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by gaigalas 10mo ago
There's a danger in taking guidelines as dogmas. There's also a danger in dismissing guidelines as dogmas.
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by gaigalas 10mo ago
This post is a bait for enthusiasts. I like it. > Chain of thought is now a fundamental way to improve LLM output. That kinda proves _that LLMs back then were pretty much stochastic parrots indeed_, and the skeptics were right at the tim
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by gaigalas 10mo ago
Again, thanks for your feedback. Moving the topological sort not only yileded a better experience but actually simplified the code and thread model. I've made the changes and they'll be on the next version.
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by gaigalas 10mo ago
Author doesn't consider the possibility that engineers dismiss AI after they constantly tried it. Not once, not twice, but consistently. I am one of those dismissers. I am constantly trash talking AI. Also, I have tried more tools
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Show HN: Lidar, an extension to scrape websites as you visit them(imgur.com)
1 points by gaigalas 10mo ago|0 comments
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by gaigalas 10mo ago
You are right, that is an overlook on my part. Throwing on the constructor makes much more sense than upon access. Thanks!
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by gaigalas 10mo ago
That does not work as advertised. If you leave an agent for hours trying to increase coverage by percentage without further guiding instructions you will end up with lots of garbage. In order to achieve this, you need several distinct loops
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by gaigalas 10mo ago
Ditch the scroll. Pick: all previous "Pick" buttons become "Place". You choose one. Done. Simple, explicit, intuitive.
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by gaigalas 10mo ago
There's something wrong with this vibe coded stuff, any kind of it. _It limps faster than you can walk_, in simple terms. At each model release, it limps faster, but still can't walk. That is not a good sign. > Do we want this?
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by gaigalas 10mo ago
The code you pointed to in apywire is related to circular dependencies in constant scalar types. Like a printf that is meant to replace %s with its whole output (therefore, impossible). However, apywire also throws CircularWiringError if yo
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by gaigalas 10mo ago
Mixed-level pairs (senior/junior), for example, are more about mentoring than reviewing. Those sessions do not qualify for "more than one pair of eyes". Excited (or maybe even stubborn) developers can often win their pairs by
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by gaigalas 10mo ago
I asked a model to write for me following the style and tone of other skills! <conspiracy_mode> maybe all of them were designed to occupy the full context window of earlier GPT models </conspiracy_mode>
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by gaigalas 10mo ago
Finally I can share this beauty with a wider world: https://github.com/alganet/skills/blob/main/skills/left-padd...
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by gaigalas 10mo ago
It does not eliminate code reviews. In practice, you should have at least one independent reviewer who did not actively worked on the PR. That reviewer should also download the entire code, run it, make tests fail and so on. In my experienc
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by gaigalas 10mo ago
Oh, I see. You're reinforcing the "It has to do it right now, not in the future." part of what I said. This simple requirement (it has to enable simplicity right now) is often enough of a reality check on designing abstractio
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by gaigalas 10mo ago
If there's a leaky, tangled messy piece of incredibly complex software, but it's small and enables lots of other pieces to be simpler, then it's great. That's where typical ideas about complexity fail (selecting scope).
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by gaigalas 10mo ago
> Make your coding agent prove it first Agents love to cheat. That's an issue I don't see a horizon for change. Here's Opus 4.5 trying to cheat its way out of properly implementing compatibility and cross-platform, despite
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by gaigalas 10mo ago
What I truly enjoy is software that has: - One tiny piece of extremely clever abstraction. - A huge amount of simple pieces that would be more complex without that tiny piece. In other words, the clever abstraction can be justified if it en
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by gaigalas 10mo ago
The agent interfaces are for human interaction. Some tasks can be fully unattended though. For those, I find smaller models more capable due to their speed. Think beyond interfaces. I'm talking about rapid-firing hundreds of small agen
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by gaigalas 10mo ago
If Opus is one-size-fits-all, then why Claude keeps the other series? (rethorical). Opus and Sonnet are slower than Haiku. For lots of less sophisticated tasks, you benefit from the speed. All vendors do this. You need smaller models that y
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by gaigalas 10mo ago
I got confused by the "minutes ago" thing. Working with full dates in the HTML and doing a tiny JavaScript that calculates the "minutes ago" would actually be a neat improvement.
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by gaigalas 10mo ago
What if they lost? Open source license litigation is a thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source_license_litigation
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Polyglot Makefiles(alganet.github.io)
2 points by gaigalas 10mo ago|0 comments
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by gaigalas 10mo ago
> I think that the de facto situation is that AI does not have to know about licences or copyright at all. That is simply not true. Companies can get into legal trouble if they don't. Copilot does that bookeeping: https:/&#x2F
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by gaigalas 10mo ago
Have you tried? Beyond the first tests, going all the way up to decent coverage.
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by gaigalas 10mo ago
If that's the case, why all the fuzz? All the people complaining can just tap into this almost-free and acessible cheap resource you are referring to instead.
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by gaigalas 10mo ago
What I (personally) consider insightful is irrelevant. It's about what mathematicians consider insightful. Mathematicians are obviously not ignoring automated proofs. Terry's post is an evidence of that. Consider LK99 instead of c
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by gaigalas 10mo ago
> Ask it to write tests that maximise code coverage That is significantly harder to do than writing an implementation from tests, especially for codebases that previously didn't have any testing infrastructure.
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by gaigalas 11mo ago
My projects are public anyway. If you respect the license and make the AI comply to valid license reuse, I'm game.
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by gaigalas 11mo ago
Publishing the page is only the last step. It's orchestrating the stuff THEN publishing it. If you think that's easy, do it for me. I have some projects to migrate, give me the link of your service.

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