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stevejb commented on We mourn our craft nolanlawson.com/2026/02/0... · Posted by u/ColinWright

fastasucan · 12 hours ago

>It was, for me, never about the code.

Then it wasn't your craft.

stevejb · 12 hours ago

Isn't this like saying that if better woodworking tools come out, and you like woodworking, that woodworking somehow 'isn't your craft'. They said that their craft is about making things.

There are woodworkers on YouTube who use CNC, some who use the best Festool stuff but nothing that moves on its own, and some who only use handtools. Where is the line at which woodworking is not their craft?

stevejb commented on We tasked Opus 4.6 using agent teams to build a C Compiler anthropic.com/engineering... · Posted by u/modeless

qarl · 2 days ago

You thought your course mates would be able to write a C compiler that builds the Linux?

Huh. Interesting. Like the other guy pointed out, compiler classes often get students to write toy C compilers. I think a lot of students don't understand the meaning of the word "toy". I think this thread is FULL of people like that.

stevejb · 2 days ago

Hey! I built a Lego technic car once 20 years ago. I am fully confident that I can build an actual road worthy electric vehicle. It's just a couple of edge cases and a bit bigger right? /s

stevejb commented on Qwen3-Coder-Next qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3-cod... · Posted by u/danielhanchen

cedws · 5 days ago

Officially, it's against TOS. I'm told you can still make it work by adding this to ~/.config/opencode/opencode.json but it risks a ban and you definitely shouldn't do it.

  {
    "plugin": [
      "opencode-anthropic-auth@latest"
    ]
  }

stevejb · 5 days ago

Ah interesting. I have been using OpenCode more and more and I prefer it to Claude Code. I use OpenCode with Sonnet and/or Opus (among other models) with Bedrock, but paying metered rates for Opus is a way to go bankrupt fast!

stevejb commented on Qwen3-Coder-Next qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3-cod... · Posted by u/danielhanchen

hnrodey · 5 days ago

OpenCode

stevejb · 5 days ago

Is this still the case? Is Anthropic still not allowing access to OpenCode?

stevejb commented on The Codex App openai.com/index/introduc... · Posted by u/meetpateltech

ryandrake · 5 days ago

It would be cool if I didn't have to worry about whether I was "in" or "out" of the AI TUI. Right now, I need at least two terminals open: One running my shell, that I use to issue shell commands, and one running Claude, where I can't. It would be nice if it could just be my shell, and when I wanted to invoke claude, I'd just type:

   c Do this programming task for me.

Right in the shell.

stevejb · 5 days ago

Most AI agents have a 'bash mode' and, you can use Warp terminal which is terminal first, but easy to activate the AI from the terminal. For example, if you mangle a jq command, it will use AI to suggest the right way to do it.

stevejb commented on Ask HN: Share your personal website · Posted by u/susam

stevejb · 24 days ago

stephenbarr.ai

stevejb commented on Tell HN: Mechanical Turk is twenty years old today · Posted by u/csmoak

hiddencost · 3 months ago

Yikes. Have you ever considered that you were hurting people?

stevejb · 3 months ago

Yeah, whenever there are human subjects there is an IRB which is necessary. But, beyond that, we didn't participate in the market in any way. We wanted to see if there was bias there, and how much of it. I think I may have used the word 'value' in a bad way in my description. Not 'value' as in 'can we exploit people?' but value as in statistical significance. E.g. if you applied for a loan and your profile picture contained yourself with a child, did that help you, hurt you, or was it neutral?

stevejb commented on Tell HN: Mechanical Turk is twenty years old today · Posted by u/csmoak

stevejb · 3 months ago

Using the Propser.com data set (a peer-to-peer lending market), I used MTurk to analyze the images of people applying for a loan. This was used in a finance research project with 3 University of Washington professors of Finance.

The idea was that the Prosper data set contained all of the information that a lending officer would have, but they also had user-submitted pictures. We wanted to see if there was value in the information conveyed in the pictures. For example, if they had a puppy or a child in the picture, did this increase the probability that the loan would get funded? That sort of thing. It was a very fun project!

Paper: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1343275

stevejb commented on 'This is the big one' – tech firms bet on electrifying rail bbc.com/news/articles/czd... · Posted by u/mikhael

stevejb · 3 months ago

On the show Full House S05E25 the character Michelle was learning to cook. She made tuna flavored ice cream. Uncle Jesse says something to the effect of "It's great that you like tuna and great that you like ice cream. You don't have to combine them."

I try to remember that episode when building tech products. We all like solar. We all like trains. It doesn't mean that we need to have solar panels between the train tracks.

I think that although it could be cool, it seems like train right-of-ways is a particularly harsh environment for solar panels. There's dust, harsh vibrations, heavy cast iron components, and other things right next to a sensitive bit of electronics. It seems like it would be more economical to have a solar farm managed by the train company. This way the panels can be easily cleaned, angled properly, and maintained not in the proximity of giant rolling metal boxes.

stevejb commented on Fallout from the AWS outage: Smart mattresses go rogue quasa.io/media/the-strang... · Posted by u/jerlam

julianlam · 4 months ago

Depends... the focus here isn't on convenience or utility, but on safety.

The furnace defaults to on to save the water pipes. The sprinkler defaults to off to conserve water as the system is potentially unmonitored and a burst pipe could cause issues.

stevejb · 4 months ago

> The sprinkler defaults to off to conserve water as the system is potentially unmonitored and a burst pipe could cause issues.

I had a friend in Australia who ran cattle on his farm. Failing open would waste water, but failing closed would mean dead cattle (and hundreds of thousands in losses). It depends on the application.

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