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davidajackson

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About davidajackson

AI researcher and builder. I've built profitable fintech companies. Talk to me about anything startups, technology, or music.

Contact for consulting/hiring:

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

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    Ask HN: Favorite way to track multi-chat costs in Claude?

    What's your favorite way to track costs of the last N conversations in Claude?

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    Show HN: Sitrep - AI Copilot For Incidents

    Hi HN! I made Sitrep, which is an AI incident copilot that sites alongside you during incidents and watches your screen. You can chat with it, and ask questions ("what was that tra…

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    Show HN: Loophole – a word game where you make the AI say the secret word

    Hi HN. I made a word game where you get a secret word and a list of banned words, and you write clues to make an AI say the secret. One word per day, same for everyone. The first v…

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    Ask HN: Illustration Themes in AI Apps?

    Have any of you been successful in generating authentic drawing styles via AI apps? Drawing design/scribble/actual good looking hand drawings.

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    Yes. Memorizing syntax is now obsolete. Frameworks are generally somewhat constrained, now they can be auto-generated to be exactly the UI you want. Only caveat would be saving tok…

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    Ask HN: Agentic Prompt Compaction Strategies

    What are your favorite reasoning/compaction strategies for saving token spend, and why?

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    Comment #47890993

    Many here will be sad but there will be a day when writing code is seen as as antiquated as using a slide rule. It is coming.

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    Ask HN: What function will inference cost take v.s. time?

    If you had to project what kind of pattern we'll see in inference cost v.s. time, what would you predict? Over the next 2, 5, 10+ years?

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    Ask HN: Infinitely Scalable Prompts

    Prompts and prompt rot could potentially be solved by dynamic injection of relevant, embedded snippets to dynamically build prompts. Right now most company's prompts are too small …

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    Ask HN: Agentic Permutation of Testing Paths In A System

    Given a system with N components and M pairwise connections between said N components, there exists infinite sequences of [component, command, ...] for a series of operations. A co…

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    Ask HN: Neuromorphic Computing

    Does anyone here have a lot of knowledge on neuromorphic computing, or has worked in the space? What do you think of it? Also, do you see any ethical issues with this type of engin…

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    Comment #46359078

    That's a people problem, not an AI problem. People spend so much time debating overcomplicating early system design (API v.s. event driven, etc.). AI is pretty good at generating w…

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    I am going to play devil's advocate here and say that so many processes that can be automated with AI are still untouched. I'm not making a statement about the quality of businesse…

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    Ask HN: Image Recognition

    In this thread I would like to discuss the interesting ways we've found to increase model accuracy when analyzing images. I have been learning about vision models and trying a few …

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    Comment #45328624

    sorry, agent to agent protocol or agent to env https://developers.googleblog.com/en/a2a-a-new-era-of-agent-...

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    Ask HN: Is A2A the Future?

    Wanted to have a brief discussion here as to whether you see A2A as the 'final state' for most AI automation. Are there any alternative patterns that you feel might be competitive,…

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    Ask HN: Behavioral assumptions in self driving cars

    Do self driving cars ever make assumptions about the lack of desirability of a lane if there is no one in it? While counterintuitive, sometimes that is an indication that there mig…

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    Do you have a portfolio site of sample projects or case studies? Do you want us to critique that?

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    Comment #45066345

    No doubt about the zero sum game in terms of a possible path in terms of wealth distribution. My question is what will be the function of the "sum part" as a society builds all tec…