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danenania

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About danenania

Currently an engineer at OpenAI working on Codex Security.

Past founder of Plandex: an open source AI coding agent - https://plandex.ai | dane@plandex.ai

Also past founder of EnvKey (YC W18): the simple, secure, open source configuration and secrets manager - https://www.envkey.com | dane@envkey.com

@Danenania on the twitters.

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    Super cool! Can you talk a bit about how you built it?

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    Being one of the people on this list... yes I would personally say it's mainly about agency and determination, and being obsessive/perfectionist about details. I think YC selects f…

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    Comment #48750206

    > publicly reported numbers Anyone can google it /shrug

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    Comment #48738660

    I’d also point out that LLM inference revenue already totals more than 100B annually based on publicly reported numbers. Almost none of that is replacing knowledge workers. Almost …

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    Comment #48054330

    Cool, good to hear. I think it’s often the case even within an individual file or change that it’s 90% routine and 10% critical to review. That’s a big part of the problem in my mi…

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    Comment #48054030

    Interested to try this! Have you thought about separating the parts of a PR that are routine/uninteresting from the parts that are load-bearing and need more careful review?

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    Comment #48053994

    I mean it’s quite literally a command line interface to their tool… what else should it be called that differentiates it from a pure browser flow? What you are describing sounds mo…

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    Comment #48032306

    You can’t get every detail right up front, but you can build a robust foundation from the beginning. The argument seems to be that AI is causing managers to demand faster results, …

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    Comment #48031131

    You’re assuming that building something robustly is significantly more time consuming than the “quick and dirty” version. But that’s not really true anymore. You might need to spen…

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    Comment #48031066

    Getting the model to do it is the skill.

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    Comment #48029751

    Line by line is no longer what I need to think about. I think about types/schemas, architectural division, contracts between services and components, how to test thoroughly, scalin…

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    Comment #48022717

    It takes very little time to polish now.

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    Comment #48017652

    That sounds pretty much the same as it’s always been? It used to be: “Does the happy path work? Then ship it! There’s no time to make it robust or clean up tech debt.” Now there ac…

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    Comment #48009279

    > thinking, abstracting, deciding how to apply your knowledge and experience, searching for information None of this requires coding by hand. I can do those things better and faste…

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    Comment #48009247

    That’s also true without AI. Engineers want more time to polish and businesses want to ship the 80/20 solution that’s good enough to sell. There's always going to be a tension ther…

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    Comment #48004314

    This is a great point. We’re very much in a transitional phase on this, but I personally do see signs in my own work with agents that we are heading toward the main deliverable bei…

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    Comment #48004211

    If it’s broken and the dev can’t debug it, the business won’t have much of a choice.

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    Comment #48004032

    If a junior builds something with agents that turns into a mess they can’t debug, that will teach them something. If they care about getting better, they will learn to understand w…

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    Comment #47384361

    It seems like that could change the math quite a bit, since you’d presumably be losing a lot of capacity to failures. I’d assume you would have a much higher failure rate in space,…

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    Comment #47371524

    What about maintenance? I’d naively assume that’s the killer.

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    Comment #47336648

    > I thought we might finally have a high profile prompt injection attack against a name-brand company we could point people to. These folks have found a bunch: https://www.promptar…

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    Comment #47289498

    tmux makes it easy for terminal based agents to talk to each other, while also letting you see output and jump into the conversation on either side. It’s a natural fit.

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    Comment #47275283

    Gemini 1.5 Pro actually has 2M! No other model from a major lab has matched it since afaik. Edit: err, I see in the comment below mine that Grok has 2M as well. Had no idea!

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    Comment #47275234

    I built a tool at work that allows claude code and codex to communicate with each other through tmux, using skills. It works quite well.