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by thepasch 6mo ago
Basically all modern models can do that, in _any_ conversation. Write a skill that teaches it how to use your API and where the endpoints are. Local models will need a harness (look up pi), but any frontier model can do this out of the bo
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by thepasch 6mo ago
Oh, of course we're all burning tokens like crazy. It's just that some are actually producing something of value with them, and some... are running OpenClaw.
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by thepasch 6mo ago
It would’ve happened eventually anyway, but OpenClaw is basically what kickstarted the beginning of the end of token subsidies. It’s a almost begging to be used wastefully. And agents would miss and lose nothing without it. It’s devoid of
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by thepasch 6mo ago
> If so, why is the pace of innovation and updates in their AI development products (Codex, Claude Code, Antigravity) so pedestrian? Compare the rate of improvement in their products to products from other multi-billion dollar companies,
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by thepasch 6mo ago
Being unable or unwilling to grasp how to use an LLM without delegating your entire thinking to it sounds like a you problem. Perhaps one day you can try engaging in some epistemic thought exercises, that might help. In more ways than jus
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by thepasch 6mo ago
> easy tool calling for the LLM rather than having to figure out how to call the API based on docs only I think the best way to run an agent workflow with custom tools is to use a harness that allows you to just, like, write custom tool
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by thepasch 6mo ago
> “I do not know what is the real upside on leaving the current practices in academia and education in favor of ‘let the LLM guide you’” The fact that you think “let the LLM guide you” is the argument I’ve been making tells me everything
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by thepasch 6mo ago
> It is fine it was stupid of me to not go and fix the “never” earlier but instead corrected it at the end of my post. It did cause me to misread its point. The correction at the end read more like “ sometimes a nurse can do some doct
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by thepasch 6mo ago
I have yet to see a single substantive argument from you that isn’t some sort of paraphrase for “this is definitely going to blow up because the article says so and I agree”. Three times now you’ve asked me to provide you with a detailed
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by thepasch 6mo ago
> then you also need to explain how they will be able to develop the skills to analyze and “run more thorough verification” INDEPENDENTLY of LLMs I’m sure the students will manage. This is the exact same discussion we’ve all been through
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by thepasch 6mo ago
Asking all of these questions after (allegedly) reading my entire comment either means you didn't pay attention, in which I'm not going to spend any more effort responding either; or you've completely missed the point, in whi
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by thepasch 6mo ago
> The fundamental difference between the categories is that the first is filled with people who put the effort in to learning/understanding, and the second is filled with people who take the shortcut around learning/understandi
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by thepasch 6mo ago
> Will the paid tools always tell their users how to use the free versions, and if not, how will the users learn to do it independently? The same way any open-source infrastructure finds widespread use, I’d say. If you’re willing to put
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by thepasch 6mo ago
> But to even know what is more useful, it is crucial to have walked the walk. I feel like people tend to forget that among the many things LLMs can do these days, “using a search engine” is among them. In fact, they use them better th
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by thepasch 6mo ago
> That’s what the program he just took was supposed to be for, learning not output. If you send a kid to an elementary school, and they come back not having learned anything, do you blame the concept of elementary schools, or do you blam
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by thepasch 6mo ago
> There is a vast difference between “never learned the skill,” and “forgot the skill from lack of use.” This sentence contains the entire point, and the easiest way to get there, as with many, many things, is to ask “why?”
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by thepasch 6mo ago
The majority of nails people might want to rent a HammerAsAService for these days can already easily be put in by open source hammers you can run on consumer, uh… workbenches.
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by thepasch 6mo ago
> This isn’t true, a car mechanic never evolves into an engineer, a nurse never evolve into a doctor. “Doesn’t generally happen” =/= “is literally impossible”. The word “never” should be used with care. > A car mechanic can learn
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by thepasch 6mo ago
Hey, I mean, Steinberger got acquihired off of an Open Source repo, so...
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by thepasch 6mo ago
> “People who prompt things” can only do the latter, and they routinely do it poorly. Right, but what I don’t agree with here is the idea that this category of people will never be able to improve into the first category of people. The
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by thepasch 6mo ago
Right, but that sounds like something any frontier LLM could one-shot. It’s a basic browser extension that wraps elements in the DOM and sends them to an LLM API embedded in a prompt. This would be neat as an open-source repo, but charging
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by thepasch 6mo ago
The question is whether it’s more important to be able to do things, or more important to have a good sense and a keen eye for what to do at any given moment. I personally think both are really important, and I also think AI won’t be able
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by thepasch 6mo ago
What does this do other than copy the selected HTML into a new API prompt that says “describe this”?
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by thepasch 6mo ago
Qwen3.5-Plus is the largest variant of the open weight Qwen3.5 model, expanded with a 1M context window and fine-tuned on the Qwen-native harness’ specific tools.
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by thepasch 6mo ago
At this point, I’m pretty sure saying “I’ve done my research” is more of an indicator that someone hasn’t done their research but would like to be taken seriously anyway by pretending they did. The kind of person who’s both smart enough t
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by thepasch 6mo ago
> What is the motivation for someone to put out junk like this? Getting something with a link to their GitHub onto the frontpage of HN. Because form matters much more in this world than substance.
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by thepasch 6mo ago
I never use an LLM to paraphrase my own voice as a matter of principle, but I’ve still been repeatedly accused of doing so because I happen to always have written structured posts, used “smart quotes,” and done that negative comparison thin
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by thepasch 6mo ago
> Yes, I’m going to refrain from airing out my dirty laundry. I made a bad decision, now I’m living with it, and more context doesn’t actually change the intent behind my message That’s not entirely true, as it’s currently impossible to
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by thepasch 7mo ago
> Someone approves a PR they didn’t really read. We’ve all done it (don’t look at me like that). It merges. CI takes 45 minutes, fails on a flaky test, gets re-run, passes on the second attempt (the flaky test is fine, it’s always fine,
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by thepasch 7mo ago
> He means that anthropic cannot increase the price of the sub because the users can just switch to the regular API pricing Not that they cannot increase the price, just that there's a cap on how high they realistically can go. Su

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