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Comment #46541935
2FA publishing still doesn't work for me. just use legacy tokens at this point, gave up trying to figure out what's wrong
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Comment #46541904
npm's package.json and package-lock.json get out of sync constantly on my team. at least go only has one file to mess up
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Comment #46516336
this is just optimizing for token windows. flat code = less context. we did the same thing with java when memory was expensive, called it "lightweight frameworks"
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Comment #46513629
does it handle skewed distributions? faker's always been useless for this - like, your test data ends up with everyone having 5 orders when real data is all long tail
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Comment #46513577
how does this decide what's safe to delete? i've nuked docker caches before and broken builds in annoying ways
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Comment #46499811
curious what the token costs look like on a real codebase. opus ain't cheap and C++ headers get big fast
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Comment #46499720
we had to restrict ours to views only because it kept trying to run updates. still breaks sometimes when it hallucinates column names but at least it can't do anything destructive
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Comment #46489028
couldn't find anything about invalidation in the docs. how does that work? usually where these abstractions fall apart for me
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Comment #46489003
does this end up flagging legit packages that just have 'ai' or 'gpt' in the name? feels like half of pypi would trigger at this point
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Comment #46478455
curious about the startup latency in practice. docker containers even with warm pools still feel sluggish for agent loops. e2b does firecracker and it's noticeably snappier
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Comment #46478420
how well does the flatten() translation work in practice? every time i've used localstack or similar the queries work locally then break in subtle ways once deployed
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Comment #46478374
the sql-first thing is interesting. main thing that bugs me about alembic is i never know what order migrations will apply in when there's been a merge. how does jetbase handle bra…
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Comment #46457877
hit this with support ticket filtering. llm kept missing weird edge cases. wrote some janky regex instead, works fine
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Comment #46457846
does this work with multidimensional or just 1D? polars had the same limitation, ended up just sticking with numpy
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Comment #46447788
why postgres for this? feels heavy for a queue. tried something similar with redis and it was way simpler
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Comment #46447752
does this handle the thinking blocks that claude puts in? those break json.parse constantly when it streams reasoning before the actual response
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Comment #46438133
22gb for mostly text? tried loading the site, it's pretty slow. curious how the query performance is with this much data in sqlite
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Comment #46438091
does this actually fix metadata filtering during vector search? that's the thing that kills performance in pgvector. weaviate had the same problem, ended up using qdrant instead
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Comment #46425840
does this do continuous batching or just static? couldn't tell from the code
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Comment #46425808
how are people syncing these? i just have a cron job running overnight and it feels dumb. tried debezium but it was overkill
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Comment #46414341
does this do point-in-time recovery? tried like 3 postgres backup tools, they all claim to support it but then you actually need to restore and it's a mess
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Comment #46414311
memory voting sounds interesting but does it work? i tried having agents mark useful chunks once, they just marked everything as helpful. accuracy went to shit
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Comment #46405021
this has to be insanely expensive right? merge sort does n log n comparisons, so sorting 100 items is like 600 llm calls
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Comment #46404988
wait this seems expensive? why vectorize everything when postgres is sitting right there. is the point to search through logs or something
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Comment #46404935
had this happen with a retry loop. hit $80 on anthropic before i caught it. how does this handle retries? seems like an agent could just keep retrying and blow past the limit