crystal_revenge

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by crystal_revenge 5mo ago
We're talking 15 minutes of work versus easily 15 days of work. I'm not sure I see the gotcha here?
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by crystal_revenge 5mo ago
I'm not sure I follow your logic: if everyone has "multiple instances" of being able to fully automate part of there job, than the number of people in that role can be reduced in proportion to the amount of work automated. Fu
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by crystal_revenge 5mo ago
> "But only help, they can't come up with the idea." "Sure they can, we can just ask them." I've had multiple instances now where AI left to it's own devices has solved a tricky problem that I honestly
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by crystal_revenge 5mo ago
If this is what you want, especially in the age of coding agents, why not just build it yourself?
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by crystal_revenge 5mo ago
It’s weird to me that people here suddenly seem to care about profitability for relatively early stage companies just because they’re “AI”. I know a traditional SaaS company I worked for that IPO’d years ago and still has no signs that they
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by crystal_revenge 5mo ago
Was using Gemma-4-A3b-26B for a while for chat (using llama.cpp for backend and Open Web UI for client features). I’ve been using Qwen-3.6-A3B for agents and am currently playing with one of HauHuaCS’s uncensored Qwen models for chat and re
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by crystal_revenge 5mo ago
256k tokens for both the MBP and the 4090
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by crystal_revenge 5mo ago
I’ve worked, for a long time professionally, in the open model space for 3 years and up to 2 months ago I would have agreed with you. But it’s empirically not the case today. These models (combined with a good harness) have dramatically imp
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by crystal_revenge 5mo ago
> Based on what? I take it you haven’t actually run any of the current gen local models? They all fit on fairly accessibility hardware, and their performance is at least on par with what I was paying for last year. I have one of my agent
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by crystal_revenge 6mo ago
> discussion of climate change illegal Well discussing it was de facto banned on HN for many years (still wouldn't be surprised if this post disappears soon). Any climate change post that was anything other than "everything is
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by crystal_revenge 6mo ago
> with zero understanding of the business value What kind of products/services are you building where you aren't able to tie your eval suite to business value? If you can't, then why are you building whatever is it you are
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by crystal_revenge 6mo ago
I've already started moving my personal projects off github and onto forgejo running on my homelab. I know a lot of people doing the same. With a hermes-agent for a sysadmin I can debug problems from my phone, so I wouldn't be s
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by crystal_revenge 6mo ago
The most important thing for any agentic task is to build up and continue to record context as a project develops. The start of basically any project involves building up and documenting context around the project itself (and for a new comp
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by crystal_revenge 6mo ago
> Either AI use surged massively in the last quarter December 2025 is considered by many people to be a major step function in agentic coding (both due to improvements in harnesses and LLMs themselves). I know my coding has forever chang
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by crystal_revenge 6mo ago
I'm reminded of the David Foster Wallace quote: > Because here’s something else that’s weird but true: in the day-to-day trenches of adult life, there is actually no such thing as atheism. There is no such thing as not worshiping. E
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by crystal_revenge 6mo ago
One thing that stands out it is it sounds like you're using LLMs for only one part of your process. You're having LLMs help you write code, but the code you're writing doesn't itself make use of LLMs. My current job basi
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by crystal_revenge 6mo ago
This sounds like someone complaining about how Windows is a black box while ignoring the existence of Linux/BSD. I'm currently hosting, on very reasonable consumer grade hardware, an LLM that is on par performance wise what every
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by crystal_revenge 6mo ago
Following along with this, I find the real hits to self-worth post layoff are in the process of finding that next job. Even when you have a job, a serious job search can be exhausting and, depending on the feed back you're getting, rea
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by crystal_revenge 6mo ago
If it's for a complex software project the first question you need to ask is "does this really need to be software at all?" Honestly this is where most traditional engineers get stuck. They keep attacking the old problem wi
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by crystal_revenge 6mo ago
> The projects are brown-field, integrate with obscure industry-specific systems, are heavy with access-control blockers These are cases where I've seen agentic solutions perform the best . My most successful and high impact projec
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by crystal_revenge 6mo ago
> without being an engineer yourself? When did I say I'm not a software engineer? I have a software engineering background (I've written reasonably successful books on software), I've just done a lot of other stuff as well
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by crystal_revenge 6mo ago
> ... for AI to be used effectively. I'm continually fascinated by the huge differences in individual ability to produce successful results with AI. I always assumed that one of the benefits of AI was "anyone can do this&quot
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by crystal_revenge 7mo ago
> What are you building? I think AI really pushes this higher up the abstraction layer: > What problem are you solving? I've spent a good amount of my careering using engineering and math to solve specific problems, I'm usua
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by crystal_revenge 7mo ago
> I'm very suspicious of the current international agreement that it's time to take action Especially since, when you look at the behavior of younger people, they're way more careful about social media than millennials w
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by crystal_revenge 7mo ago
Not long ago I left a reasonably cool AI startup to join an ops heavy (like people physically doing work, running warehouses etc) company. There was some adjustment but the ability to deliver real, concrete, monetary value to people working
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by crystal_revenge 7mo ago
> rantings of someone like Aleister Crowley Crowley had a penchant for drama and provocation (which, hilariously, still seems effective today!), but writing off his work as "rantings" is really ignoring the scholarly work he di
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by crystal_revenge 7mo ago
And "Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law", does not mean "you can do anything you want", it's much, much closer in meaning to the famous quote from the Upanishads (Crowley largely felt that much of esote
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by crystal_revenge 7mo ago
Ah HNs favorite strawman the "dogmatically and ideologically opposed to anything AI" person who, from my experience, largely doesn't exist. However I was completely unimpressed with this tool when I saw it this weekend for tw
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by crystal_revenge 7mo ago
I'm colorblind as well and what's fascinating to me is that this is the second AI created chart in a week I've seen that I can't read. Surprisingly I've found such agressively colorblind-unfriendly charts to be fa
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by crystal_revenge 7mo ago
That all relies on the assumption of petro-dollar, something that could have been taken for granted during the last 50 years but could easily change within weeks now.

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