mritchie712

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by mritchie712 10mo ago
> Why LLMs Suck at OCR I paste screenshots into claude code everyday and it's incredible. As in, I can't believe how good it is. I send a screenshot of console logs, a UI and some HTML elements and it just "gets it".
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by mritchie712 10mo ago
The only SaaS that AI has eaten for us is Retool. It wasn't the cost (we were paying < $200 per month). Retool has become more clunky to use vs. writing code with AI to solve the problems we used Retool for.
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by mritchie712 10mo ago
Once you have meltano installed, it's just be: ``` meltano run tap-postgres target-ducklake ``` Setting up meltano would be a bit more involved[0] 0 - https://www.notion.so/luabase/Postgres-to-Duck
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by mritchie712 10mo ago
We released a meltano target for DuckLake[0]. dlt has one now too. Pretty easy to sync pg -> ducklake. I've been really happy with DuckLake, happy to answer any questions about it. DuckDB has always felt easier to use vs. Clickhouse
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by mritchie712 10mo ago
> commoditized not for disney content. Disney can pick OpenAI as the winner for this by not signing deals and suing anyone else.
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by mritchie712 10mo ago
I just had a sales call with someone from Microsoft who was looking for an AI tool to automate some Excel work they were doing. I doubt they'll buy our product, but it gave me a good laugh.
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by mritchie712 10mo ago
Cursor promises to do this[0] in the product, so, especially on HN, it'd be best to start with "why this is better than Cursor". > favorite doc sites so I do not have to paste URLs into Cursor This is especially confusing,
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by mritchie712 10mo ago
it's faster than previous Postgres. e.g. the gender_name example would already be optimized in duckdb via columnar execution and “aggregate first, join later” planning.
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by mritchie712 10mo ago
you have anthropic confused with something like lovable. anthropic's unit margins are fine, many lovable-like businesses are not.
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by mritchie712 10mo ago
> At the time of writing, Bun's monthly downloads grew 25% last month (October, 2025), passing 7.2 million monthly downloads. We had over 4 years of runway to figure out monetization. We didn't have to join Anthropic. I believe
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by mritchie712 10mo ago
claude code + opus4.5 does exactly what it says on the box. Today I pasted a screenshot of frontend dropdown menu with a prompt "add a an option here to clear the query cache". Claude found the relevant frontend files, figured out
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by mritchie712 10mo ago
they clearly believe "native is better, electron bad" and are trying really hard to make ChatGPT a case for that. The problem is, chatgpt for mac isn't better then the web version. I've tried to use it and always go back
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by mritchie712 11mo ago
w24, those were different times.
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by mritchie712 11mo ago
> only Claude Code has been able to really solve; Sonnet 4.5 in there consistently performs better than Sonnet 4.5 anywhere else. I think part of it is this[0] and I expect it will become more of a problem. Claude models have built-in to
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by mritchie712 11mo ago
yep, that's exactly where we've landed. focus on the tools and context, let claude handle the execution.
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by mritchie712 11mo ago
Some things we've[0] learned on agent design: 1. If your agent needs to write a lot of code, it's really hard to beat Claude Code (cc) / Agent SDK. We've tried many approaches and frameworks over the past 2 years (e.g. P
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by mritchie712 11mo ago
in which one? restarts are no problem on ducklake (ACID transactions in catalog) the others, I haven't tried handling it in.
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by mritchie712 11mo ago
For pure duckdb, you can put an Arrow Flight server in front of duckdb[0] or use the httpserver extension[1]. Where you store the .duckdb file will make a big difference in performance (e.g. S3 vs. Elastic File System). But I'd take a
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by mritchie712 11mo ago
replicate "only" raised $50m, so I'd wager the founders, investors and early employees did well here. If they raised $500m... then yes, the wouldn't have done so well.
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by mritchie712 11mo ago
when 4o was going thru it's ultra-sycophantic phase, I had a talk with it about Graham Hancock (Ancient Apocalypse, alt-history guy). It agreed with everything Hancock claims with just a little encouragement ("Yes! Bimini road is
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by mritchie712 11mo ago
This was too perfect of a setup, had to record a video[0] showing how we do this. Yes, you definitely need need for a codification layer. I think a semantic layer is the best way to do that for analytics. Having an LLM write bespoke SQL to
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by mritchie712 11mo ago
seems you completely missed the point. marimo does everything you're looking for in plain .py files that render as notebooks. https://marimo.io/blog/python-not-json
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by mritchie712 11mo ago
> For instance, it can handle >100k single row inserts/sec. DuckLake already has data-inlining for the DuckDB catalog, seems this will be possible once it's supported in the pg catalog. > Postgres also has a more natural
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by mritchie712 11mo ago
> Teams need notebooks that are reactive, collaborative, and AI‑ready reactive: this matters, but all the alternatives have it collaborative: this matters very little in the Figma / Google Docs sense of collaborative in practice. It
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by mritchie712 11mo ago
> /clear + /catchup (Simple Restart): My default reboot. I /clear the state, then run a custom /catchup command to make Claude read all changed files in my git branch. I've found myself doing similar workarounds.
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by mritchie712 11mo ago
what did you use instead? if you hit OOM with the dataset in duckdb, I'd think you'd hit the OOM with most other things on the same machine.
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by mritchie712 11mo ago
I've been looking for this exact thing. A couple questions: Are your agents good at testing other agents? e.g. I want your agent to ask our agent a few questions and complete a few UI interactions with the results. How do you handle te
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by mritchie712 1y ago
> lie LLMs are capable of lying. ChatGPT / gpt-5 is RL'd not to lie to you, but a base model RL'd to lie would happily do it.
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by mritchie712 1y ago
We started with a product like this at Definite ( https://www.definite.app/ ), but it became clear there weren't enough people willing to spend real money on a product like it when Cursor / VS Code already have good
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by mritchie712 1y ago
he's also casually trashing their engineering team... "I built it in a day" is suggesting no one else could have. I personally don't think there's anything wrong with doing it (i.e. shipping a feature quickly that a

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