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by bob1029 5mo ago
Especially these things. The only tools permissible to root in my scheme are call() and return().
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by bob1029 5mo ago
I've been able to avoid context size issues by applying one simple constraint to my agent loop. What I do is prevent all tool calling in the user's top-level conversation thread. Anything that needs to tool call must happen in a r
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by bob1029 5mo ago
It looks like the house of cards has finally started to do its thing. "I think they are lying to you" https://youtu.be/zfYsSFY4l18
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by bob1029 5mo ago
> One thing I recommend for engineers new to on-call is to avoid rushing: take a few breaths before joining the call or before speaking, and in general try to “think in slow motion”. The more difficult it becomes to remain silent, the mo
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by bob1029 5mo ago
> I think the sound quality of modern-day bluetooth speakers is really good. The sound quality out of the speakers of some Apple products seems borderline impossible to me. The MacBook in particular makes me feel like I missed an importa
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by bob1029 5mo ago
If you are working with a web application, playwright + frontier LLM is incredibly capable. They added some recent features to make this sort of use case go a lot smoother: https://playwright.dev/docs/release-notes#vers
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by bob1029 5mo ago
Some of these plants are being retrofitted for dual firing. They can burn coal & natural gas at the same time. I wonder how that factors into these statistics.
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by bob1029 5mo ago
The full dynamic range is nice if you actually want to experience it and have a system capable of reproducing it. A dedicated center channel with a few hundred watts of amplification behind it will cut through the ambient backdrop like a
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by bob1029 5mo ago
> users may experience more false positives as we refine these classifiers to respond to new threats. We are working to reduce these as fast as possible. Getting a really strong capacity issue vibe here. Reframing it as a safety issue c
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by bob1029 5mo ago
The point I'm trying to make is the reason a lot of people are resorting to the 24/7 Ralph loops is because they're using weaker models that need an incredible number of attempts to make any progress. The Death Star has diffe
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by bob1029 5mo ago
I have a really strong suspicion that there is something different about OAI prepaid tokens in the API vs elsewhere. I've been able to get away with spending less than $150/m on average while many peers are hitting 10x that. I am
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by bob1029 5mo ago
I run totally unprotected with gpt5.4/5. I've been through thousands of dollars worth of API tokens through both copilot and custom harnesses that have local admin and arbitrary powershell access. I've never seen anything tha
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by bob1029 5mo ago
Trust and liability are the actual currency in a software business. Your email domain is significantly more important than whatever is in your corporate GitHub repositories.
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by bob1029 5mo ago
I'd much prefer to get a 500 than a 401 if there is something broken in the server. This wasted a solid hour of my day.
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by bob1029 5mo ago
AI will never be able to replace a human board member. I think that's what bothers technology people the most here. It's quite asymmetric. At best, LLM agents will be granted certain non voting advisory roles, but anything the llm
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by bob1029 5mo ago
> We’ve therefore launched the model with safeguards that mean queries on some topics will instead receive a response from our next-most-capable model, Claude Opus 4.8. To release the model both safely and quickly, we’ve tuned these safe
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by bob1029 5mo ago
I started doing some numbers around the scale of tokens per second we can generate with figures like 300 million watts and I really don't understand the destination anymore. I see that Anthropic is somehow constrained in the news, but
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by bob1029 5mo ago
> A Brief History of "Never" > The Postgres community's position on query hints has been, shall we say, firm. The official wiki page on the subject states it plainly: "We are not interested in implementing hints in
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by bob1029 5mo ago
I strongly suspect this is a case of classic personal access tokens being used in an unclean way. If you are going to be handing tokens to AI agents on weird openclaw contraptions, you should try to use the fine grained variants. My GitHub
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by bob1029 5mo ago
Give the customer what they want, even if it sucks to do so. The alternative it be cast into irrelevance over time. You can run an OSS project however you want, but you can't avoid the consequences of doing so. Principles driven develo
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by bob1029 5mo ago
I'm a bit confused about why this is a serious engineering problem. If a gigawatt class DC suddenly needs to take its sensitive IT loads off grid, it could be designed with load banks on site to stand in for the IT load. These would be
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by bob1029 5mo ago
This has gotten to a point where it doesn't really matter anymore. When a service crosses a certain reliability threshold it's like a phase change. The customer base eventually adapts to the situation. Anyone who still genuinely c
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by bob1029 5mo ago
> MISO As a retail electricity customer, I vastly prefer whatever is going on in their operational context. I live 10 miles from the "border" between ERCOT and MISO and I've got a lot of experience with both, particularly
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by bob1029 5mo ago
These tests are looking increasingly like a waste of time. The "intelligence" is clearly there now. Trying to measure it seems pointless. I can't shop for hammers at the hardware store and sort by the quality of finished prod
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by bob1029 5mo ago
> Of course, I'm still employable because someone has to review the code and steer the robot. But I'm just another off-the-shelf engineer now. I have no domain expertise that another Sr. engineer steering an LLM cannot match. A
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by bob1029 5mo ago
> Domain knowledge can be learnt much quicker than how to apply good engineering principles. What kind of domains did you have in mind?
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by bob1029 5mo ago
> If you so much as whisper “that’s socialist” or “you’re defending the bourgeoisie” I will beat you to death with a sickle tied to a demand curve. > This is not a political post Why is this rage bait on the front page of HN?
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by bob1029 5mo ago
The traffic is encrypted, but this makes it a lot easier to acquire if you have some way to break it.
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by bob1029 5mo ago
The target codebase is very large. A million tokens is a drop in the proverbial bucket. I still don't understand how caching helps me very much. I must be misunderstanding it because I thought the user's prompt (which is the bigge
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by bob1029 5mo ago
TURN is the last resort and isn't just signaling. It carries the traffic as well. If you can make all the STUN servers fail from the perspective of the clients, you could hypothetically force them to use TURN servers that are more cent

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