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BuildItBusk commented on Datadog, thank you for blocking us   deductive.ai/blogs/datado... · Posted by u/binarylogic
eddythompson80 · a month ago
SRE agents are the worst agents. I totally get why business and management will demand them and love them. After all, they are the n+1 of customer support chat bot that you get frustrated talking to before you find the magic way to get to a person.

We have been using few different SRE agents and they all fucking suck. The way they are promoted and run always makes them eager to “please” by inventing processes, services, and work-arounds that don’t exist or make no sense. Giving examples will always sound pity or “dumb”. Every time I have to explain to management where SRE agent failed they just hand wave it and assume it’s a small problem. And the problem is, I totally get it. When the SRE agent says “DNS propagation issues are common. I recommend flushing dns cache or trying again later” or “The edge proxy held a bad cache entry. Cache will eventually get purged and the issue should be solved eventually” sounds so reasonable and “smart”. The issue was in DNS or in the proxy configuration. How smart was the SRE agent to get there? They think it’s phenomenal and it may be. But I know that the “DNS issue” isn’t gonna resolve itself because we have a bug in how we update DNS. I know the edge proxy cache issue is always gonna cause a particular use case to fail because the way cache invalidation is implemented has a bug. Everyone loves deflection (including me) and “self correcting” systems. But it just means that a certain class of bugs will forever be “fine” and maybe that’s fine. I don’t know anymore.

BuildItBusk · a month ago
I guess that depends on how you use agents (SRE or in general). If you ask it a question (even implicitly) and blindly trust the answer, I agree. But if you have it help you find the needle in the haystack, and then verify that did indeed find the needle, suddenly it’s a powerful tool.
BuildItBusk commented on Show HN: Paste Recipe – AI-powered recipe formatter   pasterecipe.com... · Posted by u/BuildItBusk
properbrew · a month ago
I love how simple it is to use and works well.

I don't seem to see the original to verify the output in the formatted or shared view unless I'm missing something?

BuildItBusk · a month ago
I have been fiddling quite a bit with that. Could be that I actually lost that functionality along the way. I will take a look at it. Thanks!
BuildItBusk commented on Show HN: Paste Recipe – AI-powered recipe formatter   pasterecipe.com... · Posted by u/BuildItBusk
BuildItBusk · a month ago
I built this to solve a personal annoyance - reformatting recipes from messy sources (blog posts, screenshots, social media comments).

Instead of trying to parse every possible recipe format, I treat it as a transformation problem. Paste messy text, AI interprets the structure, you get clean output. The app preserves attribution and stores both versions so you can verify the interpretation.

Tech: Next.js + PostgreSQL + OpenAI API, deployed on Vercel.

GitHub: https://github.com/BuildItBusk/share-recipes

Happy to answer questions or hear feedback!

BuildItBusk commented on Claude for Excel   claude.com/claude-for-exc... · Posted by u/meetpateltech
extr · 3 months ago
What is with the negativity in these comments? This is a huge, huge surface area that touches a large percentage of white collar work. Even just basic automation/scaffolding of spreadsheets would be a big productivity boost for many employees.

My wife works in insurance operations - everyone she manages from the top down lives in Excel. For line employees a large percentage of their job is something like "Look at this internal system, export the data to excel, combine it with some other internal system, do some basic interpretation, verify it, make a recommendation". Computer Use + Excel Use isn't there yet...but these jobs are going to be the first on the chopping block as these integrations mature. No offense to these people but Sonnet 4.5 is already at the level where it would be able to replicate or beat the level of analysis they typically provide.

BuildItBusk · 3 months ago
I have to admit that my first thought was “April’s fool”. But you are right. It makes a lot of sense (if they can get it to work well). Not only is Excel the world’s biggest “programming language”. It’s probably also one of the most unintuitive ways to program.
BuildItBusk commented on Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2025)    · Posted by u/david927
christopher8827 · 4 months ago
Gym goers and calorie tracking folks, lend me your ears!
BuildItBusk · 4 months ago
This is already a feature in an app called MacroFactor. But there is definitely room for improvement in the field.

One thing that I miss in MacroFactor is that it should have some memory of my previous choice.

Example: If I take a picture of a glass of milk, it always assumes it to be whole milk (3.5% fat). Then I change it to a low fat milk (0.5% fat). But no matter how many times I do that, it keeps assuming that the milk in the photo is whole milk.

BuildItBusk commented on Top Programming Languages 2025   spectrum.ieee.org/top-pro... · Posted by u/jnord
kstrauser · 5 months ago
I’m skeptical. There are more people writing PHP and Ruby than HTML? And HTML is a programming language? Those two very surprising results make me doubt the others.

Elixir behind OCaml? Possible, I guess, but I know of several large Elixir shops and I haven’t heard much of OCaml in a while.

BuildItBusk · 5 months ago
As mentioned, HTML is indeed a programming language. But it’s one that is rarely used on its own. So you could argue that having it as a thing of itself in these lists, makes little sense.

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