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2y ago
The cost of getting locked into Vercel.
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2y ago
>ChatGPT is now the 7th highest ranking website on the planet - does anyone outside the HN crowd know about Google AI Studio? This isn't about consumer facing chatbots anymore. Industry adoption is what matters. And GCP is a far far
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>Wow Objective C still banging. Objective-C is a fantastic language. Apple is still writing tons of it. It's the C++ we should have ended up with. Protocol oriented programming is an absolute revelation if you've never been e
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2y ago
MCP is absolutely a UI. It's just that the "user" is an LLM agent. Properly defining that interface is the main crucial piece of developing any tool.
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2y ago
You probably do. Reliable SSE is a complete nightmare.
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2y ago
Nobody tell him about the experiments tab
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2y ago
>so you are telling me that hallucinations (that by definition happen at the model layer) are an engineering problem ? Yes. Hallucinations were a big problem with single shot prompting. No one is seriously doing that anymore. You have an
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2y ago
There's a simple reason for that. AI (real AI) is now an engineering problem, not a computer science problem.
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2y ago
>How does separation of powers work in the US? could Trump decide not to prosecute let say financial fraud in general? He can "do" essentially anything, per the supreme court. For 250 years we had norms and customs and decorum
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2y ago
Pretty simple to understand. Creating new things is the single hardest thing to do. But destruction (in all forms) is the easiest thing in the world to do that shows tangible "results". And when the reality of your "results&q
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2y ago
Big if true.
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2y ago
>Now that bots/AI have made applying trivial and resulted in a deluge of applications they can't seem to properly filter, I think it's time to try a different approach. I have this theory in general that paper is going to
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2y ago
Token usage meaning via agentic processes. Essentially every gripe about LLMs over the last few years (hallucinations, lack of real time data, etc.) was a result of single shot prompting directly to models. No one is seriously doing that fo
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2y ago
>there are extremely-well-compensated roles still available in remote companies. There always have been. Companies have made remote exceptions for decades. What we lost was the chance to normalize it for everyone. The bosses put that del
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2y ago
>"Before asking for more Headcount and resources, teams must demonstrate why they cannot get what they want done using AI. What would this area look like if autonomous AI agents were already part of the team? This question can lead
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2y ago
>Soon, you will be able to find anything only thru local on-site interview or strong references. Anyone paying attention has started planning accordingly for this over the last couple years. The remote work revolution has resolutely fail
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2y ago
>Swift is not a replacemente for C and C++, but rather for Objective-C. Swift is not a replacement for anything; Apple will even say as much. It just fills the hole for a scripting language that they had for decades. Plenty of new Obj-C
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2y ago
>"This is a bit of a meta-comment, but reading through the responses to a post like this is really interesting because it demonstrates how our collective response to this stuff is (a) wildly divergent and (b) entirely anecdote-drive
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2y ago
I think there's been a huge misconception of what MCP was meant to be in the first place. It is not a transport protocol, and it is not (primarily) designed as a remote RPC server. It is really meant to be a local first means of attach
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2y ago
My favorite one ever: 017 == '17' // false 018 == '18' // true
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>The ML world being nearly entirely in Python, much of it untyped (and that the Python type system is pretty weak) is really scary I think this has a ton to do with the mixed results from "vibe coding" we've seen as the co
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2y ago
>No one says you have to code like those influencers. You are a software engineer, use AI like one, iteratively. This is my issue with all the AI naysayers at this point. It seems to all boil down to "haha, stupid noob can't co
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>The scary thing is: I have seen professional human developers write worse code. This is kind of the rub of it all. If the code works, passes all relevant tests, is reasonably maintainable, and can be fitted into the system correctly wit
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2y ago
This maps pretty well to my experience. Other devs will say things like "AI is just a stupid glorified autocomplete, it will never be able to handle my Very Special Unique Codebase. I even spent 20 minutes one time trying out Cursor, a
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2y ago
>I just don't understand the mentality. Sure, I can see how it can be fun to make an aimbot, and I can see how playing with it for a little while might be fun--or more accurately funny. But I just don't understand why you would
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2y ago
Really gorgeous components. I cant say I understand who would use this or why... but this is a good thing.
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2y ago
Cline, full stop. It's approaching literal magic at this point.
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>If you can detect failure, you can create a retry loop, assuming you can understand the rules of the environment you're operating in Indeed, this is what makes autonomous agentic tool using systems robust as well. Those retry loops
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>I'm a hater of complexity and build systems in general. But you already have a complex cmake build system in place. Adding a standard Docker image with all the deps for devs to compile on would do nothing but make contributing easi
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>"Alternative perspective: you kids with your Docker builds need to roll up your sleeves and learn how to actually compile a semi-complicated project if you expect to be able to contribute back to said project." Well, that atti
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