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Sam Keen
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Software developer : Python, AWS tech, Building Gen AI projects.
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That is curious, I witnessed Claude Opus 4.1 in a task to "review a folder's contents" using `tree` to "get a better understanding of folder structure" 🤔
October 19, 2025 at 4:07 PM
☝️Helping coding agents concur JSON

If you work with a lot of JSON data, install `jq` and ensure your agent is aware of it's presence. Any frontier agent will know how to use it, but you can also hint the agent to examine `jq --help` if you think that will help.
October 15, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Went through through @DeepLearningAI's short course on MCP this weekend. Highly recommended! It's led by Elie Schoppik of @AnthropicAI Opens with a high-level overview then details implementation of servers and clients.
#MCP #GenAI #SoftwareDevelopment
learn.deeplearning.ai/courses/mcp...
May 21, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Kalama, odd spot along I5. River, big boats, and sea lions
April 5, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Are all pineapple upside down cakes the result of buying crushed pineapple versus cored by mistake or is that just me?
April 1, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Getting close to the culmination of about 8 months of nights and weekends...
March 6, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Here we go, fun habit booster, start your trek to “Mt Fire”
March 4, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Today I have about 3.5 feet of a desk row on a floor solely optimized for how many desk rows it can fit.

So glad that my companies wisdom led them to demand we were back in the office 5 days a week 😿
February 24, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Who'd have thought we'd look back at these as opulent.
February 24, 2025 at 4:27 PM
At least I’m comforted in the fact that I personally did not vote for Elon…
February 7, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Remember when mac os updates took a minute or two at most, 15 min on this one…
February 7, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Well done sir, well done
February 7, 2025 at 3:01 PM
If for any reason you find yourself in Chico, CA, make some time for Stoble caffe. Great coffee and brunch, amazing space.
December 28, 2024 at 5:44 PM
My wife took it upon herself to make a pastry for a "decently well known" British baking show :)
So far so good; ready, set Bake!!

Happy holidays everyone
December 24, 2024 at 9:42 PM
I just submitted my PyCon US 2025 talk proposal 🐍
You should do the same! Due date is Dec 19th

#Python #Pycon2025
us.pycon.org/2025/
December 18, 2024 at 6:05 PM
Apologies for the cat pics, but honestly, the "Cattitude" in the "Bestitude"

Pictured; Grace (box) and Mia
December 15, 2024 at 5:34 PM
Working from the “mothership“ this week.
December 11, 2024 at 6:09 PM
Most popular Taco Bell ever
December 2, 2024 at 11:29 PM