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cebert

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About cebert

Software Engineer from Detroit, MI working on public sector software. I’m therealchrisebert on Twitter.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/christopherebert

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    Comment #49221528

    Many of the Ask HN posts are lower quality. Additionally, with LLMs, everyone has access to personal research assistant that can investigate questions for them.

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    Comment #49207860

    I get that this is a revenue grab, but I can’t understand how any PM would allow their product to degrade to a point where they’re selling slots in notification trays to advertiser…

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    Comment #49201712

    I have sporadically had a few workflows complete for me, but most are having trouble finding a runner to start.

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    Comment #49201380

    It's cute that someone at GitHub had time to make their hamburger menu pancakes to promote stacked PRs, but nobody has time to make the platform stable.

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    Comment #49177971

    I’ve never heard of this product before today, but their website made it look like a nice visual tool. It’s too bad they didn’t make it.

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    Comment #49176403

    [dupe]: I didn’t realize that when I posted this originally, but this was posted here a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49130756

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    Comment #49176342

    I’m a little afraid that we will be locked out of our devices now that things like TPM are becoming more available. Many modern vehicles need a lot of technology just to power on n…

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    Comment #49176184

    I’m not sure why Amazon is bothering here instead of just focusing on offering compute, which is where the money is.

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    Comment #49148705

    Static site generators like Hugo are great. If your blog is static, hosting is much less expensive and easier.

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    Comment #49146598

    I agree. I’m not impressed by this at all, and then there are some weird AI generated comments by new account accounts on this thread, too, which I don’t understand.

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    Comment #49138369

    It is so inexpensive now to host your own blog. I don’t understand why you would let another platform own and control your content.

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    Comment #49136871

    Do you really think that users on a subscription plan aren’t intelligent enough to know that you are showing dollars at API rates if they weren’t on a subscription plan? This is a …

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    Comment #49136851

    I think most standard users are intelligent enough to know if they’re on a subscription plan, the dollar amounts shown are if they were paying at API rates. This change is ridiculo…

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    Comment #49130774

    I tried this myself a few times from Claude.ai, but was unable to produce a similar result after many attempts.

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    Comment #49115037

    Good. This change was unexpected and so unprofessional I though my browser was compromised.

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    Comment #49105362

    This is a great read, but I wonder how effective cold messages are in the AI era. I now receive customized cold emails and LinkedIn messages. There are several tools like Clay that…

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