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zihotki··on DeepSeek Harness Desktop for macOS and Windows
I wonder why there is no Github Copilot in the comparison. It also supports BYOK and is quite capable
zihotki··on Jeeves. Reasoning improves Jev-like decision models
I wonder what numbers you'd get using another system one model - Contrastive Language Model https://contrastive-lm.notion.site/

That model scales very well with quantities of requests.

zihotki··on EV Sales Are Booming in Europe with Gasoline at $10 a Gallon
Technically, anything what you plug into your car charger would do. The requirement is to have a licensed meter in the charging box. When setting up, you configure connection to your ERE provider and it just reports.
zihotki··on Jeeves. Reasoning improves Jev-like decision models
There are two parts in the data you supply to Jev for classification - the prompt describing your classification and the data. The data can be quite small - a simple chat message. And prompt part could be considerable since you need to describe your rubrics well.

With Jev you each time pay for your prompt, you can't cache it.

zihotki··on Jeeves. Reasoning improves Jev-like decision models
I would hold your horses to paint it as dirt cheap.. In my cases for spam detection Luna was 20% cheaper due to prompt caching, although not as fast.
zihotki··on How to write an effective software design document
That's what ADRs (architecture decision records) are for.

Documentation of the project are the projections of coded intent at a higher zoom level. C4model is an amazing concept and applies well to the context management and docs

zihotki··on EV Sales Are Booming in Europe with Gasoline at $10 a Gallon
In Netherlands you could also get paid for charging your car. There is such thing called ERE Certificates - emission reduction unit certificate is generated by offsetting emissions. Pollutters have to buy them to offset the harm. It's up to 0.1 euro per KWh (electricity costs 0.28 euro per KWh), depending on the demand.
zihotki··on What Is an AI Software Factory? Lessons from 3 Client Deployments
And don't underestimate the complexity and importance of eval suite. It's a lot of work to get a good dataset. Your agents are as good as your dataset is.
zihotki··on Why So Many AI Researchers Think the Machines Could Kill Everyone
My bet is that humans will kill humans faster than AI. AI enables not only good actors, but also bad actors: Russians, Iranians, Houthis, other terrorist groups - they all now effectively use AI to speed-up development of their weapons as well as hybrid warfare.
zihotki··on Show HN: Liniora – Ever thought about replacing your project manager?
Landing page screams llm-isms, and after reading and looking around, I still can't identify what problems it tries to solve. The features described are just standard integration glue, they have little relevance to context or why's.

Why does it worth investing time into adopting this one instead building an in-house solution tailored to existing process?

zihotki··on Show HN: Grepathy – Claude made a decision nobody approved
Have you tried reading/reviewing the code claude generates? That could have prevented the issue with the accounts.
zihotki··on Dependabot version updates introduce default package cooldown
If everyone starts applying cooldowns, won't it postpone the problem? So now there is a considerable amount of users who are affected and someone from the affected group discovers the infection and reports it.

But if everyone will be delaying updates, won't be there less chances to catch it in time? I'm not fully sure if it's possible to preventively scan all NPM packages or how much compute it would require.

zihotki··on YouTrackDB is a general-use object-oriented graph database
That's a good question indeed. Also I wonder why they picked java as the implementation language.
zihotki··on Show HN: HTMLDrive – serve HTML files from your Google Drive
Since LLM can create the pages for non-techical people, it for sure can also help publishing the page
zihotki··on Dev productivity metrics suck. Ops reviews are key for AI-accelerated eng orgs
That sound interesting. Would you mind sharing it?
zihotki··on Why skilled workers come to Germany and then leave again
That resonates a lot with my experience in Netherlands. It's way friendlier for expats but the barrier is there
zihotki··on I built a 10 inch mini rack from aluminium extrusions
Similar - no (I'd be glad to be proven wrong), but you can find some small suppliers focused on specific niche like https://www.motedis.com if you need the profiles.
zihotki··on NixOS 26.05
I'm building a homelab as well and fully second the ode. It feels incredible to do the setup via llm, like they are the perfect fit.
zihotki··on MaralGPT "Mythos" 9B just released, and this is why I'm proud of my project
tldr - Qwen 3.5 9B finetuned on a "simple secret dataset" (500 million tokens of Claude 4.8 Opus, Claude 5 Fable, GPT 5.5 and similar models)
zihotki··on Herdr: Agent multiplexer that lives in your terminal
I found that a good tool helps a lot once I switched to Github Copilot app. It solved the friction and mental tax for me. I easily manage 4 sessions in parallel on same or different projects while 2 was max in the past. The bottleneck now is only in review and decision making.
zihotki··on Ask HN: MacBook vs. Dedicated GPU for LLM
Not that much - a bit better but still negligible. Prefill is highly parallelizable and benefits from many cores. NVidia GPU's simply have several times more cores than even Pros.
zihotki··on Ask HN: MacBook vs. Dedicated GPU for LLM
From personal experience - it works, but you won't get a comfortable time to first token (latency is high). The reason is that prefill on Macs is bad. You need to have a lot more cores to do it quick. It's close to instant for small models on NVidia GPU's but on Macs it takes a few seconds to get the answer for a simple prompt. And the time grows proportionally with your context size.
zihotki··on Show HN: OpenKnowledge – open source AI-first alternative to Obsidian/Notion
I wonder how it compares to https://github.com/refactoringhq/tolaria They look similarly scoped. I haven't used it yet and it's great that there is more choice now
zihotki··on Who Does What? Team Topologies for the Agentic Platform
In real life only a minority of teams achieved good results according to Circle CI report.

And there is one notable anecdotal source proving that it is possible - https://ideas.fin.ai/p/2x-nine-months-later

zihotki··on Package Managers need global hooks
The solution is called curated package feed. Using private one instead of default public package source, you get a trusted source. All updates should be done by first pulling the new packages to the private feed and only after passing the reviews - update.

A little bit of bureaucracy in form of best security practices helps with supply chain attacks.

zihotki··on Stop wasting tokens and re explaining your project between sessions
Are there any benchmarks/evals to back the claims? Or how do you know that it helps reducing waste?
zihotki··on What the Fuck Happened to Nerds
Isn't that exactly the marketing part? He is the marketing and the channel, he has optimized marketing process.
zihotki··on Microsoft's open source tools were hacked to steal passwords of AI developers
And the best recommendation security teams can give - keep your SBOM strict, use min release age policy (sounds more like band-aid). That's a scary world to live in.
zihotki··on Changing how we develop Ladybird
I wonder if adding an artificial barrier in form of a donation could help. That's probably the only remaining way to show the good faith.
zihotki··on AI Agent Guidelines for CS336 at Stanford
Pencil and paper - that's the classical way a lot of developers from western europe were taught to code. Back to the basics
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