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5 points·by gusmally·4 mesi fa·0 comments

Ask HN: Are you using an agent orchestrator to write code?

41 points·by gusmally·5 mesi fa·60 comments

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gusmally
·19 giorni fa·discuss
This was such a fun read, and wigglegrams are still popular on tumblr (although tumblr is no longer popular!)

To the people pointing out the lower quality of the author's wigglegrams: it's because they're accidental...
gusmally
·19 giorni fa·discuss
The multiple uses of "it's worth X" made me question the authorship, for one
gusmally
·30 giorni fa·discuss
lmao! thank you for the update; i was wondering why it was no longer viewable.
gusmally
·2 mesi fa·discuss
Since you seem interested in the ins and outs of English, I want to say that "retort" has a connotation of anger or sharpness. Your response reads more like a "rebuttal" to me.

This is not a correction; maybe retort is what you meant and I'm not trying to be the English police. I just like discussing the intricacies of language :)
gusmally
·3 mesi fa·discuss
Such a fun site, thank you! I was surprised that Seedream4 passed the mermaid test since it's hard to tell whether they are in the water or submerged, and the mermaid has something funny going on with her left hand.
gusmally
·4 mesi fa·discuss
Maybe it's less risk for them to offer the individual features. That way if people get inadvertent results, it's easier to blame the user, not the tool/company
gusmally
·4 mesi fa·discuss
I guess we work in very different places!
gusmally
·4 mesi fa·discuss
> When circumstances eventually require that understanding, when something breaks in an unexpected way or requirements change in a way that demands architectural reasoning, the organization discovers the deficit.

Maybe it's because I work in such a small team on a still-starting project, but even with the chaos of LLM-generated code, I can't imagine such a case as above that the LLMs couldn't also address.

Great read though and I appreciated the article.
gusmally
·4 mesi fa·discuss
With the free time gained from not manually writing code, documentation should be part of the workflow. I should start doing this.
gusmally
·4 mesi fa·discuss
you don't think LLM impacts on productivity were a factor at all?
gusmally
·4 mesi fa·discuss
For real. Very worried about when other CEOs follow suit and there is a flood of people into unemployment.
gusmally
·4 mesi fa·discuss
Square payment processing?
gusmally
·5 mesi fa·discuss
Which ones have you compared it against?
gusmally
·5 mesi fa·discuss
Who are your competitors? What makes you different?
gusmally
·5 mesi fa·discuss
I don't have a macro-level answer for you but an interesting anecdote: we opened a job for a Software Designer and looked at the first 9 applicants. All of them were in need of H-1B sponsorship, most were Indian, and most were "software-engineers-turned-designers". So at a micro (company) level, we hire immigrants because those are the candidates we receive.

Note: One of my parents is an Indian immigrant. I have worked with many great Indian engineers and many not-so-great, just like every other nationality.
gusmally
·6 mesi fa·discuss
It's a great post, I will use it for the same. Thank you.
gusmally
·6 mesi fa·discuss
what do you mean?
gusmally
·7 mesi fa·discuss
I also didn't understand the point the authour was trying to make about this method being superior at allowing a learner to remember things under pressure.
gusmally
·7 mesi fa·discuss
Oh my god this article was bursting with them!

>It is not a “Platform.” It is a library.

>It isn’t a heavy observability platform. It’s a simple Python library
gusmally
·8 mesi fa·discuss
Yes! They are extremely susceptible to user influence, based on what I have read and experienced in personal use. If your initial message contains a seed, e.g., "Should I break up with my boyfriend? He doesn't listen to me," the LLM will stick with the seed of negativity and not make an objective analysis of the situation or take initiative to challenge your/its original perspective.