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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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he what? this is on the record?
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https://kagi.com/smallweb/
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this is the correct answer. the stream is just the production process, not the full product.
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(and the fact that they proudly wore it on their sleeve and shone a lamp on it is complete and absolute genius)
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(came from f5 bot) haha yeah if any ai companies are looking i’ll talk for $200m!!!
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or, yknow, focusing on astronaut safety was more important than taking care of how things look on tv
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?? whats the technical reason it went down, you cant blame vercel for this
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agree, its visually interesting but not easy to read
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- report benchmark that conveniently omits well known SOTAs, 20 points - conveniently omit well known benchmarks because not SOTA, 30 points - change one tiny term in GRPO and call it a completely dif…
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(came from f5bot) thanks for the post - am live updating this with all the more "practical" stuff filtering out the twitter hype stuff around the mere mention of things like opus 4.7
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> also related: https://www.ccleaks.com This deployment is temporarily paused
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hn should allow append-only edits, but appreciate the correction
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thats wild that you can still link to a 2006 blogpost. kudos, ars technica.
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thanks Sid! i think a lot of people incl myself aspire to be where you are - I have effectively 3 businesses and have only hired one GM (on track to be CEO), but the other 2 I am effectively CEOing. y…
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how do you handle GitLab + Kilo + all this personal work? what system have you figured out? sorry if you've written about this somewhere, i think there's a meta lesson you have that we all c…
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are existing subscribers grandfathered in or no?
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> i was lucky to see my processes before the system hard locked. how do you do that? have Activity Monitor up at all times?
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but then u run into edge cases with indirect references and entity recognition models arent smart enough to deal with them, and bitter lesson hits you again.
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thats not at all the question i asked
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do you care about harness benchmarks or no?
4mo ago·view thread
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i had claude code oneshot it: https://github.com/swyxio/websiteinterceptor
5mo ago·view thread
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yes please! i need a "comment to follow" functionality on HN
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OP if you care to indulge - why did you decide to work on this? vs just work on a TUI directly.
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> And yes, we'll take the website criticism as a compliment :) ugh. guys. come on. stop celebrating at the 1 yard line. people are telling you they didnt even look at the product becacuse your…
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you must be new to fivetran (hint: check their naming)
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you can work around it but i wont say how here because slack is definitely readin gthis
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yes please! i made a similar plea to openai that was on hn recently https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47012553 …
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came here from f5 bot - hi I edited this piece! it’s riiight at the tip of outrageous but not totally insane. which as I look at my own coding evolution over the past few months, is increasingly like…
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