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Falimonda commented on AI coding tools can reduce productivity   secondthoughts.ai/p/ai-co... · Posted by u/gk1
hluska · 5 months ago
This has nothing to do with what they asked.
Falimonda · 5 months ago
Copilot is going to feel "amazing" at helping you quickly work within just about any subject that you're not already an expert in.

Whether or not a general purpose foundation model for coding is trained on more backend or frontend code is largely irrelevant in this specific context.

Falimonda commented on AI coding tools can reduce productivity   secondthoughts.ai/p/ai-co... · Posted by u/gk1
relaxing · 5 months ago
Is this because they had the entire web to train on, code + output and semantics in every page?
Falimonda · 5 months ago
It's moreso that a backend developer can now throw together a frontend and vice-versa without relying on a team member or needing to set aside time to internalize all the necessary concepts to just make that other part of the system work. I imagine even a full-stack developer will find benefits.
Falimonda commented on Launch HN: K-Scale Labs (YC W24) – Open-Source Humanoid Robots    · Posted by u/codekansas
999900000999 · 5 months ago
Cool.

But this looks like an expensive toy.

The stuff of nightmares is this being adapted by the DoD. I can almost imagine your website as a scene in the prologue of a terminator like movie.

Nightmare 2 is this becomes a companion of some sort. Detroit Become Human goes into this. You have a theme of the robots basically wanting freedom. Which throws out a moral conundrum, if someone buys an AGI enabled bot just to be mean to it, have they done anything wrong.

I like technology , but this feels like step one to a whole lot of weird stuff.

Falimonda · 5 months ago
As much as DoD might like expensive toys, they have better options than an open-source project.
Falimonda commented on Fei-Fei Li: Spatial intelligence is the next frontier in AI [video]   youtube.com/watch?v=_PioN... · Posted by u/sandslash
m463 · 5 months ago
I have had this idea about parking a car...

Most people have proprioception - you know where the parts of your body are without looking. Close your eyes and you intuitively know where your hands and fingers are.

When parking a car, it helps to sort of sit in the drivers seat and look around the car. Turn your neck and look past the back seat where your rear tire would be. sense the edges of the car.

I think if you sort of develop this a bit you might "feel" where your car is intuitively when pulling into a parking space or parallel parking. (car-prioception?)

(but use your mirrors and backup camera anyway)

Falimonda · 5 months ago
As someone who hasn't had to own a car in over 8 years (lived in NYC) and recently bought a 2023 Hyundai Santa Fe with birdseye view parking it shocks me how uncalibrated my car-prioception is.

It's made me realize that objects are much further from the boundaries of my car when backing into a spot parallel parking. I would never think to get so close to another car if I had to only rely on my own senses.

With that said, I realize there's a significant number of people that are even poorer estimators of these distances than myself. I.e. those that won't pass through two cars even though to me it's obvious that they could easily pass.

I have to imagine a big part of this has to do with risk assessment and lack of risk-free practice opportunity IRL. Nobody is seeing how far they can push or train themselves in this regard when the consequences are to scratch up your car and others' cars. With the birdseye view I can actually do that now!

Falimonda commented on Show HN: System Prompt Learning – LLMs Learn Problem-Solving from Experience    · Posted by u/codelion
Falimonda · 6 months ago
How do you forsee a system like this efficiently managing and relying on a set of strategies whose size can become unbounded?
Falimonda commented on Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)    · Posted by u/david927
bibin765 · 7 months ago
I am currently working on thethoughtcatcher.com

It started as a side project to explore the latest AI trends. Now it’s something we use daily — and others are starting to as well.

Thoughtcatcher is a lightweight, AI-powered notes + reminders app that acts like a memory companion.

It helps you: - Capture raw thoughts and auto-tag them using AI - Set smart reminders triggered by context and meaning - This was a game changer for me personally - Search and chat with your notes like a conversation — not just by keywords, but by intent

Example? You’re walking out of a meeting and think: “We should revisit that pricing model after the new release.” You jot it into ThoughtCatcher — no structure, no stress. A week later, right before the next sprint planning, it reminds you. Just when you would’ve forgotten — it remembers.

What started as a learning project has grown into something useful — not just for individuals, but for teams too.

We’re now exploring B2B use cases like: • Project knowledge management • Shared team notes with smart search and chat • Meeting follow-up insights and reminders • AI-powered team memory for client or product work

Want to try it out? Android users: Download the app iOS users: Use the PWA — just “Add to Home Screen”

Still early. Still learning. But ThoughtCatcher already feels like something I wish I had years ago.

Would love your feedback or thoughts. And if you’re building something similar— let’s connect

Falimonda · 7 months ago
Ingesting idea! I've been looking for an alternative to using Android's Tasks app for jotting down thoughts. I prefer it over the Notes app because I can curate categories as different lists.

Random callout: the copy in your app store preview images would benefit from some proof reading. Example: "WE dont just store thoughts, but makes sense of them" should likely be "ThoughtCatcher doesn't just store thoughts, it makes sense of them". My 2 cents is to also rework "Capture your mind" as it's a little awkward. Maybe "Organize your thoughts", "Supercharge your thoughts", or something along those lines.

Falimonda commented on Claude 4   anthropic.com/news/claude... · Posted by u/meetpateltech
thimabi · 7 months ago
It’s been hard to keep up with the evolution in LLMs. SOTA models basically change every other week, and each of them has its own quirks.

Differences in features, personality, output formatting, UI, safety filters… make it nearly impossible to migrate workflows between distinct LLMs. Even models of the same family exhibit strikingly different behaviors in response to the same prompt.

Still, having to find each model’s strengths and weaknesses on my own is certainly much better than not seeing any progress in the field. I just hope that, eventually, LLM providers converge on a similar set of features and behaviors for their models.

Falimonda · 7 months ago
Have you tried a package like LiteLLM so that you can more easily validate and switch to a newer model?

The key seems to be in curating your application's evaluation set.

Falimonda commented on My new deadline: 20 years to give away virtually all my wealth   gatesnotes.com/home/home-... · Posted by u/nrvn
Taqas · 7 months ago
I've been reading about him giving away his fortune for 20 years. If I say I give away my fortune it's done within a week. Yet, he is still one of the richest people on earth. He's done good, but still I'm cynical about his motives.
Falimonda · 7 months ago
What do you believe are his motives?
Falimonda commented on I'd rather read the prompt   claytonwramsey.com/blog/p... · Posted by u/claytonwramsey
necovek · 7 months ago
I've already asked a number of colleagues at work producing insane amount of gibberish with LLMs to just pass me the prompt instead: if LLM can produce verbose text with limited input, I just need that concise input too (the rest is simply made up crap).
Falimonda · 7 months ago
And you do what with the prompt once you have it?
Falimonda commented on Lessons from Building a Translator App That Beats Google Translate and DeepL   dingyu.me/blog/lessons-tr... · Posted by u/msephton
Falimonda · 7 months ago
I'm working on a natural language router system that chooses the optimal model for a given language pair. It uses a combination of RLHF and conventional translation scoring. I envision it to soon become the cheapest translation service providing the highest average quality across languages by striking a balance between Google Translate's expensive API and any given, cheaper, random model's performance across different languages.

I'll beginning to integrate it into my user-facing application for language learners soon: www.abal.ai

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