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Sam Sun

Beijing, New York
As seen in: Red Hat, Medium, News.com.au, The Toronto Star, Genome Medicine, Nutrition & Metabolism, DEV Community, Waterloo Region Record, The Hamilton Spectator (Hamilton, ON), Capital Gazette and
Ex-researcher in Asahi Shimbun, ex-tech journalist. Retweet ≠ Endorsement

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A journalist in practice now is based in Beijing. Hope to get practice in US news bureau.

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A Preflight Harness for Tool-Using Coding Agents

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By Sam Sun
| DEV Community
A coding assistant with shell, file, HTTP, or package-install tools is not just a smarter autocomplete. It is a small operator that can turn ambiguous instructions into side effects. The failure mode is rarely a dramatic rogue AI. More often it is boring: a tool call writes outside the intended directory, a generated command leaks an environment variable into logs, or a harmless-looking dependency install changes the lockfile before anyone reviews the diff.
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Dan Patrick suggested Linda Cohn as potential Keith Olbermann replacement

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By Sam Sun
| share.google
When Keith Olbermann left SportsCenter, Dan Patrick didn’t pick Kenny Mayne to be his replacement. ESPN did. But this week, Patrick revealed for the first time that he had someone else in mind. Rich Eisen stopped by The Dan Patrick Show this week, and during the conversation, the two looked back at what it was like inside ESPN when Olbermann departed the 11 p.m. SportsCenter — better known as The Big Show — in 1997.
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Kentucky Derby winner Golden Tempo to skip Preakness

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By Sam Sun
| Watertown Daily Times (Watertown, NY) Verified
BALTIMORE — There will be no Triple Crown winner this year. Golden Tempo, the 3-year-old thoroughbred who won the Kentucky Derby with a brilliant come-from-behind effort, will not run in the Preakness Stakes on May 16.
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interviewing someone by phone

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