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Rebuilding isitchristmas.com with Claude's dynamic workflows (and 484 agents)(benjaminste.in)
1 points by benstein 4mo ago|1 comments
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by benstein 4mo ago
I rebuilt isitchristmas.com using 484 subagents and 16 million tokens to learn how Claude's dynamic workflows work. Oh, and today is not Christmas.
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Just One More Prompt(benjaminste.in)
1 points by benstein 5mo ago|0 comments
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AI Removed All the Tedium at Work. So Why Am I So Exhausted?(benjaminste.in)
7 points by benstein 5mo ago|1 comments
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by benstein 10mo ago
I really appreciate how much thought you gave this. Interesting to me that biggest tells came out of the attempts at humor and metaphor.
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by benstein 10mo ago
The title was intentionally ironic :-)
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Nine Claude Code Subagents Wrote This Blog Post – Can You Tell?(benjaminste.in)
1 points by benstein 10mo ago|3 comments
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We Let Our AI Deploy Itself to Production(teammates.work)
2 points by benstein 11mo ago|0 comments
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by benstein 1y ago
LOL fork
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by benstein 1y ago
+1000. "Human coders are still better than LLMs" is a hot take. "Antirez is still better than LLMs" is axiomatic ;-)
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by benstein 2y ago
I made my own webmail client in 2001. The killer feature was a Heart button that one-click opened a new mail addressed to my then-girlfriend-now-wife. I've never seen that feature replicated then or now. And since it was hard-coded to
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by benstein 2y ago
"Special Olympics T-Ball Stand Pitches Perfect Game" is the greatest headline ever written
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by benstein 3y ago
The different prompting strategies needed to improve results for different models is fascinating. I usually tell ChatGPT the role it should play to get better results e.g. "You are an expert in distributed systems". The same appro
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by benstein 3y ago
I wrote the article and I think it's funny
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by benstein 3y ago
Why hate on that game? It had both great puzzles (challenging yet approachable) AND was pushing the envelope of CD-ROM as a new technology, specifically the use of video + celebrities.
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by benstein 3y ago
It's a good point, but the challenge is we sometimes just get street1 from a utility without city/state/postal. We tried USPS and geocoding libraries, but they fail because they often pick a random-ish city which likely will
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I replaced 50 lines of code with a single LLM prompt(haihai.ai)
26 points by benstein 3y ago|41 comments
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by benstein 3y ago
Using an LLM to solve day-to-day programming problems, replacing more traditional algorithms, data structures, and heuristics
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Twitter whistleblower won hacker acclaim for exposing software flaws(washingtonpost.com)
3 points by benstein 4y ago|0 comments
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How much money has Google made from me?
4 points by benstein 9y ago|2 comments
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Declarative APIs: tell Twilio what to do(twilio.com)
1 points by benstein 9y ago|0 comments
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by benstein 10y ago
Cliche, but I've found this to be an amazing interview question for nontechnical positions. You learn quickly how much someone can hand wave and bullshit. If they are too cocky and can't say "I don't know", that&#x2
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by benstein 11y ago
TL;DR buy all your vanity domains early. Just a prank. Move along.
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ES6 – The Bits You’ll Actually Use(jamesknelson.com)
2 points by benstein 11y ago|0 comments
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Goodbye Mr Burns, Smithers, Flanders, Rev Lovejoy, Kent Brockman, Lenny, Skinner(money.cnn.com)
2 points by benstein 11y ago|2 comments
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by benstein 11y ago
Bank of America has had 2-part login screens forever. IIRC they are going in the opposite direction and will be putting them together in a single page very shortly.
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House Science Committee Guts NASA Earth Sciences Budget(arstechnica.com)
3 points by benstein 11y ago|0 comments
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Open Supporter API Achieves Version 1 Status(opensupporter.org)
1 points by benstein 11y ago|0 comments
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by benstein 11y ago
in a bar
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by benstein 11y ago
My favorite BBG anecdote was when I was on the hiring side. I rated a candidate "hire at top priority" but he was rejected by another manager. When I asked why, the manager told me it was because the candidate wrote "xml&quot

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