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javierluraschi

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Founder at hal9.com working on cloudish.ai

Previously RStudio, The Linux Foundation, Microsoft Research, and SAP.

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javierluraschi··on Show HN: Benchmark coding agents on deploying apps
Just added a website for the same benchmark, easier read: https://aideploybench.com
javierluraschi··on Show HN: Benchmark coding agents on deploying apps
Hi HN. I built a benchmark for myself that measures not just coding an app, but rather the end-to-end loop: Build, deploy, troubleshoot. Then an independent verifier (currently opus 5.5) checks the live URL and performs basic tests.

The benchmark runs five web apps: (1) static website for say a company page or the like (2) the usual CRUD with auth for say SaaS product (3) an API to be consumed by other services (4) a dashboard with data to mimic internal company dashboards and the like (5) a realtime chat application with support for web sockets.

It currently compares four platforms but can be easily extended to more, feel free to open GitHub issues or send me a PR.

I was specially interested in comparing human intervention (Human Time). As in, how much time is spent for a human to deploy to particular platforms the first time?

The benchmark tracks build/deploy time, tokens, agent cost, security, compliance review of the deployment (secrets handling, least privilege, terms fit, attack surface, etc.). Methodology and reports (including screenshots) are in the repo.

Repo: https://github.com/cloudishai/ai-deploy-bench

Full disclosure: I'm working on Cloudish. Happy to answer questions about the methodology or results.

Edit: Removed table due to formatting issues.

javierluraschi··on Amazon Is Creating the Biggest Pollution Source in the Country
Carbon tax is the only way, you need to pay for picking up the garbage from the road or the air, the cost to clean op pollution and trash needs to be accounted for.
javierluraschi··on Demis Hassabis has a plan to harness AI safely
Model cards won't save us: https://x.com/javierluraschi/status/2077147606791430372?s=20
javierluraschi··on Show HN: Pacman AI – Generated with Claude Fable 5
For context, last year I generated Pacman 2D with Grok and ChatGPT, mediocre result see:

https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7298354...

Puts in perspective how far we've come in just one year.

javierluraschi··on Datacenters in space aren't going to work
Worth sharing Starcloud’s paper in this post:

https://starcloudinc.github.io/wp.pdf

javierluraschi··on Jeff Bezos says AI is in a bubble but society will get 'gigantic' benefits
It will benefit all people but it will disproportionally benefit more rich people.
javierluraschi··on Family of MSFT employee who died warn tech companies not to overwork workers
No you can’t, the system is setup to make you work that hard. Their compensation policy is based on rewarding disproportionally the top performers…

So if you can work 10% more than your peers, you get not 10% bonus but rather 30%-100% more. So it makes business sense to put the extra 10%, until everyone is working at 110% and then again, adding an extra 10% pays off, rinse release, death spiral.

The compensation model is pure evil.

javierluraschi··on Family of MSFT employee who died warn tech companies not to overwork workers
I remember being so stressed on an immigration visa, if you don’t perform well and get fired, you also get deported.
javierluraschi··on Family of MSFT employee who died warn tech companies not to overwork workers
That would be nice, but if you want to immigrate, that’s the current deal.
javierluraschi··on Updates to Consumer Terms and Privacy Policy
https://grok.com
javierluraschi··on Figma spends $300k on AWS daily
Any chance we can get a high-level breakdown of the AWS services they are paying for?
javierluraschi··on What's the fastest way you've built a useful AI agent?
http://hal9.com/docs/blog/vibe-coding-hal9-reply
javierluraschi··on Show HN: I built an AI sales agent that writes and sends cold emails for you
Same and thanks!
javierluraschi··on Show HN: I built an AI sales agent that writes and sends cold emails for you
Scheduled time in your website to troubleshoot and try it out
javierluraschi··on Show HN: I built an AI sales agent that writes and sends cold emails for you
Like the concept! After signing up and defining my criteria clicking “Start Search” returns no results
javierluraschi··on Show HN: HelixDB – Open-source vector-graph database for AI applications (Rust)
What is the max number of dimensions supported for a vector?
javierluraschi··on Ask HN: Is Slack Down?
My bad, thanks!
javierluraschi··on Ask HN: Is Slack Down?
https://slack-status.com/ -- no incidents reported at 3:33PM PST
javierluraschi··on Ask HN: Is Slack Down?
Yes, getting a bunch of retry and messages failing to send.
javierluraschi··on Ask HN: Are you interested in a text only browser that runs JavaScript?
I’m not, but LLMs could use this browser.
javierluraschi··on A startup doesn't need to be a unicorn
From your point of view, when does a startup is no longer a startup? Seed, Series A, B, C, pre-IPO? Can you be a startup after IPO?
javierluraschi··on Bill to block OpenAI's for-profit conversion gets mysteriously gutted
Suppose that we open a non-profit to cure cancer, you and a bunch of others give me billions, I cure cancer, great.

Then plot twist, I turn the non-profit for profit, I avoid releasing the cancer cure I promised and instead I charge you for cure.

If a non-profit promised to cure cancer to help citizens, I would want that at the very-least they remain non-profit.

javierluraschi··on Show HN: AI-Generated Art on eInk
Fixed! Thank you.
javierluraschi··on Show HN: AI-Generated Art on eInk
Fixing right away, thanks for letting us know! -- In the meantime, feel free to watch an unboxing video instead: https://youtu.be/ky5ZTHwZ3Mw
javierluraschi··on Horror on the coast of Oaxaca, a tourist paradise plagued by mass disappearances
It really depends which state you go to. Also, statistically speaking, probably riskier to drive your car compared to visiting Mexico City for vacation; that said, insecurity is bad and needs to be fixed.
javierluraschi··on Not all AI-assisted programming is vibe coding (but vibe coding rocks)
See for instance:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43450044

I’d very much argue that I vibe-coded a lot, but also spent a lot of time reviewing and optimizing permissions, testing and code reviewing it. Very much a practice I would personally encourage our engineering team to adopt.

javierluraschi··on Not all AI-assisted programming is vibe coding (but vibe coding rocks)
I disagree with this statement:

“If an LLM wrote the code for you, and you then reviewed it, tested it thoroughly and made sure you could explain how it works to someone else that’s not vibe coding”

You can have a valid workflow were you vibe-code, and then review it thoroughly, that’s still doing vibe-coding + good software engineering practices, but I still consider it vibe coding.

That said, I recognize that maybe we are just debating definitions.

But I would like to argue that vibe-coding can be a good coding practice on its own when properly integrated with sound software engineering practices

javierluraschi··on Egypt's Giza pyramids: Radar finds underground structures
I would sincerely want to see more post and discussions on HN about this.

Spending 200K man years for a tomb seems like a pretty poor use of resources.

javierluraschi··on AI will take your job. Get over it
More like, AI will take your job and give you a new one.
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