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Post by herbst »

cheema33 wrote: post #390
zrobotics wrote: post #375

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Oh god, as if marketplace wasn't already enough of a toxic cesspool. I miss Craigslist more and more every year, unfortunately FB marketplace seems to be where everyone in my area has congregated.

> I miss Craigslist more and more I do not. Craigslist was completely anonymous. Marketplace a lot less so. This makes a massive difference. > marketplace seems to be where everyone in my area has congregated. I think that is not just limited to your area.

In Switzerland there is tutti, in Austria there is willhaben, Germany has Kleinanzeigen (afaik that's owned by eBay)

Same for events, plenty of local or more spread sites for events in each of these counties.

So glad my general area didn't fall into the Facebook trap.

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Post by postatic »

The initial reaction is "why on earth would I give Facebook MORE of my data, no way" but as some commenters said, this would be a great tool to use to see if it can automate some of the tools that I have not been able to automate (e.g. Facebook most of all!)

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Post by redox99 »

matkoniecz wrote: post #517
redox99 wrote: post #320

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Thanks for the reply. I'd suggest you improve your workflow with better tooling like Codex or Claude code, and if you have some kind of weird constraint they'll easily follow an AGENTS.md with that.

I refuse to pay any money to these companies specifically AND so far I use it solely for things where copy-pasting is entirely fine. I used free trial of Claude Code and has not seemed to be superior for my usecases.

Just use opencode/pi/etc with an open weight model?

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Post by sourcecodeplz »

bblb wrote: post #438
nzoschke wrote: post #31

Why would you share data with Meta like this? The Agent Computer is super powerful, but by definition its easier than ever to build one yourself, and a the result is a personal and private computer. I know most "normal" people wont want to build their own this but there are still a lot of options that don't involve giving Meta or Grok all your data. I put some notes on all this here: https://housecat.com/blog/agent-c…

After the release of Qwen 3.8 I've been dabbling with my "Agent Computer". That is, a secondary GPU on my home computer. Intel B70 with enough VRAM to run Q6 and some context on llama.cpp, plus a ComfyUI instance. Total yolo mode with full access to my PC, --tools=all and sudo NOPASSWD. It can do file organizing and wrangling when needed, it has simple web access with the curl tool, it can analyze media file contents…

> Sure, it can't book a flight or organize the family calendar for the next month, but I don't have any need for those.

why can't it do that? just run a VPS inside WSL or another container inside your PC. give the agent that sandbox.

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Post by solarkraft »

small_model wrote: post #73
sroerick wrote: post #12

Facebook is the first to market with a polished openclaw? Good for them. I'm sure many others will criticize other aspects of Meta, and rightly so. But imagine using a Claw agent with zero tech support available

Grokbot wa first and enterprise and consumer focused

Grok is made by Elon Musk and hence fit for neither

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Post by alex1138 »

melasadra wrote: post #216
darksaints wrote: post #203

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Based on what passes for “engagement” and “content” on their platforms, I’d estimate that a majority of their users are exactly that.

So my country has somewhere between 100-200 million MAU for facebook ane. Facebook marketplace is huge here.It's basically our craigslist. Hobby groups/communities are also huge. If I wanted to find the local jogging or chess club, I'd use Facebook. Just remember that outside your bubble there's a whole wide world with billions of people living in it

The company is hurting people outside the 'bubble'.

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Post by mrweasel »

cebert wrote: post #326
tikotus wrote: post #287

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Yes! Though I mainly use it for one-shotting full files, so I'm not copying over small diffs. I did try copilot at some point in vscode, but after a week or so I felt like it was slowing me down. Something I knew would be a simple and quick change was now slow since I didn't have enough ownership of the code to do it quickly myself, and prompting for the change took longer than changing it manually if I had had full…

Using ChatGPT.com for coding tasks has to be a joke in 2026, right? I assumed everyone is using Codex/Claude Code/OpenCode/Pi by now if you’re using these tools.

HN vastly over estimate the actual usage of agents, and AI in general. The few times I figure an LLM might help, I just use DuckDuckGos duck.ai.

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Post by weitendorf »

dools wrote: post #91

I love how the marketing departments of these things always imagine people are just constantly plagued by the hassle of organising their flights, restaurant bookings and movie tickets

I’m pretty sure if you asked my mom what problems AI could help solve for her, navigating website’s purchasing/account flows and directly answering questions about the contents of her email would be #1 and #2.

And my mom doesn’t use AI products like chatgpt because she’s not a student, nor agents because she doesn’t work in tech. To her AI, is no different from those chatbots websites pop up in the corner, the ones you never seek out or interact with intentionally, because you don’t need what they offer.

So I actually think this kind of marketing is quite helpful for regular people who mostly just use their phones to buy stuff, looking things up, navigate life, and entertainment. My mom doesn’t give a shit about APIs or sandboxing, or benchmarks and to her it literally is a hassle to manage a million one-off accounts and confirmation codes and receipts when she just wants to buy something on her phone. She would not assume AI is capable of that or know how to set it up locally.

that’s not even getting into the fact that the top 10% controls 50% of consumer spending in the US and primarily purchases convenience + health + experiences, whereas the other 90% primarily prefers to buy aspirational/identity based goods that evoke their mental model of a higher status lifestyle. It’s why the same bustling lifestyle archetype you criticize is literally used exclusively in car ads, housing marketing materials, consumer electronics, home goods, etc. Because normal people want to feel and/or look good not spawn subagents

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Post by mrweasel »

zerr wrote: post #520
loeg wrote: post #457

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You're missing out, for better or worse.

As an engineer, the enjoyment from the process is not less important, or should I say more important, than the enjoyment from shipping a final product.

That's probably the single thing that I found to be biggest difference between those who are very pro AI vs. those more reserved or negative.

A colleague has openly stated that he very much does not care for the process, he just want the product. Where I only care about the product in the sense that I have to, because it's my job and for hobbies I pretty much only care about the process. So an LLM pretty much doesn't make sense, because it help by removing the part I care about. They are good tools for debugging and if you're hopelessly stuck on a detail of some weird and obscure API or configuration.

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