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swyx
24,262karma·6,033submissions·December 9, 2015
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Writer/Angel in devtools and smol AI enjoyer.
ai engineer pod/news: https://latent.space/
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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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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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i vaguely recall about 2 years ago some RAG startup or other did do one for you. i mean this is nothing for a startup and they could use the endorsement ha
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> The battery is wearing out a bit, but it started out life with so much runtime that losing a few hours doesn't seem to matter. this is my exact opposite experience. my M3 Max from 2 years ag…
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just got pinged by f5bot - hi editor here! Personal take: at this point multiple people are already weighing how to remove the human code review bottleneck from agents becoming fully productive. Ankit…
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its kind of hilarious that humans hallucinate just like AI can here
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also how the heck do you pull all these related things, do you have a semantic/agentic search bot by now or is this all just from your head?
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what would you use it for?
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good argument, bad example. GDP is a net revenue number but Stripe is using a gross revenue number (their equivalent of "GMV"). so the numerator/denominator are as different as possibl…
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still, managing to get attention enough for people to discuss it 10 years after it passes is rare, when there is so much crap out there
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go thru workshops here https://www.youtube.com/@aiDotEngineer/
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not that unsung! we've given them our biggest workshop spot every single year we've been able to and will do until they are tired of us https://www.youtube.com/@aiDotEngineer…
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my highlights and writeup here https://www.latent.space/p/ainews-anthropics-agent-autonomy …
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oh no, this is how i found out my favorite show is dead wtf
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how dare you mention Lee Pace and -not- mention his role in Foundation, he carried that entire show on his way too muscley back
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> The Messenger desktop app for macOS and Windows had already been discontinued in December 2025, with Meta removing the apps from official stores and encouraging users to transition to web‑based m…
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not to my knowledge but those i have no problem with. its the overly complex prose surrounding them that shows this author overcorrects to SAT test words in an attempt to prove her superiority over a…
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you have to know that your "simply" is carrying too much weight. here's some examples of why just temperature is not enough, you need to run active world models https://www.l…
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the word choice here is so obtuse as to trigger my radar for "is this some kind of parody where this itself was AI generated". it appears to be entirely serious, which is disappointing, it c…
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yes - please recommend affiliate software that is actually good, lots of people here woudl love it to get off the ground
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related post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47039478
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ha, great way to plug your tech. upvoting
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was just hoping for a random vision expert to come along and tell me this is solved in some model lol