chickensong

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by chickensong 6d ago
I've experimented quite a bit with giving agents python vs sed + awk. They make mistakes with both, a lot. The only thing that has stood out is that agents reach for python too quickly if it's available, and that awk causes the le
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by chickensong 6d ago
A lot of what a custom harness does isn't necessarily interacting with a model, it's the framework around it. Part of harness engineering is figuring out what can be done deterministically to avoid calling an LLM. A generational
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by chickensong 10d ago
There is one thing that upsets many people though... if err != nil { return nil, err }
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by chickensong 10d ago
We're not going to suddenly have new robots or operating systems. Those things take time. Just because there's massive change afoot, doesn't mean it's widely adopted or applied at lower-level products. ChatGPT is a pro
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by chickensong 10d ago
If you can express something deterministically with code, it's better to do that rather than have an agent do it, because it's faster, cheaper, and deterministic. E.g. you regularly copy file A to file B. You can ask the agent to
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by chickensong 11d ago
Thank you!
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by chickensong 13d ago
Check out IPLD (the model that powers IPFS), which translates hash-linked DAGs and handles merkle DAGs (git) natively. There's been several attempts to build Xanadu'ish things on various types of networks, web2, web3, p2p, etc, bu
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by chickensong 1mo ago
You've missed the point. I enjoy cocktails, and I even think the linked page here is nice, both in cocktail selection and page design, but I don't think it particularly belongs on HN. Here's an example recipe page that does f
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by chickensong 1mo ago
I feel the same, but it's an unavoidable cycle IMHO. Any subculture that becomes popular gets diluted by more average people, and the content becomes more basic and banal. You can flag and downvote, but eventually there are enough peop
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by chickensong 1mo ago
777-FILM "Hello, and welcome to Moviefone!"
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by chickensong 1mo ago
In Northern California the number corresponded to POP-CORN, so if you wanted to know the time you called popcorn, and got a lovely lady's voice: "At the tone, the time will be...". The POP prefix was a shortcut to the phone c
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by chickensong 1mo ago
I like to use a handful of stable shell scripts as the entry points, this way you can change the tooling under the hood without having to update related callers. E.g. you can break up with make or mise or whatever, but you don't need t
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by chickensong 2mo ago
I know I read HN for the world news and recipes...
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by chickensong 2mo ago
It's not illegal if it's through a licensed channel.
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by chickensong 2mo ago
On its own, yes, but not in context. I think one of the problems with Claude's stock output is it assumes the reader has a firm grip on the context of the output, which is often untrue. Stock output is exhausting to read because you ha
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by chickensong 2mo ago
I don't like the memories, but I value them. I do a regular sweep of the memories, extract to harness or docs, then delete them.
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by chickensong 2mo ago
People make fun of the language, rightfully so in some cases, but also it's often quite effective language. "load-bearing seam" communicates quite a lot in very few characters.
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by chickensong 2mo ago
> Sorting requires a model of how your org actually behaves: trust relationships, hallway knowledge, the consequences of past decisions. Almost none of this is written down. This is a long-standing problem related to operational excellen
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by chickensong 2mo ago
This is peak old man yells at cloud. There's so much good radio to be had since the arrival of the internet. Not even talking about online-only, but actual radio stations who also stream. Maybe there's less cool broadcast stations
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by chickensong 2mo ago
There are a lot of Muggles in the world.
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by chickensong 2mo ago
> Windows 3.1? It was only 6 3.5” disks. Well ackchyually... Windows 3.1 was just a window manager, you needed another 3 disks for DOS, and if you wanted that sweet networking support, you'd need Windows for Workgroups 3.11 which wa
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by chickensong 2mo ago
It is indeed funny/sad to see the rancor created by our own inputs. You can't escape the AI police on HN right now. There will always be someone leaving a shallow complaint or accusation about the look or language, regardless of r
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by chickensong 2mo ago
A portion of the leading edge is already talking to their computers. First it was wiring up Wispr to your agent, now you can just enable voice mode in Claude. That paradigm shift just hasn't reached the mainstream yet. Most people can
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by chickensong 2mo ago
I enjoy some battlestation pics, but this feels like an oddly uniform collection that makes me feel like I'm looking at a stock art catalog. I'm not sure if it's a narrow demographic being interviewed, the photos themselves,
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by chickensong 2mo ago
> But Anthropic is a leading company that makes cutting-edge AI which will kill people. It’s literally a matter of life and death and at this point But Stihl makes cutting-edge chainsaws which will kill people. It’s literally a matter of
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by chickensong 2mo ago
HURF DURF
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by chickensong 2mo ago
> Does the LLM become another interface to computing? It already is.
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by chickensong 2mo ago
Very cool, thanks for the write up on the recommendations. I'm always hungry for new music and I have a somewhat patchy last.fm history going back to 2005. I'd love to check out your tool, email in profile. Cheers!
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by chickensong 2mo ago
Very interesting! I'm considering Meilisearch but have zero experience with it, so I appreciate your response, thanks. I've used Elastic in the past, but trying to avoid it now. I'm a ways from needing edge distribution, so h
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by chickensong 2mo ago
1. I'm interested and would like to know more! Will you be publishing it? How do the recommendations work?

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