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Friendly reminder that GPT-5.6 in Codex cannot spawn Luna subagents, only Terra [1] To fix this you currently need to make your own copy of the bundled model catalog [2] and opt Lu…

Can you say more? This sounds like it could be more useful than trying to build a knowledge base (say qmd) and then get the models to search it for the right context each time.

> I feel like this benchmark reiterates my disbelief that anyone uses the latest Anthropic models for any productive work. They seem to be the best at burning tokens and spawning u…

> I'm only using Opus at all because GPT-5.5 in the subscriptions only has a small (400k, but 258k effective) context window. Do you find that makes a difference in your work? I've…

The one positive of this is it seems to have livened up the open source project (Vinyl Cache). Features that haven't been added for years are now being worked on, whether they step…

Jira is the one product I feel needs to be AI native. AI native in the sense that it papers over the pain points. New JIRA admin? AI will set it up to do what you want (after all, …

Previously covered at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48053623

What's led to the higher prices than Germany? Usually substantially lower earnings would mean lower prices, even if not substantially lower (look at the UK, higher prices than much…

> Extremely debatable. They still have never fully implemented health checks and auto healing. Agree. Plus there's the monitoring of the host that is always overlooked in articles.…

Only at the "hmm that seems an interesting idea" level. Thanks for the links, going to have a read and see if I can apply any to my work.

If you can type code fast and accurately, it sounds a great process to use. You're using LLMs for the bit where they bring great value, and yourself as a higher quality coding agen…

Developer of 20+ years here, can't give you an accurate multiplier but I am faster. Because spotting holes in specs has never been one of my strengths. And working without technica…

> Hermes is one of these OpenClaw clones So that's what it is. Reading its README I thought it was another harness like Pi [1], but with built-in memory so it remembers what it lea…

What's the privacy/data security like? I can't find that on that page. Edit: found it. > We may use your Content to operate, maintain, improve, and develop the Services, to comply …

> Stripe APIs being simple and easy is a meme from the 2010s. It isn't anymore. I'm working with Stripe subscriptions at the moment for a charity taking donations via their website…

The Peter Principle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_principle

Let us know if it does, because we all want it to work :)

Dealing with Google is a nightmare. I'm one of the volunteer sysadmins for https://forum.buildhub.org.uk/ , a DIY and self-build forum. For 10 years it ranked very well on Google, …

This nono? https://github.com/always-further/nono > Just remember to disable CC’s auto-updater if that’s what you’re using. Why?

Can anyone enlighten me how having a coding harness when for most customers you say "we won't train on your code" helps you do RL? What's the data that they rely on? Is it the prom…

If you were creating a new programming language in 2026, which DateTime/Temporal library would you copy and why?

Is there only a cloud-based mode for Islo, or can I run this entirely on my laptop?