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hhimanshu

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hhimanshu··on Ask HN: How are you LLM-coding in an established code base?
Have you installed Claude Code Github App and tried assigning the issues using @claude? In my experience it has done better than Github Copilot
hhimanshu··on Ask HN: How to Learn to Build Agentic AI Systems (Like Claude Code)
Great resource, definitely a good place to take the next step. As I looked into detail, the natural question came (based on software developing experience), how do I evaluate the correctness of output produced by LLM given the inputs. Clearly, unit test with fixed in/out pairs won't help so learning methods to evaluate as we develop iteratively will be very useful.

Thanks for sharing the article!

hhimanshu··on Ask HN: How to Learn to Build Agentic AI Systems (Like Claude Code)
Two resources that I am currently learning from are

1. https://deepwiki.com/humanlayer/12-factor-agents/1-12-factor...

2. https://deepwiki.com/anthropics/claude-code/1-claude-code-ov...

hhimanshu··on 12-factor Agents: Patterns of reliable LLM applications
Thank you, I will take a look
hhimanshu··on 12-factor Agents: Patterns of reliable LLM applications
May be if you pick a real-world agent workflow (toy from your production experience, trim it down), and showcase how all these factors will come along in a project.

I am inspired by the simplicity of these 12 factors and definitely want to learn more with an example that embraces these factors.

hhimanshu··on 12-factor Agents: Patterns of reliable LLM applications
I am wondering how libraries like DSPY [0] fits in your factor-2 [1]

As I was reading, I saw mention of BAML > (the above example uses BAML to generate the prompt ...

Personally, in my experience hand-writing prompts for extracting structured information from unstructured data has never been easy. With DSPY, my experience has been quite good so far.

As you have used raw prompt from BAML, what do you think of using the raw prompts from DSPY [2]?

[0] https://dspy.ai/

[1] https://github.com/humanlayer/12-factor-agents/blob/main/con...

[2] https://dspy.ai/tutorials/observability/#using-inspect_histo...

hhimanshu··on Ask HN: How Are People Designing Apps in the Age of AI?
Yes, I love using the code and AI tools like Claude, Github CoPilot are great at it. But when solving a business problem, we still need to "see it" before start writing the code (at least this is my preferred way)
hhimanshu··on Show HN: I made a CLI tool to create web extensions with no build configuration
This is good project. I built my first chrome extension using https://crxjs.dev/vite-plugin/getting-started and there was lot of fiddling to et styles working.

This could also be because this is my first browser extension development. https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/bettermenu-for-door...

There is still lot more work to do, so I will checkout your project. Thanks for sharing!

hhimanshu··on Ask HN: Best email client for a Mac?
Spark works great for me too!
hhimanshu··on Ask HN: What are some of the ways to learn codebases
thank you. Could you elaborate on this method please?
hhimanshu··on Ask HN: What do you want to learn in 2017?
I have made one side project ever since 2013 (I am working from 2011 and made few failed project, but learnt a lot). In 2013, we had exactly same problem - tracking expenses and do personal budgeting. My wife was using spreadsheets and I created a software (using Python and Flask) and released a webapp. Later we realized that an app would be much more useful, so rewrote the backend (Java EE) and front-end(Objective C), but never released it. We have however 3 years worth of our own data (never did analysis or charts). Lately, we feel that since our app never made to App Store, it crashes every 7 days and I need to reinstall/use XCode to do this work (very painful). I plan to rewrite again in Scala (my latest favorite) and use React-Native to build the app. This time I would like to publish it
hhimanshu··on Vert.x: A tool-kit for building reactive applications on the JVM
I enjoy working with Akka to build reactive applications. Clean, Readable, Testable
hhimanshu··on Ask HN: How are some people exceptionally productive?
I do not consider myself as very productive (and still try to learn from others). Some things that has helped me are

1. Increased water intake/Eat Well. I drink 1st bottle (300ml) with black tea (usually Oolong) and then refill with hot water. I make sure I am drinking water while I work. I am vegetarian and I take almost no sugar. I have replaced sugar with raw honey in my chai :-). I try to have more plant-based diet.

2. Take breaks. When I am stuck with the problem, I take either water-refill break/pee break/short walk to get me away from the problem, but possible solutions find me where ever I am.

3. Start day early. I usually like to start my day between 5.30AM-6AM. But I do not jump on emails/office work. I have a separate to-do list to learn/read different things (mostly technical). I start my day with it. That's my kick.

4. Less scanning. I use Asana in the Calendar view. As soon as I reach the office, I make sure the world is not crashing. I add tasks that need my attention and close the email. Then I add things I like to do (and aren't listed in my today's task). I start hunting these tasks. If I have some dependency on others(Ops for example), I create tasks/email them and move on with my agenda

5. Exercise. Not doing very much these days, but try to run for 20-25 minutes every evening, to have physical workout > mental workout (This is a key to good sleep)

6. Sleep well. I try to get somewhere between 7-8 hours every night. I need to learn to improve this area.

At the end of the day, I prefer a fulfilled day -> A day where I produced value to my company Plus I learned something new. That produced happiness which leads to productivity. Iterate.

hhimanshu··on Ask HN: Concurrent Programming Projects for beginners?
colefichter, Thank you so much for your help. I really appreciate it. I would try to build one of the projects
hhimanshu··on PopcornTime official website is back
This always confuses me. Is it legal to stream movies in US using torrents? meaning can I use popcorn-time.tv in US without any legal issues?
hhimanshu··on Ask HN: Best books/tutorials you read in 2013?
Clean Code

Refactoring

hhimanshu··on Ask HN: Do you use Google Now?
Yes
hhimanshu··on Ask HN: What are the best technologies you have worked with in 2013?
AngularJS
hhimanshu··on Ask HN: What are you using as an Angular backend?
I am using Flask(Python) with PostgreSQL DB for my recent project
hhimanshu··on A Letter from Tim Cook on Maps
I miss Steve, this would never had happened if he was there
hhimanshu··on A Linux dev who helped thousands needs help to fight cancer
I donated $10, I wish him better health and good luck
hhimanshu··on Status Chart: Your Personal Status Dashboard
very impressive
hhimanshu··on Status Chart: Your Personal Status Dashboard
very impressive!
hhimanshu··on 4bit - Terminal Color Scheme Designer
I did what is mentioned, but nothing happens

Go to http://ciembor.github.com/4bit. Design your terminal look. Click .Xresources button and save it to ~/.Xresources. Run xrdb ~/.Xresources. Get back to work (or to the first step).

hhimanshu··on Show HN: YouFM - A new way to listen to music on Youtube
How have you implemented the queue and manipulation on lists like previous, next, shuffle? would love to know about it
hhimanshu··on Show HN: Metataste.com - Movie Recommendation Engine
a very nice place for me to get recommendations, part of my usual new movie finder.
hhimanshu··on [dead]
don't really believe this - It's not just you! http://google.com looks down from here.
hhimanshu··on A Wikipedia Reader for iOS that visualizes the connections between articles
I like it, never seen that before with wiki articles
hhimanshu··on Ask HN: How do people work on their side projects with regular full-time jobs?
I dont have TV :)
hhimanshu··on Got 15 minutes and want to learn Git?
running too slow
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