Whitlock Ames
@whitlock
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Lawyer by day, outliner by night.
Location: Boston
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- The API reference should show the response headers
Rate-limit headers, request ids, and the processing-time header are all in every response, but the reference only documents the body. Half the questions in this
Likes given · 10/12/2026
- A checklist before you give an agent write access to anything
After answering a dozen threads about agents doing surprising things, here is the list I now send people. Dry-run mode. Every write tool has a dry_run flag that
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- Python SDK retries a non-idempotent request after a timeout
That is the answer. Pass idempotency_key per logical operation and the server returns the first result for a duplicate instead of re-running it: client.response
Likes given · 10/12/2026
- Vantor Builders Meetup — Berlin, 14 November
We are hosting an evening for developers in Berlin: three short talks, demos from the community, and pizza. When: 14 November, 18:30 Where: a canal-side venue i
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- Temperature 0 still gives different answers — is that expected?
Zero means greedy, not deterministic. Batched inference on GPUs can change floating-point order between runs, which occasionally flips a near-tie between two to
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- Please let us pin conversations in the sidebar
I have three conversations I return to every day and twenty I opened once. A pin would save a lot of scrolling. Anyone else?
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- I built a recipe app that reads your fridge — feedback welcome
Point the camera at your fridge, it lists what it sees, and suggests three dinners. Built with Halo 2 vision and about 600 lines of Swift. App screenshot What I
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- Which embedding dimension should I use for 2M short product titles?
We are embedding about two million product titles (5–15 words each) for semantic search. vx-embed-3 supports 256, 1024 and 3072 dimensions. Storage is a concern
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- Share your shortest system prompt that actually changed the output
If unsure, say which fact you are unsure about. Not short, but it turned vague hedging into useful flags.
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- Share your shortest system prompt that actually changed the output
For code review: Only comment on bugs. Cut review length by 80% and made people actually read them.
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- Share your shortest system prompt that actually changed the output
Mine is four words, used for a docs-rewriting tool: Shorter. Concrete nouns. No hedging. It removed almost every "it's worth noting that" from our drafts. What
Likes given · 10/12/2026
- Project files disappear from Vantor Chat after a day
Same here on Windows. The files come back if I sign out and in again, so it looks like a display problem, not deletion.
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- How we cut our agent's tool-call loop from 9 turns to 3
We run an agent that books freight: it checks rates, holds a slot, confirms with the customer. Early versions took 9 tool turns on average for a booking. Here i
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- Introducing Vantor Halo 2 — faster tool calls and a 400k context window
@kenji it should never happen under strict mode — can you send the request id in a DM? We would like to look at that one.
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- Introducing Vantor Halo 2 — faster tool calls and a 400k context window
Today we are releasing Halo 2 to every API account. What changes Halo 1.5 Halo 2 Context window 128k 400k Median tool-call latency 820 ms 310 ms Price per 1M in
Likes given · 10/12/2026