alexhans

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by alexhans 9d ago
Since I install them with symlinks in the tools "global" locations I get access to them across projects. Think ~/.codex/skills/<symlink-to-myskill-a/ Same for ~/.Claude or any other tool that supports s
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by alexhans 9d ago
When I say evals I mean the evals you write that verify that your use cases are upheld. Think of it like a regression test for different behaviours/user stories. The idea would be that if you already know what you want from an auto
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by alexhans 10d ago
- I don't find skills, I create them - Keep them organised in software repos that you install with symlinks for all coding harnesses that you have. Progressive disclosure based on the frontmatter does the rest. - I make sure they work
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by alexhans 1mo ago
You can also use PI with local models like Qwen3.5-35B-A3B [1] and they can be surprisingly good if you development in minimalistic/simple ways. One game changer when it comes to tweaking configs that are optimized for your use case is
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by alexhans 2mo ago
Skills represent a pattern many of us converged to before it was named as such (very useful for comms): Progressive disclosure, determistic scripts bundled (not just markdowns). See past comment: https://news.ycombinator.com&#x2F
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by alexhans 2mo ago
I could but I'd probably miss the angle that is helpful to you. Do you want to instead share what your pain points are, what are you trying to delegate to AI and what you aren't? Based on that I can expand my answer better with a
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by alexhans 2mo ago
I'm a broken record but with: - evals - limiting AIs to tool calling, bounded planning, interpreting/producing natural language. - bounding non determinism - investing in small tools/security (If something shouldn't happ
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by alexhans 2mo ago
If you actually are interested in understanding what I said, you can look at these links: - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear,_uncertainty,_and_doubt - https://www.theregister.com/software/2001&#x
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by alexhans 2mo ago
Every Linux user or FOSS enthusiast knows the acronym FUD: Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt, which were a set of techniques commonly used to disparage efforts of open source communities. Linux was evil and anticapitalist and we needed to use &q
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by alexhans 2mo ago
Many of us were saying it a year ago but now with model restrictions (e.g. fable) and pricing changes it should be obvious to people that part of the economics is avoiding vendor lock-in with evals (so you can easily switch providers/m
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by alexhans 2mo ago
Got it. Different audience. Cool stuff. I'll take a better look as soon as I can.
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by alexhans 2mo ago
I've helped people get into programming face to face and also in a site I liked called exercism which also had a multi language track unit test passing style which I really value and it was purely command line, and I can't stress
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by alexhans 2mo ago
Having a thin python/ts orchestrator and workers that pick up tasks from the directories like events and decide whether to make deterministic calls and wait is pretty standard albeit custom way of doing things in this space where you&#
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by alexhans 2mo ago
I can understand someone being overwhelmed and not wanting to configure and "build your own pi" which is really one of the beautiful points of pi, but like with vim, I do recommend that after playing with this for a while you go b
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by alexhans 2mo ago
> What's the consensus today on codex vs claude code, does it really matter anymore? Consensus is probably the wrong word for the popular opinions reflected in HN that you might get. I would recommend that you have 2 of each at all
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by alexhans 3mo ago
Touch typing essentially. It's such a comfortable way to work. Remapping mode switching to something like jk instead of Esc is vital to stay comfortably in the home row. I always liked this site to grok some of those vim fundamentals
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by alexhans 3mo ago
Fun, responsive and intuitive. Congrats.
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by alexhans 3mo ago
I guess it depends on what your exact hypothesis is Vs mine. For at least 6 years we've had AC worthy temps.
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by alexhans 3mo ago
The way eval startup is defined here is very specific and doesn't cover successful eval farmwork/SaaS vendors like Arize, Promptfoo, deepeval, etc The author does have a point around generic benchmarks not being super valuable for
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by alexhans 3mo ago
I'd argue that these temperatures are not a new thing. It's just a contradiction that is almost a tradition at this point, imho.
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by alexhans 3mo ago
Living in London and Dublin, what I've observed is that we get the following contradictory statements: - "We don't need AC, It's only hot a few times during the year." - "Oh what a terrible heat, global warming
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by alexhans 3mo ago
Exactly. I'm very happy the discourse has moved on from "but X model is the best" to "you can use open models". Whether you're using SDK or harness based agents, having evals means you're able to modify an
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by alexhans 3mo ago
It's always satisfying when customer rights stories have a known positive outcome. The timeline is unfortunately quite slow and bureocractic but I'm glad OP managed to find out about it.
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by alexhans 3mo ago
I think the criticism is constructive. It's really not about hating. I'd wager many of the people who convey this criticism do use AI to aid their writing as well. It's just that this one in particular lacks one more edit pa
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by alexhans 3mo ago
Agreed. The post looks great. The story is great but the AI style in this case does distract. I'm not against using AI for writing at all but you want to be careful that the output doesn't contain too much of this noise over signa
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by alexhans 3mo ago
I think it's important to be able to do both so you can stay in control of the price to value created relationship. In last year, some people were publishing aider /ollama/open router [1] and now thankfully people are publish
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by alexhans 3mo ago
The Foil Arms & Hog 12 year old skit [1] is still relevant. - [1] https://youtu.be/Id-zzOGnN6A (Website part at 1:42 calling out the insurance example).
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by alexhans 3mo ago
I was a fan of Seven Languages in Seven Weeks [1] because it exposed you to different paradigms which you could then try to apply where they made sense on whatever tools you were using or building: prototype based, fault tolerante, funciona
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by alexhans 4mo ago
Congrats. This seems like a great prompt to ensure a useful default experience. People should not confuse this with "anti cheating" and instead helping people learn how to learn. Do you have further insights on AI and education si
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by alexhans 4mo ago
A good tip for side projects is to build stuff that is actually useful to you and to make them ZeroOps (no maintenance required). If you find yourself waiting to add a feature and it's not easy to change (ETC) [1] then it's a goo

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