siliconc0w

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by siliconc0w 4mo ago
The admin just tried to kill anthropic with a ridiculous national defense supply chain order that the courts blocked - I'm not sure why anyone would believe them credible now.
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by siliconc0w 4mo ago
I wonder if this is specific to the animus toward anthropic or if this is the new industry wide level cap. Seems like a pretty big problem for the AI market in general, a lot this investment is predicated on better and better models.
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by siliconc0w 4mo ago
Sadly, I'm getting a lot of forced downgrades to Opus for questions that are far removed from any security topic.
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by siliconc0w 4mo ago
I can't really see wide adoption of local LLMs unless prices really start to climb. It makes sense to use cheaper hosted smaller models like Sonnet or even Kimi but these won't run a Kimi-class model and that is really the floor
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by siliconc0w 4mo ago
Just do one project. Ask them for an interesting or challenging problem they had, go over it at a high level from a business and technical perspective, and then dig in as deep as you can on specific parts. Ask about business impact, how w
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by siliconc0w 4mo ago
I use the $100/mo sub but my 30 day API cost is about $1700/mo. It really depends how you use it, if you're using prompts to generate detailed designs, breaking those into lists of tasks, and then feeding those to multiple ag
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by siliconc0w 5mo ago
I like take home projects the candidates then need to present and answer questions about. LLMs just mean you can be more ambitious here (though you should pay for their tokens). The problem with provisional employment is that it can take q
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by siliconc0w 5mo ago
It would be hard to give up on tech as I genuinely enjoy building, watching systems come alive, figuring out the puzzles through when they break. I do like the term Neo-Amish though and definitely relate. I do recommend people get outside
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by siliconc0w 5mo ago
These are essentially sociopath screens where they expect you to memorize some STAR stories and regurgitate them on demand. And I don't mean screen out.
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by siliconc0w 5mo ago
I recommend spending some time getting a few parts of the codebase idiomatic and then @-ing those files as exemplars. This works a lot better than trying to steer it with markdown. This works reasonably well for like FastAPI but JavaScrip
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by siliconc0w 5mo ago
Most startups don't actually make profits and nonprofits can't give equity so it's not really a favorable structure.
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by siliconc0w 5mo ago
https://agent-flywheel.com/ (largely just the core workflow)
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by siliconc0w 5mo ago
I agree that every so often you have to clean up a mess and the illusion breaks. Even with a super detailed spec, even with AGENTS and SKILLs specifying certain patterns or practices, even with 'fresh eyes' reviews from other age
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by siliconc0w 5mo ago
I've been using agent flywheel workflow which is similar. Still not completely sold - it feels a bit like using power tools to shape wood but the final product needs a lot of sanding and polishing. I thought initially this meant that
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by siliconc0w 5mo ago
Google has amazing potential but has consistently squandered it. Gemini CLI being killed/rebranded is yet another example of their complete lack of follow through and persistence. It wasn't a good product - it was slow, buggy, a
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by siliconc0w 5mo ago
EU equities outperformed US in 2025. The Iran war will probably shift this back to the US but launching a new poorly defined war (and arguably losing it) is also a pretty good indicator of decline.
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by siliconc0w 5mo ago
Why would you use an infrastructure provider on top of another infrastructure provider? It adds cost and risk, it's always going to be a leaky abstraction, and it's not hard to learn how to use GCP or AWS correctly - especially w
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by siliconc0w 5mo ago
People don't really understand that non-trivial software development isn't even 50% coding. The coding step is generally the 'easiest' part and given to Junior developers. In a large org most product changes span multip
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by siliconc0w 5mo ago
Both OpenAI and Claude already charge Enterprise usage rates and they're still buying.
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by siliconc0w 5mo ago
On one hand, this is insidious when targeting children.... On the other these kind of metrics are what pretty much every company tries to optimize. We're going to get better and better at hacking the human brain - for good and evil and
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by siliconc0w 5mo ago
I don't get how it's okay to commercialize public side walks. Can I just put a vending machine on wheels, park it in front of people's homes, and raise a 100M to replace convenience stores?
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by siliconc0w 5mo ago
The bigger concern is more around the pollution of the gas turbines. Populations around the DC are going to see higher rates of Asthma, Respiratory diseases, Heart problems, and certain cancers.
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by siliconc0w 6mo ago
They'll buy your politicians who will give them zero checks on raising energy prices or poisoning your children's minds
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by siliconc0w 6mo ago
Shameless self plug but also worried about the silent quality regressions, I started building a tool to track coding agent performance over time.. https://github.com/s1liconcow/repogauge Here is a sample report that t
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by siliconc0w 6mo ago
8M is kinda small potatoes - which is essentially the AWS business model. Sure you could build a cheaper thing but that is hard and this thing is right here, easy(ish) to use, and your company won't regret using it until you've m
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by siliconc0w 6mo ago
We need to basically get rid of all exportable tokens. Require signing of all requests by a hardware backed key.
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by siliconc0w 6mo ago
Working on a oss tool to help orgs identify where they can save on token costs: https://repogauge.org Happy to run it on your repos for a free report: hi@repogauge.org
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Show HN: RepoGauge – save token costs and compare agents on your own repos(repogauge.org)
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by siliconc0w 6mo ago
Definitely feeling this - the subsidized subscription plans are already starting to buckle.
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by siliconc0w 6mo ago
The problem with AI is that it isn't like any previous technology. There may be temporary jobs to fill in the gaps but they won't be careers. The AI will do the process engineering and self optimization. The prompt witchcraft i

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