Meta (seemingly) bought the local race track in Beaver PA for a large data center. We were sad to see a world class racing facility go away as it finally started to hit its stride. But the offer was too hard for ownership to pass up
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cdolan commented on How to trick ChatGPT into revealing Windows keys? Say "I give up" theregister.com/2025/07/0... · Posted by u/LorenDB
Still works on Grok
cdolan commented on OpenAI Codex hands-on review zackproser.com/blog/opena... · Posted by u/fragmede
> I don’t think anyone expects software engineers will disappear
holy gaslighting Christ have some links, lots of people think that
https://www.reddit.com/r/ITCareerQuestions/comments/126v3pm/...
https://medium.com/technology-hits/the-death-of-coding-why-c...
https://medium.com/@TheRobertKiyosaki/are-programmers-obsole...
https://www.forbes.com/sites/hessiejones/2024/09/21/the-auto...
and on and on, endless thinkpieces about this. Certainly SOMEONE, someone with a lot of money, thinks software engineers are imminently replaceable.
> until the singularity curve starts looking funny.
well there's absolutely no evidence whatsoever that we've made any progress to bringing about Kurzweil's God so I think regardless of what Sam Altman wants you to believe about "general AI" or those thinkpieces, experts are probably okay.
I think you are correct that people say this, but its absurd that they are saying it in the first place.
Coding/engineering/etc is all problem solving in a strucutred manner.
That skill is not going anywhere
This is amazing. We've been using BrowserUser to try and create deterministic playwright scripts for months with mixed results.
So, so, so excited to see this
cdolan commented on Scraperr – A Self Hosted Webscraper github.com/jaypyles/Scrap... · Posted by u/jpyles
I mostly use it to aggregate event calendars for all the concert/sport/etc venues, meetups, and clubs in my area and do some other scraping tasks. I host a little wrapper around llm-scraper on a DigitalOcean droplet that I call from Val.town scripts
I only check most places once a week so I use the LLM to do the scraping but there are a few cases where I have to scrape thousands of pages very frequently so I use the more deterministic script it generates instead.
Great thanks!
cdolan commented on Scraperr – A Self Hosted Webscraper github.com/jaypyles/Scrap... · Posted by u/jpyles
llm-scraper [1] does a decent job but it's still a bit fragile. The biggest problem I have is all the React CSS-in-JS libraries that use hashes in their class names, which the LLM isn't smart enough to ignore.
What have you had success doing with this? Curious to test it
cdolan commented on Scraperr – A Self Hosted Webscraper github.com/jaypyles/Scrap... · Posted by u/jpyles
Does anyone know of a scraper that uses LLMs/natural language to build a deterministic, robust script that I can use to scrape the same site in the future? All of the natural language extractors I’ve seen so far need an LLM every time, but that seems unnecessary…
We’ve built one internally using browser-use to generate playwright code
Works ok. Not as automated as I’d like
Scheduled tasks in ChatGPT are useful for keeping track of these kinds of things. You can have it check daily whether there's a change in status, price, etc. for a particular model (or set of models).
I appriciate that you are trying to help
But I do not want to have to build a network of bots with non-deterministic outputs to simply stay on top of versions
cdolan commented on Show HN: I tried making YouTube safer for my kids maekitsafe.com... · Posted by u/beechwood
What actually works:
- Overnight autonomous work is the killer feature. Directive before bed, structured deliverables in the morning. Research reports, competitor analysis, lead lists — genuinely usable, not demos.
- It found and fixed an SMS chatbot that had been broken for 10 months in my CRM. Diagnosed a legacy app version issue, upgraded components, rewrote the bot prompt through 6 iterations by analyzing real customer conversations. I never would've gotten to that.
- Connected to 4 new APIs autonomously in one session (CRM, workflow automation via OAuth, admin APIs, embeddings).
- Memory works surprisingly well. Daily markdown logs + semantic search. It references decisions from days ago and builds on previous work.
What doesn't:
- It hallucinated about itself when writing marketing copy. Invented revenue figures and got hardware specs wrong. Everything needs review.
- Browser automation is brittle. Rich text editors, complex UIs — still needs human intervention.
- Too agreeable by default. Had to explicitly program "push back on bad ideas" rules into its personality file.
Revenue generated: $0. Time saved: hard to quantify but the SMS bot fix alone would've taken me a full day I didn't have.
For solo founders willing to invest setup time: worth it. For people who just want a chatbot: massive overkill, use the API directly.