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_kidlike··on Jules: An asynchronous coding agent
they all suck, because at the end of the day, these tools are just automating multiple prompts to one of the same codegen LLMs that everyone is using already.

The loop is: it identifies which files need to change, creates an action plan, then proceeds with a prompt per file for codegen.

In my experience, the parts up to the codegen are how these tools differ, with Junie being insanely good at identifying which parts of a codebase need change (at least for Java, on a ~250k loc project that I tried it on).

But the actual codegen part is as horrible as when you do it yourself.

Of course I'm not talking about hello world usages of codegen.

I suppose these tools would allow moving the goalpost a bit further down the line for small "from scratch" ideas, compared to not using them.

_kidlike··on A critical look at MCP
I know it's not auth-related, but the main MCP "spec" says that it was inspired by LSP (language server protocol). Wouldn't something like HATEOAS be more apt?
_kidlike··on Void: Open-source Cursor alternative
Maybe I live in a bubble, but it's surprising to me that nobody mentions Jetbrains in all these discussions. Which in my professional working experience are the only IDEs anyone uses :shrug:
_kidlike··on Office is too slow, so Microsoft is making it load at Windows startup
Gnome sucks... KDE is awesome :)
_kidlike··on Show HN: I built a hardware processor that runs Python
After a quick search I found that even Raspberry makes the same claim...

"runs directly on embedded hardware"

https://www.raspberrypi.com/documentation/microcontrollers/m...

I don't understand why they have the need to do this...

_kidlike··on Show HN: Uncurl.dev – Convert curl commands to a shareable, executable UI
my thoughts exactly!

Lately I feel like a lot of people think they are finding gaps around developer experience, but it's only because they don't know the right tools that already exist...

_kidlike··on Don't Be Afraid of Types
you are just describing a function. Not a type.

And as others replied, the issue of naming a type exists in all languages.

_kidlike··on Sunsetting Create React App
and yet, every time I have a discussion about this with my frontend colleagues, they are soooooo far gone into the React pill, that it's impossible to talk to them. And they all happily migrate from one hype to the next, as the React gods dictate, burning funds for no reason. Funnily enough, the more time passes, the more bugs and regressions our frontend has.
_kidlike··on What if Eye...?
isn't that what Nvidia Omniverse is?
_kidlike··on I wrote a static web page and accidentally started a community (2023)
which is extremely easy to do. Most programming languages have a one-liner to do it.
_kidlike··on A better (than Optional) maybe for Java
`then` is definitely less intuitive than `map` considering that you actually want to, well, map to something else.

Semantically, `then` would be equivalent to `ifPresent`, but, well, then both are intuitive.

_kidlike··on Fair Pricing
The 10$ plan doesn't have a limit anymore!
_kidlike··on Add "fucking" to your Google searches to neutralize AI summaries
for the search problem, I use Kagi. It's a breath of fresh air!

Better than Google in every single aspect, except shopping. The shopping results in Google are actually good.

_kidlike··on Stimulation Clicker
There should be a warning for people with ADHD... also for epilepsy...

other than that, one of the most creative clickers.

_kidlike··on Ask HN: Why the disconnect between Bitcoin and Ethereum?
yeah I think so too. Ethereum gas prices are ridiculous at times. Depending on the network traffic you can pay from 2$ to 20$ for the same transaction.
_kidlike··on Kagi Translate
that's what I think too, which kinda makes sense since it's a page, and not a browser plugin. If they implemented a browser plugin that would do what Google recently removed from their plugin, that would be a killer feature. (assuming they can then translate all html as it comes in)

Brave browser does it already though, but sometimes it's unusably slow.

_kidlike··on Bitcoin has made a new all-time high price
exactly...
_kidlike··on Google CEO says more than a quarter of the company's new code is created by AI
I really really dislike the ones that get in your way. Like I start typing something and it injects random stuff (yes in the auto-complete colors). I have a similar feeling to when you hear your voice back in a phone: completely disabling your thought process.

In IntelliJ thankfully you can disable that part of the AI, and keep the part that you trigger it when you want something from it.

_kidlike··on We shrunk our Javascript monorepo git size
Let's pretend you didn't write the last 2 sentences...

first of all "internet in Europe" makes close to zero sense to argue about. The article just uses it as a shortcut to not start listing countries.

I live in a country where I have 10Gbps full-duplex and I pay 50$ / month, in "Europe".

The issue is that some countries have telecom lobbies which are still milking their copper networks. Then the "competition committees" in most of these countries are actually working AGAINST the benefit of the public, because they don't allow 1 single company to start offering fiber, because that would be a competition advantage. So the whole system is kinda in a deadlock. In order to unblock, at least 2 telecoms have to agree to release fiber deals together. It has happened in some countries.

_kidlike··on Accountability sinks
I think "accountability" here was the wrong word to begin with. I believe they are more talking about "ability for feedback" or even better "just in time corrections". Feedback exists, but from my experience nobody reads those form submissions - maybe an AI these days that will create a summary... The latter is purposefully removed from all processes :(
_kidlike··on JSON Patch
Isn't this just application/merge-patch+json?

(RFC 7396)

_kidlike··on Orion, our first true augmented reality glasses
don't you want it to tell you that you're looking at a pineapple?
_kidlike··on Forget ChatGPT: why researchers now run small AIs on their laptops
Or https://ollama.com/
_kidlike··on Gaining access to anyones Arc browser without them even visiting a website
no mention of the pitiful bounty reward (2000 usd). only sorry and thanks. Please award this person a proper bounty.
_kidlike··on The Internet Archive has lost its appeal in Hachette vs. Internet Archive
if you wanna get into byte copying, from a legal view, isn't also copying from disk to memory a copy of the book then ?
_kidlike··on Show HN: InstantDB – A Modern Firebase
This is awesome, and in a way the reverse of HTMX :)
_kidlike··on Codestral Mamba
not sure about the history/progression part, but there's ollama which makes it possible to run models locally. The UX of ollama is similar to docker.
_kidlike··on One Million Checkboxes
...or genius?
_kidlike··on I learned Vulkan and wrote a small game engine with it
Valve's efforts on playing Microsoft only games started ~10 years ago with Proton (which is more like an umbrella project for ~15 software components like Wine and DXVK). Today, proton is surprisingly good. Their bet paid off, and allowed them to make SteamDeck. Most if not all new games play fine out of the box, with 0 tinkering. Older games sometimes have issues.
_kidlike··on De-googling, so far
kagi.com

you're welcome :)

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