Rory Scott

claude + svgs > dall-e

rorads.github.io/ai/informal/...

Using #cursor in #agent mode is like line managing a genius with a can do attitude but lacking in wisdom

BIG BIRTHDAY NEWS YouTube video by HelenAndOlly

Answer Me This is coming back! My favourite podcast <3

www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZ3s...

Sometimes the world just gives you a photo you know

Friend joking on a group chat: “Just wait until you start noticing the Baader-Meinhof effect all the time”

Thanks dickhead now I’ve lost the game and I’m noticing my blinking and breathing.

why did debian call it apt when its not suitable for anything

Reading Wayward Pines and enjoying it but I keep thinking of Hot Fuzz and imagining the dialogue in a rich Somerset accent.

Ah nice! I haven’t seen what the current state of Copilot is, but with both Zed and Cursor being able to include your whole directory in the prompt is wild. Combined with multi-shot edits across all files, it’s so useful.

I have a ChatGPT Pro sub, so used all their offerings with Zed, as well as Llama3.2 on device (v snappy and good).

Cursor I’ve mainly stuck to Claude Sonnet 3.5 as this is the one I don’t have access to off-editor, and it’s seriously good.

Have you tried either, or anything else like supermaven?

Tried out the #signalboost thing having seen the feed suggestion.

Gotta say, I feel boosted to the absolute max

Okay following the theme of starting with my own name. Whilst I'm the only *Rory Scott*, there are a collection of great Rorys to pick from...

OMG I am the first Rory Scott on Bluesky I think?

Mainly I'm just happy I beat my nemesis here...

Serious question: how do I stop seeing random anime on this website?

(No hate, I just don't care - I've clicked "See less like this" about a thousand times)

#signalboost

Specifically Zed + Cursor are both amazing.

For context, I went from very rudimentary JS to a Vite+Vue stack which auths into spotify and shows metadata on currently playing track in about a day of light coding and prompting. Still very rough, but still mind-blowing for me.

5/m

I'll keep replying here as I progress. I think the first thing which is worth sharing is how amazing AI development is getting. I used to be a religious Github Copilot (in VSCode) user at work, but having done a lot more management recently I'd not kept up to date with advances elsewhere...

4/n

... Okay that works. Right, so as I was saying: new / adjacent skills only:

- Javascript yes, python data analysis no
- Ableton music production yes, making slide decks no.
- etc.

Sidenote: you can't edit posts. Good to know.

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Okay question one: do you make a thread by replying multiple times to the same post, or by replying to the replies. Let's test... is this thing on etc.

First off, my actual skills are in data science, technical architecture which I've used on a bunch of projects (gov, health, humanitarian). I won't go into this too much, but it's relevant here because it's skills I've neglected or haven't needed to build my career which I'll be focusing on...

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Hi Bluesky 👋

Yes, I'm part of the great migration.

I'm (broadly) a data science and AI (using not building!) person. I have a serious corporate job doing this stuff but I'm on a sabbatical and using the next few months to learn interesting things, which I aim to post about here.

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Happy to amplify to my extensive network of zero followers 💫

I've had really bad job luck (shortlisted numerous times but never quite getting anything) so if anyone has any spare funding for ~6-12 months for a postdoc then let me know 🔭

I'm very experienced with machine learning, software development, and working with large surveys! My CV: cv.emily.space

Strong list! Saves me some time I can just like this for 70% of it and do some googling for the rest, thanks :)