I have had success with having copilot generate the file for me with no issues. I use sonnet 3.5 or 3.7. I start by writing a paragraph describing the project and it does pretty well.
The first thing I do for a new project is ask Copilot to create a custom-instructions.md for me and then as I work on my projects, I ask it to update the instructions every now and then based on the current state of my project.
I like that Grok actually comes up with a ton of links when you ask it a question, but at the same time I think any ambitious LLM platform wouldn't have too much trouble scraping Twitter/X all the same.
I really liked it. I found it to be quite difficult, but somehow managed to solve the problem in 4 tries. At first I didn't quite realize that you can put opposing pieces on the board so I think I wasted one or two turns. In general, love the concept and execution, but seems like it might have a pretty narrow audience of chess enthusiasts.
The distilled versions I've run through Ollama are absolutely censored and don't even populate the <think></think> section for some of those questions.
Hey Simon - In your experience, what's the best "small" model for function/tool calling? Of the ones I've tested they seem to return the function call even when it's not needed, which requires all kinds of meta prompting & templating to weed out. Have you found a model that more or less just gets it right?
This is my intuition as well. DeepSeek and the proliferation of local LLMs have showed us just how much can be done with relatively light hardware. It finally has me wanting to build a rig for local use when before I felt like the technology wasn't quite there for me to do anything too useful with some consumer hardware. This changed over night. I imagine there are many folks like me.
I remember when we were in a recession post 9/11 prices were dropping left and right, but right now prices continue to increase and people seem to be paying them. Can we really say that's a notable decline in economic activity?
I have a similar approach, but the mess can be contained by asking for optimizations and refactors very frequently and only asking for very granular features.
I prefer vscode+copilot. It's much cheaper and has all the functionality I want. There's access to 3.5 sonnet, and it can edit/create up to 10 files at a time.
Post-scarcity world means that a large chunk of society has this kind of freedom, so there wouldn't be the same kind of isolation that goes along with currently being one of the few rich people.
Lots of doomers on here, yet somehow I keep meeting highly technical people still working on interesting things that are in their 40s, 50s, 60s, and older. I think HN probably skews really young and tech tends to fetishize youth, so this is the mentality you get.