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Obviously modern harnesses have better features but I wouldn't say it invalidates the mental model. Simpler agents aren't that far behind in performance if the underlying model is the same, including very minimal ones with basic t
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This is not my experience. Claude Code has been fine for data science for a while. It has many issues and someone at the wheel who knows what they're doing is very much required, but for many common cases I'm not writing code by h
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I mean, it's 2026, you can just say things I guess.
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It seems to me like this is yet another instance of just reading vibes, like when GPT 5 was underwhelming and people were like "AI is dead", or people thinking Google was behind last year when 2.5 pro was perfectly fine, or overhy
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I'd bet it's NP-hard. The standard reduction to a flow problem only tells you if a cut exists (by min-cut max-flow duality), but here we want the cut of size at most N that maximizes enclosed area. The Leetcode version of this is
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by qsort 9mo ago
A simple TUI client for several storage backends (ftp, sftp, s3...), with skills for agents. It's a bit janky, but I've already used it at work. Yes I do know rclone exists. https://github.com/edoannunziata/ft
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by qsort 9mo ago
https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/17/docs/specs/man/jpa...
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by qsort 10mo ago
I don't think that's even well-defined if you have arbitrary infix operators with arbitrary precedence and arbitrary associativity (think Haskell). If $, & and @ are operators in that order of precedence, all right-associatve.
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by qsort 10mo ago
Am I stupid if I don't get it? What is the intended end state? What does "ungroup operands" mean?
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One of the mental frameworks that convinced me is how much of a "free action" it is. Have the LLM (or the agent) churn on some problem and do something else. Come back and review the result. If you had to put significant effort in
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by qsort 10mo ago
I got nerd sniped and tried to reconstruct the games. The notation is weird and they aren't using modern conventions (a1 is dark, queens on the d-file, kings on the e-file, white goes first.) Also, as the article mentions there are a f
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by qsort 10mo ago
I care very little about fashion, whether in clothes or in computers. I've always liked Anthropic products a bit more but Codex is excellent, if that's your jam more power to you.
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by qsort 10mo ago
I believe the argument isn't that ancient statues were ugly, but rather that reconstructions are ugly (unfortunately this has been used to argue against the now ascertained fact that ancient statues were indeed painted). Purely subject
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by qsort 10mo ago
This is very interesting if used judiciously, I can see many use cases where I'd want interfaces to be drawn dynamically (e.g. charts for business intelligence.) What scares me is that even without arbitrary code generation, there&#x27
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by qsort 10mo ago
I agree saying "they don't think" and leaving it at that isn't particularly useful or insightful, it's like saying "submarines don't swim" and refusing to elaborate further. It can be useful if you ex
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by qsort 10mo ago
I think it's more of a thread-bound dynamic rather than HN as a whole. If the thread starts positive you get "AGI tomorrow", if the thread starts negative you get "stochastic parrot". But I see what you mean, there
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by qsort 10mo ago
It's one of the failure modes of online forums. Everyone piles on and you get an unrealistic opinion sample. I'm not exactly trying to shove AI into everything, I'm weary of over hyping and mostly conservative in my technolog
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by qsort 10mo ago
Sure, that's a great point. If the LLM code/ideas they come with are actually valuable, they tend to fall into the first bucket though. I'm not saying we need to dismiss people for using LLMs at all, for better or for worse w
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by qsort 10mo ago
As someone who does consulting, it's more about the attitude than the tool itself. Clients trying to understand the problem by themselves with whatever tools they can use are generally well-disposed and easy to work with. Those who ema
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by qsort 10mo ago
Everyone is doing this extreme pearl clutching around the specific wording. Yeah, it's not 100% accurate for many reasons, but the broader point was about employment effects, it doesn't need to completely replace every single deve
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by qsort 10mo ago
Yeah, I think this is one of the (few, rare) cases where the "official" academic way of teaching the subject is actually baggage and not really aligned with what's practically useful. Compiler courses are structured like that
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by qsort 10mo ago
I broadly agree with you but the AI demand part is more nuanced. Demand is very large for consumer-ish apps like ChatGPT and Sora, but even Claude, which is huge for coding and arguably the best model right now, is tiny. I've had an in
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by qsort 10mo ago
Do you frequently use Python for competitive programming puzzles? I've done it a bit in the past, and everyone always used C++.
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by qsort 10mo ago
> I always code with the mindset “the compiler is smarter than me.” Like with people in general, it depends on what compiler/interpreter we're talking about, I'll freely grant that clang is smarter than me, but CPython for
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by qsort 10mo ago
Anthropic? The AI people?
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by qsort 10mo ago
> Complexity of traveling salesman problem depends on what you consider as the problem space - number of cities or number of connections between cities. lmao what?
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I love Dijkstra's writing, but I don't think this is his strongest piece. In general parlance, when we say "by piegonhole" we mean "any variant of it". I'd still call what he's doing "piegonhole&
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I have a degree in CS and I got a lot from it, so I'm absolutely not going to bad mouth CS, but I have the feeling that it's possible to just get a piece of paper having learned little to nothing in a way that couldn't happen
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> one or two math subjects Only one or two? :) It's not easy as an adult but it's definitely doable, don't get discouraged. The main hurdle isn't knowledge of specific topics, most undergraduate courses assume little
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by qsort 10mo ago
I'm also in a few local leaderboards, but I'm not "really" competing, it's more of a fun group thing. Premises: (i) I love Advent of Code and I'm grateful for its continuing existence in whatever form its creat

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