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Show HN: Combinators in Array Languages(blog.softwarewrighter.com)
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by softwarewright 9d ago
Interesting link/content and it seems complimentary. One thing that is missing from both of our approaches is the ability re-train (fine-tune) coding models "overnight" so that they can "learn" from the prior day an
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by softwarewright 9d ago
Are you saying that AI coding agents cannot produce working code? Or are you saying that it produces something that cannot be explained or understood? If I used a macro to generate code that gets compiled and linked to code someone else pr
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by softwarewright 9d ago
I'm in a research/prototyping phase with no truly verified results yet, but I have all the hardware I need to do actual testing. I have an OS that boots in a VM, it just isn't verified to have practical value yet. It could
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by softwarewright 9d ago
Using agents to micromanage agents is something I ended up doing. Part of the fun is solving puzzles where the coding agent gets stuck and me then giving it technical direction. Especially when an agent says that something cannot be done i
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by softwarewright 9d ago
But what if I use AI to write live demos where you can write machine code, debug it visually in your browser, punch data on virtual punch cards? What if I used AI to generate videos about this, generate the artwork, backgrounds, narration,
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by softwarewright 10d ago
I am also pursuing something similar (complementary?) to this (recently started writing a Rust-based "distributed OS" that manages ML resources in a network of heterogenous systems: varied cores, system RAM, GPU VRAM, I/O).
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Show HN: A Coding Agent from Scratch(blog.softwarewrighter.com)
1 points by softwarewright 10d ago|0 comments
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by softwarewright 11d ago
Thanks for the UX change; it worked well (except for links to relative images). Is the intent just to use it to view markdown with colors, spacing? Do you plan to provide ways to export it to something like PDF, html w/css, etc.? Let&#
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by softwarewright 11d ago
serious question: do you program in machine code or assembler or use a higher level language? do you use design patterns and functional approaches? metaprogramming, code generation, templating, app frameworks? Each tool, abstraction, lang
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by softwarewright 11d ago
having to give clipboard paste permission is less than ideal. Why not also offer a text area to paste into?
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by softwarewright 12d ago
I was a hobby programmer in the 80s, but that was after college. I was a hobby programmer in the 70s via my high school's library having a terminal to access a mainframe for self-study programming courses, and I built mail-order compu
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by softwarewright 12d ago
I am working on developing a distributed operating system for managing machine learning resources (the entire memory hierarchy, networking and compute hierarchy). I worked in O/S development early in my career, now retired and ML is a
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by softwarewright 12d ago
forgot to mention: I use my language to run code in a browser, so people can try ML experiments and visualization with no download, no sign up, no colab, no GPU. Also, I'm working towards running my code on embedded systems, including
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Show HN: I made a tiny MoE/Engram viz tool(sw-ml-study.github.io)
2 points by softwarewright 12d ago|0 comments
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by softwarewright 15d ago
But I am creating programs to manage the coding agents for me. Of course I am using coding agents to do that. It's turtles all the way down :-)
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by softwarewright 15d ago
me too; and my coding agents are slowed down (from developing features) because I require them to refactor the code to be more readable; my code metrics tests force AIs to leverage functional programming and design patterns). Yes agents can
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by softwarewright 15d ago
I have the same "1/30th ... simultaneous" experience with coding agents, and I am having fun. Directing teams of agents to solve many problems (or create many useful things) for me has its own fun challenges/puzzles-to-
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by softwarewright 16d ago
This is interesting. It would be even better if ones coding agent also got better at its coding abilities every night. Otherwise, agents might re-introduce the same class of bugs that your nightly improvements keep reacting to. This would
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by softwarewright 16d ago
I picked an ETF so there may have been less analysis (no business to analyze). I will look again for "perspectives"
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by softwarewright 16d ago
I like the upgrades and wall repair features. I made it on to the leader board :-)
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by softwarewright 16d ago
nice. is there a way to repair burned houses or put out fires?
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by softwarewright 16d ago
nice UI, analysis took a while, but results looked very good. feedback: different users have very different goals, risk tolerance, knowledge, experience. I would wrap this with very focused UIs for different audiences. Many people want gr
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by softwarewright 16d ago
This is a good approach. I am also am trying to integrate ML and AI into a language as first class concepts, but currently more focused on the ML side, but also using inference. https://sw-ml-study.github.io/sw-mlpl/
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by softwarewright 16d ago
Claude Code, Codex, opencode (Z.ai GLM-5.x), sometimes Gemini -- most of my work is at Mac iTerm2 CLI or Arch Linux terminal. I sometimes use emacs as the coding agent, but rarely JetBrains IDE or vscode (more for reading/debugging co
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by softwarewright 19d ago
This IBM Research looks very promising: https://research.ibm.com/blog/northpole-llm-inference-result... which I found after watching this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4nEpY1LYzM - The AI Chi
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by softwarewright 19d ago
I am curious about what Rust-based extensions I can add next to my custom machine learning programming language. > https://github.com/sw-ml-study/demo-extensions shows my first attempt at an extension, desktop graph
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by softwarewright 20d ago
I am a single person LLC so my "production" is just me using AI to build things. I use MCP for some things, like Playwright; for web UI development, but I also use CLIs, especially custom CLIs I create that have built-in help for
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by softwarewright 20d ago
I am trying to make it easier to use LLMs on older, cheaper, smaller GPUs. I'm taking a similar approach (move MoE expert weights to disk, avoid wasting VRAM on these). My goal is also to run models that do not fit. My work also suf
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by softwarewright 20d ago
I think AI is more of a radial arm saw. Very flexible, adaptable, capable, but very dangerous in untrained hands.

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