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gawkdev

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About gawkdev

Building Gawk (https://gawk.dev), real time status monitor for AI coding tools. Every number cites its source.

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    agree with the two things but I would add a third .. tell me what happens when your server is unreachable.. not just what it does when it works. most of the mcp writeups I have rea…

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    Comment #48879741

    price per token on its own tells you nothing.. what matters is tokens per successful outcome a cheap model that needs three retries costs more than an expensive one that gets it ri…

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    the meaningless part is right but doesnt go far enough.. price per token also assumes every token does the same amount of work.. a model that reasons for 10x longer to get the same…

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    Comment #48835221

    Everyone here is arguing about what the agent could read but the leak only happened because it could write the data back out as a public comment on the issue. That is the half wort…

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    are you thinking co signing to a third party or something like a transparency log style?

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    Show HN: Gawk CLI – a live AI update feed in your terminal

    "Fastest model" "Most used SDK" Says who? I wanted the AI update feed without the hand waving and without the ai slops in linkedin, so I built it into my terminal. npx gawk-cli wha…

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    The actual damage comes from volume without accountability.. no attribution, no source no way to verify. The same problem existed with content farms pre AI it's just cheaper and ra…

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    Comment #48064038

    OpenAI API has had 7 incident-days this month. Anthropic has been relatively clean outside this one. The frustrating part is you usually find out from Twitter before the status pag…