ColinEberhardt (u/ColinEberhardt)

ColinEberhardt commented on Being “Confidently Wrong” is holding AI back promptql.io/blog/being-co... · Posted by u/tango12

ColinEberhardt · 21 days ago

I agree with the overall sentiment here, having written something similar recently:

“LLMs don’t know what they don’t know” https://blog.scottlogic.com/2025/03/06/llms-dont-know-what-t...

But I wouldn’t say it is the only problem with this technology! Rather, it is a subtle issue that most users don’t understand

ColinEberhardt commented on RIP Shunsaku Tamiya, the man who made plastic model kits a global obsession JapaneseNostalgicCar.com/... · Posted by u/fidotron

louthy · a month ago

In the 80s I had the Tamiya Grasshopper [1], which was the greatest remote control car ever (opinion).

I remember attaching three battery packs (instead of the standard one)—to make it drive at roughly 8 billion miles per hour, in the process ripping the tyres to shreds and pretty much ruining the car—because it couldn’t turn without flipping several thousand times.

Still, for those initial few seconds, it was glorious.

RIP Grasshopper and RIP Shunsaku Tamiya

[1] https://cdn.thingiverse.com/assets/8b/e7/0c/d6/a0/IMG_6201.j...

ColinEberhardt · a month ago

I had a car from the same era, the Boomerang, similar in style but 4WD:

https://randomcompetitions.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/...

Absolutely loved that car, used it for hours and hours every week. The best 'toy' I ever had (other than my Amiga A500!).

ColinEberhardt commented on Show HN: I made a tool to generate photomosaics with your pictures pictiler.com... · Posted by u/jakemanger

bryanthompson · a month ago

I used Mosaic Magic back in my high school journalism class to design a yearbook cover 20+ years ago! Turned out great - it won some kind of award iirc.

ColinEberhardt · a month ago

Oh wow, so cool to meet someone who used an app I wrote 25 years ago. Great to hear from you and congrats on the prize!

ColinEberhardt commented on Show HN: I made a tool to generate photomosaics with your pictures pictiler.com... · Posted by u/jakemanger

ColinEberhardt · a month ago

Very cool. I actually created a shareware application that rendered Photomosaics 25 years ago! Here is a link to "Mosaic Magic" from the Wayback Engine:

https://web.archive.org/web/20010405175706/http://fishsoft.c...

I managed to make a decent amount of spending money from that application during my University years.

One interesting lesson I learnt was about enterprise pricing. I think I charged ~$20 for Mosaic Magic, however, I started to get emails from organisations asking about pricing for commercial use. Nothing on my pricing page suggested that commercial use was prohibited, I guess they just thought $20 was rather cheap. From there-on, I charged $150 for "commercial use". Basically, anyone who thought they should be paying more, did!

Finally, Robert Silvers filed a patent and trademark for Photomosaics in ~2000, and was, for a while aggressively pursuing organisations that he felt was infringing. I assume this has all died down now.

ColinEberhardt commented on Show HN: Ten years of running every day, visualized nodaysoff.run... · Posted by u/friggeri

ColinEberhardt · 2 months ago

That is very cool, thanks for sharing, and congratulations on an epic streak.

I'm also into running visualisation, and created the running report card:

https://run-report.com/

It visualises your year in running, with some fun narrative generated by GPT. Here's my report card:

https://run-report.com/8725202.html

ColinEberhardt commented on Measuring the Impact of AI on Experienced Open-Source Developer Productivity [pdf] metr.org/Early_2025_AI_Ex... · Posted by u/ColinEberhardt

ColinEberhardt · 2 months ago

TL;DR; they report that AI tools slow down task completion by 19%

Posted by u/ColinEberhardt 2 months ago

Measuring the Impact of AI on Experienced Open-Source Developer Productivity [pdf]metr.org/Early_2025_AI_Ex...

ColinEberhardt commented on From AI to Agents to Agencies blog.nishantsoni.com/p/fr... · Posted by u/suninsight

ColinEberhardt · 2 months ago

until some of the significant flaws of agents are addressed (hallucination, explainability, bias), I'm not really all that interested in extending this model further.

Agentic AI definitely works for software engineering because we have suitable mitigations for its limitations. It is unclear what those mitigations might be in other fields of application.

ColinEberhardt commented on Prompt engineering playbook for programmers addyo.substack.com/p/the-... · Posted by u/vinhnx

ColinEberhardt · 3 months ago

There are so many prompting guides at the moment. Personally I think they are quite unnecessary. If you take the time to use these tools, build familiarity with them and the way they work, the prompt you should use becomes quite obvious.

ColinEberhardt commented on Peer Programming with LLMs, for Senior+ Engineers pmbanugo.me/blog/peer-pro... · Posted by u/pmbanugo

ColinEberhardt · 4 months ago

Thanks for sharing pmabanugo, a couple of those posts are new to me too. If you’re taking submissions, I’ve been exploring how to make the most of these tools for the past few months, here’s my latest post:

https://blog.scottlogic.com/2025/05/08/new-tools-new-flow-th...

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