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swyx

24,260karma·6,031submissions·December 9, 2015
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Writer/Angel in devtools and smol AI enjoyer.

ai engineer pod/news: https://latent.space/

conference: https://ai.engineer

devrel/devtools: https://dx.tips/

personal blog: https://swyx.io/ideas

book: https://learninpublic.org/

but you can also email username [at] ai dot engineer

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recent activity (6,031 total)
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nice to see you still on the netlify train todd!!!! warms the hear to see netlify back on HN
2d ago·view thread
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if you are only seeking that in order to be impressed you are not very good at the business at tech
3d ago·view thread
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i guess this is a good time to mention that smol forge is open for the first 100 alpha users! point clanker to forge.smol. ai/llms.txt for now its just a fast agent native git remote and u can ch…
10d ago·view thread
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username does not check out
10d ago·view thread
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truly. its the kind of thing that makes docs people justify their jobs rather than coming from a founder or user centric pov
15d ago·view thread
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you guys are acting like he's not still a 23 year old self made billionaire that is not in jail.
15d ago·view thread
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some people should be too dumb to be allowed to comment on anything
15d ago·view thread
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maybe u should consolidate ont he calmcode nickname as a uuid
16d ago·view thread
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if you are interested, hello @ ai.engineer with your avaiability/expectations would be great, happy to dedicate some stuff to run it for u for free/cost (depending on the size)
16d ago·view thread
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> one thing at least open source harnesses can do is push back on using some of these conveniences from the providers. uhh openai just did a whole thing with arc agi where they very clearly explain…
16d ago·view thread
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what would it take for this to be more than just hn blog fodder?
16d ago·view thread
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stripe is v good. clickhouse would be less exciting only bc its yet another db
16d ago·view thread
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its jut not a good starting point for any yc company so might as well rename now while its cheap i dont speak for them but 100% this is close enough to home tjat they should be concerned
16d ago·view thread
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i loved this pod, and their launch is honestly v impressive vs thinking machines
16d ago·view thread
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whats your affiliation w supabase? arguably this name is close enough that people can reasonably confuse you as a supabase product. careful! but otherwise... good initiative that supa should probably …
17d ago·view thread
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does this also extend to codex?
17d ago·view thread
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is this better than using a chrome extension? i guess people need to have tampermonkey installed and so thats a slightly higher barrier to entry? i wonder if chrome would be interested in "sherlo…
18d ago·view thread
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would you ever do an SF edition? would be happy to host for you. i do a lot of conferences.
19d ago·view thread
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for those (like me) completely new but interested in new programming languages - can you or similar minds summarize the current appeal?
19d ago·view thread
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this is a very engaging and well presented video, respect to whoever this guy who made it is (cant tell from the description), he's good at his job
22d ago·view thread
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how far are we from a js/web port?
23d ago·view thread
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the talk version of this writeup was just released today: https://youtu.be/Ib5GBkD555M
23d ago·view thread
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this is probably about $5 bucks in codex . worth introspecting why nobody seems excited to run it
29d ago·view thread
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this is pretty brilliant, aws cli should sherlock this. when would you want write only?
29d ago·view thread
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> John Pebble sold his community and their collective souls for a corn chip and I genuinely don't understand why they all went rushing back to him youve never made a mistake? you didnt think g…
1mo ago·view thread