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AlexC04

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About AlexC04

Hi! I'm a web developer living in Toronto. I found HackerNews by accident and have been completely blown away and inspired ever since.

I love the startup news, the weekend projects that do cool stuff, and the overall "ethic" of the place.

I've done a few small projects recently, I keep knocking them out in order to try and find that thing that will "stick" (or just to have a bit of fun).

Here are some recent ones: http://fstr.net http://onemorelike.com http://itsalldiet.com http://chesser.ca

I used to be a high school teacher. Worked for five years in the United Kingdom teaching the little mytes. It was wonderfully fulfilling.

I'd love to write a film one day. Maybe I should spend my time doing that rather than all these little web projects .. they're fun too and I can see the results faster :)

alex dot chesser at gmail dot com

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    The analogy meanders a bit in getting to the point, but I generally enjoyed the journey of the read and also, I think this is starting to look like an increasingly important perspe…

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    One other thing you might want to check out for running locally. (I have not independently verified yet, it's on the TODO list though) https://docs.vllm.ai/en/latest/api/vllm/model…

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    oooh! I really like your graph! https://github.com/adrq/agentbeacon/blob/main/docs/screensho... I'll have to pok in and see what you're using for that!

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    this is pretty interesting - just from the screenshots it looks like an electron app? have you or had you considered pursuing a vscode extension? (and by extension cursor?) In my f…

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    oooh ... I wonder if it would be sufficient to just write a markdown gramar for TS?! I should ask my AI what it thinks.. I'm sure it'll tell me I'm absoloutely right and a very goo…

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    I first leanred about tree sitter a couple months back when I started looking at what was inside the NPM fodler for claude. It's a really cool library. One of the things it made me…

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    yeah - I thought the first half of the article (up until "introducing ace") was actually really great thoguh.

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    this is really good. it aligns closely with what I've been writing on the same subject (but is way better :) ) nice share. thanks. OH! I commented before I realized it was a produc…

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    but how does it perform on pelican riding a bicycle bench? why are they hiding the truth?! (edit: I hope this is an obvious joke. less facetiously these are pretty jaw dropping num…

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    to directly answer this bit: > Feels like a fundamental bottleneck for production agent systems, so would love to compare how you're thinking about the latency vs accuracy tradeoff…

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    so - my approach is still being built and I'm still very hand wavy around how it is going to come together, but effecively I'm building pipelines of prompts. Rather than running ou…

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    this is a pretty important piece and the research backs you up. Moving that context out of your system prompt dynamically is going to help reduce your lost in the middle effect. Co…

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    Hey! This looks a lot like what I'm working on, from a slightly different angle. I think you're on the right track. In fact, cortex as a name is perfect since you're effectively bu…

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    Hey folks, I wrote this. If you're interested in the concepts or pressure testing the ideas a little deeper, please feel free to comment here or reach out directly. I appreciate th…

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    Comment #47352394

    this is really exciting and dovetails really closely with the project I'm working on. I'm writing a language spec for an LLM runner that has the ability to chain prompts and hooks …

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    that's a bit of a meta discussion and it'd probably reveal some super interesting things about how tech culture have changed in the last ~15 years. I've been on HN since 2010 (lost…

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    > This isn’t a bubble inflating. It’s capital and intelligence relocating. Is this GPT? this kind of not X but Y pattern is a real code smell for slop and can cause someone to imme…

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    I agree completely and I don't think you can. Even people recording short form video are doing it. They're reading out their chat-gpt-psychosis induced fever dreams using scripts w…

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    If I could have one of these cards in my own computer do you think it would be possible to replace claude code? 1. Assume It's running a better model, even a dedicated coding model…

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    Comment #46872120

    According to google Tesla has shipped 8 million cars total since inception. It is valued at 1.32 Trillion as of today. Which is roughly $165,000 per shipped vehicle.

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    Right, let's not forget that he's selling it to himself in an all stock deal. He could have priced it at eleventy kajillion dollars and it would have had the same meaning. He's bas…

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    it seems like our software engineers included `censorship=true` in the latest build when someone filed a JIRA ticket that said "censor stuff" we're going to class this one as low p…