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Ask HN: Anyone actually doing AI browser automation?

1 points·by rco8786·5 mesi fa·1 comments

Ask HN: Cloudflare WAF Alternatives?

28 points·by rco8786·7 mesi fa·16 comments

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rco8786
·29 giorni fa·discuss
> If you pay attention to what it's doing you can learn so much!

I think your post is fair but it's worth pointing out that learning via watching is much less effective than learning via doing.
rco8786
·29 giorni fa·discuss
> We already collectively produce more software than anyone really wants

You'll need to qualify that statement...
rco8786
·mese scorso·discuss
It's a coordination problem. 70 amazingly responsible adults still need to coordinate amongst one another. Ad hoc coordination and communication always breaks down eventually.
rco8786
·2 mesi fa·discuss
Well yes, ideally. But real world codebases aren't clean enough to be used as the example ideal. Styles change over time, there are always code migrations and refactors in flight, legacy code exists, etc. Using specific examples of what you expect the LLM (and humans) to do now is necessary.
rco8786
·2 mesi fa·discuss
> AI is only as good as the person using it

Nailed it.

That said, it couldn't have possibly been that bad if you got it to "acceptable" in 2 weeks.
rco8786
·2 mesi fa·discuss
This is fine for one off tools and I do the same. But building long-lived "professional grade" production software this fails real quickly.

My team is using AI for most of the code, but the human review layer is crucial and unavoidable if you're interested in things like reliability, uptime, controlled feature rollouts, the integrity if your user's data, etc.
rco8786
·2 mesi fa·discuss
Software engineers generate security bugs, Software engineers find them, then Software engineers generate fix, collect salary, profit?
rco8786
·2 mesi fa·discuss
Yea. Modern Ruby is "fast enough", but it's very real that when Ruby was hitting its peak it was dog slow. It's hard to shake those sorts of reputations (similar to the "can't scale" reputation that Rails got because of Twitter)
rco8786
·2 mesi fa·discuss
Nothing to do with AI here, it's about immigration.
rco8786
·2 mesi fa·discuss
I feel confident in saying that I am better at computers than 99.99% of the general population and I have no clue what “SS” or blue USB ports are supposed to indicate.
rco8786
·2 mesi fa·discuss
In the US??
rco8786
·2 mesi fa·discuss
> I am also not sure who Stripe Atlas for.

This was such a weird mention to see in the article. Stripe Atlas is a service that helps new businesses incorporate and onboard onto Stripe/partner services with some startup credits. It's been around forever, has nothing to do with AI, and is generally a very well-respected service.
rco8786
·3 mesi fa·discuss
Ok? I'm just explaining what claude code is, not pontificating about the capabilities of AI.
rco8786
·3 mesi fa·discuss
Claude Code is a tool that uses natural language ai systems. It itself is not a natural language ai system.
rco8786
·3 mesi fa·discuss
If they’re reaching the same results across a variety of the most popular public models, it doesn’t seem like that big a deal to know if it was Opus 4 or Opus 4.5
rco8786
·4 mesi fa·discuss
Yea this feels like saying “if you give them good enough specs they’ll produce the code you want” which reduces to…writing the code yourself. Just with more steps.
rco8786
·4 mesi fa·discuss
GH is ripe for a disruptor right now.
rco8786
·4 mesi fa·discuss
I think they're just saying that data extraction tasks are easy to evaluate because for a given input text/file you can specify the exact structured output you expect from it.
rco8786
·4 mesi fa·discuss
Yea, for the vast, vast majority of workloads just forking separate node process ends up being better than mucking with threads.
rco8786
·4 mesi fa·discuss
> they add, remove, refine, change, fix, and break features constantly at that accelerated pace.

I wonder how much of this is because the maintainers are using OpenCode to vibe the code for OpenCode.