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Google hit with €403M fine by Irish data watchdog over GDPR violations(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by philbo 5d ago|0 comments
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by philbo 9d ago
Crossposting from the other thread... Tangential, mildly amusing thing I noticed while implementing my own harness: GLM and particularly Deepseek are both fond of trying to read dotfiles and anything listed in your .gitignore files. I only
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by philbo 9d ago
Tangential, mildly amusing thing I noticed while implementing my own harness: GLM and particularly Deepseek are both fond of trying to read dotfiles and anything listed in your .gitignore files. I only noticed it because I have separate rea
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by philbo 9d ago
> it requires a lot of compute This is one reason > and trying and this is the other.
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by philbo 13d ago
A coding harness that works more like pair programming and less like code review: https://www.opairdev.org/ It has 2 modes, driver and navigator, that work like the driver/navigator roles for a human/human pair. I
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by philbo 14d ago
I have. I thought it was okay, but it wasn't really the radical departure from other coding harnesses that I was looking for. Perhaps I could have made it that with more customization, I'm not sure. My own harness doesn't pro
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by philbo 14d ago
Glm-5.3-flash for me. I like faster models because I stay involved all the way through. I don't delegate full control to the agent because it's harder to understand the end result that way.
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Very niche software, part 2(philbooth.me)
1 points by philbo 15d ago|0 comments
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by philbo 16d ago
I think one way to approach this is by deliberately choosing less capable tools (but still AI-assisted). You don't have to delegate huge tasks to agents wholesale, but it requires fighting against mainstream harnesses to do so because
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Show HN: Opair, a coding harness that eschews autonomy(gitlab.com)
2 points by philbo 18d ago|0 comments
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by philbo 29d ago
The assumption is the vector. Why assume?
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by philbo 29d ago
100% this. 1. Keep secrets in a dedicated secrets store. 2. Read directly from the secrets store in application code. There is no environment, there are no environment variables. Yes, even on local.
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Reduce large sorted set memory with a packed B+ tree(github.com)
1 points by philbo 2mo ago|0 comments
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by philbo 2mo ago
Opair, a coding harness that eschews autonomy. It has: * No tools that grant shell access, instead tools grant access to specific executables (dangerous args can be blocked). * Separate "driver" and "navigator" modes tha
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by philbo 3mo ago
https://gitlab.com/philbooth/opair It's a coding harness that eschews autonomy and instead works like a pair programming partner, with distinct "driver" and "navigator" modes. I've only sp
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Man nearly sucked out of window mid-air on Ryanair plane(bbc.co.uk)
15 points by philbo 3mo ago|3 comments
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by philbo 3mo ago
YES! It's still very wip, I spent a couple of weekends on it so far, but I'm working on a harness that eschews autonomy and instead aims to work as a pair programming partner. Key to that are distinct "driver" and "
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by philbo 3mo ago
1. Write ADRs (or get agents to write them) 2. Commit ADRs to git 3. Mention ADRs in AGENTS.md
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by philbo 3mo ago
Yesterday I started working on an agent harness that tries to address some of the issues here. What I'm hoping to build ultimately is something that works more like a pair-programming partner than existing harnesses do. I want the user
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by philbo 3mo ago
If a coworker dumped a 5k-line code review on you, you'd tell them to come back when it's broken down into smaller, reviewable chunks. Large dumps of code are basically unreviewable by humans, but it seems like a lot of people hav
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by philbo 3mo ago
https://app.bluefriday.uk/ The nichest of niche social network clients. It's for people in one particular country, who watch one particular TV program, on one particular day of the week. Now that the cost of writing so
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by philbo 4mo ago
For decades, engineers understood that large code reviews are harder than small ones. Out of both politeness and a desire to receive better code reviews, we learned to break our large changes into smaller chunks. Some engineers took things
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Agentic Coding and Mental Models(philbooth.me)
2 points by philbo 4mo ago|0 comments
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Top FEMA official said he once teleported to Waffle House(cnn.com)
4 points by philbo 6mo ago|0 comments
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Can pumping chemicals into the ocean help stop global heating?(theguardian.com)
1 points by philbo 7mo ago|1 comments
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by philbo 8mo ago
I began this project as an exercise to learn Go before starting a new job, then continued it as an exercise to mess about with Claude Code. So development was LLM-assisted: the UI is 100% vibe-coded, the model is 100% vim-typed, the rest is
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Show HN: Pawno, multiplayer chess in your terminal(playpawno.com)
1 points by philbo 8mo ago|1 comments
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by philbo 9mo ago
https://philbooth.me/
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by philbo 9mo ago
Russia was allowed to inherit the USSR seat on 3 conditions: - It took on all the sovereign debt from the newly independent nations. - It relinquished nukes that were left behind in Ukraine. - The United Nations collectively agreed to it. I
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by philbo 9mo ago
It's for the Scottish. It's in Iran's interests for Scotland to become independent because that would enforce change on the United Nations Security Council. The UK ceases to exist and loses its veto, then what happens on the

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