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by mmasu 1mo ago
In enterprise MCP allows users to access resources that could either be unsafe or impractical to consume via API or CLI. It is a powerful pattern, supported by virtually all clients (Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, whatever) and easily implemen
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by mmasu 2mo ago
also, the same metric can be used in different ways and for different purposes across a business, so you might need different validation rules and definitions. Maybe one separate semantics validation layer could help, but costs 2x or possib
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by mmasu 4mo ago
I am so tired of these people, but it’s so sad they don’t understand themselves how ridiculous they are
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by mmasu 4mo ago
I think “bought” here is to be read as “financed from”, not bought in the literal sense.
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by mmasu 5mo ago
this is such a great idea! well done
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by mmasu 6mo ago
how would you suggest someone who just started their career moves ahead to build that “taste” for lean and elegant solutions? I am onboarding fresh grads onto my team and I see a tendency towards blindly implementing LLM generated code. I a
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by mmasu 7mo ago
maybe the fact that Persians != Arabs will improve their odds. Recent uprisings had more luck (i.e. Bangladesh), even if it’s too early to fully assess their success
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by mmasu 7mo ago
I am reading a book called Accelerando (highly recommended), and there is a play on a lobsters collective uploaded to the cloud. Claws reminded me of that - not sure it was an intentional reference tho!
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by mmasu 7mo ago
I agree with you - we are saying the same thing, by restricting their API or making less developer friendly, they want you to be captive in their UI. This might not be true for Anthropic or OpenAI - another child commenter made a comment ab
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by mmasu 7mo ago
I think that these companies are understanding that as the barrier to entry to build a frontend gets lower and lower, APIs will become the real moat. If you move away from their UI they will lose ad revenue, viewer stats, in short the abili
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by mmasu 7mo ago
I will give you an example I heard from an acquaintance yesterday - this person is very smart but not strictly “technical”. He is building a trading automation for personal use. In his design he gets a message on whatsapp/signal/t
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by mmasu 8mo ago
yesterday in an article here on HN i read a wonderful dutch proverb: “trust arrives on foot and leaves on horseback” seems it’s applicable to this case too. Sad to see decades of work being tore apart in a few months.
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by mmasu 8mo ago
a friend (and colleague, disclaimer) pushed this recently to github. It passes data through a duck fb layer exactly to avoid context bloat: https://github.com/agoda-com/api-agent worth taking a look to see multiple app
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by mmasu 8mo ago
isn’t this easy for a potential attacker to mitigate, i.e. dropping from the address everything after the plus? it’s a known trick for gmail so i would not be surprised if an attacker knew how to get to the “real” address by cleaning it up.
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by mmasu 8mo ago
I disagree with this - there have been overthrowings that did not require weapons in the field (i.e. Egypt, Tunisia), while widespread weapons were likely to cause civil wars (Lybia, Syria). In these cases however the role of the army was k
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by mmasu 9mo ago
I use the house analogy a lot these days. A colleague vibe-coded an app and it does what it is supposed to, but the code really is an unmaintainable hodgepodge of files. I compare this to a house that looks functional on the surface, but ha
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by mmasu 9mo ago
this is a very good point, however the risk of writing bad or non extensive tests is still there if you don’t know what good looks like! The grind will still need to be there, but it will be a different way of gaining experience
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by mmasu 9mo ago
I remember a very nice quote from an Amazon exec - “there is no compression algorithm for experience”. The LLM might as well do wrong things, and you still won’t know what you don’t know. But then, iterating with LLMs is a different kind of
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by mmasu 10mo ago
Morsi did not have much time to do anything in all frankness - Sisi has now been there for 10+ years
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by mmasu 11mo ago
I too started with your tutorial - thanks a million
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by mmasu 11mo ago
While I don’t agree with you, I keep a healthily skeptical outlook and am trying to understand this too - what is the hard data? I saw a study a while ago about drops in productivity when devs of OSS repos were AI assisted, but sample size
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by mmasu 1y ago
is it also possible that one of the side effects of this are that people driving recreationally become sometimes exceptionally good at it? see how many great f1/rally pilots Finland has generated. Clearly not good when this happens whi
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by mmasu 1y ago
what I mean is: building these systems is nontrivial, but if done well it can help. Imagine non being in an endless queue on a phone call when having to do a simple task through a customer center call, or having a phone reminder with more i
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by mmasu 1y ago
we tried to build something similar lately for outbound calls (for simple reminders to partners) and faced massive issues using gpt-4o-realtime-audio. Noise detection, turn detection, random telephony issues (we were using Twilio too), prom
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by mmasu 1y ago
yesterday I read a paper about using gpt 4 as a tutor in italian schools, with encouraging results - students are more engaged, get through homework by receiving immediate and precise feedback, resulting in non-negligible performance improv
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by mmasu 1y ago
please Jez, don’t talk about crack!!
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by mmasu 1y ago
the Python ecosystem for AI is far ahead than R, sadly (or not :-) )
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by mmasu 1y ago
yet - likely subscription grade will stay ahead of the curve, but we will soon have very decent models running locally for very cheap - like when you play great videogames that are 2/3 years old on now “cheap”machines
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by mmasu 1y ago
why would you open 3 IDEs all at once :-)
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by mmasu 1y ago
While I agree with your suggestion, the comparison does not hold: calculators do not tell you which numbers to input and compute. With an LLM you can just ask vaguely, and get an often passable result

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