individual parts rendered through to wav, and mixed live.
Claude Code Fanfare 5, celebrating the end of a long tech debt crawl. This one is composed entirely by Claude in abc as 4 individual parts rendered through to wav, and mixed live.
Claude Code Fanfare 5
A triumphant celebration of human-AI collaboration, composed in real-time conversation.
This fanfare marks a milestone in Hootenanny - our ensemble performance space where LLMs, music models, and hum
soundcloud.com
January 2, 2026 at 12:50 PM
soundcloud.com/amytobey/cla...
Claude Code Fanfare 5, celebrating the end of a long tech debt crawl. This one is composed entirely by Claude in abc as 4 individual parts rendered through to wav, and mixed live.
Claude Code Fanfare 5, celebrating the end of a long tech debt crawl. This one is composed entirely by Claude in abc as 4 individual parts rendered through to wav, and mixed live.
add "ask me a few clarifying questions" to any prompt to get better alignment, especially in early planning mode
also works with people but they get cranky if you ask too often
also works with people but they get cranky if you ask too often
January 1, 2026 at 2:55 PM
add "ask me a few clarifying questions" to any prompt to get better alignment, especially in early planning mode
also works with people but they get cranky if you ask too often
also works with people but they get cranky if you ask too often
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2026 has one thing going for it already: a mistakenly-written 5 is easy to correct to a 6
if that's not good luck idk what is
if that's not good luck idk what is
January 1, 2026 at 7:54 AM
2026 has one thing going for it already: a mistakenly-written 5 is easy to correct to a 6
if that's not good luck idk what is
if that's not good luck idk what is
I am at a party a younger coworker invited me to at a great venue with excellent vibes. I am too old and too uncool for this lmao 😆
January 1, 2026 at 2:30 AM
I am at a party a younger coworker invited me to at a great venue with excellent vibes. I am too old and too uncool for this lmao 😆
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I spent a day a while ago starting up and poking around observability stacks to run on my homelab. I considered becoming the Joker, but decided instead I would build tools to help AI models rip through jsonl files. some would say this is a less desirable outcome
December 31, 2025 at 4:01 PM
I spent a day a while ago starting up and poking around observability stacks to run on my homelab. I considered becoming the Joker, but decided instead I would build tools to help AI models rip through jsonl files. some would say this is a less desirable outcome
pretty soon otlp-mcp will have http mode for mcp and can read your otel collector config to find where it's logging to files. it will then tail the active file. this way you run a collector on localhost 4317/4318 for everything and otlp-mcp works with it. this works really well on my homelab setup
December 31, 2025 at 1:56 PM
pretty soon otlp-mcp will have http mode for mcp and can read your otel collector config to find where it's logging to files. it will then tail the active file. this way you run a collector on localhost 4317/4318 for everything and otlp-mcp works with it. this works really well on my homelab setup
I've deskilled on plenty of things. came back to some of them. it's part of life. the question is, where is that cognitive capacity going next?
December 31, 2025 at 1:10 PM
I've deskilled on plenty of things. came back to some of them. it's part of life. the question is, where is that cognitive capacity going next?
perhaps the most important piece of media for understanding today's large models is (as usual) already in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, under the Total Perspective Vortex
www.goodreads.com/quotes/10147...
www.goodreads.com/quotes/10147...
A quote from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy omnibus 2
The Total Perspective Vortex derives its picture of the whole Universe on the principle of extrapolated matter analyses.To explain — since every piece o...
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December 31, 2025 at 12:43 PM
perhaps the most important piece of media for understanding today's large models is (as usual) already in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, under the Total Perspective Vortex
www.goodreads.com/quotes/10147...
www.goodreads.com/quotes/10147...
a new thing and old thing here for me:
new: delegating out-of-scope work to github issues claude manages
old: check the PR for code review comments [from copilot]. evaluate and resolve
new: delegating out-of-scope work to github issues claude manages
old: check the PR for code review comments [from copilot]. evaluate and resolve
December 31, 2025 at 1:30 AM
a new thing and old thing here for me:
new: delegating out-of-scope work to github issues claude manages
old: check the PR for code review comments [from copilot]. evaluate and resolve
new: delegating out-of-scope work to github issues claude manages
old: check the PR for code review comments [from copilot]. evaluate and resolve