pkulak · HackerLangs

I wish models called me out more! I can’t count the number of times I’ve had an absolute shit plan, prompted it, and the model built it to a tee. Then I look at the code, and it’s an absolute mess, because it had to make my stupid idea work. Maybe I need a better system prompt.

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Same. AI has found so many bugs I would have shipped a year ago.

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I notice that the tests are very often for its own benefit. Like, you’ll ask it to stop doing something, literally to just remove code, and it will write a test to verify the behavior is not there.

I can’t imagine a more useless test, but I get that it wants to verify that it actually made the change. I just delete the test when it’s done.

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My first thought when reading about this was, why does Pi with 8 custom skills and one extension work so well for me, and apparently so poorly for others that they are compelled to go to these lengths?

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I can't tell the difference between Fable and GPT 5.5. I tried Fable while it was in trial $20 mode, used up my whole quota, and it was great, but as soon as I went back to GPT 5.5, everything was the same.

But what I love about Openai is that they still let you hook OTHER harnesses up to a subscription. My Pi setup has been built up for a few months now into exactly what I want and moving over to CC or even Codex is really annoying.

Caveat: I vibe code in tiny little chunks. I see what I want to do, and exactly how I want it done, then prompt that, refine, what was output, then repeat. I bet Fable is better at building a whole app from a 2-sentence prompt; but that's just not important to me at all.

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I bet this does a kind of "iframe" thing, where you're really just pulling in full web UIs, and they can be whatever they want. That's the impression I get from the comment about phone clients wrapping the web UI because there's no guarantee about what they will actually be.

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3일 전discuss

My guess is the account was taken over.

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5일 전discuss

Generally not, since the corporate account has all the privacy knobs turned up. I use my personal account on my open source projects, where code leaks aren’t exactly an issue.

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5일 전discuss

Oh great, Idiocracy as a scientific paper.

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5일 전discuss

Careful now, Mr. Goebbels, you're blissfully stomping down a very frought path.

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7일 전discuss

I can't stand military jets over my neighborhood. I get irrationally angry every time I'm walking somewhere with my wife and we both have to completely stop talking for two blocks because some F-14 is blasting around over our heads. They are just unbelievably loud.

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7일 전discuss

> This is so exciting.

How exactly? Purely on a tech basis? Because it's not solving a real problem anyone has. Some millionaire who wants to go from NYC to LA a couple hours faster is not a problem worth solving. And certainly not when it's less efficient, and inconveniences everyone in the flight path with a very loud noise.

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9일 전discuss

Those folding clothes clips are the best:

- The robot dragging one corner over itself into a sloppy mess. - Cut. - It’s perfectly folded.

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9일 전discuss

Am I reading that chart wrong? I see Opus ahead across every bitrate.

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9일 전discuss

Yeah, but if you reach for the top shelf every time you need a word, you can't compare things anymore.

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10일 전discuss

And every benchmark is "build GTA-6 from nothing, as a single-page web app".

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13일 전discuss

[dead]

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14일 전discuss

I think the point is that when you don’t control the ad, it’s a bit tough to normalize its audio. And controlling the ad means bringing ad serving in house, which while possible, is a huge engineering ask.

I guess the solution is to switch to a proper ad insertion company that normalizes to -24 like you’re supposed to, but that’s not cake either. Especially if contracts are signed.

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14일 전discuss

I don’t think YouTube normalizes the audio on their videos. I have no idea why, but that could easily become a quiet video that leads into a -16 LUFS ad that blows your ears out.

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15일 전discuss

I self host everything but email and credentials. Email because I already have a full time job, and credentials because if an emergency is sufficient enough to remove me from my hardware, that’s when I’ll need my passwords the most.

To be fair, I could just sync the db somewhere safe.

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