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by barrell 10mo ago
Reasoning was set to minimal and low (and I think I tried medium at some point). I do not believe the timeouts were due to the reasoning taking to long, although I never streamed the results. I think the model just fails often. It stops pro
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by barrell 10mo ago
What's your acceptable error rate? Honestly ministral would probably be sufficient if you can tolerate a small failure rate. I feel like medium would be overkill. But I'm no expert. I can't say I've used mistral much out
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by barrell 10mo ago
Heh it's a quote from Archer FX (and admittedly a poor machine translation, it's a very old expression of mine). And yes, this only happens when I ask it to apply my formatting rules. If you let GPT format itself, I would be surpr
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by barrell 10mo ago
Thank you :) and you're definitely not the only one. Full transparency, the first backend version of phrasing was 'vibe-coded' (long before vibe coding was a thing). I didn't like the results, I didn't like the expe
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by barrell 10mo ago
I don't see the contention. I do not use llms in the design, development, copywriting, marketing, blogging, or any other aspect of the crafting of the application. I labor over every word, every button, every line of code, every blog p
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by barrell 10mo ago
I can attest to Mistral beating OpenAI in my use cases pretty definitively :)
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by barrell 10mo ago
If you wanted examples, you needed only ask :) These are screenshots from that week: https://x.com/barrelltech/status/1995900100174880806 I'm not going to share the prompt because (1) it's very long (2)
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by barrell 10mo ago
Yep I spent 3 days optimizing my prompt trying to get gpt-5 to work. Tried a bunch of different models (some Azure some OpenRouter) and got a better success rate with several others without any tailoring of the prompt. Was really plug and p
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by barrell 10mo ago
Yes. I spent about 3 days trying to optimize the prompt to get gpt-5 to not produce gibberish, to no avail. Completions took several minutes, had an above 50% timeout rate (with a 6 minute timeout mind you), and after retrying they still wo
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by barrell 10mo ago
I use large language models in http://phrasing.app to format data I can retrieve in a consistent skimmable manner. I switched to mistral-3-medium-0525 a few months back after struggling to get gpt-5 to stop producing gibberish.
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by barrell 10mo ago
Phrasing.app | Co-founder / Founding Engineer | REMOTE (EUROPE ONLY) | Elixir Phrasing is a language learning application optimized for learning and maintaining multiple languages, and designed to take you all the way to fluency and be
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by barrell 10mo ago
Speaking from experience, I get hundreds of of applications per month. 90%+ of them are either templated or less than 20 words. 50%+ of them have no indication they even read the job post, applying for technologies or positions not included
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by barrell 11mo ago
To call LLMs a result summarizer is a complete mischaracterization of the technology.
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by barrell 11mo ago
If you look at my post history, I’m the last person to defend LLMs. That being said, I think LLMs are the next evolution in search. Not what OpenAI and Anthropic and xAI are working on - I think all the major models are moving further and f
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by barrell 11mo ago
Yep also a grok 3 supporter. I actually liked GPT-4 Turbo and Claude 3, and have found each successive update substantially more useless. Grok 3 came out and it was a bit of that original magic... but seems to have went the way of the other
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by barrell 11mo ago
Yeah I was debating heavily between WAL and L/N. Tried to get WAL set up, struggled; tried to learn more about WAL, failed; tried to persevere, shot myself in the foot. At the end of the day the simplicity of L/N made it well wort
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by barrell 11mo ago
I have listen/notify on most changes in my database. Not sure I've experienced any performance issue though but I can't say I've been putting things through their paces. IMHO listen/notify's simplicity outweigh
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Show HN: Learn (and maintain) multiple languages in style(phrasing.app)
2 points by barrell 11mo ago|1 comments
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by barrell 11mo ago
It doesn't look like any of the TTS solutions are sufficient. I'll be removing the language limitation sometime next year, once the interfaces are built out for custom audio and custom annotations. If a good Dzongkha TTS comes out
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by barrell 11mo ago
From the get go, I was building it to be language agnostic. Almost all of the pipeline is built to work regardless of the language, and any language specific code is only run at the end of the pipeline. If I have issues with a language I do
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Show HN: Phrasing.app – learn and maintain multiple languages(phrasing.app)
7 points by barrell 11mo ago|3 comments
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by barrell 11mo ago
I believe they mean distribution (inference). The Chinese model is currently B.Y.O.GPU. The American model is GPUaaS
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by barrell 11mo ago
Added! It will be under "Dutch (Belgium)" when displayed alphabetically, but it will appear as "Flemish" in reviews. I'll work on getting some samples generated today or tomorrow for the onboarding flow, but if you
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by barrell 11mo ago
I personally find it quite ugly and clunky. I feel like the interface is optimized for children, and the number of ads you have to tap through to get even a modicum of knowledge is quite clunky. The last time I used it I spent over 20 hours
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by barrell 11mo ago
That’s a fair point. It was originally “Those that work are always…” but I lost that preface in some refactoring. I think it’s quite obvious though why Duolingo doesnt disprove any of my points. There was and is still no pleasant, multiling
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by barrell 11mo ago
Phrasing.app | Co-founder | EUROPE REMOTE Phrasing is a bootstrapped company dedicated to building the most effective and efficient way to learn a language. I’m a polyglot myself and have always struggled for a few main reasons: 1. Apps onl
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by barrell 11mo ago
GPT5 was by no means a huge leap. I’d be willing to believe that you prefer it, or that you found it an improvement, despite both of those being wildly contrary to my experience (and most of the rhetoric online). But objectively speaking it
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by barrell 11mo ago
> If/when frontier model development speed slows down You do not believe that this has already started? It seems to me that we’re well into a massive slowdown
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by barrell 11mo ago
I recently discovered Maltese existed, and started learning it that day. I find it such an awesome language, and not just because of the letter Ħ I do wonder what natives think and feel about the longevity of their language? What is taught
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by barrell 11mo ago
I’m not sure if that’s a realistic ask. There is ample abuse of LLM generated content, and there are plenty of ESL publishers. Personally I would recommend including a note that English is not your native language and you had an LLM clean t

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