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bridgettegraham

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About bridgettegraham

Bridgette B. Graham is a South African author, inventor, and world-builder who makes a living designing systems—then uses fiction to break them open and look inside. A veteran software engineer and product founder, she previously led teams on large-scale creative tooling and now splits her time between building strange new worlds and writing stories where tenderness can be as dangerous as power.

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    Comment #49192696

    You mean like the app that "controls" or "directs" it? The thing that executes the tools, etc?

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    Ask HN: Which model is best for pair-programming?

    I draw a huge amount of joy by working WITH my AI agents as opposed to them doing everything autonomously. However all the SOTA models seem to be actively doing the opposite: hide …

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    Opus Cost = Minimum Wage in South Africa

    I was curious and checked it out: Opus 5 on the API at normal working intensity lands at 0.9×–1.3× the minimum wage in South Africa - at an average of ~$13 per active developer-day…

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    Comment #48843568

    lol... nice

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    Comment #48843479

    should we really consider the usage of AI as "cheating"? the only reason I am asking this is because its here and its augmenting everything we do and its not going away - it is pro…

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    Ask HK: Does it feel like the top models routinely dismiss your opinion/advice?

    I find that the latest SOTA modals blatantly ignore some of my instructions or requests, sometimes even after mentioning or requesting it multiple times? I suspect its a consequenc…

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    Comment #48814934

    [flagged]

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    Comment #48781958

    In South Africa we are not allowed to make use of Starlink. The reason: our government insists that the owners of Starlink give > 50% of ownership of the contract exclusively to bl…

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    Comment #48781936

    Just for interest's sake and so this continues to be visible in the world: In South Africa we are not allowed to make use of Starlink. The reason: our government insists that the o…

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    Comment #48756334

    its merely an implication and not a stated fact. OBVIOUSLY I don't have any proof.

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    Comment #48756255

    perhaps :-(

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    Ask HN: noticed how HN performs sentiment-analysis on everything posted here?

    ...and then punishes one for having any kind of negative sentiment? I never realized how severely his is being done on this site and I don't know how I feel about it - such 1984 vi…

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    Comment #48756043

    jiezaz krsit - I just spent $50 in like 3 minutes after running out of credits. this is just depressing. a really valuable product locked behind payment that only large corps can a…

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    Comment #48668085

    lol. good for the chinese. I hope their models get better than the closed american ones quick so we can stop using "controlled" models.

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    Comment #48512814

    man the us govt is becomming a proper bully in the truest sense of the world. dictatorship, censorship and obfuscation of truth. 1984 "the truth is what the dictator says it is" an…

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    Comment #48511869

    "i can has the bestest powers of the world, i is the strongest, i is the badest president ever" what a retard

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    Comment #48511853

    this is just the US government bullying everyone wherever they can because they "are the bestest government that has ever goverend" ugh puke. the US govt and its leader is a typica…

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    Comment #48365673

    [flagged]

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    Comment #48233944

    yeah this is my suspicion too

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    Comment #48233943

    yes exactly - I have never asked them for an estimate

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    Why does it look like LLMs consistently overestimate implementation time?

    I have my suspicion: they estimate how long people would have taken to implement some feature, becasue they were trained on such data. I consistently see estimates of 2 week/3 week…

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