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You can also use PI with local models like Qwen3.5-35B-A3B [1] and they can be surprisingly good if you development in minimalistic/simple ways. One game changer when it comes to t…

Skills represent a pattern many of us converged to before it was named as such (very useful for comms): Progressive disclosure, determistic scripts bundled (not just markdowns). Se…

I could but I'd probably miss the angle that is helpful to you. Do you want to instead share what your pain points are, what are you trying to delegate to AI and what you aren't? B…

I'm a broken record but with: - evals - limiting AIs to tool calling, bounded planning, interpreting/producing natural language. - bounding non determinism - investing in small too…

If you actually are interested in understanding what I said, you can look at these links: - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear,_uncertainty,_and_doubt - https://www.theregister.com…

Every Linux user or FOSS enthusiast knows the acronym FUD: Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt, which were a set of techniques commonly used to disparage efforts of open source communities…

Many of us were saying it a year ago but now with model restrictions (e.g. fable) and pricing changes it should be obvious to people that part of the economics is avoiding vendor l…

Got it. Different audience. Cool stuff. I'll take a better look as soon as I can.

I've helped people get into programming face to face and also in a site I liked called exercism which also had a multi language track unit test passing style which I really value a…

Having a thin python/ts orchestrator and workers that pick up tasks from the directories like events and decide whether to make deterministic calls and wait is pretty standard albe…

I can understand someone being overwhelmed and not wanting to configure and "build your own pi" which is really one of the beautiful points of pi, but like with vim, I do recommend…

> What's the consensus today on codex vs claude code, does it really matter anymore? Consensus is probably the wrong word for the popular opinions reflected in HN that you might ge…

Touch typing essentially. It's such a comfortable way to work. Remapping mode switching to something like jk instead of Esc is vital to stay comfortably in the home row. I always l…

Fun, responsive and intuitive. Congrats.

I guess it depends on what your exact hypothesis is Vs mine. For at least 6 years we've had AC worthy temps.

The way eval startup is defined here is very specific and doesn't cover successful eval farmwork/SaaS vendors like Arize, Promptfoo, deepeval, etc The author does have a point arou…

I'd argue that these temperatures are not a new thing. It's just a contradiction that is almost a tradition at this point, imho.

Living in London and Dublin, what I've observed is that we get the following contradictory statements: - "We don't need AC, It's only hot a few times during the year." - "Oh what a…

Exactly. I'm very happy the discourse has moved on from "but X model is the best" to "you can use open models". Whether you're using SDK or harness based agents, having evals means…

It's always satisfying when customer rights stories have a known positive outcome. The timeline is unfortunately quite slow and bureocractic but I'm glad OP managed to find out abo…

I think the criticism is constructive. It's really not about hating. I'd wager many of the people who convey this criticism do use AI to aid their writing as well. It's just that t…

Agreed. The post looks great. The story is great but the AI style in this case does distract. I'm not against using AI for writing at all but you want to be careful that the output…

I think it's important to be able to do both so you can stay in control of the price to value created relationship. In last year, some people were publishing aider /ollama/open rou…

The Foil Arms & Hog 12 year old skit [1] is still relevant. - [1] https://youtu.be/Id-zzOGnN6A (Website part at 1:42 calling out the insurance example).

I was a fan of Seven Languages in Seven Weeks [1] because it exposed you to different paradigms which you could then try to apply where they made sense on whatever tools you were u…