roberttod

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by roberttod 7mo ago
I created my own version with an inner llm, and outer orchestration layer for permissions. I don't think the OTP is needed here? The outer layer will ping me on signal when a tool call needs a permission, and an llm running in that out
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by roberttod 8mo ago
Mostly, it's not the model that is lacking but the visibility it has. Often the top level business context for a problem is out of reach, spread across slack, email, internal knowledge and meetings. Once I digest some of this and give
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by roberttod 8mo ago
It's unintuitive, but having an llm verification loop like a code reviewer works impeccably well, you can even create dedicated agents to check for specific problem areas like poor error handling. This isn't about anthropomorphism
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by roberttod 1y ago
I remember such a project, and due to our large and aging TypeScript frontend projects it would have added a couple of weeks to adjust all the types affected. All IDs in many places deep in code caused thousands of errors from the mismatch
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by roberttod 1y ago
I need to look into this a little more, but can anyone tell me if this could be used to bundle a Linux container into a MacOS app? I can think of a couple of places that might be useful, for example giving a GPT access to a Linux environmen
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by roberttod 2y ago
As much as I agree with the sentiment, I can buy a firestick, Apple TV or Roku for a very small cost. Sure, a dumb TV would be lovely, but only because of a quicker boot time. Given a dumb TV is going to be more expensive, I can't see
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Development of hardware can learn from the software industry(bomello.com)
3 points by roberttod 2y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: Bomello PLM – For mechanical and EE development
2 points by roberttod 2y ago|0 comments
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by roberttod 2y ago
I wasn't sure what an "interlock" was, and it's a breathalyzer that prevents the vehicle from starting. Was that a mistake? Edit: ah! I think you meant engine immobilizer
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by roberttod 2y ago
HN post here claims this paper may not exist https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36848605
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by roberttod 2y ago
Do these providers really bring enough value to use them over a colocated managed db? (Not just the same region, but subnet etc) I was under the impression for quite some time that it wasn't that bad to have 2-3ms latencies compared to
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by roberttod 3y ago
All the awful reviews of united here, and yet it's reviewed as one of the highest rated insurance agencies (for example see https://www.forbes.com/advisor/health-insurance/best-health-... ) Are these reviews c
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by roberttod 3y ago
Thanks for mentioning this. I did a bit of reading about the special alignment - very interesting stuff! It seems like the alignment you refer to inspired the launch of Voyager 1 and 2 because they could visit so many planets at one time, a
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by roberttod 3y ago
Bomello | Hybrid, ~3 days a week in office | Austin | Full-time $160-185k base, with founding engineer equity Looking for a founding fullstack engineer who will work alongside me (CTO of Bomello), as a peer, to build out a product from scra
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by roberttod 3y ago
Agree that for a while at least it seems you'll need to understand the domain it is helping you with. That said, with the improvements in GPT4 over 3 in such a short time, and with plugins, I would be surprised if it takes any longer t
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by roberttod 3y ago
I think you need to try it out, with GPT4, because it is so obviously much better than Google. Simple queries are fine with Google, not much difference, but especially for things like coding problems (where you can e.g. specify the environm
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by roberttod 3y ago
It's an open source library, I assume that logic is abstracted within it and that the "basic mistake" was one of the maintainer's.
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by roberttod 3y ago
Piggybacking your piggyback, that graph for the temperature throughout the day looks pretty but damn terrible UX in comparison to dark sky. Hourly temperatures/rain/etc gives me everything I need at a glance without having to drag
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by roberttod 4y ago
Given a few conditions I completely agree with this sentiment. If this does indeed become world-changing, leading to AGI, then the best hope we have is that those with all the power are ethical. Giving it to everyone could be chaos. Giving
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by roberttod 4y ago
Taking this with a pinch of salt given the nature of our current situation vs. 2008. > Technology progresses more or less independently of the stock market. Progress could be defined in many ways, but sure as hell there is less money in
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by roberttod 4y ago
We do generate the protobuf from a different repo which gets published on npm, and we could generate it for different versions of TS. I suppose all of this work is part of the overhead I am not so happy about using TypeScript.
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by roberttod 4y ago
Where I work, everything on the frontend is TypeScript, everything Nodejs is TypeScript. I did create a nice little bash utility using Standard style i.e. vanilla js in Node and that's worked out well. Although I'm senior enough t
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by roberttod 4y ago
> Unfortunately I think he's conflating typescript's role and a library with broken type definitions (I have no idea whether the type definitions he's had problems with are provided by the library or a community effort tha
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by roberttod 4y ago
It's the original, which is being compiled on our internal protobuf definitions in a different repository and then installed post compile as an npm module. I spent a while trying to grok the TS error but started to suspect that it didn
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by roberttod 4y ago
I've been continuously frustrated by it - but the projects I'm working with are large, or leverage some more complicated dependencies. For example both ProtobufJS and Apollo can be very tricky. I also do a lot of refactoring and i
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by roberttod 4y ago
I spent 6 years programming production JS delivered to millions of people before I went to TS and it just wasn't that bad. The code was clean, and the team didn't ship many bugs - this was for a big frontend and ~12 microservices.
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by roberttod 4y ago
Yes, 100%. This is exactly how I feel about it - and the idea it has become some unfalsifiable religious ideology is particularly poignant. It's such a drag on development and personally I just don't see the upside that much, just
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by roberttod 4y ago
This is absolutely on point and just had me cry laughing. Thank you.
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by roberttod 4y ago
I am thinking of the case where you are passing an object or class to an API that needs to be shaped a certain way. In this case you need to know which type to import/use to pass it through. For many simple libraries it's not too
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by roberttod 4y ago
Good code takes a lot of thought and care, and won't materialize just because you use static typing. So why am I spending so much time applying static typing instead of thinking about how the code should flow, about what's the bes

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