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pocketarc

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About pocketarc

Senior Software Engineer, Team Lead @ Prompt Health.

Lived in Portugal, Ireland, UK, and now in the US / New Jersey.

Always happy to chat. You can reach me at hn@pocketarc.com.

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    Your game example is a great one: If a game didn’t come with its 3D models, sound, level files, game data, or assets of any kind, but its engine was open source, I don’t think anyo…

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    This absolutely should be a thing, but it'll have to be a per-community thing, them building their own dataset and creating their own evals (similar to how people do for production…

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    Comment #48951269

    You’re running 48GB now but imagine a future where everyone has 512GB RAM or 1TB RAM in their computers (it might sound like a lot but also 20 years ago we had 512MB PCs). It’s not…

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    Comment #48905502

    In the olden days, I enjoyed Opus 3 because it was easy to have it sound way more human than GPT. Nowadays, with the focus on agentic use and coding, it seems models have all been …

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    Comment #48516491

    They were definitely proudly boasting being a certified UNIX OS (and macOS still is), it goes deeper than just software licenses: https://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/register/

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    Comment #47425035

    When people imagined AI/AGI, they imagined something that can reason like we can, except at the speed of a computer, which we always envisioned would lead to the singularity. In a …

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    Comment #47275833

    "open source" has a specific definition[0], which this project does not meet. When people say "open source", that is the definition that they are referencing. It's the reason why t…

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    Comment #47207966

    Yeah like I remember prior to reasoning models, their guidance was to use tags to give models space for reasoning prior to an answer (incidentally, also the reason I didn't quite u…

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    Comment #46779766

    I think I've read the reference a hundred times throughout my time on HN, but had _never_ actually seen it, thank you for the link!

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    Comment #46744215

    I'm a dev, not a salesperson, but let's be realistic. A company tells you "yeah we're interested in signing at $1M/yr, but we really need this feature, when will you have it by?", …

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    Comment #46697898

    I use this approach for a ticket based customer support agent. There are a bunch of boolean checks that the LLM must pass before its response is allowed through. Some are hard fail…

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    Comment #46667507

    I agree - and it's not just what gets you promoted, but also what gets you hired, and what people look for in general. You're looking for your first DevOps person, so you want some…

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    Comment #46667364

    I've seen that in a few places, yeah! I think I personally would just put something in the footer and have a specific page for it that I can link people to. I really hope that I ne…

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    Comment #46667339

    > includes some breaking changes Most of the changes are completely reasonable - a lot are internal cleanup that would require no code changes on the user side, dropping older brow…

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    Comment #46659751

    I love the interview at the end of the video. The kubectl-inspired CLI, and the feedback for improvements from Claude, as well as the alerts/segmentation feedback. You could take t…

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    Comment #46654220

    > This might mean deriving data when possible; for example, computing totals rather than storing them. Fully agreed. This might be one of those areas where people not knowing it's …

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    Comment #46624917

    https://pocketarc.com - Personal blog, where I've been trying to write more. I've recently started keeping a personal devlog there as well.

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    Comment #46575380

    lg:dark:hover:bg-red-500 > on large screens > in dark mode > when hovering > bg should be red-500 The above is an unrealistic example, but, you can't achieve that with the style at…

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    Comment #46437066

    HN goes through hype cycles, I suppose. Remember when it was all about crypto and every conversation ended with "we could use blockchain" and we were all fed up? Remember when ever…

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    Comment #46367546

    > a vitamin is something you can't live without They are talking about vitamin supplements, not literal vitamins that you need in order to live. Vitamin supplements do not survive …

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    Comment #45705962

    I personally think this could pop up as policy at work. I'd personally push for that. "If you're pasting AI responses without filtering through the lens of your own thoughts and ex…

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    Comment #44804656

    Others have already said it, but it needs to be said again: Good god, stop treating LLMs like oracles. LLMs are not encyclopedias. Give an LLM the context you want to explore, and …