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About becomevocal
Former co-founder / CEO @ Zing, acquired by BigCommerce in 2015. Been through the whole IPO thing.
nate (at) runtype.com
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Comment #49031769
Like the "building blocks" mentality vs. "factory from scratch" mentality. Because... that's just how the real world works and if we are modeling intelligence off ourselves then wh…
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Comment #48680887
Appreciate the feedback and support so far! Wanted to add, in terms of extensibility, we've really tried to make the key parts of the UX hookable. Most of what you see on this page…
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Comment #48613461
IMO there's a lot more we can do around hooking into the DOM directly, with more efficient data formats over the wire, before we absolutely need WASM We'd like to experiment more w…
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Comment #48613207
Thanks! Definitely interested in the game overlay use case. My gut says you'll need want to hook into custom render functions and theme config to map to your game styles, since it'…
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Comment #48612685
Appreciate it. And thank you for the work on WebMCP! For everyone passing by, Alex created https://docs.mcp-b.ai/ and we use two of his libraries to enable WebMCP more cleanly. We …
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Show HN: Persona.js – a vanilla-JS agent UI library with native WebMCP (MIT)
Hey everyone. My cofounder and I are open sourcing Persona.js ( https://www.persona-chat.dev/ ). It's a VanillaJS library that helps anyone build agentic experiences on the web, wi…
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Comment #48523668
Appreciate the quick take! Sounds like a keeper to me. I think the Opus and Fable design (that I saw for a short while) have gotten stale
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Comment #48439776
Yeah wasn’t there a report recently on how local models after energy costs didn’t weren’t actually more efficient to complete the same task?
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Comment #48438354
I find I there is anxiety either direction but have more engaging days when I am chasing something deeply.
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Comment #48432549
First thought was "only 30 tasks" however the findings map to what I've seen personally: code review consumes majority of tokens
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Comment #48430726
Feels like the active discovery going on is trying to understand what is computer vs what is AI, for every product. Agents help a ton with the discovery, but the act of building a …
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Comment #48277130
Hopefully we can blend those two options together so it’s not a choice. Personally I find being able lean on our heavily documented standards in /review gives me back time to dive …
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Comment #48244121
At this point you have to use more than one to get a complete picture, which I’m doing now. Mainly because: 1) some are not always up to date (started on helicone but felt a lag on…
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Comment #47908263
Made me think and smile a bit Also I think I need to build a chicken selfie system now...
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Comment #47633297
It’s an expensive hobby on top of server / service costs to run the site? Source: myself through wife which is maxed on chickens and has her own site with no ads
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Comment #47526182
Simplifying here… sounds like essentially the split between (great) product managers and engineers We need both! Hurrah
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Comment #46504803
Thank you, David. One last Sega! for ya
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Comment #46026543
Have been in font picking mode recently so this was a relevant enough distraction. Excellent read!
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Comment #45564878
An opportunity to provide more accessible compute for non AI tasks via new methods of utilizing GPUS?
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Comment #45534272
I have 2 (CC and Codex) running within most coding sessions, however can have up to 5 if I'm trying to test out new models or tools. For complex features and architecture shifts I …
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Comment #45534195
Make it a bit more personal? I have dropped Bill and Ted references in code because it makes me happy to see it. :D
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Comment #45484371
For a few years, many many years ago, I helped build the sites for wowtattoos.com and redchapterclothing.com which uses the artwork of Mark Palmer. He's the real deal! Awesome pers…
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Comment #45031728
> Generative AI gives us incredible first drafts to work with, but few people want to put in the additional effort it requires to make work that people love and > So make your stuf…
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Comment #45031640
I found that too, so I updated to putting limited comments at the beginning of core files that: - Describe what the file contains (e.g. endpoints for x with their route names) - Li…