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by dgb23 7mo ago
Why are companies like OpenAI and others that are all-in on LLMs still using ReactJS, Python and so on? These programming languages and frameworks were made for developer convenience and got wide adoption, because it makes on-boarding easie
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by dgb23 7mo ago
I don’t think that’s the point of showcasing these issues. The specific point is that you cannot prompt your way to reliable software (AKA vibe coding). Just as you cannot reach the same goal by glueing together stackoverflow snippets witho
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by dgb23 7mo ago
The design of CSS has always been weak IMO. What we needed were general, simple primitives that can describe layout relationships and a compositional layer that includes some common defaults.
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by dgb23 7mo ago
This is correct. All of these .md files are just blobs of text that the LLM matches against. They might increase the likelihood of something happening or not happening. They look to me like people actually want to build deterministic workfl
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by dgb23 7mo ago
I have no issues with browsers specifically having to use a bunch of resources. They are complicated as fuck software, basically it's own operating system. Same for video games or programs that do heavy data processing. The issue is wi
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by dgb23 7mo ago
I'd make the bet that "most people" (who can program) would not think of mmap, but either about streaming or would even just load the whole thing into memory. Ask a bunch of coding agents and they will give you these two vers
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by dgb23 7mo ago
Not a C++ programmer and I think the solution is neat. But it's not necessarily an apples to apples comparison. It's not unfair to python because of the runtime overhead. It's unfair because it's a different algorithm wi
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by dgb23 7mo ago
> all these numbers are way too small to make meaningful distinctions. Come back when you have a gigabyte. I have to disagree. Bad performance is often a result of a death of a thousands cuts. This function might be one among countless s
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by dgb23 7mo ago
If this approach turns out to be valuable, it's unlikely that it has anything to do with having multiple actual agents, but rather that it's valuable to have 2 configurations (system prompt, model, temp, context pruning, toolset e
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by dgb23 7mo ago
Interesting. It seems to me that the right approach is to have a structured way to navigate a codebase and useful, validated docs (with examples that need to pass tests) rather than ad-hoc markdown prompts laying around and are always read.
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by dgb23 7mo ago
Also the thing with context is that you want to keep it focused on the task at hand. For example there's evidence that typical use of AGENTS.md actually doesn't improve outcomes but just slows the LLMs down and confuses them. In m
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by dgb23 7mo ago
Yes, stars can mean a lot of things. - visibility - popularity (technical, domain, persona) - genuine utility - novelty ... There are also plenty of super high utility repos that are widely used (often indirectly), but don't have a lot
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by dgb23 7mo ago
I like the framing of „context drift“. It describes the problem in LLM/agent terms. Similar how „tech debt“ describes the same mechanism in business terms.
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by dgb23 7mo ago
That’s a very deliberate style in the specific article. It’s a polemic, so the choice of words is provokative.
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by dgb23 7mo ago
Are you saying we increasingly get ML results and not LLM resuluts?
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by dgb23 7mo ago
Judging from my experimentation with local models: You can use a small coding model to produce working code with a deterministic workflow (ex: state machine) if you carefully prune the context and filter down what it can do per iteration. I
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by dgb23 7mo ago
This seems to be a general chat app, but otherwise small models can be very effective within the right use cases and orchestration.
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by dgb23 7mo ago
The (hn) title is misleading (unlike the actual title): It's an LLM _App_ not an LLM.
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by dgb23 7mo ago
I'm getting very strong sarcastic vibes from the article.
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by dgb23 7mo ago
I think it was always that way. When an org gets big and its leaders become powerful, then there's always a good portion of snark and mistrust from this community.
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by dgb23 7mo ago
Could it be that they want developers to use their stuff so they get telemetry and mind share out of it? As a stepping stone for the ultimate goals so to speak?
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by dgb23 7mo ago
This is pretty cool!
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by dgb23 7mo ago
I think you're onto something, but I would add that it's sort of like a live REPL that has an integrated agent but with extra steps. I haven't used python much but I wouldn't be surprised if you can set up a sufficiently
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by dgb23 7mo ago
OK I think I get it. It's fundamentally more about the streamlined experience. I played a bit with it and it _felt_ special. So my initial reaction might have been reductive.
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by dgb23 7mo ago
I want to like it, but I don't fully understand why one wouldn't just put a bunch of links on a /wander page and maybe randomize the order?
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by dgb23 7mo ago
It's also notable that video games are programs that run for hours and iterate over large sets of very similar entities at 60 frames or more per second repeatedly and often do very similar operations on each of the entities. That also
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by dgb23 7mo ago
Thinking and reasoning cannot be abstracted away from the individual who experiences the thinking and reasoning itself and changes because of it. LLMs are amazing, but they represent a very narrow slice of what thinking is. Living beings ar
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by dgb23 7mo ago
The "grunt work" is in many cases just that. As long as it's readable and works it's fine. But there are a substantial amount cases where this isn't true. The nitty gritty is then the important part and it's im
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by dgb23 7mo ago
I can't speak for everyone, but to me the most accurate answer is that I'm role-playing, because it just flows better. In the back of my head I know the chatbot is trained on conversations and I want it to reflect a professional a
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by dgb23 8mo ago
Is that really true? Software created an incredible amount of new types of jobs and markets.

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