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joshmlewis

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About joshmlewis

I build software and run long distances in the wilderness.

PS Would love to discuss cool projects with AI. Email is hn [at] josh.ml.

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    Comment #48209595

    It's interesting they use output tokens as an eval because all tokens are not made equal. Even from model to model (like Opus 4.6 to Opus 4.7) the tokenizer can be different and it…

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    Comment #47036967

    Speechify has been good for me although there might be better / cheaper alternatives I'm not aware of.

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    Comment #46906611

    I think the OP was implying that it's probably already baked into its training data. No need to search the web for that.

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    Comment #46825801

    "They" being the guy (Peter Steinberger) who created it as a personal project that he open sourced.

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    Comment #46547609

    This is cool but as someone that's built an enterprise grade agentic loop in-house that's processing a billion plus tokens a month, there are so many little things you have to acco…

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    Comment #45688289

    This just feels like the whole complicated TODO workflows and MCP servers that were the hot thing for awhile. I really don't believe this level of abstraction and detailed workflow…

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    Comment #45688255

    This should not really be necessary and is more of a workaround for bad patterns / prompting in my opinion.

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    Comment #45688243

    How big is your claude.md file? I see people complain about this but I have only seen it happen in projects with very long/complex or insufficient claude.md files. I put a lot of t…

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    Comment #45284782

    It's also not a coincidence that Slack is neutering the ability to access channel history via the API very soon. With a very generous rate limit of 2 requests per minute I believe …

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    Comment #45015413

    One of the biggest nuggets people need to take away from this: > At one point we tried “improving” the prompt with Claude’s help. It ballooned to 1,500 words. The agent immediately…

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    Comment #44962318

    As someone who builds AI products and having used agentic coding tools since they came out (often with Rails projects), I don't get this. There was a similar project called Rails M…

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    Comment #44833539

    It is funny how it can be like this sometimes. I think a lot depends on coding styles, languages, prompting, etc.

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    Comment #44831111

    When it came out on Tuesday I wanted to throw my laptop out of the window. I don't know what happened but results were total garbage earlier this week. It got better the past coupl…

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    Comment #44830952

    Whoosh, it went right over my head.

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    Comment #44830933

    The data is made up, the point is to see how models respond to the same input / scenario. You're able to create whatever tools you want and import real data or it'll generate fake …

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    Comment #44830915

    I would highly doubt it. Even when you BYOK inside of Cursor they still say it's routed through their servers.

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    Comment #44830912

    I noticed it was taking awhile on the first large-ish task I gave it. I'm assuming it was just a bit overloaded at the moment.

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    Comment #44830876

    Where'd you get 720 from?

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    Comment #44830851

    Did I say GPT-5? I said o3. :) That was a rebuttal to you saying you have never needed to add your key to use an OpenAI model before.

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    Comment #44830842

    It seems to be trained to use tools effectively to gather context. In this example against 4.1 and o3 it used 6 in the first turn in a pretty cool way (fetching different categorie…

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    Comment #44830817

    It's free in Cursor for the next few days, you should go try it out if you haven't. I've been an agentic coding power user since the day it came out across several IDE's/CLI tools …

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    Comment #44830797

    It does seem to be doing well compared to Opus 4.1 in my testing the last few hours. I've been on the Claude Code 200 plan for a few months and I've been really frustrated with it'…

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    Comment #44830778

    It does really well at using tool calls to gain as much context as it can to provide thoughtful answers. In this example it did 6! tool calls in the first response while 4.1 did 3 …