Dan McAteer (@daniel

Dan McAteer

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Dan McAteer

@daniel_mac8

Technology to Benefit Humanity | Agentic AI Engineer | Building ACE - aceagent.io | prev: @ampcode @moveworks @udemy | GH: github.com/DannyMac180

United States

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Joined October 2013

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Dan McAteer
@daniel_mac8
Jun 21
I started a personal project called "Life Data" in 2021. Data from Oura ring, DNA sequencing, blood panel results and all my subjective thoughts/ideas in Obsidian. In 2021 there wasn't a good way to bridge the quantitative and qualitative data. That's what AI changes. It's a
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roon
@tszzl
Jun 20
this will be true across all walks of life I would expect our whole lives to be recorded and the sheer signal density of your physical and digital presence to go 10,000x agents and computers to sift through all of it really it’s a form of worship of human life
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Dan McAteer
@daniel_mac8
Apr 5, 2025
🤯 this genius stores his entire codebase syntax in a graph database and queries it so provide context to an llm
Austen Allred
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Austen Allred
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Dan McAteer
@daniel_mac8
Jan 12, 2025
this is an amazing way to think about prompting o1 from @benhylak
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Dan McAteer
@daniel_mac8
Jul 6, 2025
there's nothing to add to this. it's perfect 👌
Matthew Berman
@MatthewBerman
Jul 6, 2025
“Only compare yourself to younger you, never to others” Words to live by
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Dan McAteer
@daniel_mac8
Mar 27, 2025
no turning back now.
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Dan McAteer
@daniel_mac8
Sep 6, 2025
🚨 HUGE NEWS: OpenAI Claims to have found the cause of hallucinations This could be the next big unhobbling. That is not hype.
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Dan McAteer
@daniel_mac8
Aug 16, 2025
GPT-5 coding cheat sheet from @OpenAIDevs
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Dan McAteer
@daniel_mac8
Jan 27, 2025
everyone comparing deepseek-r1 to o1 and forgetting about Gemini 2 Flash Thinking which is better than r1 on every cost and performance metric
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Dan McAteer
@daniel_mac8
Aug 23, 2025
guys, can I be honest about something? i don't really get how mcp adds value how is it better than a tool call to an api?
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Dan McAteer
@daniel_mac8
May 20, 2025
what’s happening in tech right now is insane I’m 36 so wasn’t really in the working world yet for the last tech revolution, which I guess was mobile? was it ever like this before?
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Dan McAteer
@daniel_mac8
Jan 24, 2025
this is getting weird 🤯 used Operator to access Google AI Studio used Gemini 2.0 to create instructions to build a website instructed Operator to use the instructions to create a portfolio website on replit THIS IS NOT A TOOL TO BOOK FLIGHTS!!! 🚨 THIS IS AN INTELLIGENT
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Dan McAteer
@daniel_mac8
Sep 16, 2024
My new @cursor_ai workflow: o1-mini is the Architect - explain my requirements and have it create a detailed design document with step-by-step instructions for each module Claude Sonnet 3.5 is the Developer - it generates the code based on the architectural document produced by
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Dan McAteer
@daniel_mac8
Feb 22, 2025
🪄 just realized these four major US AI Labs map almost perfectly to the four Hogwarts houses: 1. Slytherin - @xai (obviously) 2. Gryffindor - @OpenAI (obviously) 3. Hufflepuff - @AnthropicAI (obviously) 4. Ravenclaw - @AIatMeta (obviously)
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Dan McAteer
@daniel_mac8
Feb 14, 2025
🔥 this is essentially a billion $$$ business in a simple arch diagram
OpenAI Developers
@OpenAIDevs
Feb 13, 2025
Replying to @OpenAIDevs
As some of you have noticed, avoid “boomer prompts” with o-series models. Instead, be simple and direct, with specific guidelines. Delimiters (xml tags) will help keep things clean for the model, and improve output. Read the full best practices guide: platform.openai.com/docs/guides/re…
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