whinvik

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by whinvik 7d ago
Link clicked. Hijacks my scrolling. Link closed
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by whinvik 16d ago
I actually think I would like to use OpenClaw but everytime I go to the docs I give up. It feels so intimidating. There's so much stuff going on. Maybe it is good for agents who can just motor through that volume, but me personally, I
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by whinvik 1mo ago
Yeah either the benchmark isn't very useful anymore or V4 Flash is a really, really good model.
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by whinvik 2mo ago
Sorry, "Gemini 4 helped with editing"?
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by whinvik 2mo ago
I kind of get what the article is saying. But I am looking at it from a different perspective. The same set of things like skills, and custom tools etc can actually be used to get faster to the a product that kind of fits 1000 customers. Bu
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by whinvik 2mo ago
Yeah I came to the same conclusion. Universities use all kinds of hard to setup stuff which are often custom built. Slurm configs, custom configured HPC servers etc. All of this pays off though if you need to do heavy computations which a l
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by whinvik 2mo ago
I would have loved to see more of the harness engineering shared as code. Instead we are left with only the outcome. I guess that makes sense since the harness is the product in the case of Cursor.
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by whinvik 2mo ago
I am afraid this is a very click-baity title. I actually opened the article and thought I would learn something from it. Instead what I read was typical issues about Agentic CLI's in general dubbed as `alarming`. I would have been happ
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by whinvik 2mo ago
Thanks. I heard the word ABI so many times but only finally understood it after reading this blog. On another topic, I also feel like quansight blog is usually a high quality resource for Python related stuff. Usually its more for numpy&#x2
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by whinvik 2mo ago
Why are the plans and pricing for all these products so complicated. I don't know where I need to sign up to try it out. What is pricing? Is it API or subscription, what? I had the exact same experience with Grok 4.5 as well.
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by whinvik 2mo ago
What I don't get is how does one use it. Only through API? I don't really understand what Grok Build is? Is it an API? A CLI? What?
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by whinvik 2mo ago
I have created my own opinionated setup but this comment is not about that. I do think that there should be a protocol such that using these tools becomes more standardized. For example I know that cmux is trying to support a tmux based set
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by whinvik 3mo ago
I feel like what happens is first they release a giant model. Then they start optimizing the model to increase inference speed and reduce costs. But then they introduce bugs leading to lots of complaints. Usually the complaints are about mo
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by whinvik 3mo ago
Document parsing is top of my mind lately because in some of the areas we work on the bottleneck is starting to become being able to query documents the same way one queries an api. I keep thinking the most obvious analogue is we need some
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by whinvik 3mo ago
I see Netflix pumping out tech articles but can't help but notice how much worse the UI experience is getting. Video erroring out, general slowness etc. Did they just give up?
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by whinvik 3mo ago
I finally switched to Zed + Terminal Thread + Tmux. The terminal agent threads allow me to run in multiple projects. They always run in a project scoped tmux session so they are always on. And of course Zed does remote via ssh so the agents
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by whinvik 3mo ago
I am looking forward to testing out these for agent automation. I kept trying to figure out what the ideal infrastructure for this purpose is and right now from just reading about it, micro VM's seem ideal. But this is all hypothetical
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by whinvik 3mo ago
> made the most money > built the tools to verify, deploy, and build them, such as CI/CD, static analysis tools, and testing frameworks. Curious. Which company made money with testing frameworks?
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by whinvik 3mo ago
Curious how people use systems like this or DBOS etc. Do you self-host? Do you use the same DB as the application DB? Do you use this for API background jobs, batch jobs, cron jobs? As someone who uses Airflow a lot but not for background j
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by whinvik 3mo ago
Not to take anything away from the work which is indeed useful but I found the article bizarre because of what references were used and what were omitted. The author talks about Intermediate Representation and then goes on about biology wit
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by whinvik 3mo ago
> re-factoring a big repo of decades old fortran+C cod Having been in academia in the past and now in software I can say with a lot of certainty that this will take a lot more upfront work than otherwise. Academic code does not have a lo
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by whinvik 3mo ago
I love using Homebrew but I wish there was more support for pinning. I recently setup a new remote VM and tried to use a Brewfile for my setup. Turns out I cannot pin Neovim and so had to force upgrade my setup to 0.12. Forced upgrades are
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by whinvik 3mo ago
This is pretty neat. I am more used to uv than pixi or mise so it would be an easier addition to my workflow. However I do think it would probably be nicer if this kind of approach used conda packages as a source of truth. So kind of like p
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by whinvik 3mo ago
Sorry, just trying to understand. Why would I use this over duckdb. duckdb already has plugins for a lot of databases. Is the syntax the advantage?
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by whinvik 4mo ago
I always feel like I want to use something like this, but then realize my NeoVim setup + tmux + Ghostty is good enough and I am not ready to learn a whole another system for modest gains. The friction I have currently is obviously things li
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by whinvik 5mo ago
Funny that its hosted on vercel. Probably because its employee driven rather than top down. Saves all the bureaucracy to get someone to sign a budget item to buy a domain.
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by whinvik 5mo ago
Is this article really worth sharing? A speculative headline with no numbers, no estimates, 0 data. Feels like click bait and HN is submitting to the bait.
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by whinvik 5mo ago
Yeah I have always felt GPT 5.4 does too much. It is amazing at following instructions precisely but it convinces itself to do a bit too much. I am surprised Gemini 3.1 Pro is so high up there. I have never managed to make it work reliably
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by whinvik 6mo ago
That gives me slightly more confidence but only slightly. For example what happens if I use a different async backend like Tokio?
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by whinvik 6mo ago
Is this guaranteed by the async specification? Or is this just current behavior which could be changed in a future update. Feels like a brittle dependency if its not part of the spec.

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