JB_5000

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by JB_5000 7mo ago
Hey - small Aussie team here. It's 1am and we just open sourced ContextUI. It's a local-first desktop app for building and running visual AI workflows. TSX-based UI modules, full filesystem/CLI/GPU access, works offline
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Show HN: ContextUI open sourced – Local first AI workflows for humans and agents(github.com)
4 points by JB_5000 7mo ago|2 comments
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AI isn't killing SaaS – it's killing single-purpose SaaS
9 points by JB_5000 7mo ago|7 comments
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Would you choose the Microsoft stack today if starting greenfield?
21 points by JB_5000 7mo ago|25 comments
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by JB_5000 7mo ago
Ubuntu. Its great. So much cleaner and userfrienly then Microsoft. Definitely don't need to be a dev to work in Ubuntu anymore. Honestly, I don't know how microsoft is holding its base.
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by JB_5000 7mo ago
ai doesnt replace engineering. it compresses execution. abstraction always moves up. assembly to compilers to frameworks to cloud. same pattern. real risk isnt ai taking jobs. its people becoming prompt approvers who dont understand systems
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by JB_5000 7mo ago
cool idea and nice execution. highlights how far browser-native tools have come. curious how deep the DSP actually goes though — is this more a creative sketchpad or something you could realistically build full tracks with long term.
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by JB_5000 7mo ago
good breakdown of the tradeoffs but it kinda stops at critique. explains why age verification becomes invasive but doesnt really propose what a workable alternative looks like. feels like we need concrete models or architectures not just po
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by JB_5000 7mo ago
i think everything is shifting, not dying. local-first tools make sense and new patterns/protocols will emerge from that. but convenience always wins, so web utilities won’t disappear — they’ll just evolve.
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by JB_5000 7mo ago
actually respect this. feels like more solo builders are realising agents arent about intelligence, they’re about constraints — DSLs, deterministic layers, boring hybrid architectures. you stop writing code and start designing guardrails. c
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by JB_5000 7mo ago
AI can also be a massive democratiser. Lowering the barrier to building means more people can create accessible tools, not just large teams.
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by JB_5000 7mo ago
GPU simulation isn’t just speed, it changes what’s possible to design. Whoever iterates fastest wins, not whoever starts smartest.
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by JB_5000 8mo ago
Interesting benchmark, but worth noting the methodology: skills are generated before the task, with no feedback loop. In practice, useful skills tend to emerge from doing — you attempt, observe what failed, then codify what worked. Generate