bnchrch

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by bnchrch 8d ago
Python needs to be in less places not more. I believe Python has done more harm than good to the industry. Its by nature very inefficient, it leads you in the direction to some very poor abstractions (inheritance, monkey patching, mixins et
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by bnchrch 11d ago
Happy to see Swift progress. Its a beautiful language and well thought out. Would love to see it expand outside of iOS
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by bnchrch 15d ago
Yes please, take all the bleeding edge tech stories out of the aggregator I go to for bleeding edge tech stories.
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by bnchrch 22d ago
I don't think the "don't really save you money" hot take holds water in every case. Coding, maybe. But for operationalized/repeatable tasks it definitely does. For example I have a workflow that I was running in Apr
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by bnchrch 1mo ago
According to Psychology today, April this year by GPT 4.5 https://www.psychologytoday.com/ca/blog/the-digital-self/202...
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by bnchrch 1mo ago
Not the OP but chiming in as someone who has worked remote almost exclusively since 2015. In my opinion that's the crux of this debate: social needs vs social remedies. If you have high social needs but don't have a strong persona
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by bnchrch 4mo ago
Automobiles are not interesting or useful because they're justing using trails the horses already built.
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by bnchrch 4mo ago
An 11% jump over opus 4.8 and a 22% jump over gpt 5.5 on Agentic Coding Benchmarks is certainly impressive. Obviously still need to verify it for myself to see if it's truely a leap. But am I the only one wondering, "What can I do
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Atoms and Knowledge(by.ben.church)
2 points by bnchrch 4mo ago|0 comments
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by bnchrch 4mo ago
Oh man a few things 1. A dashboard that tracks my personal metrics (github, strava, todo completion, flossing) 2. A eink display for that dashboard 3. A realtime node graph that shows a codebase (and/or its diffs) in a way that I can v
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by bnchrch 4mo ago
Hard for one person to keep up with a product that ships updates multiple times a day.
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by bnchrch 4mo ago
I'm sorry. But whats the point of this critique? That a raw LLM hallucinates? That we never see all the mistakes and dead ends a complex system using AI hits? Does it even matter if its accuracy rate across all its experiments is <
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by bnchrch 5mo ago
Our teams efforts have shifted toward reviewing plans as a team. Before code hits a humans eyes it's went through a few independant review passes from our review agents. If it's low complexity / blast radius it gets auto merg
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by bnchrch 5mo ago
I'm not sure it's fair to call the Apple Vision Pro a flop in the traditional sense. While it may not have sold millions of units and been a household staple. It certainly focused the entire org on manufacturing a suite of chips a
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by bnchrch 6mo ago
Oh I can answer that. So we had a few goals here 1. Be opinionated on best practises, tools and libraries 2. Not get in the way of what the developer wants to do To that end the core is built on top of Temporal, and our llm package is a thi
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by bnchrch 6mo ago
Hey dangent! Glad you find it interesting! So the API keys during setup are entirely optional. They're used in the example workflow that evaluates blog posts for clarity and provides feedback on how to improve. Youre more than free to
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by bnchrch 6mo ago
Happy to see this launched, particularly today. I own a stake in a small brewery in Canada, and this feature just saved me setting up some infrastructure to "productionize" an agent we created to assist with ordering, invoicing, a
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by bnchrch 6mo ago
Hey! Ben here (one of the engineers who built this). This is a reason why we made our http framework (@outputai/http) a first class citizen for the greater framework and our claude code plugins. As you pointed out at this moment in tim
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Show HN: Output.ai - OSS framework we extracted from 500+ production AI agents(output.ai)
40 points by bnchrch 6mo ago|11 comments
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by bnchrch 6mo ago
There's an interesting side effect to the current state of the non-technical world. We have some new tools that increase productivity, and these same tools both lower the barrier to entry to understanding software concepts and building
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by bnchrch 6mo ago
This in particular warmed my grumpy heart after the best footage of the launch came from a commercial airliners windows. I had assumed they would've had a better plan to film the entire departure from orbit yesterday. I'm at least
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by bnchrch 6mo ago
I can only assume Chuck has decided to relieve the grim reaper of his duties, leaving us all here to meet our own end not with a scythe but a roundhouse kick.
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by bnchrch 6mo ago
At the same time it feels like the python is overused. If I could wave a magic wand to reset any programming language adoption at this point I would choose Python over Javascript. I think Pythons execution model, deep OO behaviour, and extr
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by bnchrch 7mo ago
1. Proprietary Data (Youtube, docs, gmail, cloud logs, waymo, website analytics, ads, search, the list is huge) 2. Commercial Datacenters (theyre ahead at least) 3. Chip production (Google is manufactoring proprietary chips) 4. Consumer OS
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Imperfect advice on how to be happy(by.ben.church)
2 points by bnchrch 7mo ago|0 comments
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On Luck, My Daughter(by.ben.church)
2 points by bnchrch 7mo ago|0 comments
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by bnchrch 7mo ago
Thats a large reason for sure! I'd layer in a few more * Largely stable and unchanged language through out its whole existance * Authorship is largely senior engineers so the code you train on is high quality * Relatively low number of
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by bnchrch 7mo ago
This is an understate and often unsaid take. But its 100% right. Its also why you'll hear many engineers opine over functional programming. Most start by thinking about 1. What does a system do for me? Then onto 1. What actions does a
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by bnchrch 8mo ago
I may have something to teach you about indicators, averages, and population samples/biases. We're not debating majority opinion here. Just that people exist who have that bias / perception and what it leads to. People exist
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by bnchrch 8mo ago
Fit, happy, married and have the cognitive ability to not conflate the message with the messenger.

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