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cloaky233

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I build (and break) things. Building better code reviews @ plottypus.com github.com/CLoaKY233
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cloaky233··on Ask HN: How do swarms of AI agents work?
If you are going down that path, I would suggest going towards a graph of loops where each agent runs in the loop and knows which job to pass this on to next. Agents interchange messages, and each particular node is a loop in itself. So swarm can work like that, and you can design it to be more parallel, but I would say this is a 10x better method than just leaving 10 different chaotic agents run randomly.
cloaky233··on Google releases a new local-first Granola competitor
Local-first models are not capable enough when we compare them against several different languages. Of course, a lot of times, English only would be very feasible with local models, but when we come to things like punctuation, speaker diarization, and all those kinds of models, then it becomes harder. I think the major challenges are: - overlapping speech - language switching - corrections - on-point corrections in speech - correct speaker labeling - diarization error rate - word error rate These things are important to consider. Although Google released the local-first model or local-first application for this, I believe, strictly, that competitors which have their own proprietary models or even use something like Pyannote nd whisper are certainly far better.
cloaky233··on Progressive Determinization in Software Development
Certainly, making logic deterministic is important, and I think that's where the majority of the things are pending right now. I can technically describe the logic in a prompt, but how properly is it communicated via code or transformed into code? Moving towards determinism, I would say decision models are playing a key role in this right now.
cloaky233··on The Problem with Automatic Fixes
I agree, even finding a critical bug seems hard because, just saying it... all that a review tool gives you is "why didn't you put docstring" or spam you with 10 different P2 P3 issues while P0 issues are quietly sittin there in prod waiting to blow up at 3 am on a saturday night.

I believe if these issues could be found while claude is literally working... as if a real time pair programming reviewer sits there and nudges it to go at a particular direction, then and only then may the solution exist....

I'm actually building that right now.... @plottypus.com

cloaky233··on Can an AI learn what you like, rather than just what you've searched for?
Even I've been trying to figure this issue out, and for me, what works is that whenever I correct something, I kind of turn that into a reinforcement learning step or more of an iterative correction step. I ask it to literally quote what I changed to what, and whenever I edit something myself, I just ask it to go and find out what things were changed, why I changed it, and figure out what I asked. Actually, in this particular thing, these changes are to be incorporated from the next time it generates something.

Over here, it's more like a reinforcement learning loop, and it just keeps getting better and better. At one point, I really do not have to instruct it anymore. It's pretty good at writing it all by itself now.

cloaky233··on Show HN: THX-01 open-source decision model like Jev that runs on smartphone
Problem with decision models -> just supposed to trust it based on evals... even for a particular domain but if i need a bit generalized intelligence, I'd be better off trusting Haiku than Jev... I believe it's turning into a debate between cheaper models and decision intelligence.
cloaky233··on Agents need control flow, not more prompts
It's not that agents don't need more prompts, actually breaking the prompt into a dynamically changing prompt and a static prompt combination does resolve most of the issues. Control flow on the other hand is harnessing + context building, which is one major part of agentic workflows. So I believe a "optimized" combination of both is what we should be looking for.
cloaky233··on Anthropic to limit Using third-party harnesses with Claude subscriptions
Could've allowed us to use Haiku, Anthropic be reducing cc limits the same speed they're launching features.
cloaky233··on Tell HN: Anthropic no longer allowing Claude Code subscriptions to use OpenClaw
People were getting credits worth $15k+ on a 200$ subscription, this had to happen now or later, but my concern stays on them reducing usage in claude code as well!? Like atleast allow us claude code, limits exhaust in minutes nowdays