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Definitely sympathetic to their policy, but AI tooling and quality are changing quite fast. In a year I'd expect a modification of this as AI agents get better in virtually every p…

Anybody remember corewar, where each player wrote an adversarial programs in redcode?

Wow. Where was this in the 90s when I "needed" it. Is there a console version?

Totally agree.

Agree.. 68k assembly was dreamy compared to 80x86..

Wow.... I remember writing 8086 assembly on MASM and another assembler I've forgotten the name of, and then also doing inline ASM in Turbo C++ The segment thing and the convoluted …

There is some base level of intelligence any model needs to be useful, even in narrow tasks. Could you teach a 5 year old to drive a car? A 10 year old? A 12 year old? To drive a c…

As smaller models become more capable I suspect we will see a reset in token economics.

How long has this been running?

In word.. the asks need to separated from execution. Labeling or tagging the prompt itself is a dead end.

It seems useful but then we have to manage similar metadata in multiple places, so hygiene around consistency becomes important

Truly agree with the framing of buy vs build. Also, some software businesses use a ton of aggregated or hard to get data which needs to be synthesized and that doesn't go away even…

Hi HN- This past year I've built and maintained Quikdown, a bidirectional markdown parser and companion editor in pure js, with batteries included fences for rendering rich content…