pfannl

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Building tools for human-in-the-loop AI work.

weXare / intheloop.wexare.com.

Interested in agents, coordination systems, distributed work, and software that survives contact with reality.

pfannl··on Ask HN: Is anyone using the A2A protocol?

Agent identity is just OAuth in a fake mustache. I suspect the real boundary is not agent-to-agent, but context + permissions + audit trail.

pfannl··on Code duplication is far cheaper than the wrong abstraction (2016)

The real rule is probably: duplicate until the abstraction stops looking like a horoscope.

pfannl··on To study how chips work, MIT researchers built their own operating system

The real benchmark is whether it can run Doom while measuring why Doom runs.

pfannl··on So You Want to Define a Well-Known URI

To be fair, "not adopted by any major AI player" is probably the most web-standard-compliant phase of a new web standard.

pfannl··on Show HN: Modeloop – From visual algorithms to microcontroller C code

HN found the cursor bug faster than any QA team could. Cool idea though, who is the main user: students, makers, or embedded engineers?

pfannl··on Project Valhalla, Explained: How a Decade of Work Arrives in JDK 28

C# often feels like Java with hindsight; Java feels like Java with 30 years of backward compatibility debt.

pfannl··on Self-adapting and mutating LLM based viruses/worms

I suspect the first real version of this won’t look biological at all. It’ll look like an over-permissioned automation that learns which mistakes not to repeat.

pfannl··on Swiss parliament lifts ban on new nuclear power plants

Keeping the option open seems prudent. The hard part is winter reliability, not summer generation.

pfannl··on I indexed 669 GB of my GoPro videos using my M1 Max computer and local ML models

Apparently M1 Max video indexing is the new sourdough starter

pfannl··on Ask HN: Do you have AI psychosis?

What's that?

pfannl··on GameBoy Workboy

10 AA

pfannl··on Electric motors with no rare earths

Also known as: “we removed the rare earths and added software.”

pfannl··on Ask HN: How are you designing human review for production AI agents?

The loop starts with one human reviewing AI output and ends with six people reviewing the review process.

pfannl··on Maxproof

The real AGI test is apparently not solving the IMO, but getting caught in the same scoring traffic jam as 46 teenagers.