fractorial

Sounds like a perfect fit for a minimal or bespoke harness?

How is this on the front page with 3 points and no comments?!

Also, what is this?

In my harness, I implemented tool_edit as a subset of Rob Pike’s Sam editor syntax [0].

Only need ~650 tokens of system prompt for it to work. It’s pretty stellar.

[0] https://9p.io/sys/doc/sam/sam.html

Anyone else feel as if HN is healing? I hope this isn't the walking-ghost era of HN.

I rarely click on things like this, but this was brilliant; I enjoyed it. Thanks for sharing.

I’d be curious what performance / behavior changes you’d observe with two changes:

- planner nodes and topo deepest for rescheduling, no inflight modifications. (repair protocol = redispatch root planner for rare cases where required; ~9% of the time for me)

- no review nodes; strongly enforced on orchestrator to always do adversarial reviews post-codegen and fix out of band

I found that putting myself in the graph is critical to ongoing fidelity, even if subpar to if I had written it all myself.

I rolled my own simple execution DAG program.

It’s shockingly effective due to rooting sub-DAGs into Planner nodes which are the only mutators of the DAG. The deepest topological leaf nodes become the blockers to the next Planner node.

The only other special node is a Human node; structurally impossible for agents to close (I rolled my own harness) and block on my attention.

I still use Opus 4.6 (with later models for subagents only sometimes), but I have been preparing for it to go away.

Not "local" in the literal sense, but I set it up to serve at half quant for $23/hr and full quant for $35/hr.

You don't need to have it always on? This is a far cry from "$200/month," but I do not think it's $50k for "useful." Do you see it differently?

I’ve been falling back to Opus 4.6 since 4.7 and 4.8. I recently found success in using Opus 4.6 for cheap orchestration and reasoning while Opus 4.8 High/Max agents do the work.

I made serious progress towards repairing a proof for a conjecture that was published 10 days ago but kept running into a wall with one of the Lemmas.

I threw Fable 5 Max at it with the same subagent set up and in an hour it claimed to have disproved a core theorem of the paper.

The Lean construction looks correct, but I still need to verify it rigorously. This is certainly not something Opus 4.6 Max could do and it’s likely something Opus 4.8 Max could do with more delicate orchestration and time. However, the “one-shot” Fable 5 did give me pause.

I would love to know how many countless others on HN, like me, find themselves reading about a very they have built and have been using for months talked about like it’s a revolutionary new idea.

I rolled the same thing in Go months ago as I am sure at least another 1000 people have in their own way.

> Schmidt, who served in various capacities as CEO, Chairman, and technical advisor to Google and its parent company Alphabet across several decades, ...

It is gratuitous to say “several,” no?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Schmidt

I’ll admit it swings back and forth on a six month cycle or so; however, cost-to-output matters.

Also, for niche use-cases there are clear winners.

You’re absolutely kidding yourself if you genuinely believe that.

Why content like this doesn’t supersede the AI content, I will never know. Thanks for sharing :)

Precisely; Go is by no means perfect, but if you want to throw away its security efforts, by all means use goblin.run

I’ll take vibe shooting myself in the foot over lying to myself any day.

I cannot fathom why anyone would want this.

SPY is an ETF and SPX is an index. The distinction is material.

/ES does not trade between 5pm and 6pm ET. SPX options aren't marked until 8:15 PM ET.

It's more plausible that large caps see MWF, then MTWHF possibly.

It would appear that person and OP are one in the same.

Cool utility! I would be remiss if I didn’t mention synctest [1] which is quite excellent for not only async time testing but also catching subtle concurrency bugs.

[1] https://go.dev/blog/synctest

Did anyone else click in excitedly after misreading ‘Vllm’ as ‘LLVM?’

FWIW I just import a canned CSS theme (Terminal CSS), MathJax, and the roll the rest in raw HTML;

it’s simple and maintainable.

FWIW, I also started writing code when I was 11 years old as well & I did so on Roblox.

Eventually, I branched out into hosting a webserver in PHP & writing small demos in Unity (though I would recommend Unreal nowadays).

I didn’t realize how many uncommon it was to just track all of this information manually in a spreadsheet.