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gervwyk commented on What makes Claude Code so damn good minusx.ai/blog/decoding-c... · Posted by u/samuelstros

> easier to validate

This is essential to productivity for humans and LLMs alike. The more reliable your edit/test loop, the better your results will be. It doesn't matter if it's compiling code, validating yaml, or anything else.

To your broader question. People have been trying to crack the low-code nut for ages. I don't think it's solvable. Either you make something overly restrictive, or you are inventing a very bad programming language which is doomed to fail because professional coders will never use it.

gervwyk · a day ago

Good point. i’m making the assumption that if the LLM has a more limited feature space to produce as output, then the output is more predictable, and thus faster to comprehend changes. Similar to when devs use popular libraries, there is a well known abstraction, therefore less “new” code to comprehend as i see familiar functions, making the code predictable to me.

gervwyk commented on What makes Claude Code so damn good minusx.ai/blog/decoding-c... · Posted by u/samuelstros

amelius · a day ago

How do you specify callbacks?

Config files should be mature programming languages, not Yaml/Json files.

gervwyk · a day ago

Callback: Blocks (React components) can register events with action chains (a sequential list of async functions) that will be called when the event is triggered. So it is defined in the react component. This abstraction of blocks, events, actions, operations and requests are the only abstraction required in the schema to build fully functional web apps.

Might sound crazy but we built full web apps in just yaml.. Been doing this for about 5 years now and it helps us scale to build many web apps, fast, that are easy to maintain. We at Resonancy[1] have found many benefits in doing so. I should write more about this.

[1] - https://resonancy.io

gervwyk commented on What makes Claude Code so damn good minusx.ai/blog/decoding-c... · Posted by u/samuelstros

gervwyk · a day ago

We’re considering building a coding agent for Lowdefy[1], a framework that lets you build web apps with YAML config.

For those who’ve built coding agents: do you think LLMs are better suited for generating structured config vs. raw code?

My theory is that agents producing valid YAML/JSON schemas could be more reliable than code generation. The output is constrained, easier to validate, and when it breaks, you can actually debug it.

I keep seeing people creating apps with vibe coder tools but then get stuck when they need to modify the generated code.

Curious if others think config-based approaches are more practical for AI-assisted development.

[1] https://github.com/lowdefy/lowdefy

gervwyk commented on Is the A.I. Boom Turning Into an A.I. Bubble? newyorker.com/news/the-fi... · Posted by u/FinnLobsien

gervwyk · 12 days ago

was cloud computing ever a bubble. yes. did it stabilize. sure. but its a powerful utility that shifted and created new value. the only speculation is where and by how much.

the rush of new tech is always confusing, new tools requires new skills and time to find its place in the world.

gervwyk commented on Arcol simplifies building design with browser-based modeling arcol.io/... · Posted by u/joeld42

joeld42 · 3 months ago

haha yeah! It feels like a real pain point in the industry right now. Hopefully we can make it easier for communication between design, engineering and construction.

gervwyk · 3 months ago

Well done for zoning in on this problem. Many will try to solve this with a better email or kanban workflow or internal tooling. It takes some imagination to build something better. This solution looks very creative (i’m not in the industry so would not know what is the normal for this) and congrats on the launch!

gervwyk commented on Ask HN: Anyone making a living from a paid API? · Posted by u/meander_water

sanjayparekh · 3 months ago

The whole geo-IP space started back with my startup, Digital Envoy, in 1999 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39734355). The way we went about it was by providing an API to clients but we actually hosted our entire database (encrypted and in a proprietary format) with clients. The reason for this was for latency (back in 1999 we could get about 0.03ms per transaction something that you can't get on any edge delivered service) which was necessary for the types of clients we went after.

The business was very valuable across a lot of industries - gambling, encryption, advertising, security, adult entertainment, etc. - so there was a lot of demand that also helped smooth out the demand up/down cycles. If one market was cold, another was hot. But basically it's a lot of work and a lot of hand-to-hand combat. This is the best way to learn and get passionate customers. Show up, sell to them, and convince them they need you. You'll learn so much by doing this. And don't use the excuse that you're an introvert or not good at selling. If you want to be an entrepreneur, you need to learn and improve. No one is the best at anything on day one - you won't be either. But you'll get there if you keep at it.

Being the absolute best in the market meant that even having much more better funded competitors ($50m+ for competitors against our $12m in funding) meant we tended to win all the time. And before you ask, if I had this to do over again now, I could do this company for a LOT less money given how commoditized things are. I can tell you the time I almost spent $1m on a storage array until I found a cheaper vendor for $250k. Oh, that storage array was for 1TB of storage. So yeah.

Feel free to ask me anything. If there are enough people who have questions and want to do a chat I'd be happy to host a video call and get peppered with whatever questions you might have.

gervwyk · 3 months ago

Thanks so much for this!

I’m just now really trying to put myself out there and get into sales to further develop our business. We’ve been lucky with some early network sales, but for the next chapter of our business (https://resonancy.io) I need to build the sales engine and I feel very much out of my depth.

Just telling myself its a practice and trying to chip away at it one week at a time.. At this point identifying potential customers and getting meetings is a real challenge. Been trying Apollo and doing cold outreach but is a slow grind. Also trying my best in linkedin..

gervwyk commented on Ask HN: Anyone making a living from a paid API? · Posted by u/meander_water

Erazal · 3 months ago

also check out Meeting BaaS (meeting bots as a service), we're an open-source competitor.

We thought long and hard of creating an SDK but did not go that route for now. Our main problem is that if you have to support Windows machines you're putting the finger into something really complicated.

And then depend on the end user's specs, etc.

So I'm really curious, in your case are you planning on deploying to Apple machines (m1+)? Or also set it up on Windows machines?

gervwyk · 3 months ago

A mix but primarily apple.

gervwyk commented on Ask HN: Anyone making a living from a paid API? · Posted by u/meander_water

Suppafly · 3 months ago

>This is included in Microsoft Teams.

This, and there are also 3rd party bots that work with Teams (and presumably other video chats as well) that will join the meeting and do their own transcription. I've seen a couple of on meetings with vendors lately, it'll join and be called something like x company transcription bot.

gervwyk · 3 months ago

I’ve checked out about 5 of them, I like krisp.ai the best, really nice native experience on mac. We do a lot of team meetings in discord channels. Almost none of them support discord and krisp allows for discord and in person recording. However no webhook in krisp, as team admin, i dont want to have every user configure a zapier integration to get the notes out. then pay for zapier also.

Only read.ai has webhook support, but all these tools only post notes to integrations. we want the full transcript to generate extract of what we think is important.

Have not tried recall.ai

gervwyk commented on Ask HN: Anyone making a living from a paid API? · Posted by u/meander_water

tiffanyh · 3 months ago

This is included in Microsoft Teams.

Will even auto detected who spoke, transcribe, video records and AI summarize it (with defined actions / next steps).

You can set it up to auto perform once the first person joins the meeting.

gervwyk · 3 months ago

Many meetings happen that are not on teams.. So that would only do for 10%.. Id like to meet the teams where they are working instead of telling them to change how they work.