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swyx
24,264karma·6,033submissions·December 9, 2015
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Writer/Angel in devtools and smol AI enjoyer.
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personal blog: https://swyx.io/ideas
book: https://learninpublic.org/
but you can also email username [at] ai dot engineer
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> we don’t have access to the Slack MCP ok, why?
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(editor here) yes, a central nuance i try to communicate is not that LLMs cannot have world models (and in fact they've improved a lot) - it is just that they are doing this so inefficiently as t…
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i mean, right there in the top update: > UPD September 15, 2025: Reasoning models opened a new chapter in Chess performance, the most recent models, such as GPT-5, can play reasonable chess, even b…
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you realize ankit is from india and i'm from singapore right lol
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editor here! all questions welcome - this is a topic i've been pursuing in the podcast for much of the past year... links inside.
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one thing i dislike about "good design" in general is that it usually takes away from information density and practical convenience in order to achieve "good design". this feels li…
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> The real key materializes only when the sandbox makes an outbound request to an approved host. If prompt-injected code tries to exfiltrate that placeholder to evil.com? Useless. pretty smart. why…
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ha tyyy. sorry for not being thaat much of a /r/localllama guy
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i mean the other obvious answer is to plug in to the other claude code proxies that other model companies have made for you: https://docs.z.ai/devpack/tool/claude https:&#x…
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... why OP, why
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i think thats conflating two things (am not an expert). opencode exploited unauthorized use/api access, but obviously whatever that is using claude code sdk is kosher because its literally anthro…
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orrrr you could go the other way and read explicitly ai-generated docs that use the code as source of truth https://deepwiki.com/gavrielc/nanoclaw …
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this is generic startup advice (doesnt mean its not true). you level up a bit when you find instances where slow beat fast (see: Teams vs Slack)
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> Update on Feb. 1st:
> Well, now it's Feb. 1st and I have an iPhone 17 Pro Max to test with and... everything works as expected. So it's pretty safe to say that THAT specific instance…
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OK:) congrats, was just prompting you to do a technical writeup
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Feels like a somewhat arbitrary decision.. other thread was #1 on hn and had a lot more points. Is the goal to give the author his due karma? Misattribution happens all the time and it's ok. If a…
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Did you vibe code the whole thing? Talk thru the stack and your experience/findings
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Funny because that's how us Americans feel about your European cookie banner litter and unilateral demands on privacy
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Yes. https://x.com/swyx/status/2016381014483075561?s=20 it's not crazy, they cap it to 3 credits, and also YSK agent swarm is a closed source product Would i use it a g…
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(team member) my comparison matrix of why Product Arenas differ from Global Arenas here: https://x.com/swyx/status/2017342647963431363 the trick is to get it to be usable wi…
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you must be new to subreddit simulator. come, young one, let me show you the ancient arts of 2020 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23171393 …
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readers beware this website is unaffiliated with the actual project and is shilling a crypto token
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i recall another project here on HN maybe 4-6 months ago that would run tests 4x a day or something. not sure how to find them again
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chill out, ofir does not work for anthropic. he's just saying there's inherent variability in LLMs and you need to at least 30x the samples that OP is doing in order to make any form of stat…
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they could but you can also have some trust in anthropic to have some integrity there, these are earnest people. "trust but verify" ofc . https://latent.space/p/artifici…