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Absolutely - not a criticism. I think it's great to try out projects :)

Nice! Reminds me a little of https://github.com/gchq/CyberChef

A dumb vibe-coded GTA III parody set in my city of Glasgow: https://glasgow-brawler.vercel.app/

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I managed to find that Haiku outperformed Sonnet on some tasks...don't want to blog spam but if anyone is interested: https://www.ruairidh.dev/blog/sonnet-4-6-drops-format-rule-o..…

I recently made halftrace - point it at your OpenAI/Anthropic/LangSmith agent logs and it tells you what shape your agent's rule-following has, why, and what to try. I built it to …

Ricoh GRIII / IV is absolutely perfect for this imo

I guess just a spell-check in the repo? But yes, I'd imagine that they have an effect. Even running the same input twice is non-deterministic.

I literally just posted a blog on this. Some seemingly insignificant words are actually highly structural to the model. https://www.ruairidh.dev/blog/compressing-prompts-with-an-au…

Also seen this several times.

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To be fair, I suspect he doesn't make his own tea xD

Hi HN, I built WinLog because I kept seeing good engineers undersell themselves during reviews and promotions. Not because they weren’t doing great work, but because they simply fo…

It has, but there are always new perspectives.

I'd say ICs and Team Leads in eng organisations. So far I'm thinking Reddit and HN? Maybe a bit of LinkedIn

I've got a side project I've worked on for a while and I'm happy with the engineering side, but I'm terrible at marketing. I've made a couple of reddit comments, shown friends who …

$0 so far (just launched). I recently launched https://winlog.dev , a Slack-first tool to help engineers capture their work as it happens so they’re better prepared for reviews and…

I'm just curious as to what the HN crowd has on their wishlist this year.

I'm moving house and it's great for feeding in floor plans and coming up with ideas. Like having an interior designer. Not always accurate but it's enough to get me going.

As a manager, I try and take most of it on when possible. The team have worked hard all year and I view it as good leadership to let them have that space.