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Ask HN: Has Multi-AZ (AWS or others) helped you stay up during downtime?

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Show HN: Hellocafe.ai – open-source voice and chat enabled AI ordering system

hellocafe.ai
2 points·by westoque·8 bulan yang lalu·0 comments

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westoque
·25 hari yang lalu·discuss
> Comparing agentic Qwen3.6 35b to Claude Opus is like a junior with knowledge across the board, that you really need to guide, versus a senior that thinks with you on architecture.

that's why i use the frontier models because its a senior co-worker vs a junior. if you use the junior for the sake of privacy i think you're missing out on the best insights for a specific task.
westoque
·28 hari yang lalu·discuss
There's a formula I've bookmarked from someone to help you get better social capital. In order to increase your surface for social capital you need to expand your influence, therefore you need to increase your luck:

L (luck) = D (doing) x T (telling)

Basically, you need to be able to show you are able to do stuff (D) and with enough people seeing this by you sharing (T) through different channels, can open doors. I haven't been doing it as heavily but it has already given me incredible opportunities.
westoque
·bulan lalu·discuss
i've been thinking about this as well. but having built a startup, i've learned that users don't care as long as they are given the value and most convenience. they don't really care much at security as much as we do. just look at openclaw? but maybe it's our job to make sure it is taken care of vs assuming the user cares and just make it look seamless.
westoque
·4 bulan yang lalu·discuss
my takeaway from this is that it should now be MANDATORY to have an LLM do a scan on the entire codebase prior to release or artifact creation. do NOT use third party plugins for this. it's so easy to create your own github action to digest the whole codebase and inspect third party code. it costs tokens yes but it's also cached and should be negligible spend for the security it brings.
westoque
·4 bulan yang lalu·discuss
> The problem for me is that the development practices of the people that are working on it are suboptimal at best; they're constantly releasing at an extremely high cadence, where they don't even spend the time to test or fix things (or even build a proper list of changes for each release), and they add, remove, refine, change, fix, and break features constantly at that accelerated pace.

this is what i notice with openclaw as well. there have been releases where they break production features. unfortunately this is what happens when code becomes a commidity, everyone thinks that shipping fast is the moat but at the expense of suboptimality since they know a fix can be implemented quickly on the next release.
westoque
·5 bulan yang lalu·discuss
one thing it did massively for me was save me time from questions like should i go with X or Y option questions. before i used to just think longer about tradeoffs but with AI it became a lot faster. no more procrastination due to decision fatigue.
westoque
·6 bulan yang lalu·discuss
> I simply booted up a VM with an H100, ssh’d into it with Cursor, and prompted the agent to set up an inference server that I could ping from my web generation app. What used to take hours or days of painful, slow debugging now takes literally minutes.

an awesome takeaway from this is that self-hosted models are the future! can't wait for hardware to catch up and we can do much more experiments on our laptops!
westoque
·7 bulan yang lalu·discuss
i really think this is part of the pitch deck for bun's funding. that a bigger company would acquire it for the technology. the only reason an AI company or any company for that matter would acquire it would be to:

1. acquire talent.

2. control the future roadmap of bun.

i think it's really 1.
westoque
·7 bulan yang lalu·discuss
> Current AI image models can't understand grid-based pixel art.

sounds like a good use case to fix this problem from the model layer. an image gen model that is trained to make pixel perfect art.
westoque
·8 bulan yang lalu·discuss
i like how claude code currently does it. it asks permission for every command to be ran before doing so. now having a local model with this behavior will certainly mitigate this behavior. imagine before the AI hits the webhook.site it asks you

AI will visit site webhook.site..... allow this command? 1. Yes 2. No
westoque
·8 bulan yang lalu·discuss
a concern i have is that it's only a matter of time before a similar attack is done to electron based apps (which also have packages installed using npm). probably worse because it's installed in your computer and can potentially get any information especially given admin privileges.
westoque
·8 bulan yang lalu·discuss
Recently launched an AI cafe ordering app https://www.hellocafe.ai using chat and voice.

We wanted to make concept for an app using all local models for chat (llama 3.1 8B) and voice (whisper). Deployed using kubernetes and easily scalable not to mention fully open source!
westoque
·9 bulan yang lalu·discuss
Refreshing that it's built using the vue framework vs the typical react.
westoque
·tahun lalu·discuss
Must be my ignorance but everytime I see explainers for LLMs similar to the post, it’s hard to believe that AGI is upon us. It just doesn’t feel that “intelligent” but again might just be my ignorance.