alexhans

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by alexhans 4mo ago
A good tip for side projects is to build stuff that is actually useful to you and to make them ZeroOps (no maintenance required). If you find yourself waiting to add a feature and it's not easy to change (ETC) [1] then it's a goo
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by alexhans 5mo ago
When I saw this post I immediately thought of WordPerfect. It had such a pleasant interface for that time. But yeah, one of the things made me go for vim over Emacs a long time ago was its relationship with touch typing and not leaving the
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by alexhans 5mo ago
Hey, sorry for the late reply. I looked superficially at your site/repo and based on that initial impression: - Your approach of comparing different parts of the "black box" which affects agent behaviour (Harness, foundation
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by alexhans 5mo ago
Sorry. I'm not sure about the specific part you don't agree with. You prefer people to just use skills instead of building them? That's fair but I think this is similar to power tools like vim, obsidian or others. There'
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by alexhans 5mo ago
Hey, it's awesome that you mention evals. May I ask what you currently use, or look for? Do you roll your own or use an existing framework?
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by alexhans 5mo ago
Skills are just a good standard to describe repeatable workflows saving context through progressive disclosure, prompt sharing and, very underused feature, also bound the non deterministic parts with determism (which could be scripts). Conc
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by alexhans 5mo ago
To me, design files living in the repo are what captures these high and low level decisions. They should express intent which is paramount for automation. Where are you keeping your design? If it's a WYSIWYG doc like word, what would i
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by alexhans 6mo ago
I saw https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47906942 and thought that the competing perspective of meetings as a resource that is inherently wasteful deserved dedicated discussion, only justified in cases where synchronous c
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Set a Meeting Budget(alexhans.github.io)
2 points by alexhans 6mo ago|1 comments
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by alexhans 6mo ago
Sync meetings can help some people feel pressure but it's an extremely inefficient mechanism. You're waiting a whole week for an update or to push people. I'm a huge proponent of "async over sync" and "sync as
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by alexhans 6mo ago
This is what AI evals [1] and local llms should be a focus of your investment. If you can define good enough for you and local llms can meet that you'll get: - no vendor lock-in (control) - price - stability (you decide when to hot swa
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by alexhans 6mo ago
Tmux conflicted with my vim bindings and i tweaked the tmux.conf to fit my needs. It's worth playing around on pure tmux and figuring out what would work for you.
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by alexhans 6mo ago
This frames MCP vs Skills as an either/or, but they operate at different layers. MCP exposes capabilities and Skills may shape how capabilities are used. Both are useful to different people (and role families) in different ways and if
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by alexhans 6mo ago
I'd be curious to see if my blog posts/titles feel like AI slop to you. https://alexhans.github.io/ No need to read them, just a vibe check would be insightful. It's weird how branding, even before AI had a
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by alexhans 6mo ago
Having followed a bit of their work this makes absolute sense and I'm excited to see what it enables. For those that don't know Armin, he's the creator of flask among many things and has some cool projects like around like go
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by alexhans 6mo ago
Thanks. This Is awesome
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by alexhans 6mo ago
Like others have said, for specific types of activity, I'll prefer no vocals or maybe even no music, but if vocals are fine Abba does have a great flow to it. I used to run to Abba too, at times, because it feels upbeat/positive
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by alexhans 6mo ago
I vary a lot but when I do classical music Mozart has occupied quite a lot of my stats, in particular a clarinet concerto by Katherine Lucy [1] and also things like Beethoven's 6th (pastoral, it's beautifully featured in Fantasia)
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by alexhans 7mo ago
Why not set your own evals and something like pi-mono for that? https://github.com/badlogic/pi-mono/ You'll define exactly what good looks like.
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by alexhans 7mo ago
I'd say that's almost fine if they can start expressing intent correctly and thinking what good looks like. They (or some automated thing if you're building "think for them" type of products instead of "give th
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by alexhans 7mo ago
Congrats on the launch. Very quick feedback on the site, since I usually try to check out the blog section, https://www.runcaptain.com/blog layout is broken in mobile, I tried brave/chrome/Firefox.
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by alexhans 7mo ago
Very, very heterogenous and fast moving space. Depending on how they're made up, different teams do vastly different things. No evals at all, integration tests with no tooling, some use mixed observability tools like LangFuse in their
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by alexhans 7mo ago
> The vibes are not enough. Define what correct means. Then measure. Pretty much. I've been advocating this for a while. For automation you need intent, and for comparison you need measurement. Blast radius/risk profile is al
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by alexhans 7mo ago
Summers in Spain, e.g. Madrid can be extremely hot. Having the sun not set until very late can create an unpleasant city life experience. With people acknowledging heatwaves and energy issues, I find it interesting how that's seldom pa
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by alexhans 7mo ago
I don't like switching to daylight saving and back but I'd rather have that that permanently moving to +1. Then you have extreme examples which are already shifted like Spain (for historical reasons around aligning with Germany)
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by alexhans 7mo ago
Don't get discouraged by being in the minority in one particular forum, specially when specific angles dominate. People put different weights to different arguments. For the Spain argument below. I actually think it's quite uncom
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by alexhans 8mo ago
Dark patterns degrade our computing experience and are worth illustrating, but there's a larger discussion to be had about keeping individual control over our own devices. Technically, that means being able to install Linux, run local
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by alexhans 8mo ago
I respectfully disagree. I think there needs to be a common term for the aspects around LLM testing and saying "It's just integration/system tests" doesn't really reach audiences well. They don't disambiguate
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by alexhans 8mo ago
> I do think there is something interesting to think about here in how coding agents like Claude Code can quickly iterate given a test suite. This is a point I've tried to advocate for a while. Specially to empower non coders and ma
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by alexhans 8mo ago
I love emergent behaviour and story telling. Anyone who has played City builders like Sim City or roguelikes like Dwarf Fortress knows how interesting, fun and even informative they can be. In a world where setting them up and letting rogue

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