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ZeljkoSon Vals.ai Benchmark – International Olympiad in Informatics

"The two leaders score 100% on 2026 even though the contest ran after their training cutoffs, so recency alone does not cap performance."

ZeljkoSon Show HN: TamedTable, AI ETL in Natural Language

Great!

If all plan queries are deterministic, the "Save recipe as Python" action saves the entire process as a deterministic script:

https://www.tamedtable.com/#save-py

Honestly, you are probably not the target user, as you seem familiar with data cleanup scripts and AI agents. I think the target users would be:

A) Non-technical people in your org who clean data by hand because they don't know to automate it.

B) Technical people who want to test multiple queries and preview transformations before generating an AI-driven transformation flow (and are OK with it).

ZeljkoSon Show HN: TamedTable, AI ETL in Natural Language

But, it writes an execution plan :) Example here:

https://github.com/ZSvedic/TamedTable/blob/main/spec/test-ca...

And if an action can be done deterministically, then JS code will be generated:

https://github.com/ZSvedic/TamedTable/blob/main/spec/test-ca...

If data cleanup needs to be deterministic, why is so much of it done by humans? Two humans also won't normalize the same table in the same way. The main thesis is that AI data cleanup is cheaper and less mistake-prone than the same work done by a bored intern.

ZeljkoSon Elysia Marginata

"Unlike other sea slugs, which can only shed minor body parts, Elysia marginata and Elysia atroviridis can autotomize their heads completely from the rest of their body. "

ZeljkoSon They Live (1988) inspired Adblocker

And I am all out of bubble gum.

ZeljkoSon Claude Code runs Git reset –hard origin/main against project repo every 10 mins

Update from the author: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/40710#issue...

"Update: Root cause found — this was a bug in a tool I built that was running locally for testing, not Claude Code.

When the tool's configuration pointed at a local working directory, it would hard-reset that directory every poll cycle to reflect the remote — destroying all uncommitted changes to tracked files, exactly as described in the issue."

ZeljkoSon Reaction Offices and the Future of Work

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action_Office

ZeljkoSon Loon Is a Lisp

Terminal mode is golden: https://campedersen.com/terminal

ZeljkoSon Why a 175-Year-Old Glassmaker Is Suddenly an AI Superstar

https://archive.is/g78h3

ZeljkoSon John E. Olson, Analyst Fired for Enron Skepticism, Dies at 83

https://archive.ph/vldJB#selection-991.241-991.251

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