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theredbeard

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    Comment #47539769

    We haven’t been inching closer to users writing a half-decent ticket in decades though.

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    Comment #47539757

    This is because for some reason all agentic systems think that slapping cron on it is enough, but that completely ignores decades of knowledge about prospective memory. Take a look…

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    Comment #47532737

    What in the ChatGPT is this?

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    Comment #47521866

    I’m getting pretty decent at spotting LLM text. This doesn’t contain the obvious tells at least.

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    Comment #47339353

    It’s a self fulfilling prophecy. They’re extremely expensive so they must be good so they must be worth it. And because at that level measurement is extremely subjective it’s mainl…

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    Comment #47339316

    I’m sorry but no attempt was made here. It contains all the red flags in the first few paragraphs.

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    Comment #47339297

    A vibe? It’s completely obvious AI slop with no attempt to make it legible. They didn’t even prompt out the emdashes. For such a cool finding this is extremely disappointing.

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    Comment #47136895

    It's a fair question. I've had problems with Gemini 3 due to rate limiting, and I've been working on this for a while now. I'm planning Gemini 3 for a follow up.

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    Comment #47038271

    It’s not groundbreaking in a technological sense. The codebase is actually a bit of a monstrosity. But it removed guardrails that were artificially put on these LLMs which suddenly…

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    Comment #47001059

    I built this because I was curious what Claude sends to the API, how subagents get work delegated and what contexts look like. Interesting to see how small part of the context the …

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    Comment #46948677

    I built this because I was curious what Claude sends to the API, how subagents get work delegated and how contexts look like. Interesting to see how small part of the context the u…

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    Comment #46947243

    No worries, the italics did heavy lifting.

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    Comment #46947221

    Gitlab.com is the obvious rec.

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    Comment #46944738

    What could go wrong?!

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    Comment #46944699

    Skipping the investigation phase to jump straight to solutions has killed projects for decades. Requirements docs nobody reads, analysis nobody does, straight to coding because tha…

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    Comment #46943923

    OSS was already brutal for new contributors before AI. You'd spend hours on a good-faith PR and get ignored for months, or get torn apart in review because you didn't know the unwr…