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You're appreciated

My job is easier than ever. Im never tired or completely drained when i get off work.

I used to grind so hard, but now it's so chill. I don't mind this change.

The main thing i dislike is how much my profession has been devalued. Code is worth so little now. It's sad.

Using AI and wanting low carbon energy are not mutually exclusive.

It sucks that many providers are not able to be carbon neutral, but this should be solved by electricity providers. Not consumers.

I really want to use DuckDB. But I have struggled to find a use case in my company.

What are you guys using it for?

idunno. Nothing is ever gonna replace america.

America's cultured is ingrained in everyone. You have 2-3 more runs of trumpian presidents before it's gg

programming languages may just be a really good abstraction level to describe what you want.

codex is also open source, though im not so sure about the reputation aspect.

The same can be said about opencode though.

This is once again RLHF loops.

the AI labs are and have been 100% focused on correctness because it is easy to setup and validate.

Adding one more function that almost does the same thing as another will not break anything.

I think this is just a matter of time. At some point there'll be less value to squeeze out of correctness and then the AI labs will start focusing on maintainability. It's probably a lot harder to set up environment to Train for this behavior though.

Except horizontal scaling.

But a lot of companies are trying to solve that, notably multigres, neki and even pgdog.

Openrouter is super well positioned in the market.

I've always believed in staying model agnostic and being able to jump around providers as their intelligence, cost per intelligence and/or latency issues arise.

Openrouter will win as long as there is competition in the market

Maybe after double digit million death count.

Or just a rogue country that's being hit by the crisis more than others

Definitely not touching this until it's open source

Zulip is bad

Super happy to see someone take on slack. We just want a performant chat with simple features.

Slack integrations are overrated. Just give me webhooks.

Would love to see benchmarks on cognition's FrontierCode

I cannot believe they're sticking to their guns on this website design. It's awful.

Linear is probably starting to hit enshittification territory. The feature bload is immense and they are trying extremely hard to not be left behind on the AI wave.

My own experience is far from this. Steering the AI, early and while developing a change, matters sigificantly.

Therefore a maintainer is more likely to steer the AI in a direction that is aligned with the codebase.

The enshittification has begun. Time to move on!

Just improve what you have GitHub. Stop the AI bloatware. You will lose that race anyway, obviously.

I've been super happy with my Framework desktop. And since getting that I've been craving replacing my MacBook... This looks super attractive

Why are we treating LLM evaluation like a vibe check rather than an engineering problem?

Most "Model X > Model Y" takes on HN these days (and everywhere) seem based on an hour of unscientific manual prompting. Are we actually running rigorous, version-controlled evals, or just making architectural decisions based on whether a model nailed a regex on the first try this morning?

For me, GitHub CLI is the prime example of this. This CLI is so incredibly powerful when combined with regular command line tools. Agents know how to use head, tail, jq and so on to only extract the parts it needs.

The best selling point of CLIs is the ability to chain, transform and combine. MCP cannot do this.

They have a very nice comparison in terms of performance and price https://planetscale.com/benchmarks/aurora

I agree. If you strictly follow the syntax of "Example 1" in JavaScript (calling and awaiting on the same line), the observable output is identical to Python.

I suppose the author meant to say that if you first called your async function and then later did `await` you would have different behavior.

Totally. It's a very boring part of this that one would have to contend with.

I kinda feel the same way about Facebook. Groups, events, marketplace are amazing for community building. But it's just so hard to compete with Meta.

Safe can mean a lot of things to different people i guess. I would love to incorporate some sort of reputation signal.

Perhaps positive reinforcement after people have met? Or just having social links?

But yeah, i dont have it all figured out yet

I think something like the matrix protocol would be better. I would be especially interested in not storing unencrypted user messages. Matrix would be a good choice for this.

I've been thinking a lot about building an open source dating app as a non-profit offering.

I have a sense that succesful dating contributes highly to overall human happiness. It should be a public service similar to wikipedia or libraries.

Free forever, fair and safe, and responsibly managed. It's probably not that expensive to run. But idunno, i'm kinda frightened to "compete" in this market

>While I respect anyone’s decision to spend their days playing pickleball, that life isn’t quite for me—at least not full time. I’m lucky to wake up every day energized to go to work

Bit of an unfair comparison though.. Most people dont retire from a job where you're literally handing people money.

That said, I'm a huge fan Bill's work post-microsoft :)