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by dexterlagan 1y ago
Not to be confused with Suno - Simulation of Musical Ability :)
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by dexterlagan 1y ago
I ended up adding a prompt to all my projects that forbids all these annoying repetitive apologies. Best thing I've ever done to Claude. Now he's blunt, efficient and SUCCINCT.
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by dexterlagan 1y ago
I feel ya, but there's a better way. I've been writing detailed specs to direct LLMs, and that's what changed everything for me. I wrote about it at length: https://www.cleverthinkingsoftware.com/spec-first-de
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by dexterlagan 1y ago
I mean common https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/ori...
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by dexterlagan 1y ago
...funny how it coincides with the Android 16 release. now that Android has the same UI as Apple... the replication is complete and Apple has to differentiate itself again.
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by dexterlagan 1y ago
This is one possible elegant and esthetically pleasing solution to keeping readability/visibility as high as possible while allowing dark/light modes AND complex backgrounds. It has the advantage of having the exact same visibilit
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Show HN: Got fed up with maps favorites, so I rolled my own(cleverthinkingsoftware.com)
1 points by dexterlagan 1y ago|1 comments
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by dexterlagan 1y ago
I was driving to my partner’s place across town every other day. Somehow his address would refuse to come up when I’d search his name, even though I had driven to his place dozens of times. I got so tired of dealing with Google and Apple Ma
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by dexterlagan 1y ago
Thanks for the feedback! Agreed, the one problem with the approach is reproducibility. It can be mitigated by going temp. 0, and detailing further the specs. The one method that nearly completely solves this problem is the hybrid approach:
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by dexterlagan 1y ago
I feel for all who feel obsolete and unneeded. The only solution I found for myself was to switch from implementing other people’s ideas to implementing mine. It’s a luxury some cannot afford, but I honestly think it’ll be necessary for man
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by dexterlagan 1y ago
From my experience Claude 3.7 seems to make less mistakes when you provide detailed specs. It saves a lot of back and forth, especially at the beginning, when you're trying to 'de-noise' the idea. I find that the best way is
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by dexterlagan 1y ago
Also, keep in mind that you can continue iterating over code while you keep the specs up to date. You can then give the final specs to another LLM to resume work or produce another version for a different platform or using a different frame
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by dexterlagan 1y ago
It sounds slow and expensive, but it ended up saving me a lot of tokens and time. Especially when you want to target multiple platforms at once. For me it was liberating, absolutely night and day.
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by dexterlagan 1y ago
You need none of these fancy tools if you iterate over specs instead of iterating over code. I explain it all in here: https://www.cleverthinkingsoftware.com/spec-first-developmen...
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Programmers Will Be Replaced by People with Ideas(cleverthinkingsoftware.com)
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Beyond the Hype: The Real Path to AGI(cleverthinkingsoftware.com)
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by dexterlagan 2y ago
To finish my thought: right now the market reaction is extreme, but it's fake in the sense that if tariffs were lifted tomorrow, the market would most likely go back to its former glory. In 3-4 years, once both domestic and foreign inf
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by dexterlagan 2y ago
Precisely, and more worrying, it may mean that tariffs implemented that way may only be effective if they are permanent. But once Trump is gone, the next administration will most likely drop the tariffs or at least scale back significantly.
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by dexterlagan 2y ago
The last app I worked on was an advanced Harmony/Flow(ex-shotgrid) bridge which let production staff manage Flow's database, upload assets and work on scenes without having to deal much with Flow's horrible UI. Over the years
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by dexterlagan 2y ago
I have used Racket in production for a decade and a half, with great success. Racket belongs to a sort of invasive species equivalent in languages, in the sense that once it has a hold on you, all other languages, old and new, vanish from y
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Show HN: PromptMD – for those who juggle with prompts all day(github.com)
1 points by dexterlagan 2y ago|0 comments
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by dexterlagan 2y ago
Filled with spelling errors, looks like something a 16 y.o. would write as clickbait.
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by dexterlagan 2y ago
I made a bunch, as far as I know I'm the only one using them: An advanced TODO list app with calendar and development-oriented features: https://github.com/DexterLagan/todo-master A MySQL database manager: https:
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Generative Music for the Masses(app.suno.ai)
4 points by dexterlagan 3y ago|2 comments
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by dexterlagan 3y ago
Surprised I haven't seen on HN. Maybe I missed it. Anywho it's amazing.
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by dexterlagan 3y ago
Racket + Scribble -> Latex + HTML + PDF? Works for me...
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by dexterlagan 3y ago
Yes agreed, I meant writing a wrapper. Writing a browser engine isn't my cup of tea :)
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by dexterlagan 3y ago
I wrote a couple custom browsers for both pro and personal reasons. I found out that there is a tiny niche market for a privacy-focused, minimalist browser that a) does not understand cookies, b) executes JS only when allowed to and c) is c
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by dexterlagan 3y ago
Second the Supernote. After having looked at the Scribe and Remarkable 2, I went with it. Actually feels like a proper notepad, the pens look and feel like expensive fountain pens and the whole experience is uncluttered and clean. The A6X i
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by dexterlagan 3y ago
No less than 3 (THREE) pop-ups, huge banner ads everywhere, VIDEO pop-up. Writers make less and less money with writing; advertisers are getting desperate; readers frustrated and information lost - leaking from a pipe riddled with hole

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