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cafed00d commented on I passionately hate hype, especially the AI hype unixdigest.com/articles/i... · Posted by u/smartmic

cafed00d · 4 months ago

To me, AI hype seems to be the most tangible/real hype in a decade.

Ever since mobile & cloud era at their peaks in 2012 or 2014, we’ve had Crypto, AR, VR, and now AI.

I have some pocket change bitcoin, ethereum, played around for 2 minutes on my dust-gathering Oculus & Vision Pro; but man, oh man! Am I hooked to ChatGpt or what!

It’s truly remarkably useful!

You just can’t get this type of thing in one click before.

For example, here’s my latest engineering productivity boosting query: “when using a cfg file on the cmd line what does "@" as a prefix do?”

cafed00d commented on LangManus: An Open-Source Manus Agent with LangChain + LangGraph github.com/langmanus/lang... · Posted by u/gfortaine

anxs · 5 months ago

Hey Hacker News, I’m excited to share LangManus, an open-source project that’s all about community-driven AI automation. Built on the shoulders of amazing open-source work, LangManus combines language models with specialized tools to tackle tasks like web search, crawling, and Python code execution—while giving back to the community that inspires it. At its core, LangManus uses a hierarchical multi-agent system, where a supervisor coordinates a team of specialized agents to handle complex workflows. It integrates with LLMs like Qwen and powers up with tools like Tavily for search and Jina for crawling. Plus, it comes with Docker support and a web UI to make interaction a breeze. Want to see it in action? Check out the demo video: https://youtu.be/sZCHqrQBUGk. In it, LangManus calculates the influence index of DeepSeek R1 on HuggingFace using a fully automated plan—think web searches, data retrieval, and Python code crunching, all seamlessly tied together. Here’s what makes LangManus stand out: Multi-Agent Magic: A supervisor delegates tasks to agents like Researcher, Coder, and Browser for efficient execution.

Tool Integration: Web search with Tavily, neural search with Jina, and Python REPL for coding on the fly.

Ease of Use: Docker-ready and a web UI for quick setup and control.

If you’re into AI automation, multi-agent systems, or just love contributing to open-source projects, swing by the GitHub repo: https://github.com/langmanus/langmanus. Dive into the code, play with the demo, or drop some feedback—we’d love to hear from you. Join the community and let’s build something awesome together!

cafed00d · 5 months ago

How do you think about core business logic (or at least, _significant_ business logic) being embedded within prompts like here: https://github.com/langmanus/langmanus/blob/main/src/prompts...

Do you think or worry about not-being able to test these things? (Or is that just me :))

Details: I ack/understand this comes from a dependency (ReAct agents); not directly langmanus.

But, still, curious what the community/hn-tech thinks of testability, veracity, potentially conflicting or overlapping instructions across agents, etc, wrt “prompts” as sources of logic. Ack its a general practice with LLMs.

cafed00d commented on Jevons paradox en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jev... · Posted by u/wslh

mminer237 · 7 months ago

I guess my question about the current events is: Are people really locked out of LLMs due to price? It seems like everything already has AI in it and that virtually every end user hates it. I could see a shift to more local models or something, but not an increase. I feel like LLMs have largely been oversold as a solution in search of a problem.

Or are people just applying this as everyone and their mothers are going to start training competing models to carve out their piece of the market?

cafed00d · 7 months ago

Absolutely! Even for inference! The SOTA models for all commercial purposes need to run on a consumer’s device.

Running either Grok2 or DeepSeek or even Llama405b requires nearly 400-500gb of memory.

Buying a tinybox with enough gpu memory costs $15k-25k. Or equivalently the same if you build your own.

A distributed Mac cluster costs about the same, if not more, if you’re buying 2-3 M2 Ultra each with 192gb of memory.

So people are absolutely constrained by price/supply here. Every engineer, analyst, scientist would be far more untethered by rules & regulations or policies & terms-of-service nitty gritties if they can trust that LLM they use is completely local, without-telemetry or tracking and is licensed fairly for commercial use (perhaps this excludes llama).

Not a lot of people can afford $15k-30k in spending for a computer (that can run this sota llms). But you can a billion will buy one when it’s $1k

cafed00d commented on We're bringing Pebble back repebble.com/... · Posted by u/erohead

joshstrange · 7 months ago

By dumping a codebase they aren't using?

cafed00d · 7 months ago

It could be much worse: how many projects simply die because they’re locked away in a corporate basement because some corporate attorney decided it’s “too risky to leak IP”

Despite all the layoffs & black founding fathers debacles Google as an institution has had recently, it still has the systems in place to let passionate engineering projects see the light of day.

That’s really cool!

cafed00d commented on We're bringing Pebble back repebble.com/... · Posted by u/erohead

cafed00d · 7 months ago

Google has become cool again!

cafed00d commented on Steam Brick: No screen, no controller, just a power button and a USB port crastinator-pro.github.io... · Posted by u/sbarre

cafed00d · 7 months ago

I so want Valve to make this

cafed00d commented on I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney, who does work for YC and startups. AMA · Posted by u/proberts

cafed00d · 7 months ago

I’m on an H1B visa since 2017. I extended in 2021 and again in 2023 (thanks to approved I-140). But my visa stamp in my passport is from 2017 which expired in 2020. I haven’t made efforts to get another stamp mainly because of the pandemic in 2020 and long appointment backlogs thereafter.

Is there a necessity to always keep a valid visa stamp in my passport? Apart from the ease of travel are there any other reasons to always keep a current visa stamp in my passport? I do have all valid I-797 documents of status and have kept my status current all the time.

cafed00d commented on Nobody cares grantslatton.com/nobody-c... · Posted by u/fzliu

cafed00d · 8 months ago

The 12 years or so I have lived in America I have observed that people always keep the door open for those walking behind them. Always. Everywhere. DC, Boston, LA, New York, Seattle, Cupertino, everywhere.

Nobody cares about anything. Somebody cares about something. Everybody cares about everything.

I think the truth is somewhere in the middle. This makes me optimistic. At least, its nice that people care to hold doors open : )

cafed00d commented on New iMac with M4 apple.com/newsroom/2024/1... · Posted by u/tosh

cafed00d · 10 months ago

> Or please tell me how to use the magic mouse while it's charging? Am I just holding it wrong?

is that really a deal-breaking decision to buy an iMac? Yeah, sure, I agree it's super silly design that they put the port under the mouse; but c'mon, does it really matter?

As far as I can tell, I have never had to explain to my 61 year old Indian mother how to use a Mac as much as I have had to debug every little thing on Windows PCs. Macs & Apple products _truly_ do "just work"

cafed00d commented on OpenAI DevDay 2024 live blog simonwillison.net/2024/Oc... · Posted by u/plurby

epolanski · a year ago

What's the role of the software engineer besides setting this up?

Your example makes me think it will merely moves QA into essentially providing countless cases and then updating them over time to improve the AIs data.

And is it really gonna be cheaper than human support?

What's gonna happen when we will find out (see the impossibility to reach a human when interacting with many companies alredy) this is gonna bring (maybe, eventually) costs down, and revenue too because pissed off customers will move elsewhere.

cafed00d · a year ago

More than a majority of a software engineer’s time is spent on bug triage, reproducing bugs, simulating constituents in a test, and debugging fixes.

Doesn’t matter what the computer becomes — AI, AGI or God-incarnate — there’s always a role between that and the end-user. That role today is called software engineer. Tomorrow, it’ll be whatever whatever. Perhaps paid the same or less or more. Doesn’t matter.

There’s always an intermediary to deal with the shit.

Hmm, I wonder if that’s the roles priests & the clergy have been playing all this while. Except, maybe humanity is the shit God (as an end user) has to deal with