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lerchmo

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    Comment #49175120

    What is the fitness function , eval?

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    Comment #49127323

    A fantastically useful commodity that resists monopoly is the best outcome.

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    Comment #48995332

    Makes sense, subsidizing tokens doesn’t seem like a great strategy for a public company.

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    Comment #48995314

    Exactly developers can switch to another coding cli and the learning curve is close to zero. Mindshare without switching costs is just a popsicle in the sun.

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    Comment #48968824

    If your business leaks to your customers… if you can ask your product for its inner secret sauce and it readily gives away the goose. That is not a moat.

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    Comment #48968809

    Also probably betting on their compute and energy capabilities.

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    Comment #47143598

    This is important. 20 billion is just like a rumor? would love to see the breakdown in the form of audited financials.

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    Comment #46519167

    I also see ghosty consume a massive amount of memory and periodically need to restart.

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    Comment #46380529

    I would assume he is a fiduciary... I am curious what happens with investors here?

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    Comment #46380507

    curious how the execs can honor the fiduciary duty to share holders assuming only they? get the 20 billion and the company is left headless and leaking all of its intellectual prop…

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    Comment #45420543

    I see thinking can be toggled in the CLI, anyone figured out how to toggle it in the extension?

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    Comment #45406807

    smolagents uses a similar mechanism.

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    Comment #44985492

    in the context of LLM's we are in the Friendster era

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    Comment #44816564

    Boggle head is basically pick 2-3 vanguard etfs and check back in 25 years.

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    Comment #44815472

    assuming this is something like covered calls?

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    Comment #44717874

    Why don’t they just offer a $500/m plan?

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    Comment #44717862

    Time to start using Claude code proxy and other models. This black box rate limit is really lame.

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    Comment #44624167

    Alot of deterministic systems externalize their edge cases to the user. The software design doesn’t fully match the reality of how it gets used. Ai can be far more flexible in the …

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    Comment #44428025

    You could hire 100 people to manage your timeseries data and save 70%

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    Comment #44157781

    One thing I don’t understand about these agent frameworks… cursor, Claude, Claude code, cline, v0… all of the large production agents with leaked prompts use xml function calling, …

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    Comment #44126867

    claude code will do this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TIXl2rlA6Q&t=580s

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    Comment #44126155

    Enough to kill is a meaningless metric.

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    Comment #43624809

    https://aider.chat/docs/leaderboards/ your experience doesn't align with my experience or this benchmark. o1 pro is good but I would rather do 20 cycles on gemini 2.5 rather than w…

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    Comment #43624775

    The switching costs are so low (zero) that anyone using these models just jumps to the best performer. I also agree that this is not a brand or narrative sensitive project.

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    Comment #43029672

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