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alastairr
161karma·106submissions·March 23, 2023
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You don’t need to completely replace a whole 200k engineer. You just need to increase each engineer’s productivity sufficiently that you can reduce the total number of engineers in your company.
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I wondered if something similar could be achieved by wrapping evaluation metrics into Claude code calls.
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Humans can be treated as an existence proof that machines can have emotions. It all depends on your definition of machine.
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chavin awa
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this is great, thanks for sharing
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what about it?
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yes, although there is a paid tier they try to upgrade you to. worth noting that there are some limits on how much data you can export in one go - I found the easiest way was to dump out pieces you n…
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This has appeared on HN a few times before - but it's so useful that it seems worth resharing periodically.
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Yes, it's 34k websites, but to be transparent, they probably don't all strictly qualify as niche, for example, it includes some smaller commercial sites (usually if they have tech blogs). I&…
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right now the biggest cost is llm api calls (currently claude haiku) for organising content and making it easily searchable - this is relatively cheap (max 50$ per month). I use pinecone for search w…
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my 2p worth - my work involves a lot of summarisation, recommendation from a user preference statement. I've been able to do this with 4o / opus, but the consistency wasn't there, whic…