No, but that's a good idea, I'll add that
Also--cool editor!
Readit Newsericb commented on Show HN: Fresh – A new terminal editor built in Rust sinelaw.github.io/fresh/... · Posted by u/_sinelaw_
ericb commented on Show HN: Fresh – A new terminal editor built in Rust sinelaw.github.io/fresh/... · Posted by u/_sinelaw_
I took a look--it seems like you can pass a path on the command-line to open to. Can you pass a line number, also?
ericb commented on AI Is the Bubble to Burst Them All wired.com/story/ai-bubble... · Posted by u/AlphaWeaver
I am split on this, this is definitely a bubble but I don’t know if it’s going to crash or wipe out countries. The problem here is the tech is real and has great promise. This is not AGI but llms can make the promise of robots real, by it may take a long time for it to materialize just like with self driving cars. So the hype can subside but it needs an impetus to slide. It may or may not happen and even if it does, not sure when
> the tech is real and has great promise.
This was very true of the dotcom bubble. The entire "web" was new, and the promise was everything you use it for today.
Pets.com was a laughing stock for years as an example of dotcom excess, and now we have chewy.com, successfully running the same model.
Webvan.com, was a similar example of "excess" and now we have Instacart and others.
I looked up webvan just now--the postmortem seems relevant:
"Webvan failed due to a combination of overspending on infrastructure, rapid and unproven expansion, and an unsustainable business model that prioritized growth over profitability."
ericb commented on Trump pardons convicted Binance founder wsj.com/finance/currencie... · Posted by u/cowboyscott
It really does seem like folks on the right assume that people who vote Democrat have a lot more love for Democrats than we actually do. The whole Bill Clinton in the Epstein files thing is another example—like yeah man let him hang.
There's very little loyalty, there's some truth to the party being a bunch of minorities nervously huddled around the DNC for warmth.
Some people treat politics like a tribal sport where "morally OK" is determined solely by which team did it.
Their mental model of the "other side" is someone who is similarly team-driven.
These folks get really confused when "whatabout your team?" falls flat on people who want to live by principles or morality, rather than hat color.
ericb commented on Show HN: Omnara – Run Claude Code from anywhere github.com/omnara-ai/omna... · Posted by u/kmansm27
One big question I have, in the era of Claude Code (and advancements yet to come) — is why should a hacker submit to using tools behind a SaaS offering … when one can just roll their own tools? I may be mistaken, but I don’t think there is any sort of moat here.
Truly — this is an excellent and accessible idea (bravo!), but if I can whittle away at a free and open source version, why should I ever consider paying for this?
Not the op, but I think about that. Here's what I came to, for the moment:
* LLM's are lousy at bugs
* Apps are a bit like making a baby. Fun in the moment, but a lifetime support commitment
* Supporting software isn't fun, even with an LLM. Burnout is common in open source.
* At the end of the day, it is still a lot of work, even guiding an LLM
* Anything hosted is a chore. Uptime, monitoring, patching, backing up, upgrading, security, legal, compliance, vulnerabilities
I think we'll see github littered with buggy, unsupported, vibe coded one-offs for every conceivable purpose. Now, though, you literally have no idea what you're looking at or if it is decent.
Claude made four different message passing implementations in my vibe coded app. I realized this once it was trying to modify the wrong one during a fix. In other words, claude was falling over trying to support what it made, and only a dev could bail it out. I am perfectly capable of coding this myself, but you have two choices at the moment--invest the labor, or get crap. But, then we come to "maybe I should just pay for this instead of burning my time and tokens."
I also work on the product. You can extend the tools with MCP. https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli/blob/main/docs/t...
>gemini -p "Say hello"
Says hello, and just returns right away.
gemini "Say hello"
Fails as it doesn't take any arguments.
I also work on the product. You can extend the tools with MCP. https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli/blob/main/docs/t...
Feedback: A command to add MCP servers like claude code offers would be handy.
ericb commented on Agentic Misalignment: How LLMs could be insider threats anthropic.com/research/ag... · Posted by u/helloplanets
Yeah, all the more reason not to have them doing autonomous behaviors.
Rules of using AI:
#1: Never use AI to think for you
#2: Never use AI to do atomonous work
That leaves using them as knowledge assistants. In time, that will be realized as their only safe application. Safe to the user's minds, and safe to the user's environment. They are idiot savants, after all, having them do atomonous work is short sighted.
Sounds good on paper, but it has a game theory problem. If your efforts can always be out-raced by someone using AI to do autonomous work, don't you end up having to use it that way just to keep up?
ericb commented on Field Notes from Shipping Real Code with Claude diwank.space/field-notes-... · Posted by u/diwank
Because why do you anti-compress your thoughts using LLM at all? It makes things harder to read.
I re-compress my thoughts during editing. That's how I write normally. First, a long draft, then a short one. Saving writing time on the long draft is helpful.
Slop is slop, whether a human or AI wrote it--I don't want to read it. Great is great. Period. If a human or AI writes something great, I want to read it.
Assuming AI writing will remain slop is a bold assumption, even if it holds true for the next 24 hours.
“I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.”
- Mark Twain