I will enhance Tom a bit the coming days. I intentionally built him to be pretty locked initially, but I'm seeing people wanting more from him.
I will be allowing him web fetch, search GH, and maybe mentions. But I will not allow him things like updating the knowledge base, etc.…
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How about tom commit about a random 2 minute read interesting tech capsule everyday just once. Would be strictly related to tech
That would be quite cool but it would need human curation imo
For the human curation part, let those commits be in queue until it gets an approval from any of the admins and fine tune tom along the way based on the outputs being generated.
Might be cool as like a daily digest post?
Like, there's a daily job to round up the day's trending topics and he writes a little news summary.
A daily digest would be cool too! Trending stuff like "a new language just got released" is fine, but personally I'd prefer stories or maybe mix both alternatively. Something like how a company solved a real problem, or why a language or system works the way it does.
e.g. "Why Discord rewrote a service from Go to Rust": their Read States service got latency spikes about every 2 minutes. The cause was Go's garbage collector, which forced a full scan at least every 2 minutes even when there was little garbage to collect. They rewrote it in Rust, which has no GC, and the spikes disappeared. Average latency dropped too.
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Additionally would be nice to see quotations from users speaking on such, with links to the posts to follow up on, rather than just a synopsis of things not sourced.
Also: add to the daily digest a bit of /dev/null flair, by highlighting the highest pasteis earning post from…