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Right now, as we speak a lot of agents are doing clunky things to operate websites from Codex to Claude, all those website owners might not have the resources to setup an MCP or API just for agents. If this was an exceptional case how come Claude and Codex are still operating websites using clunk embedded web browsers and headless chrome complications.

It would take a lot to setup an API for certain resources when you consider stuff from security to compliance, but if you could just slap on a React plugin on already existing UIs so now agents can use the same site as humans already do.

there are cases where an API is not feasible

It uses a very tiny model, small enough to run in a browser, so it is not very smart https://huggingface.co/onnx-community/Florence-2-base-ft

Yes, but where are the production desktop app using on-device AI right now?

I'd really love to know other sources that can give you real information from actual people about tech careers & compensation & all minutiae of interviews & weird company tips. Do share

I first stumbled on Blind while job hunting, and since then I’ve used it as a resource, not a social media platform like most people do. I follow specific tags like software engineering and career, and I don’t keep notifications on (in fact, the only app with notifications on my phone is WhatsApp).

For interviews, I search company-specific tags to find discussions and tips, ChatGPT makes it even easier now to extract insights from those threads. I also use it for compensation research. Occasionally, I’ll check company gossip, and I have to say, Blind has correctly predicted layoffs at my employer twice. Beneath all the noise, some people really do share valuable inside information.

That’s why I treat Blind as a data-gathering tool, not a hangout. I mainly open it for interviews, negotiations, compensation benchmarks, or to get the general sentiment around a company. Honestly, I wish they had an API like Reddit’s, it would make pulling insights so much easier.

I don’t use Teamblind as often as I used to, but it played a huge role in my career growth. Coming from a developing country, it helped me level the playing field. Through the platform, I discovered FAANG(current employer for 6yrs now), Leetcode, structured ways to prepare for interviews, and even the fact that sign-on bonuses exist, something I had no idea about before.

Teamblind has been so impactful for me that I’m more than happy to pay for it. While there’s certainly noise on the platform, I’ve learned to focus on the insightful conversations and resources that matter. If you are in the US it might not be so useful, but for us outside, it is gold.

I've been on HN for way longer than Blind, but Blind had had the most impact in my career & I'm grateful for that.

It sounds like screen sharing is the main pain. When that popup blocks your demo, what do you usually do in the moment? ignore it, drag it, or stop to fix it?

Interesting throwback, sounds like Intel’s app felt way simpler. When you use modern tools now, what’s the part that feels most overcomplicated compared to that old phone-book style experience?

Makes sense. When you do have to jump on Zoom/Teams/Meet, what’s the part that slows you down the most, is it setup, figuring out controls, or just the constant prompts?

For a lot of teachers in rural parts of the world, they might have a laptop but they are underserved when it comes to AI. I noticed that a lot of them still manually create questions which is a time consuming process. I created an offline first desktop app for this. https://github.com/dokasto/Saidia

this is really good, just tried

People saying just use vanilla have never tried to build a modern web application with a rich UI.

I use Deepseek via LLM studio for reading sensitive/non-sensitive docs, contracts, searching bank statements & bills.

Thank you!

> I have to say this comes across a little insulting to machine learning engineers.

How so? I have a lot of respect for ML engineers and I know what they do is no easy feat. However, I do not intend to get into ML, I see it as a tool to help me achieve an objective. My goal is to utilise said tool to achieve an objective, I have no intention of becoming an expert in this area. It's just like CSS when you want to use it, do you have to care about how the browser rendering works? No you don't, you simply use CSS.

This is amazing! could this be applied to handle payments? Specifically in countries/areas with poor/low internet penetration.

sweet

How was Gates able to predict the future with so much accuracy and yet still failed to capture the most value from it or better still establish itself as a core player on the internet like Google etc.

Veecam is a proof-of-concept virtual camera chrome extension that lets you adjust how your video appears to everyone else on the call. It currently works with Google Meet.

This is just pointless

I am building something similar. If you can please give a detailed description of what your dream tool would work like.

At 40 you have enough information to show that you are bad at business. Get a job.

No one cares that much about audio quality; being able to hear the other person clearly and loud enough is usually fine for most meetings; everyone cares about video quality, though.

You might want to read this

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Wrong audience

Depends on the colour of your skin.

Dalmuiti is a card game where you depend on some luck(the cards you are served) & how you play them. It made me realise how most of what people call success is just the luck of birth. In the game if you were given shitty cards you are still very likely to lose & a lot of that is true about life. There’s a tiny chance that you can win with bad cards but you’ve got very little room for mistakes. This makes me think about the folks in SV who are mostly lucky to be born into great circumstances & much of their success had to do with that than they care to admit

I created my curriculum using the topics in the book: Elements Of Programming Interviews In Python https://www.amazon.com/Elements-Programming-Interviews-Pytho...