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bnchrch
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Comment #48468102
Automobiles are not interesting or useful because they're justing using trails the horses already built.
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Comment #48464029
An 11% jump over opus 4.8 and a 22% jump over gpt 5.5 on Agentic Coding Benchmarks is certainly impressive. Obviously still need to verify it for myself to see if it's truely a lea…
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Comment #48450448
Oh man a few things 1. A dashboard that tracks my personal metrics (github, strava, todo completion, flossing) 2. A eink display for that dashboard 3. A realtime node graph that sh…
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Comment #48438989
Hard for one person to keep up with a product that ships updates multiple times a day.
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Comment #48223550
I'm sorry. But whats the point of this critique? That a raw LLM hallucinates? That we never see all the mistakes and dead ends a complex system using AI hits? Does it even matter i…
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Comment #48048810
Our teams efforts have shifted toward reviewing plans as a team. Before code hits a humans eyes it's went through a few independant review passes from our review agents. If it's lo…
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Comment #47850033
I'm not sure it's fair to call the Apple Vision Pro a flop in the traditional sense. While it may not have sold millions of units and been a household staple. It certainly focused …
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Comment #47706153
Oh I can answer that. So we had a few goals here 1. Be opinionated on best practises, tools and libraries 2. Not get in the way of what the developer wants to do To that end the co…
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Comment #47706041
Hey dangent! Glad you find it interesting! So the API keys during setup are entirely optional. They're used in the example workflow that evaluates blog posts for clarity and provid…
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Comment #47694025
Happy to see this launched, particularly today. I own a stake in a small brewery in Canada, and this feature just saved me setting up some infrastructure to "productionize" an agen…
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Comment #47676709
Hey! Ben here (one of the engineers who built this). This is a reason why we made our http framework (@outputai/http) a first class citizen for the greater framework and our claude…
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Comment #47626857
There's an interesting side effect to the current state of the non-technical world. We have some new tools that increase productivity, and these same tools both lower the barrier t…
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Comment #47616038
This in particular warmed my grumpy heart after the best footage of the launch came from a commercial airliners windows. I had assumed they would've had a better plan to film the e…
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Comment #47455205
I can only assume Chuck has decided to relieve the grim reaper of his duties, leaving us all here to meet our own end not with a scythe but a roundhouse kick.
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Comment #47413631
At the same time it feels like the python is overused. If I could wave a magic wand to reset any programming language adoption at this point I would choose Python over Javascript. …
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Comment #47300413
1. Proprietary Data (Youtube, docs, gmail, cloud logs, waymo, website analytics, ads, search, the list is huge) 2. Commercial Datacenters (theyre ahead at least) 3. Chip production…
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Comment #47077075
Thats a large reason for sure! I'd layer in a few more * Largely stable and unchanged language through out its whole existance * Authorship is largely senior engineers so the code …
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Comment #47010113
This is an understate and often unsaid take. But its 100% right. Its also why you'll hear many engineers opine over functional programming. Most start by thinking about 1. What doe…
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Comment #47008220
I may have something to teach you about indicators, averages, and population samples/biases. We're not debating majority opinion here. Just that people exist who have that bias / p…