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sturza··on ChatGPT Is Throwing 404
It's cloudflare. It's always cloudflare
sturza··on How do you decide that an agent's output is good enough to stop iterating?
you only end up in a loop if you don’t define what you want clear enough. clarity has outcome, acceptance criteria, boundaries and non goals. once those are clear to you and you transform them into text, you have significantly better chances of avoiding the infinite loop.

tldr: you only get stuck in an infinite loop when you don’t know what you want(when to stop)

sturza··on If AI Writes All the Code, What Do the Programmers Do?
Design. And redesign.
sturza··on Show HN: Opening lines of famous literary works
Now please please make for with the first comment of every HN front page posts ever.

edit: added “please”

sturza··on Words Are a Byproduct of Consciousness. For LLMs, It's Backwards
“The relationship of thought to word is not a thing but a process, a movement from thought to word and from word to thought.” Vygotsky
sturza··on The founder's playbook: Building an AI-native startup
The difference is the destination. Me crunching code with llms vs you doing the same thing will lead both of us to different places(let’s say equally fast for the sake of the conversation). What will set us apart in the end is who will actually sell it, and that’s llm-independent.
sturza··on The founder's playbook: Building an AI-native startup
“everyone”. it’s there, it’s accessible, it’s “cheap”. acceleration will depend on the operator capability. if the final product will make a diff in the real world, it will ALWAYS depend on the entrepreneur, not the tools used.
sturza··on The founder's playbook: Building an AI-native startup
Assumption: now everyone can do more of the above. The final line is still selling. So everyone will get to the sales part, FASTER. Triage will still happen at this stage, regardless of AI. You won’t be able to avoid this triage, regardless of how fast you get there.
sturza··on The Eternal Sloptember
What i meant was: your experience might not be representative of the coding models capabilities. At least based on the poor examples in the post, you’re just scratching the surface of learning how to extract value from them, and, as i understand, you gave up and shared your experience. Given that you fully understand how an LLM works(and you do) it might also be that you’re using it outside training data. Not all code is equally represented(quality/quantity) in the training data, like there’s not the same amount of latin text as opposed to english text there(it’s all gravy to an LLM). You also suggested that manual might be faster and better quality - in MY experience, this is just you (using search through prompts), using it wrong.

Edit: added gravy pun

sturza··on The Eternal Sloptember
You're using it wrong.
sturza··on Ask HN: Should AI credits be refunded on mistakes?
Do you pay your employer when you introduce bugs? I think you're lucky if you get usable output which you don't consider a mistake. Also, you might be mistaken if you think that you pay for a deterministic service.

edit: typo

sturza··on I replaced grep-based code exploration with a knowledge graph – 10x less token
Any accuracy measurements?
sturza··on iOS 27 'Rave' Update to Clean Up Code, Could Boost Battery Life
I'm sticking with Sonoma as long as they still provide security updates, then i go +1, hoping to skip the whole liquid glass phase.
sturza··on Formula One Handovers and Handovers From Surgery to Intensive Care (2008) [pdf]
It was an anecdote or a story shared on HN eariler this year.
sturza··on How do solo founders get their first pilot users for a complex B2B product?
If you built it FOR someone(a business), you are already on the wrong path. You should have built it WITH someone(a business) and you'd already have feedback and real world usage. Maybe next time around start with a real problem (confirmed by a business) rather than how you want the world to work.
sturza··on Signal knows who you're talking to (2023)
The critique of metadata being hard is fair, the claim that sealed sender is “totally useless” is not. It’s a small, incremental hardening step in a very messy design space, not a magic invisibility cloak, and judging it as the latter sets the bar unrealistically high for anything that still wants to be a drop-in WhatsApp replacement.
sturza··on Cognitive and mental health correlates of short-form video use
attention is all they want
sturza··on Why movies just don't feel "real" anymore
It's about the new trend of shallow DoF in new movies vs old ones.
sturza··on WriterdeckOS
I use a regular 3kg 17” macbook pro from ~2007. Beautiful keyboard, good enough resolution, wifi off(not much use on the internet anyway). Still modern ux and good trackpad.
sturza··on Ask HN: What made you become an IT/programmer?
The original iPhone.
sturza··on Ask HN: How much are you guys paying for AI coding tools monthly?
100-700$. more when actively building, less when maintaining.
sturza··on CocoaPods trunk read-only plan
End of an era.
sturza··on Ask HN: Alternatives or cheaper way to access GPT-5 thinking?
Try the API. If no knowledge, use via Cursor.
sturza··on Ask HN: The government of my country blocked VPN access. What should I use?
Mullvad
sturza··on Ask HN: Should I build this SaaS project?
So, you invented instagram?
sturza··on I'm looking for a co-founder If interested
Who are you building for?
sturza··on Why do dev tools crush it on Product Hunt but never seem to raise money?
To raise is a signal of a combination - market identified as large enough to make it worth the risk, competitor analysis, go to market strategy, founder perceived capability, team, perceived ability to be better/faster at getting market share vs competitors. Clicks(upvotes, feedback etc) have no value in themselves. Founders have the job to make a sustainable business, but before they do they have to convince others they can - through some of the things i listed above. "Too niche" already implies too small market to make VCs care. Also PMF + people upvoting with their wallet or high growth could also be raising signals.

If you're looking for a general answer, i don't believe it exists.

sturza··on Linear sent me down a local-first rabbit hole
Local-first buys you instant UX by moving state to the client, and then makes everything else a little harder
sturza··on Show HN: I built a stock analysis tool after investing since age 14
Where can i see revenue/share price?
sturza··on Show HN: I built a stock analysis tool after investing since age 14
Thank you!
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