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Jeff Escalante

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@jescalan
various things @clerk, girl dad, bagel guy, calisthenics beginner, event planner, drummer, woodworker
Serenbe, GA
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  • @jescalan
    Jeff Escalante
    Clerk
    @jescalan
    Aug 26
    Feels like every engineer is just trying to figure out how far you can let the leash out with LLMs. You kinda have to be right at the edge of it - if you're playing it too safe, you're missing out on a lot of value. If you took it too far, you're delivering slop. It's such a
  • @jescalan
    Jeff Escalante
    Clerk
    @jescalan
    Aug 21
    MCPs have consistently been less reliable than an api token and a skill for connecting agents to services for me. Am I the only one? MCPs just fail or need to be re authed all the time and then I need to restart the entire app. The api key just works every single time.
  • @jescalan
    Jeff Escalante
    Clerk
    @jescalan
    Aug 12
    Good vibes at the @clerk event at #renderatl - if you’re here come join! Drop me a DM
  • @jescalan
    Jeff Escalante
    Clerk
    @jescalan
    Aug 7
    Request for hot takes: At what USD per month of raw token spend (regardless of if you're on a subscription plan or not) is the line between "being very productive" and "slop factory"?
  • @jescalan
    Jeff Escalante
    Clerk
    @jescalan
    Aug 4
    I have found that forcing an LLM to review and think about code structure more slowly makes it do a better job, consistently. For example, if you ask it to review a PR thoroughly, vs if you ask it to break down the PR into a list of things that are done by the code in the PR,