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sebasvisser commented on I don't care how well your "AI" works fokus.cool/2025/11/25/i-d... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

walt_grata · 3 months ago

LLMs vs human

Handholding the human pays off in the long run more than hand holding the llm, which requires more hand holding anyway.

Claude doesn't get better as I explain concepts to it the same way a jr engineer does.

sebasvisser · 3 months ago

Maybe see it less as a junior and replacement for humans. See it more as a tool for you! A tool so you can do stuff you used to delegate/dump to a junior, do now yourself.

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skeezyjefferson · 4 months ago

> For instance there is absolutely no need to keep those documents on the live server for applicants once they have been used for their intended purpose. Blast radius reduction and all that.

I hate this kind of post-hoc finger pointing people do after security breaches. There are other concerns in life beyond security - youre naive to think differently. Is your house secure or could somebody break past your protections? Have you harmed your defensive posture with negligence of security? Do you even care?

sebasvisser · 4 months ago

Sure, hate on the person pointing at the fire instead of the people holding the matches.

If you aren’t prepared to face criticism after a failure, you shouldn’t participate in a professional environment. Without people pointing out where it went wrong you’ll never j ow what to improve upon. Because if you knew, and chose not to act..now that would be a whole new level of incompetence.

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SadTrombone · 4 months ago

As someone with back pain, what were the lifestyle changes?

sebasvisser · 4 months ago

Simply walk.

Walk every morning. Walk every hour (unless sleeping). Walk uphill every day (see documentary on Blue Zones).

But for now: just focus on resisting the urge to tell me why it can’t be done… Like Nike’s slogan: “Just do it”

Good luck, it’s though, and painful but it gets better.

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sebasvisser · 4 months ago

Spammy website

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pedalpete · 5 months ago

Thanks for this thoughtful response.

The reason we use a subscription is to keep the upfront cost much lower. It's important to us that we make better sleep as accessible as possible. A one-time payment makes that more challenging at this stage.

We also wanted to keep things simple at checkout. Too many options can be confusing, and at this early stage our priority is making it straightforward for people who want to try the technology.

It's a delicate balance.

sebasvisser · 5 months ago

Having to select 2 items for 1 sleep intervention is a weird way of keeping things simple..

To help you a bit: 1 is easier… So 1 hardware product working independently is what we want. If you must to appease the shareholders do a subscription…make it add some functionality that would be impossible without a subscription… But locking people in a subscription to “keep upfront cost lower” is devious at best. Add to the world..don’t (cash)grab.

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Waterluvian · 5 months ago

Something I find myself doing when I stumble through the saloon doors of a Hacker News link only to be met by a silent corporate stare, is to imagine real humans doing real human things. Like drinking their coffee, finishing their milk soup with marshmallows, and seeing their kids off to school.

They each get in their car, fasten their seatbelt, and back out of their storage bay onto the road. They tune their radio to a morning zoo being visited by a reeling ninth caller who didn’t win the free party pack.

They depart the trunk line and park in a fragmented matrix of similarly unique cars, de-safety their belt, rummage the console for an identity token, and head into their own morning zoo, paned wall-to-wall with one-way glass, seemingly installed backwards.

The humans shed the remaining vestiges of their real human mornings and dutifully touch base on how to liven up their portable document that contentfully explores, ”how can technology further deliver value to our audience?” perhaps using hypertext, while drinking more coffee.

Anyways… If you haven’t clicked “client value” at the top-right, I strongly encourage doing so. Ten points and a free party pack if you can read the entire thing with a straight face.

sebasvisser · 5 months ago

You made me do it! Reading through it felt like carrying the whole world on my shoulders whilst walking up a mountain…

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gradstudent · 5 months ago

How is it available for everyone if the AI bots bring down your server?

sebasvisser · 5 months ago

Build better

sebasvisser commented on ChatGPT agent: bridging research and action openai.com/index/introduc... · Posted by u/Topfi

taf2 · 7 months ago

I think the question then is what's the human error rate... We know we're not perfect... So if you're 100% rested and only have to find the edge case bug, maybe you'll usually find it vs you're burned out getting it 98% of the way there and fail to see the 2% of the time bugs... Wording here is tricky to explain but I think what we'll find is this helps us get that much closer... Of course when you spend your time building out 98% of the thing you have sometimes a deeper understanding of it so finding the 2% edge case is easier/faster but only time will tell

sebasvisser · 7 months ago

Would be insane to expect an ai to just match us right…nooooo if it pertains computers/automation/ai it needs to be beyond perfect.

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sebasvisser · 8 months ago

Funny how the same desire got both of us into building more or less the same app:

https://apps.apple.com/nl/app/xyz-photo/id6602894199

Yours looks sleeker though. One thing I learned quickly after having friends use it..other people want different things and catering to more than just myself takes soooo much time.

So I stick to building what I want and releasing it for free.

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ikanreed · a year ago

Children are most hurt by low expectations. Especially young children.

There's subtlety to this, high demands are not high expectations. If there's consequences for not meeting some high standard you set for children, you're going to create a very life-destroying kind of learned helplessness. Kids shouldn't be punished for failure.

And if it's something dangerous to try, then of course it's gotta be something you limit.

But beyond that, just don't assume kids aren't ready for something without evidence. Let them try.

sebasvisser · a year ago

Could you add adults to those shouldn’t be punished for (most) failures?

Let’s be nice to each other and ourselves when try..and learn.