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CaveTech··on Show HN: ADRs for AI – Deliberation records for human–AI work, versioned in Git
Respectfully that’s further highlighting the problem. Nail it down into a small set worth reading. This is far too trivial of a project to have multiple origin stories
CaveTech··on Show HN: ADRs for AI – Deliberation records for human–AI work, versioned in Git
Looks like you didn’t even edit the origin story docs, they are pure slop. Demonstrate a real intention
CaveTech··on Meta VR Glasses
Then don’t give it email access
CaveTech··on HarnessTax: How Much Does the Harness Matter for Coding Agents?
Your question is worded kind of confusingly, but all caching is handled on the inference layer, and by all major providers. In short, caching should work as long as you are sending requests to the same model and provider.
CaveTech··on Portal by Spotify cut my Claude Code token usage by 90%
You can also use hooks to force the use of subagents for this. The stack here is entirely unnecessary
CaveTech··on Claude Opus 5
Haiku < Sonnet < Opus < Fable
CaveTech··on I built a vulnerable app and spent $1,500 seeing if LLMs could hack it
The harness does not matter that much, it's getting leaner every cycle.
CaveTech··on I built a vulnerable app and spent $1,500 seeing if LLMs could hack it
You've confused what I wrote, we are in agreement. The fact codex found the vulns means that mythos almost certainly will.
CaveTech··on I built a vulnerable app and spent $1,500 seeing if LLMs could hack it
I’m highly confident that prior exposure is irrelevant at this point. I work on vulnerability detection at a hyperscaler.
CaveTech··on I built a vulnerable app and spent $1,500 seeing if LLMs could hack it
It was found with gpt 5.5 7/10 times it’ll be trivially found by mythos
CaveTech··on What twenty years of DevOps has failed to do
These things are not nearly equivalent. It’s writing code, it’s not software engineering.
CaveTech··on Why can't transformers learn multiplication?
I never made a claim that it's ineffective, just that it's of limited effectiveness. The diminishing returns kick in quickly, and it's not applicable in more domains than it is applicable.
CaveTech··on Why can't transformers learn multiplication?
The latter, and I would disagree that “this works and scales well” in the general sense. It clearly has very finite bounds by the fact we haven’t achieved agi by running an llm in a loop..

The approach of “try a few more things before stopping” is a great strategy akin to taking a few more stabs at RNG. It’s not the same as saying keep trying until you get there - you won’t.

CaveTech··on Why can't transformers learn multiplication?
The amount of paths in the wrong direction are infinitely more than then number in the right direction. You'll quickly realize this doesn't actually scale.
CaveTech··on Show HN: Autism Simulator
[citation needed]
CaveTech··on Windsurf employee #2: I was given a payout of only 1% what my shares where worth
As you describe this is largely a cash flow business and the bulk of the value should be extracted via dividends to the benefit of major shareholders.

A tech enabled business needs gross margins north of 70% to be attractive from a leverage standpoint, unless revenue is scaling very rapidly. Without these there’s no attractive exit opportunities.

CaveTech··on Windsurf employee #2: I was given a payout of only 1% what my shares where worth
Sorry to break it to you but 10% profit on 6.5M rev is very low and will absolutely not fetch a high multiple, especially considering this is a mature 10 year old business. This is not a high growth business and you may have grown overly rose colored glasses by thinking it could be priced as one.
CaveTech··on Travelers to the U.S. must pay a new $250 'visa integrity fee' – what to know
There are border towns where some workers do daily crossings. Without refund infrastructure in place it looks like this would add $250/day fee for all of these individuals
CaveTech··on Why email startups fail
The whole thesis OP is making is that this isn’t really true, evidenced by real world behaviours. Electron apps have some of the highest market share, even the worlds most popular ide is an electron app.

The amount of people who won’t adopt based on pricipal is exceedingly small.

CaveTech··on Why email startups fail
It is mentioned, there's an entire section named "The HEY Experiment".
CaveTech··on Why email startups fail
The other part of the average is the 200m+ monthly active users who can't seem to find the uninstall button.
CaveTech··on Load Test GlassFlow for ClickHouse: Real-Time Dedup at Scale
I think your benchmark may miss the mark a bit if this is your angle.

20m records and 9k/sec isn’t very impressive. I would imagine most prospective customers have larger workloads, as you could throw this behind Postgres and call it a day. FWIW I was interested but your metrics made me second guess and wonder what was wrong.

CaveTech··on Base44 sells to Wix for $80M cash
More than the team with no product. There's a huge difference between large entrenched businesses and early-stage startups. Turnover in large corporations is huge, the team has turned over multiple times already, they can do so again.

An early stage company that barely has any code? Yes, in that case, it's the team that matters because they haven't fulfilled the vision yet.

CaveTech··on I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney, who does work for YC and startups. AMA
Are there any difficulties in obtaining TN Visas related to the stage of the sponsor company?

More specifically, is it feasible for a Canadian operating startup to open a US entity and employ Canadian engineers under the TN Visa category? This would be an early stage non-VC backed company, but profitable and paying above prevailing market wage.

CaveTech··on Show HN: Hydra (YC W22) – Serverless Analytics on Postgres
Current user of Timescale for events processing, with heavy use of materialized views for rolling aggregates.

Is this a use case that you think Hydra would be competetive on?

CaveTech··on Dbt Labs acquires SDF Labs
It compiles to SQL, so in since sense yes it is schema dependent. As mentioned in the article DBT itself has no understanding of semantics, so it’s not enforced by DBT directly but if it doesn’t compile to working SQL expressions it’s obviously not going to work.
CaveTech··on Dbt Labs acquires SDF Labs
In simplest of terms, it's a templating and orchestration layer for data pipelines which which compiles purely into SQL expressions.
CaveTech··on Design Token-Based UI Architecture
The millions of websites designed without using them. This insight was lost at some point, even if it seems obvious in retrospect.
CaveTech··on Why I'm leaving OpenAI and what I'm doing next
The early grants are worth far more, especially so here.
CaveTech··on Ask HN: Former gifted children with hard lives, how did you turn out?
Yes
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