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by benswerd 29d ago
What is the hardest part of building this for you?
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by benswerd 29d ago
What made you choose digital ocean?
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by benswerd 2mo ago
Its not a zero day. I found this while zero day hunting. It is a surprise and I cannot reveal what it is 4 the sake of the memes.
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Show HN: git clone https://git.swerdlow.dev(git.swerdlow.dev)
3 points by benswerd 2mo ago|4 comments
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by benswerd 2mo ago
I’m confused what you mean, I post on either subdomains of my own website for personal projects or blogs on my company website freestyle.sh. My twitter is @benswerd. What are you saying?
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by benswerd 2mo ago
I'll say this: as a very competent engineer I have gone weeks at a time without handwriting a single line of code in the past few months. It is where the industry is going.
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by benswerd 2mo ago
With respect to CSS expertise, I don't need/want perfect CSS at my company, I want styling that is clear and workable. Tailwind and ShadCN gets me there, my most backend-y backend engineer gets tailwind. The job of CSS on my team
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by benswerd 2mo ago
i agree, very pro that
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by benswerd 2mo ago
I'm a big believer in guides. ShadCN provides great starting points for continued engineering as do other ShadCN libraries. For companies with the resources to, they do just start with BaseUI. In the long run I think most UI will be Ba
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by benswerd 2mo ago
Just did this, found result fairly interesting, I reject most of its objections on the basis of bad code. When I say Im pro explicitness I'm also pro comment, and pro separating the "this is core fact" and "this is confi
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by benswerd 2mo ago
This is a fair point. Im not opposed to the open function existing, but I do think its valuable to own the underlying implementation of thigns like it (maybe not open) in your codebase so you can review the implementation and reconfigure it
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by benswerd 2mo ago
One strategy I like for this is a notes field on every single MCP route. Lets the AI optionally just decide to tell you things.
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by benswerd 2mo ago
I think this is a misinterpretation. BaseUI provides baseline semantics that because the code is in your codebase you can choose to keep or remove. BaseUI is also actively unstyled/unopinionated, you use it to compose your own compon
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by benswerd 2mo ago
gonna use it on my websites homepage
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by benswerd 2mo ago
im not opposed to good defaults, i just believe they should be explicit. The AI should read the starting.md to fill in explicitly what its JVM configuration is. Then, when you want to tune in the future its clear what options are available
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by benswerd 2mo ago
Conservatively speaking, LLMs degrade past 40% of a 2M context window, 4k tokens is 0.2%, so no degradation there. Thats also current generation conservative estimate. I think wasteful is an irrelevant metric. Claude ingests those tokens in
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by benswerd 2mo ago
Think MUI, heroUI, traditional components have you install their package, import the component and configure it through arguments. ShadCN components have you copy the component code into your codebase, you own it. They come with the ability
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by benswerd 2mo ago
Why not? The docs for git clone at https://git-scm.com/docs/git-clone are less than 4000 tokens, I don't think this is unreasonable.
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by benswerd 2mo ago
MCP Auth is just Oauth, its designed for humans to authenticate their sessions for connections. TBH I know nothing about A2A. Agent Identity and Authz is a different problem, allowing agents to operate independently from humans with granula
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by benswerd 2mo ago
Generally, when using these components I ended up wanting to customize a lot. I switched around the options, coloring, the words in the loading, I mix and matched the components from different CLIs, etc. I think these are more useful as bas
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Brainless: Shadcn components that look like Claude Code, Codex and Grok(brainless.swerdlow.dev)
128 points by benswerd 2mo ago|26 comments
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by benswerd 2mo ago
Without using agnost, what are some basic SQL queries I can run on my data to find outliers I'd otherwise be missing? How far can I get with just keywords, common phrases, boring traditional analysis? Depending on what I measure there,
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AI Links: Index of deep links into popular agents(ailinks.swerdlow.dev)
3 points by benswerd 2mo ago|1 comments
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Designing APIs for Agents(freestyle.sh)
79 points by benswerd 2mo ago|48 comments
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Builders Fallacy(davidgu.com)
3 points by benswerd 4mo ago|1 comments
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by benswerd 4mo ago
Been feeling this more recently, building got 10x easier but choose what to build kinda got harder.
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How much do sandboxes cost?(sandboxprices.swerdlow.dev)
3 points by benswerd 5mo ago|1 comments
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by benswerd 5mo ago
a pricing calculator showing the prices of different sandboxes with dials to compare them in practice.
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by benswerd 5mo ago
Live migrations and the tech powering it was the hardest thing I ever built. Its something that I think will come naturally to projects like smolVM as more of the hypervisors build it in, but its a deeply challenging task to do in userspace
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X for AI Agents(twitter.com)
4 points by benswerd 5mo ago|0 comments

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