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harlequinetcie··on Show HN: Valencia, Spain in Sim City/Isometric View
Ohhhh very nice.

We should figure out a good game to play with it. Like adding transport infrastructure or you need to achieve X time reduction in commuting times.

Nice!

harlequinetcie··on Ask HN: In the age of agentic AI, do you still pair program?
Actually, the concept of multiplayer is key, we believe it's going to help with the next wave of productivity gains.

Check https://www.pleasedontdeploy.com/p/the-case-against-ai-works...

harlequinetcie··on Ask HN: Are you building an AI company brain?
Happy to talk through the options, swar.am/memory is how it looks like for the swarm.
harlequinetcie··on Ask HN: Are you building an AI company brain?
Boca XD. Igual no sigo mucho ya.

Tbh, with the swarm, we cover for that particular need. The caveat is that we don't try to be the SOT. At the end of the day, your company knowledge is distributed by design, so you're system needs to account for that. Instead of trying to have everything up to date, you need to remember where to look for the knowledge... even if it means burning a bit more tokens.

harlequinetcie··on Ask HN: Are you building an AI company brain?
Did you look into open source projects covering for these needs? There are many out there.

If so, why didn't you choose any of them?

I can tell you our experience, but I'm prob biased.

Also, boca o river?

harlequinetcie··on Ask HN: Is anyone running multi/always-on agents that don't cost a fortune?
agent-swarm.dev is open source/MIT exactly meant for these scenarios.

Particularly interesting for you, our lasts posts on how we handle to have efficient dreaming focused on reducing costs.

tl;dr: there's a self-driven process generating more effective and efficient prompts, code, and potentially select systemone models to tackle the cost problems.

We have companies using the system that we understand have stayed 'flat' in token consumption but with increasing workloads (ie. more workflows running).

Hope it helps!

harlequinetcie··on Conductor is joining Meta
I think this is the sad part about it.

I wonder what would be the way to protect OSS like this from this kind of end?

It's a great win for the team, but many will be looking into other solutions for a while.

harlequinetcie··on [dead]
The strategy is quite straight forward:

-> Clairic extracts the PR's claims -> Jev tags diff hunks, then judges what requires a review. -> Cheap(er) model to review the hunks.

For us, we've got PR reviews in under 30 seconds, and cost down to a few cents.

Next step, we are thinking on training some small open weight models specialized on our repo.

Thoughts?

harlequinetcie··on Ask HN: How do you decide to cut scope when AI makes it so easy to add?
I think attribution is the difficulty there right?

You could guess, but would that change something?

harlequinetcie··on Ask HN: How do you decide to cut scope when AI makes it so easy to add?
As a dev or as a user?
harlequinetcie··on Ask HN: How do you decide to cut scope when AI makes it so easy to add?
It's true that being agile still works, but the explosion on how much you can do as individual is non-negligible.

If you introduce too many changes at the same time, how can you attribute what works and what not?

That's the other challenge we are seeing, and that gets worse if you have bigger teams.

Centralized intelligence helps, but enforcing the correct coordination... feels like we are missing a new type of role.

harlequinetcie··on [dead]
Opus 5.5 gave us 50% savings, with 2x the speed of Opus 5. DeepSeek Flash v4.1 is now 22x cheaper & 30% faster than Opus 5.5. Same performance.

DeepSeek caveats: + You have an LLM-Agent-UMF architecture. Vanilla pi harness fails. + Coding tasks are lousy. Beyond coding, difficult open-ended reasoning scenarios are the ones at which it performs best for us.

harlequinetcie··on Tesla's new Roadster makes a flying debut, hitting 60 MPH in under a second
Exactly this... Which city will allow for a car they cannot chase with a patrol?

It would have been much better if it was a skateboard, tbh.

harlequinetcie··on Show HN: A fun little app to play with chaos
ohhh watching this game with The Game of Love from Daft Punk pays off.

Fun stuff!

harlequinetcie··on Google models no longer Zero Data Retention on Openrouter
This is the PLAY

Eventually providers that host models with tight restrictions will become popular just because of this. Everyone is collecting data, one way or another one.

What's funny for me? -> Companies are still signing multi-year contracts with big labs so they can send all their data there. -> If I was a big lab, I just need to learn behavior, not necessary even understand the messages, to take my software to the next level.

But who knows, I'm no genius.

harlequinetcie··on Autonomous company builder, a real one I guess
I mean, you built more companies than polsia according to your landing, that's great right?
harlequinetcie··on IT Doesn't Matter [pdf]
How come we forgot about this so quickly?
harlequinetcie··on Open Source Isn't Dead
We need to be more bullish as a community.

So many people discussing things like UBI, however we selfishly create our own little projects all the time.

We need to center our shared efforts, send open source is a step on that.

Nowadays, every closed source solution should be seen as 'you are the product' type of deal.

harlequinetcie··on Hegel, a universal property-based testing protocol and family of PBT libraries
Great project!

This together with bombadil (web version pbt / Hegel / antithesis) for qa is a great advance.

We need more and more solutions like these for Agentic Coding.

harlequinetcie··on Stop Registration Spam with Identity Pre-Verification
Have you considered adding x402?

I wonder if a micropayment would be detriment enough for most, even if it's just 1ct.

harlequinetcie··on France to ditch Windows for Linux to reduce reliance on US tech
I find fascinating how so many people are moving away from Microsoft decades after they should have because of simply the inertia that large organizations have on adoption.

Above all, I'm also surprised on how those same organization are using Anthropic or OpenAI or other close source solutions for their agent harnesses instead of going for Open Source.

Malte just yesterday showed how powerful innovation with small teams can be achieved particularly in EU.

I hope they start looking for those alternatives too for their agentic systems, beyond using pi-mono.

harlequinetcie··on Claude mixes up who said what
Funny enough, we ended up building a CLI to address these kind of things.

I wonder how many here are considering that idea.

If you need determinism, building atomic/deterministic tools that ensure the thing happens.

harlequinetcie··on Claude Managed Agents
I'm a bit at odds with this.

I agree a framework is something that sounds outdated.

I also believe an orchestrator is needed. Something that abstracts you from a specific provider. Like hardware, drivers and operating systems.

Right now, my thoughts are on that line: Who will build that operating system? Who will have it in the cloud?

It needs to be robust to operate for large organizations, open source, and sit on top of any provider.

Right now we are seeing BSD vs GNU/Linux vs DOS kind of battles.

harlequinetcie··on Lichess and Take Take Take Sign Cooperation Agreement
Lichess, you guys rock.

Above all, with everything that's happening in the software engineering world rn, I look at Chess as a place were we've seen it play out in the past decades. And Lichess is a big part of that.

I hope this deal helps two things: (1) Bring more people to Chess, (2) Actually, help Lichess find out a way to reward those working in it as much as they deserve.

Keep on the amazing work,

harlequinetcie··on Google open-sources experimental agent orchestration testbed Scion
We ended up adding workflows with deterministic paths, that can use RAW API calls, CLIs, and agents. I think that was a big differential.

We also added pi-mono, and started using more and more other models for different tasks (Gemini, K2.5, GLM-5, you name it).

I think the problem is that most are building solutions that rely in one provider, instead of focusing self learning capabilities on improving the cost-quality-speed ratio.

For reference: https://github.com/desplega-ai/agent-swarm

harlequinetcie··on Google open-sources experimental agent orchestration testbed Scion
Oh Google, I love you guys, but it seems they alway launch these half baked things without the support they deserve behind it.

ADK was (and is) exceptional, but nobody is actually making noise and pushing for it as they should. It feels like Microsoft .net back in the day.

Let's see how it goes. I'm rooting for y'all

harlequinetcie··on Claude Code's source code has been leaked via a map file in their NPM registry
Whenever someone figures out why it's consuming so many tokens lately, that's the post worth upvoting.
harlequinetcie··on Should QA exist?
Yes
harlequinetcie··on Show HN: AI Roundtable – Let 200 models debate your question
Fun! https://opper.ai/ai-roundtable/questions/599d5f6c-1b1

I'll give sonnet another go.

harlequinetcie··on OpenAI set to discontinue Sora video platform
Are we sure it was in that order?
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