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by mccoyb 1y ago
This doesn't contribute to the conversation ... without further elaboration on what your point is, I'm assuming that you're pointing out that my question is analogous to previous (good to ask!) questions about market and user
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by mccoyb 1y ago
Makes sense! Thanks for discussing.
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by mccoyb 1y ago
The answer here might be: "you're not our market" (which is totally fine! but slightly confusing, because presumably people _using agents like Claude Code_ are ... more advanced than the uninitiated)
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by mccoyb 1y ago
One big question I have, in the era of Claude Code (and advancements yet to come) — is why should a hacker submit to using tools behind a SaaS offering … when one can just roll their own tools? I may be mistaken, but I don’t think there is
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by mccoyb 1y ago
I believe these are fundamentally two different types of abuse — the OP is engaging in a significantly less harmful version … the seriously harmful version is the account sharing / massively concurrent one which abuses whatever holes e
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by mccoyb 1y ago
Just reflecting on my own comment -- what one might want is an automated layout system with a simple "natural language"-like API (perhaps similar to Penrose, although it's been awhile since I looked at that project). Hardened
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by mccoyb 1y ago
Just from personal experience, visual design is the task with the worst outcomes for Claude Code (w/ latest Opus 4.1, etc). It truly cannot reason well yet about geometry, visual aesthetics, placement, etc. The performance varies: it&#
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by mccoyb 1y ago
That can't be the correct paper... I think you meant this: https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08276
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by mccoyb 1y ago
Agreed. Context engineering is "just" prompt engineering for LLMs with tool use: it extends the concerns of prompt engineering with the concern of setting up an environment in which tools can be used, and how the LLM can most effe
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by mccoyb 1y ago
Thanks, you're right -- I was wrong.
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by mccoyb 1y ago
Force the LLM to write property-based tests (depends on the language you use whether or not good libraries are available -- but if they are available 100% make use of them). Iterate with the LLM on the invariants. Forcing the discussion of
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by mccoyb 1y ago
You're talking about the wrong company. This is not the company you think it is. These are the creators of `bubbletea`, a popular TUI framework in Go.
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by mccoyb 1y ago
Thanks, thinking about this - I think there are several ways to serve this concern: one could be having an agent as a server, where "prompting" is just a command `prompt ...` sent to the agent as a server. Then you never leave you
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by mccoyb 1y ago
Say more about what you mean by "multi-program scrolling workflow", if you don't mind
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by mccoyb 1y ago
> AI coding tools supercharge this, allowing you to bring whole machineries to life by waving your hands around, offloading the understanding for much longer, but if you want it all to actually work, you'll need to dive into the det
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by mccoyb 1y ago
Same experience here, probably in a slightly different way of work (PhD student). Was extremely skeptical of LLMs, Claude Code has completely transformed the way I work. It doesn't take away the requirements of _curation_ - that remain
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by mccoyb 1y ago
Thanks for showing!
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by mccoyb 1y ago
Interesting, the docs for auth don't mention it: https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/claude-code/sdk#authentic... Surprised that this works, but useful if true.
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by mccoyb 1y ago
Looked at your tool several times, but haven't answered this question for myself: does this tool fundamentally use the Anthropic API (not the normal MAX billing)? Presuming you built around the SDK -- haven't figured out if it is
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by mccoyb 1y ago
I spend a significant amount of time (a) curating the test suite, and making sure it matches my notion of correctness and (b) forcing the agent to make PNG visuals (which Claude Code can see, by the way, and presumably also Gemini CLI, and
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by mccoyb 1y ago
Ah yes, everything has to be about getting work done, right? You always have to be productive! Do you think, just maybe, it might be interesting to play around with these tools without worrying about how productive you're being?
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by mccoyb 1y ago
I've also found that relying on agents to build their own context _poisons_ it ... that it's necessary to curate it constantly. There's kind of a <1 multiplicative thing going on, where I can ask the agent to e.g. update C
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by mccoyb 1y ago
Building agents has been fun for me, but it's clear that there are serious problems with "context engineering" that must be overcome with new ideas. In particular, no matter how big the context window size is increased - one
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by mccoyb 1y ago
What do "better models" and "progress in ai" mean to you? Without more information, it's impossible to respond sincerely or precisely.
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by mccoyb 1y ago
That doesn't strike me as sophisticated, it strikes me as obvious to anyone with a little proficiency in computational thinking and a few days of experience with tool-using LLMs. The goal is to design a probability distribution to solv
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by mccoyb 2y ago
Totally agree with this model, and I’ve seen it work. As usual, the best model is not an extreme “easy answer”, but a nuanced take (in-person environments have tangible benefits, but also tangible downsides — and the same for fully remote e
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by mccoyb 2y ago
“Try and convince them that you’re not an animal” Depressingly laughable suggestion. Giving Jared (from Silicon Valley) suggesting “scream your name to your attacker so they are forced to recognize you are human” vibes.
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by mccoyb 2y ago
“Disconnected” feels like “has no empathy”. Is it really so hard to imagine the struggles of someone who doesn’t have any of the benefits listed in the post? Just sitting down and doing a quick calculation would immediately reveal time allo
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by mccoyb 2y ago
Couldn’t agree more.
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by mccoyb 2y ago
Anti-CGRP medicines are life changing. The only medicine I’ve used that has all but completely eliminated my migraines during usage (Aimovig). Unfortunately, to get these — you have to provide an arm and a leg to insurance, even when a neur

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