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by jeswin 1y ago
> I do think the WinForms editor in Visual Studio C# was a pretty decent spiritual successor that came close to capturing the magic of a drag-and-drop GUI builder. Aesthetically lacking but highly functional. It required the .Net Framewo
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by jeswin 1y ago
Not that trivial to hand code, I just had this feature (copying) in another larger plugin I wrote. However, I think it can be "vibe coded"these days.
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by jeswin 1y ago
I've finally settled on this: - A custom vscode plugin to help me copy file contents from the tree view, along with file paths - A chat based ide (LibreChat, but anything will do) - An agent that syncs code back, once I'm happy wi
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by jeswin 1y ago
Now if there was a way to add prepaid credits and monitor usage near real-time on a dashboard, like every other vendor. Hey Google are you listening?
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by jeswin 1y ago
> some of the best songs in human history I think this was the statement he/she was disagreeing with. No doubt a genius, but when you phrase it like that it's more than genius.
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by jeswin 1y ago
Can you allow prepaid credits as well please?
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by jeswin 1y ago
> My current hypothesis: the more familiar you are with a topic the worse the results from any LLM. That's not really true, since your prompts are also getting better. Better input leads to better output remains true, even with LLMs
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by jeswin 1y ago
If anyone betrayed the spirit of Open Source, it is those who were trying to siphon off the entire commericial value of these projects while contributing little back to the project. Companies have to pay people to work on it. Hell, they are
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by jeswin 1y ago
> Indian government has been taking steps like these for quite some time now. In this instance though, this is from the High Court of the state of Karnataka and not the Indian Government. Karnataka isn't ruled by the same party at t
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by jeswin 1y ago
> novel and complex things a) What's an example? b) Is 90% (or more) of programming mundane, and not really novel?
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by jeswin 1y ago
> Additionally, through our Trusted Verifiers feature, select independent organizations can verify accounts directly. As someone who believes in equal access and privilege, this is just horrible. "Trusted Verifiers" - how does
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by jeswin 2y ago
I use it to edit projects with LibreChat, along with plain vscode. It should work with any MCP client. I can either start a conversation with the agent (which has codebox tools configured), or summon the agent later when I have to write i
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Show HN: Codebox – Let AI agents run project commands in Docker containers(github.com)
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by jeswin 2y ago
Given their anti-trust struggles, if Google for some reason dominates AI, they'd not want people to bring up anti-competitive behavior as a reason for that. Adopting open standards, especially open standards conceived outside Google i
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by jeswin 2y ago
> Give MCP agents access to what they need but not more. My view is that you should give them (Agents) a computer, with a complete but minimal Linux installation - as a VM or Containerized. This has given me better results, because now i
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by jeswin 2y ago
> MCP servers can run (malicious code) locally. I wrote an MCP Server (called Codebox[1]) which starts a Docker container with your project code mounted. It works quite well, and I've been using it with LibreChat and vscode. In my e
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by jeswin 2y ago
I am among the few who think it might eventually prove itself a good idea. To start with, Europe has no good cards to play. Ultimately, Europe will side with the United States while it builds self-sufficiency on several fronts, especially d
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by jeswin 2y ago
That's right. And there's nothing wrong with it.
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90% of business software is a copy of something else. So a model that is good at modifying code that exists somewhere is quite valuable. Basically, any significant incremental progress in an LLM's ability to mash up ideas/code (th
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by jeswin 2y ago
> But I see absolutely no reason to expect the platform to avoid the problems that Twitter encountered as it grew (and Mastodon fostered as it failed to grow). Its own “federated protocol”—literally the entire reason it was built, and th
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by jeswin 2y ago
There are two parts to what you said. > A lot of things were working even if they did not change everything overnight. We can disagree. The frog was slowly getting cooked. China's trade surplus has reached 1 Trillion dollars, and ha
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by jeswin 2y ago
Well, the contrarian opinion is that this (whatever he did) is a good thing - whether decentralisation happens into the US, Europe or wherever. It's one thing to recognise the problem, and another to attempt to change an uncomfortable
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by jeswin 2y ago
Contrarian opinion. Irrespective of what you think of Trump, decentralization of production capacity is a good thing — maybe even essential. If this continued for, say, another twenty years, the West and the rest of the world would be compl
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by jeswin 2y ago
From this month's HN hiring, we might have received 30-40 resumes so far. Out of that, we have interviewed (or scheduled) around 20. There were no fake resumes; in fact we got very high quality resumes this time. There weren't any
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by jeswin 2y ago
From the article: > Even though Make in India is not a classic import substitution case, it aimed to reach that end. So it's not really import substitution. But let's ignore that article, it's not a serious piece anyway. A
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by jeswin 2y ago
> The Make in India policy of the present government is reminiscent of the pre-1991 inward-looking Indian state. Have you seen the 70s or the 80s? I was a child during the 1980s when India was a socialist state. There were very few priva
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by jeswin 2y ago
> Also the Fn key is where the Ctrl key should be, which is endlessly annoying as a user of different laptop brands. There's always been a bios option to swap them. It's on my x230, and probably exists on older PCs as well.
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by jeswin 2y ago
CredCore | Engineering | Full-time | Remote (anywhere) | www.credcore.com CredCore helps companies analyze Credit Agreements using AI. We have two roles open: (1) Engineering Lead, and (2) Front-end Lead/Architect. Both positions requi
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by jeswin 2y ago
Slightly meta. I was trying to understand your product. Does Codeyam simulate how the software looks/works without actually running it? That seems impossible for any non-trivial project. I may have misinterpreted the idea, but calling
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by jeswin 2y ago
You can completely ignore what I said about my personal experience. The rest of it is still valid, and please read the child comment I posted on the same sub-thread. Basically, Kerala exports a workforce because it can't produce or exp

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