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benjaminsky2 commented on Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)    · Posted by u/david927
nonethewiser · 4 months ago
In my experience, "vibe coding" can produce a rich prototype very fast.

Then as scope expands you're left with something that is difficult to extend because its impossible to keep everything in the LLM context. Both because of context limits and because of input fatigue in terms of communicating the context.

At this point you can do a critical analysis of what you have and design a more rigorous specification.

benjaminsky2 · 4 months ago
If your project is well organized and individual files are small and the dependency graph isn’t too crazy, Claude code does an amazing job building only the context it needs even as the project grows. You just have to be aggressive about refactoring for maintainability. The bonus here is that it’s easier for humans to work on too.
benjaminsky2 commented on Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)    · Posted by u/david927
xarici_ishler · 4 months ago
The first ever SQL debugger – runs & visualizes your query step-by-step, every clause, condition, expression, incl. GROUP BY, aggregates / windows, DISTINCT (ON), subqueries (even correlated ones!), CTEs, you name it.

You can search for full or partial rows and see the whole query lineage – which intermediate rows from which CTEs/subqueries contributed to the result you're searching for.

Entirely offline & no usage of AI. Free in-browser version (using PGLite WASM), paid desktop version.

No website yet, here's a 5 minute showcase (skip to middle): https://www.loom.com/share/c03b57fa61fc4c509b1e2134e53b70dd

benjaminsky2 · 4 months ago
This is awesome! I’m work with a team of analysts and data engineers who own a pretty big snowflake data warehouse. We write a ton of dbt models and have a range of sql skill levels on the team. This would be the perfect way to allow more junior devs to build their skills quickly and support more complex models.

I would recommend you target data warehouses like snowflake and bigquery where the query complexity and thus value prop for a tool like this is potentially much higher.

benjaminsky2 commented on Do you avoid the news? You’re in growing company   washingtonpost.com/media/... · Posted by u/lando2319
TheBlight · 2 years ago
I'd argue the biggest problem is the leveraging of all forms of mass media to psychologically manipulate the public.
benjaminsky2 · 2 years ago
Not to mention that they all use or amplify the exact same talking points at the exact same time.
benjaminsky2 commented on Whom the gods would destroy, they first give real-time analytics (2013)   mcfunley.com/whom-the-god... · Posted by u/sbdchd
benjaminsky2 · 2 years ago
I’ve always built analytics daily by default, and certain metrics real-time - via a different system - only when a compelling and permanent use case exists (except operational analytics). I mean something like YouTube view counter/likes or delivering order count/total as a b2b2c so your customers can watch their promotions in real-time. Major bonus, you have the super complicated, hard to maintain, real-time system to point to when someone wants everything real-time but invested the minimum possible.
benjaminsky2 commented on ‘I respect myself too much to stay in Canada’: Why new immigrants are leaving   thestar.com/news/canada/2... · Posted by u/amichail
benjaminsky2 · 2 years ago
Maybe the star is a bigger publication than I’m aware of but it seems pretty hilarious for them to have a paywall.
benjaminsky2 commented on The Curse of Recursion: Training on Generated Data Makes Models Forget   arxiv.org/abs/2305.17493... · Posted by u/indus
anonylizard · 2 years ago
Not at all.

At the very minimum, you can assume every piece of text data pre Dec-2022, and every image before Aug-2022 to be completely human made. That still leaves decades of pure human digital data, and multiple centuries of distilled human data (books) to be trainable on.

And we haven't gotten into videos yet, which is another giant source of data yet unexplored.

Never forget, humans train on human-generated data. There's no impossible theoretical reason why AI cannot train on AI-generated data.

benjaminsky2 · 2 years ago
To extend the lossy compression hypothesis, human generated text is lossy compression of our sensory experience of reality while LLMs are lossy compression of that.
benjaminsky2 commented on Show HN: Non.io, a Reddit-like platform Ive been working on for the last 4 years   non.io... · Posted by u/jjcm
benjaminsky2 · 2 years ago
I’m willing to give this a try if you can clean it up a bit. UX is rough on mobile. I also prefer subs to hashtags but whatever, I’m easy. I bailed on Reddit like 2yrs ago and there’s really no alternative that I can find except HN.
benjaminsky2 commented on Google I/O: Big changes coming for SEOs with ubiquitous AI   demandsphere.com/blog/goo... · Posted by u/rgrieselhuber
hoppyhoppy2 · 2 years ago
I'm a little worried about the coming flood of AI-generated "recipes" that fit some linguistic model but have never been cooked by any human.
benjaminsky2 · 2 years ago
I did that the other day. I cooked a kadai chicken recipe verbatim from ChatGPT. It wasn’t bad, but it wasn’t amazing either.
benjaminsky2 commented on Google “We have no moat, and neither does OpenAI”   semianalysis.com/p/google... · Posted by u/klelatti
tiniuclx · 2 years ago
I've been using Stable Diffusion to generate cover images for the music I release & produce for others. It's a massive time saver compared to comping together the release art using image editing software, and a lot cheaper than working with artists, which just doesn't make sense financially as an independent musician.

It's a little bit difficult to get what you want out of the models, but I find them very useful! And while the output resolution might be quite low, things are improving & AI upscaling also helps a lot.

benjaminsky2 · 2 years ago
> artist whose domain has not yet been disrupted by AI fires artist in favor of AI
benjaminsky2 commented on Protecting himself while actively dooming hundreds of startups to failure   twitter.com/moorehn/statu... · Posted by u/mcguire
benjaminsky2 · 2 years ago
“Person I don’t like acts in rationally self interested manner, legally outperforming less informed parties in zero sum game”

Should we feel bad when we sell a stock and it goes down?

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