ajstars

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   by ajstars 7mo ago

   The solo Emacs path is underrated for building deep understanding. Most people reach for a config framework immediately and end up with a system they can't debug. Starting from scratch forces you to actually understand what each piece
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   by ajstars 7mo ago

   Curious whether you benchmarked against a partial index on the sort column. For fixed-category top-K queries the planner sometimes picks it over a full index scan, though I've seen it regress on high-write tables due to index bloat. Di
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   by ajstars 7mo ago

   The interesting tension here is that "no LLM-generated code" is easy to state but hard to enforce - a developer who uses an LLM to understand a concept and then writes the code themselves is indistinguishable from one who didn&#x2
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   by ajstars 7mo ago

   The hardest part of this kind of personal data system is retrieval not storage. At some point you have more data than fits in a prompt, so you need to decide what's relevant per query. Did you build any ranking or filtering logic, or d
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   by ajstars 7mo ago

   The compute cost debate misses a subtler point: the real cost multiplier isn't inference, it's context length. Most agent frameworks naively stuff 6-8k tokens into every prompt turn. If you route intelligently and compress memory