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Also so many people with so many guns. Mass Unemployment with no healthcare or supporting social services , very few opportunities and lots of guns. It will not be ok.

Please don't take offense to this very dumb question: Why can't you do the planning ? Figure out what needs to be done , break it down into small tasks and then ask the agent to ex…

Any evidence to back that up?

Average folks like their Excel and Word. Most families have MS subscriptions like they have Netflix subscriptions. Monopolies will continue as Token prices continue to rise.

How do you take Creatine ? And how much for what age group and weight?

Has anyone used Keycloak for actual production? I have often thought about it but I stick to Auth0 just because I don't know if Keycloak has a good track record?

I am not following this obsession with SOTA and benchmark rankings I have been using DeepSeek and GLMnmodels with OpenCode and Codex and Claudr side by side. I have not found the C…

This is not your feed. I appreciate the fact that HN does not have personalized echo chamber aka feeds. Government overreach is a concern for a lot of HNers; hence this was voted u…

>> Apple has offered products with little value over competitors My Pixel dropped connections unexpectedly. The battery would barely last till end of day. Apple hardware is simply …

maybe writing code is cheap . But writing unit tests that actually test stuff that matters is suddenly so much more important and expensive.

Humans are accountable to each other. Humans can be shamed in a code review and reprimanded and threatened with consequences for sloppy work. Most, humans once reprimanded , will n…

I used to be a big advocate for Salesforce in my organization. And it was really great .. allowing us to deliver new functionality without the usual IT procurement bureaucracy. Now…

FoundationDB Record layer doesn't get much attention here but I have found that all my use cases are satisfied by it. And I get the benefit of resiliency and DR for free. If you ar…

If I may ask, does the code produced by LLM follow best practices or patterns? What mental model do you use to understand or comprehend your codebase? Please know that I am asking …

Spring AI is fantastic for Java shops. I am assuming Typescript devs will enjoy Mastra just as much .

Gemini's large context window is incredible. I concatenate the my entire repo and repos of supporting libraries and then ask it questions. My last use case was like this : I had a …

I had Gemini ingest our huge aws cloudformation repo . I had it describe each infrastructure component and how it related to others and creation hierarchy and IAM. I got a nice and…

Yes the cost of building software dropped by 90%. However, the cost of software maintenance went up by 1000% . Lets hope you don't need to ever add a new business rule or user inte…

I am curious : could GenAI have written the paper "Attention is all you need"? We were trapped in CNN RNN architectures for a while : could genAi have arrived at a better architect…

BS. I grew up in Delhi. We used to have a large open space where I and neighborhood kids used to play cricket . Eventually the whole area converted to slums with people from Bangla…

When I ask for Patterns, I am seeking help for recurring problems that I have encountered. Context management .. small llms ( ones with small context size) break and get confused a…

How.. please don't say use langxxx library I am looking for a language or library agnostic pattern like we have MVC etc. for web applications. Or Gang of Four patterns but for buil…

Fine .. say your country has a several years of drought and bad harvest. What happens then ? Do you trade then ? Or .. lets say due to weather, your farmers can not grow enough ora…

I am here to hear from folks running LLM on Framework desktop (128GB). Is it usable for agentic coding ?

>> Have you measured your latency, and how sensitive are you to it? Not sensitive to latency at all. My users would rather have well researched answers than poor answers. Also, I u…