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The Harness Is the Thing

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Re: The Harness Is the Thing

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Post by yurishimo »

lucideer wrote: post #109
Insanity wrote: post #102

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If it's not rendering as intended across all browsers, I'd call that broken. If it renders as intended and just look bad, that's taste.

It's hard to say since the gp didn't specify what they thought was broken. The overall layout is fairly odd & weird - but it's the same in Chrome & Firefox. There is one technical bug with the main body font-size - it uses some invalid syntax (should be invalid in both Chrome & Firefox) & Chrome seems to be accepting it (against spec). The rule: font-size: clamp( 1.125rem, 1.125rem + (1.333rem - 1.125rem) * (100dvw -…

Whats wrong with the font size exactly? Im not a desktop to check it but its look fine? A bit unusual but I wouldn’t say a clamp with a bunch of math is invalid.

Re: The Harness Is the Thing

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Post by sfryxell »

dmantis wrote: post #83
tokai wrote: post #82

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Looks fine on ff, and the same as other browsers. You sure the issue isn't in your end?

Well, who knows, but in brave it looks alright, and ff for me has extremely narrow text with disproportionately huge images. I see a few upvotes so I assume at least some other users have the same.

Direct Actionable feedback. Thank you. The text is trying to folow the seven to ten words per line rule.

This is my first blog post with graphics. so your comment helps me guage proportions

Re: The Harness Is the Thing

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Post by all2 »

ChrisMarshallNY wrote: post #64
apercu wrote: post #63

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The thing about consulting is that someone needs to verify the output, know what questions to ask in the first place, and provide a throat for the client to choke in the event of an issue. Also, professional insurance. I could be wrong but in the worlds I live in professionally, accountability is still a thing.

Yup. There's some places that we'll need that accountability. I suspect that this may be filled by folks that act as "LLM brokers," using AI in the background, while dealing with the legalities, in the foreground. But in my case, it wasn't nearly so exotic. The LLM helped me to do a much better job, preparing the App Store presentation, Web support, privacy policies, budget prognostication, and app glossary. I have j…

I'd be curious to pick your brain about the process you went through for this. My mental gap here is not even knowing what to ask for a process like this.

Re: The Harness Is the Thing

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Post by quinncom »

sfryxell wrote: post #103
alexgoodhart wrote: post #96

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I looked at it on my out of date FF and it looks fine.

I looked at it on firefox and it looks fine. I wonder why it's off for some people

Looks fine in my Firefox. The text size is smaller than in Safari, but it’s fine.

Re: The Harness Is the Thing

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Post by ChrisMarshallNY »

all2 wrote: post #123
ChrisMarshallNY wrote: post #64

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Yup. There's some places that we'll need that accountability. I suspect that this may be filled by folks that act as "LLM brokers," using AI in the background, while dealing with the legalities, in the foreground. But in my case, it wasn't nearly so exotic. The LLM helped me to do a much better job, preparing the App Store presentation, Web support, privacy policies, budget prognostication, and app glossary. I have j…

I'd be curious to pick your brain about the process you went through for this. My mental gap here is not even knowing what to ask for a process like this.

Happy to do so. Probably not something a lot of folks here would find interesting, but I'm easy to contact, from my Web sites. People here, often do that.

Basically, my needs are different from others. I'm not working on the next NORAD upgrade, much of my work is open, and the more ChatGPT knows about me, and the app I'm designing, the better. One reason I chose it, was because of this "memory."

TL;DR: I feed it just about every scrap of information about my project as I can. Source files, documentation, screenshots, videos, information about the organization, information about the target demographic, etc.

With all that information, it gives me very useful advice.

It created a great tutorial. I usually write way too complicated ones. It did much better.

In the case of the App Store stuff, it helped me to choose the right privacy report, generated the privacy manifest, and helped me to compose all the copy on the storefront.

I'll probably be releasing the new app, soon. It's already passed review, but I want to make sure that everything is kosher, before releasing. It came together so quickly, that I have the luxury of time. I just need to release before (or as) iOS27 comes out.

Re: The Harness Is the Thing

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Post by sfryxell »

douglee650 wrote: post #49

Author states, “Single developer projects can build to the caliber and consistency of large development teams.” When I, as a single person, can produce a project in one month that would have taken a team of four people three months to produce, why would I care about token cost? I’m now spending $500/month instead of $40,000 month to get the same thing 3x faster. $500 for a project instead of $120,000. (Assumes my cos…

My bet is we no longer have the benifit of the doubt. and so taking capital and burning hard is not going to break through into consumer as easily as it did. So I extend the arc of time, tell people I'm a business, focus on giving customer as much free as I can, (probably add the harness to my product), and over time build an affectionate connetion with customers and then remind them I'm a business.

Re: The Harness Is the Thing

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Post by edg5000 »

YawningAngel wrote: post #43
edg5000 wrote: post #25

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Sol is basically at the same level, but with better usage. You're not dependent on Fable. You could switch the next minute and hardly experience quality differences.

My experience of Sol is that it's very instrumentally competent but is a complete terrorist that will cheerfully do unhinged things that "technically" solve a problem. For example, I asked it to verify something in our integration tests and it responded by grabbing kafka details out of config and trying to use them. When I pointed out that this was not it, it did the same thing with a database client instead. Convers…

What I do notice is that when it doesn't have the info it needs, or when I don't tell it that I'll handle part of the process, it will indeed do everything to get the job done. Also saw this but find this a great quality, because I never ask it to do anything that would involve unhinged things. Sol and other models as well have just gotten so damn good. They can get just about anything done and usally do it well too. Maybe I was inexperienced in prompting, but I remember doing much, much more handholding with late 2025 LLMs.

Re: The Harness Is the Thing

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Post by sho »

jayGlow wrote: post #116
sho wrote: post #99

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If you find yourself wishing for more Fable at the subscription rates, just buy another 20x account? I'm currently on 3, spaced out on Sunday, Wednesday and Friday. Just as one is running out the next resets. Problem solved! I feel the value I get far exceeds $600/m. It's a straight expected value calculation for me and I'm happy to pay. I wish they'd make it easier though - just sell me a 100x account for $1k/m and…

what kind of workflow are you using the requires that many tokens? I rarely hit my limit with the $100 a month plan and I use fable pretty frequently although it usually acts as an orchestrator while the actual work is done by lesser models usually.

Nothing weird or exotic - just frequent daily work in two reasonably large applications, with a lot of testing and follow-through. I've found that as codebase size goes up, token usage does too - perhaps quadratically, and a complex back end application just costs a lot to work in, probably because it needs to map out so many pathways and interdependencies.

I tend to work in 5-10 or so parallel streams at a time so that also multiplies token use as a function of time. Much less and I'm waiting for it too much, much more and I can't juggle effectively. My new big project is of course to try to take myself out of the equation further and increase the parallel streams dramatically; pretty hard to get that right so still manual for now.

Re: The Harness Is the Thing

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Post by lucideer »

yurishimo wrote: post #121
lucideer wrote: post #109

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's hard to say since the gp didn't specify what they thought was broken. The overall layout is fairly odd & weird - but it's the same in Chrome & Firefox. There is one technical bug with the main body font-size - it uses some invalid syntax (should be invalid in both Chrome & Firefox) & Chrome seems to be accepting it (against spec). The rule: font-size: clamp( 1.125rem, 1.125rem + (1.333rem - 1.125rem) * (100dvw -…

Whats wrong with the font size exactly? Im not a desktop to check it but its look fine? A bit unusual but I wouldn’t say a clamp with a bunch of math is invalid.

for me it's just a slight reduction in the font size due to firefox ignoring the above - which doesn't seem enough of a difference to warrant folk calling it outright "broken"

It's entirely possible I'm misreading the spec on clamp() but as far as I understood it, clamp() performs math on a bunch of comma separated fixed values, calc() handles arithmetic operators - this seems to be combining those without a calc invocation, but maybe I misread & overlooked clamp arithmetic operators. Firefox just says it's invalid, no detail on why.

Re: The Harness Is the Thing

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Post by apercu »

ChrisMarshallNY wrote: post #125
all2 wrote: post #123

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I'd be curious to pick your brain about the process you went through for this. My mental gap here is not even knowing what to ask for a process like this.

Happy to do so. Probably not something a lot of folks here would find interesting, but I'm easy to contact, from my Web sites. People here, often do that. Basically, my needs are different from others. I'm not working on the next NORAD upgrade, much of my work is open, and the more ChatGPT knows about me, and the app I'm designing, the better. One reason I chose it, was because of this "memory." TL;DR: I feed it just…

When using LLM's to help write things like tutorials, how do you reduce the verbosity firehose?

Even though I use MD/skills and other methods, I have remind models that they are not paid by the word multiple times a day.

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