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My First Encounter with a Political Spambot

tombedor.dev
3 points·by jjfoooo4·vor 13 Tagen·0 comments

If you are asking for human attention, demonstrate human effort

tombedor.dev
1,753 points·by jjfoooo4·vor 30 Tagen·503 comments

Coding agents have no moat

tombedor.dev
5 points·by jjfoooo4·vor 3 Monaten·0 comments

The Instant Copy Trap Makes AI Creativity Impossible

tombedor.dev
1 points·by jjfoooo4·vor 3 Monaten·0 comments

Can AI Be Creative?

tombedor.dev
1 points·by jjfoooo4·vor 3 Monaten·0 comments

Show HN: Excalicharts – Charting Library for Excalidraw

github.com
4 points·by jjfoooo4·vor 3 Monaten·0 comments

Show HN: Excalicharts – Charting Library for Excalidraw

github.com
2 points·by jjfoooo4·vor 3 Monaten·0 comments

The design of AI memory systems

tombedor.dev
3 points·by jjfoooo4·vor 3 Monaten·0 comments

Is the Future of AI Local?

tombedor.dev
2 points·by jjfoooo4·vor 4 Monaten·2 comments

AI Bots Are Making Anonymity Untenable

tombedor.dev
2 points·by jjfoooo4·vor 5 Monaten·0 comments

How to Write Good (Short) Docs

tombedor.dev
1 points·by jjfoooo4·vor 5 Monaten·0 comments

Don't Write Docs Twice

tombedor.dev
1 points·by jjfoooo4·vor 6 Monaten·0 comments

Don't Write Docs Twice

tombedor.dev
3 points·by jjfoooo4·vor 7 Monaten·0 comments

MCP Is a Fad

tombedor.dev
4 points·by jjfoooo4·vor 7 Monaten·0 comments

MCP Is a Fad

tombedor.dev
3 points·by jjfoooo4·vor 7 Monaten·2 comments

Make It Easy for Humans First, Then AI

tombedor.dev
2 points·by jjfoooo4·vor 7 Monaten·0 comments

Make It Easy for Humans

tombedor.dev
2 points·by jjfoooo4·vor 7 Monaten·0 comments

Show HN: Just-Claude: Sync just recipes with Claude Skills

github.com
1 points·by jjfoooo4·vor 8 Monaten·0 comments

Optimizing Repos for AI

tombedor.dev
2 points·by jjfoooo4·vor 9 Monaten·0 comments

comments

jjfoooo4
·vor 20 Tagen·discuss
One major difference is that to send network traffic, you have to go through an ISP. With AI you have the option of local open source models
jjfoooo4
·letzten Monat·discuss
Down from 10 years ago, down quite a bit from 20 years ago
jjfoooo4
·vor 2 Monaten·discuss
But there's not an everyday use case for firearms and explosives for the average person. There's civilian, everyday task that would be easier were better firearms and explosives available
jjfoooo4
·vor 2 Monaten·discuss
Surely both manufacturer and convenience store have incentive to push the addictive product in this scenario.

In any case, drug dealers really don’t need to do any pushing, the drugs sell themselves. Have you ever taken an opioid? The idea that unfettered access would result in less addiction and death is a pretty remarkable POV
jjfoooo4
·vor 2 Monaten·discuss
That they aren’t participating in the AI arms race is very good for current earning
jjfoooo4
·vor 2 Monaten·discuss
> Of course, this then introduces the circular reasoning "because of a potential US attack", but of course if Iran wasn't funding Hamas, Hezbollah, Houthis

I think the first step of thinking about war objectively is to consider how each side sees it. The US POV is no less circular, from Iran’s perspective - they could list any number of provocations from the US to justify arming themselves, none more obvious than the war itself.

The debate around who started the hostility is ultimately pointless, the question is what to do about. Ideally the answer isn’t “arm for obliteration because the other side started it”
jjfoooo4
·vor 3 Monaten·discuss
Even as someone highly interested in memory I don’t see it as a useful tool for coding. The source of truth for what a repo does or should do is the repo itself.

What you’re describing sounds more like code review guidelines, which can be explicitly brought into context at specific times during a change. A memory system is both too complex and less accurate for this
jjfoooo4
·vor 3 Monaten·discuss
Simple vector similarity plus a cheap model to filter results works pretty well. Though ofc t does add tokens to your primary chat, which is the basic tradeoff of memory systems in general (in addition to latency)
jjfoooo4
·vor 3 Monaten·discuss
I favor automatic recall, invisible to the agent. For memory creation, I find tool calls do a pretty good job, though I also like automatic memory creation on context compression.

I think with automatic creation you need async consolidation (calling it dreaming is a little dramatic for my taste).

My implementation is at Elroy.bot, I recently wrote about different approaches to agent memory here: https://tombedor.dev/approaches-to-agent-memory/
jjfoooo4
·vor 3 Monaten·discuss
But these products are all drop in replacements for each other. I've recently favored Codex more than CC, just because rate limits got mildly annoying. I really didn't have to change anything about my workflow in doing that.
jjfoooo4
·vor 3 Monaten·discuss
> My feeling is that if the AI is this good, the audience will just prompt the AI themselves and cut out the middleman.

I call this the instant imitator trap. If anything AI generates stands out from the slop, the slop generators will just imitate it, thus quickly making whatever standout quality from the "original" work also slop.

I wrote about it here: https://tombedor.dev/creativity/
jjfoooo4
·vor 3 Monaten·discuss
From the press release, it's not all that clear what Deezer is doing about it. 44% of uploads getting less than 1% of non-fraudulent streams seems like a pretty strong reason to outright ban AI generated submissions.

For the non-fraudulent listens, I'm very curious how many of these are part of auto-generated playlists. Are people just being served this music as part of a feed, or are they actually seeking it out? I'd be very surprised if it was the latter.
jjfoooo4
·vor 3 Monaten·discuss
It might be a bias in terms of the probability of events, but I'm not so sure this is a market inefficiency in terms of actual trading strategy. If true odds are 1% and the event is priced at 4%, I can sell NO for a 3% edge... but lose 100% once out of a hundred. Doesn't seem worth it!
jjfoooo4
·vor 3 Monaten·discuss
Which I'm confused about - wouldn't decreasing the cache TTL increase compute demand?
jjfoooo4
·vor 3 Monaten·discuss
AI is a floor raiser, not a ceiling raiser
jjfoooo4
·vor 3 Monaten·discuss
> you're going to end up systematically misinformed on political topics that people find outrageous.

That sounds... fine?
jjfoooo4
·vor 3 Monaten·discuss
I vibe coded a charting library for excalidraw that I’m working into my blog:

https://github.com/tombedor/excalicharts
jjfoooo4
·vor 3 Monaten·discuss
VC can spend all the money in the world and it won't matter if the cost of switching providers is effectively zero.

If I want to switch from Windows to Linux, I have to reconsider a whole variety of applications, learn a different UX, migrate data, all sorts of annoyances.

When I switch between Codex and Claude Code, there is literally no difference in how I interact with them. They and a number of other competitors are drop in replacements for each other.
jjfoooo4
·vor 3 Monaten·discuss
That is 100% what I think is going to happen.

I wrote about it here: https://tombedor.dev/open-source-models/
jjfoooo4
·vor 3 Monaten·discuss
> people might luck into something genuinely good and worth sharing from time to time.

A) it would be impossible to find in a sea of AI generated slop

B) even if it were to be recognized as good, it would be instantly copied by other AI’s such that it would be very shortly thereafter be also considered slop

For any work to gain traction with an audience, there needs to be scarcity. Art and artists are valued because they are unique in some way, something about it or them cannot be replicated by others. The ability to instantly produce a piece of “art” negates any artistic value, at least as far as audiences are concerned.