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> A lot of developers either don’t use coding agents to their full potential Define "full potential". Sounds like you are just making things up to sell your product.
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Re: Microsoft Amplifier
#52I do a lot of work with claude code and codex cli but frankly as soon as I see all the LLM-tells in the readme, and then all the commit messages written by claude, I immediately don't want to read the readme or try the project until someone else recommends it to me.
This is gaining stars and forks but I don't know if that's just because it's under the github.com/microsoft, and I don't really know how much that means.
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> A lot of developers either don’t use coding agents to their full potential Define "full potential". Sounds like you are just making things up to sell your product.
Our “product” is a tool we developed internally and found it so useful that decided to open source it.
With full potential I refer to getting the best possible results. For example, being able to work on tasks in parallel without Claude instances interfering with each other vs , well, no doing so.
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#54I'll always be skeptical about using AI to amplify AI. I think humans are needed to amplify AI since humans are so far documented to be significantly more creative and proactive in pushing the frontier than AI. I know, it's maybe a radical concept to digest.
Based on clear, operational definitions, AI is definitely more creative than humans. E.g., can easily produce higher scores on a Torrance test of divergent thinking. Humans may still be more innovative (defined as creativity adopted into larger systems), though that may be changing.
More creative? I've just seen my premium subscription "AI" struggling to find a trivial issue of a missing import in a very small / toy project. Maybe these tools are getting all sorts of scores on all sorts of benchmarks, I dont doubt it, but why are there no significant real-world results after more than 3 years of hype? It reminds of that situation when the geniuses at Google offered the job to the guy who created Homebrew and then rejected him after he supposedly did not do well on one of those algorithmic tasks (inverting a binary tree? - not sure if I remember correctly). There are also all sorts of people scoring super high on various IQ tests, but what counts, with humans as with the supposed AI is the real world results. Benchmarks without results do not mean anything.
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I’ve seen people discuss these types of approaches on X. To me it looks like the concepts here are already tried and popular - they’re just packaging it up so that people who aren’t as deep in that world can get the same benefits. But I’m not an expert.
Exactly. I don’t understand the cynicism in the comments and they literally are just trying to make the technology more accessible
That's a very altruistic outlook on Microsoft's intent with getting everyone to use and depend on AI.
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#56A lot of snark in these comments. Has anyone actually tried it yet?
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#57A lot of snark in these comments. Has anyone actually tried it yet?
I think most of us are irritated by the constant A/B Testing and underwhelming releases. Lets just have the bubble pop so we can solve real problems instead of this.
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#58Is this going to be another HN dropbox moment?
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#59Earlier quoted context omitted.
I see a Linux distro as a collection of libraries that someone puts together following best practices and conventions (ie all config files go into /etc). The similarity with this project is that Microsoft has taken a collection of tools and best practices and put them together in an easy to install package
Ah yes an easy to install package, totally the hallmark of your average Linux distro :)
Not sure if you are being serious or not. That was indeed the point of the very first Linux distros and why most people use them nowadays vs the alternative.
I started using Linux before there were distros (circa 1993) and it was not a pleasant experience compared to when Slackware came out
Re: Microsoft Amplifier
#60Is this is a Claude Code wrapper?
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