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    Comment #49117146

    Any connection to https://github.com/CeleritasCelery/rune ?

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    Comment #49032221

    Thanks for the heads-up

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    Comment #47350264

    Makes sense! Thanks for sharing.

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    Comment #47347632

    How does the classifier work? I see some JSON files with commands in them.

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    Comment #47173311

    What do you mean I'm not helping?

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    Comment #47055505

    I like this tree visualization! The background with little squares is making the text difficult to read, though.

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    Comment #47046237

    Had a funny experience with this some weeks ago. I started developing a small side project and after a week I wondered if this existed already. To my surprise, someone had already …

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    Comment #47032735

    Changed 50 meters to 43 meters with Opus 4.6: “Walk. 43 meters is basically crossing a parking lot. ”

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    Comment #46986786

    Same here, I find most of these skills/prompts a bit redundant. Some people argue that in including these in the conversation, one is doing latent space management of sorts and bri…

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    Comment #46968350

    Yep exactly, a Perl script

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    Comment #46967327

    As it slowly starts working on another platforms, it can fill in Bazzite's role (a bit ironic I guess, given Bazzite is inspired on SteamOS)

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    Comment #46962975

    Maybe SteamOS will help with this!

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    Comment #46962404

    Relevant comment from some months ago [1]. Personally I find that sticking to distros backed by companies or very large communities is just easier in the long term (Debian/Ubuntu/F…

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    Comment #46887522

    Dumb question: is the quadratic time complexity for training, inference, or both?

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    Comment #46859555

    In the end this and all other 89372304 AI projects are just OpenAPI/Anthropic API wrappers, but at least one has 1st party support which maybe gives it a slight advantage?

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    Comment #46809252

    Copilot wanting to name everything Copilot is a funny thought, for some reason.

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    Comment #46773914

    Indeed, but nowadays it’s common to add the annotations to claw back a bit of more powerful code linting.

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    Comment #46771902

    I was also thinking this some days ago. The scaffolding that static languages provide is a good fit for LLMs in general. Interestingly, since we are talking about Go specifically, …

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    Comment #46764230

    In which way does native UI have the upper hand, do you think? To me it seems like a lot of users are largely indifferent to this aspect (e.g. so many applications nowadays being E…

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    Comment #46747449

    At $WORK we have a Git repo set up by the devops team, where we can manage our junk by creating Terraform resources in our main AWS account. The state however is always stored in a…

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    Comment #46706335

    Maybe my initial message was overly harsh, I mostly agree with your points here. I think maybe the point of disagreement is exactly _how much_ extra prompt is necessary to approach…

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    Comment #46703667

    Ah do you mean sub-agents? I do understand that if I summon a sub-agent and give it e.g. code reviewing instructions, it will not fill up the context of the main conversation. But …

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    Comment #46703645

    I agree about the small tweaks like the Ruby accessor thing, I also have some small notes like that myself, to nudge the agent in the right direction.

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    Comment #46703387

    This is something that continues to surprise me. LLMs are extremely flexible and already come prepackaged with a lot of "knowledge", you don't need to dump hundreds of lines of tex…