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vinibrito

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Web developer and indie hacker, feel free to email me, vini.britox@gmail.com
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vinibrito··on IBM CEO says open weight models are now good and cheap on-prem
What did you move into next?
vinibrito··on Show HN: Lessons learned from running Claude Code swarms at scale
Nice to see we all building similar things, each in our own ways, which makes them somewhat different.

That's my way to say I too built an orchestrator like this and reached into a similar flow. Personal use only but now I'm considering publishing it somehow.

vinibrito··on Chinese pigs fed new menu as Beijing weans farmers off US soy
Pretty interesting movement to be honest, but having more soybean internally would probably be better for them, silage is not a miracle, protein still has to come from somewhere, can't ferment whatever and expect it to fill soy's void.

Apart of the operational challenges mentioned in the article, of course, making it happen isn't trivial, it has costs as well.

vinibrito··on Pi – A minimal terminal coding harness
No need to push to normal repo, just publish your fork, I'd like to see it
vinibrito··on Show HN: 150M AI-Generated Q&A Pages Static
So, what were the costs?

Including to serve.

vinibrito··on Proton spam and the AI consent problem
For big corps yes.

For everyone else, chains.

vinibrito··on Ask HN: Have your views about AI / LLMs changed? What triggered it?
Yeah, mine did, when chatgpt 3.5 came out I thought it was a fun incoherent toy and dedicated all of 10 minutes to it.

Last year I started using it as a copilot and in the second semester I started building AI/LLM based sales and marketing systems that now are most of my income.

I'm becoming one of those "and this is just the beggining for AI" enthusiasts :P

vinibrito··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026)
Ooh this sounds good, I feel the same problem but never imagined a solution, having a group chat sounds good, any chance this can be integrated in something like Antigravity?
vinibrito··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (January 2026)
SEEKING WORK

Remote: Yes

Location: Brazil

Willing to relocate: No (Remote only)

Technologies: Custom AI systems from scratch, SvelteKit, Azure functions, Netlify functions, AWS Lambda, Node, Docker, Appwrite, Caddy, HTML, CSS, JS.

Generalist web developer.

Email: vini.britox@gmail.com

vinibrito··on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (January 2026)
SEEKING WORK

Remote: Yes

Location: Jobs worldwide, I'm from Brazil

"Time to kick off that new priority in your company!"

Web developer, mainly frontend and application logic, with basic infra and backend skills to get my work online.

Examples:

AI systems from scratch (no Langchain and similar), Interactive app screens, PDF generators, payment processing, maps and routes, VoIP, browser extensions, SFTP server client and more.

Stack: SvelteKit, Microsoft Azure functions, Netlify functions, AWS Lambda functions, Node, Docker, Appwrite as a full backend (Supabase alternative), Caddy as a front door (Nginx alternative).

Reach out to me vini.britox@gmail.com or just reply here.

vinibrito··on Tell HN: I am afraid AI will take my job at some point
There will always be someone whose job is to program computers to do things.

That's us, developers. That will never change. We're the ones dedicated to it.

Execs, managers, HR, salesmen, designers etc won't suddenly want to spend their whole days, not even half of their time, tinkering with a computer so it can do what they want.

Else Basic and Fortran would have made everyone software developers.

Do you feel calmer now? (:

vinibrito··on Show HN: Enabling Agentic Commerce Protocol (ACP) for Shopify Stores
What kind of niche and technical products?
vinibrito··on Influential study on glyphosate safety retracted 25 years after publication
Salt for cattle.

Lasts for a few months.

vinibrito··on Ilya Sutskever: We're moving from the age of scaling to the age of research
It's not a zero sum game. Think, an agronomist visits a farm, instructs to cut a certain plant for the animals to eat at a certain height instead of whenever, the plant then provides more food for the animals to eat exclusively due to that, no other input in the system, now the animals are cheaper to feed, so more profit to the farmer and cheaper food to people.

How would this be zero sum?

vinibrito··on Agent design is still hard
For JSON I agree, now I can just mention JSON and provide examples and the response always comes in the right format, but for tool calling and information retrieval I have never seen a system actually work, nor in my tests have these worked.

Now, I'm open to the idea that I am just using it wrong, but I have seen several reports around the web that the most that people got in tool calling accuracy is 80%, which is unusable for any production system, also for info retrieval I have seen it lose coherence the more data is available overall.

Is there a model that actually achieved 100% tool calling accuracy?

So far I built systems for that myself, surrounding the LLM, and only like this it worked well in production.

vinibrito··on Selection and transmission of gut microbiome alone can shift mammalian behavior
There is an experiment in cows in which they swapped the cow's rumen contents, which is a big gut with way more microorganisms than the regular gut, and their microbiomes reverted back to their original profiles, which is different to these findings in mice here.
vinibrito··on The first-ever protocol for websites and AI browsers to cooperate
If I want AI to recommend my service or product I would gladly serve some JSON it can swallow.

No need for new protocol or anything like it, just a convention, as you mentioned, similar to robot.txt.

Perhaps aidata.json.

vinibrito··on Tim Berners-Lee on Apple's Browser Engine Ban and Web Apps
Fully agree. I personally had clients backing off from entire projects due to not being able to ship some native like experience on iOS, only Android, for example the prompt to install as a progressive web app.

I'm tired of losing sales due to that. And clients needing to increase their costs massively due to that.

vinibrito··on F-Droid and Google’s developer registration decree
I was waiting for fdroid's voice about this. Google's move is as bad as I initially thought. This makes me a bit sad honestly, android development is getting worse every year. I wonder if the same will happen to web as well.
vinibrito··on React is winning by default and slowing innovation
I just say "use svelte 5 stuff only" and I get only the new things.
vinibrito··on K2 Think
I liked it, gave me business responses similar to chatgpt, now is it as resource intensive to run as Gemma27b?
vinibrito··on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (September 2025)
SEEKING WORK

Remote: Yes

Location: Jobs worldwide, I'm from Brazil

"Time to kick off that new priority in your company!"

Generalist web developer, mainly frontend and application logic, with basic infra and backend skills to get my work online.

Examples:

Interactive app screens, PDF generators, payment processing, maps and routes, VoIP, browser extensions, SFTP server client, AI systems and more.

Stack: SvelteKit, Microsoft Azure functions, Netlify functions, AWS Lambda functions, Node, Docker, Appwrite as a full backend (Supabase alternative), Caddy as a front door (Nginx alternative), HTML/CSS/JS.

Reach out to me vini.britox@gmail.com or just reply here.

vinibrito··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2025)
SEEKING WORK

Remote: Yes

Location: Brazil

Willing to relocate: No (Remote only)

Technologies: SvelteKit, Azure functions, Netlify functions, AWS Lambda, Node, Docker, Appwrite, Caddy, HTML, CSS, JS. Generalist web developer.

Email: vini.britox@gmail.com

vinibrito··on Launch HN: VibeFlow (YC S25) – Web app generator with visual, editable workflows
Well I am/was building something that looks a lot like this, a shame I never applied to YC, wondering now if I should apply to other funds now so I can continue working on it, the prototype is ready so I have the main part figured out. A question, perhaps, could you give some tips to pitch this specifically, just for incubators, based on your experience?
vinibrito··on In-App Browsers: The worst erosion of user choice you haven't heard of (2024)
With all the recent duopoly increases in native app distribution and installation, the web indeed seems to be the last "safe haven" for the masses. Hopefully it stays that way.
vinibrito··on Google Keeps Making Smartphones Worse
There is purism with their librem phones, I wonder why the author didn't mention them in the end of the article.
vinibrito··on How I build software quickly
Well, most of the times people I worked with preferred something earlier even if just by a few days that they could see and comment on. Maybe that is why for him too.
vinibrito··on Ask HN: How do you get first 10 customers?
"have much of a network." There is your answer, basically walking up to them and talking to them.
vinibrito··on Ask HN: What types of posts do you most enjoy on Hacker News?
Innovative web stuff and things that share actual mastery, actual experience. The kind of stuff we only know after struggling against a challenge for long enough.
vinibrito··on When Building with LLM's, Add Autonomy Last
I built an advanced whatsapp chatbot this month and arrived at the same conclusion, though I already started with the autonomy last approach.
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