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by pscanf 20d ago
I can see how for a local this system might be better, but as a tourist I strongly prefer the tap in/tap out system, especially if I can just use my credit card. I used the SBB app a few times, and it's actually very good, but it&
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by pscanf 4mo ago
Author here. I definitely agree that communicating well is a prerequisite to getting decent results. On the other hand: 1. Even if you communicate perfectly, there's no guarantee that the LLM will "behave as instructed" and a
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by pscanf 4mo ago
> Every sentence says something. Every sentence is important and holds its weight. [...] Also, it makes the post harder (and more boring) to read. I actually prefer that style of writing! (When it's not AI-generated ofc.) And I also
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by pscanf 4mo ago
We sorely need a way to reliably detect AI slop, but unfortunately it doesn't seem possible and it's just getting harder and harder. Last month I tried my hand at finding a way to tell whether an OSS project is slop or not, based
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Can We Measure Software Slop? An Experiment(pscanf.com)
2 points by pscanf 5mo ago|0 comments
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by pscanf 5mo ago
I recently ran an experiment where I tried to use _quantitative signals_ (and not _qualitative_ ones) to tell whether something is vibe-coded or not. My idea was that, if I see that your project is growing 10k LOC per week and you're t
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Show HN: Slop-O-Meter, an experimental tool to detect slopware projects(slop-o-meter.dev)
1 points by pscanf 5mo ago|0 comments
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by pscanf 5mo ago
I just finished¹ building an experimental tool that tries to figure out if a repo is slopware or not just by looking at it's git history (plus some GitHub activity data). The takeaway from my experiment is that you can really tell a lo
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by pscanf 6mo ago
Yeah, maybe it's that, though I still wouldn't expect someone to categorize the post as blogspam, even if they just glance at it. (At least according to my definition of blogspam, but I guess each has their own.) But yes, pragmati
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by pscanf 6mo ago
I gave up on r/programming after an article I wrote (thoughtfully, without AI, even though the content might not have been super interesting) got mod-slapped with a stickied comment "This content is low quality, stolen, blogspam,
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by pscanf 6mo ago
Oh, interesting, I didn't know about this project, thanks for sharing! I tried to implement something like this for the search functionality, but ended up going with "old school" lexical search instead. Mostly because, in my
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by pscanf 6mo ago
> The intention of this is to reduce hallucination on information extraction, right? Correct. > Also, how do you convert your docs / information into JSON documents? Right now you have to add it yourself to the database. The idea
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by pscanf 6mo ago
The problem with using markdown for this is that it's unstructured, so when the LLM does calculations on it, extracting data is error prone, you're never sure what exactly gets extracted, and it's then a hassle to verify (lik
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by pscanf 6mo ago
That would simplify things, but in my opinion that is still too high a hurdle. I'm all about privacy and FOSS, but I don't self-host anything (except for my personal website). I wish that more apps would instead move the logic to
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by pscanf 6mo ago
I only use GitHub (and actions) for personal open-source projects, so I can't really complain because I'm getting everything for free¹. But even for those projects I recently had to (partially) switch actions to a paid solution² b
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by pscanf 6mo ago
Ah yeah, I understand now. And I also agree with the quote then! (Though it does change the nature of the job, and it's not terribly enjoyable...)
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by pscanf 6mo ago
> your methodology would seem to be a reasonable approach/response to get the benefits of this and to shield against the detriments If you're referring to the sandboxing / isolation of each app, I agree. Plus, the user can
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by pscanf 6mo ago
Yeah, I agree, though it wants to be slightly provocative as well: it's all about you, your data, your software, your rights.
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by pscanf 6mo ago
Correct. Admittedly, graphic design is not even my passion , so there's probably lots of room for improvement. But at this point I've grown accustomed to the friendly face. :D
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by pscanf 6mo ago
Yes! That's more or less the angle I'm going for. I mean, I don't aim just yet for Emacs-levels of malleability, but at least for something where you can create some useful day to day personal tools.
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by pscanf 6mo ago
I'm building an app that is, in a way, a modern take on Lotus Notes ( https://github.com/superegodev/superego ), and I couldn't feel this more: > It is hard, today, to explain exactly what Lotus Notes was. W
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by pscanf 6mo ago
Very cool project! Question regarding the pluggable js engine: I have an electron app where I'm currently using QuickJS to run LLM-generated code. Would edge.js be able (theoretically) to use electron's v8 to get a "sanboxed
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by pscanf 6mo ago
Oh, interesting perspective. I'm Italian, but from an Alpine valley not far from Austria, so I don't know what I should prefer. :D But joking aside, putting it like that I'd think I'd prefer the German/Codex way of
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by pscanf 6mo ago
> They act like terribly arrogant agents Oh I feel that. I sometimes ask ChatGPT for "a review, pull no punches" of something I'm writing, and my god, the answers really get on my nerves! (They do make some useful points
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by pscanf 6mo ago
Ah OK sorry, I misinterpreted. But yes, I double checked one case and I am indeed setting the parameter explicitly (defaulting to medium effort). But no luck. It feels like the model ignores what I'm telling it. For example, I pass it
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by pscanf 6mo ago
> I've had such the opposite experience Yeah, I've actually heard many other people swear by the GPTs / Codex. I wonder what factors make one "click" with a model and not with another. > Codex is an ice man. T
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by pscanf 6mo ago
Yes, I think? But I was talking more specifically about using the models via API in agents I develop, not for agentic coding. Though, thinking about it, I also don't click with the GPT models when I use them for coding (using Codex). T
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by pscanf 6mo ago
I quite like the GPT models when chatting with them (in fact, they're probably my favorites), but for agentic work I only had bad experiences with them. They're incredibly slow (via official API or openrouter), but most of all the
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by pscanf 7mo ago
As a user, I'm of course very excited about v7. As a developer of an app that _integrates_ TypeScript, however, I feel a bit uneasy seeing the API feature still marked as "not ready" on the roadmap. On the other hand, I can u
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by pscanf 7mo ago
Very cool! I'm particularly impressed by the bookmark "trick" to install it on a page. Despite having spent 15 years developing for the browser, I had somehow missed that feature of the bookmarks bar. But awesome UX for peopl

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