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verdverm commented on Ask HN: How can I get better at using AI for programming?    · Posted by u/lemonlime227
ebcode · 14 hours ago
> A 10% improvement every month gets to be a 10x improvement in (math...)

1.1^24=9.85, so yeah, if you could reliably get a 10% speed-up each month, you’d get to 10x in roughly 2 years. (But I’d expect the speed-up per month to be non-linear.)

verdverm · 2 hours ago
it would be hard to account for model / agentic capability increases in the next 2 years, b/c which side of multiple Nx on its own is hard to predict
verdverm commented on Ask HN: How can I get better at using AI for programming?    · Posted by u/lemonlime227
skeptrune · 7 hours ago
You should make sure that your queries to the agent contain a "loop condition"[1]. This can be something like "keep trying until yarn test passes".

Always remember that these agents are just LLMs running tools in a loop and treat them as such.

[1] https://www.skeptrune.com/posts/prompting-the-agent-loop/

verdverm · 2 hours ago
if they aren't already, they will be multi-agent / llm systems, more and llm being asked to loop

for example, in ADK you can set up a sequential agent with [planner, loop(coder, validator), finalizer] with the inner loop, such that another agent is the one checking and deciding if the task is complete or not, but we are also creating higher level enforced constructs of seq and loop

Getting reliability in this high-level process is helpful

verdverm commented on Some surprising things about DuckDuckGo   gabrielweinberg.com/p/som... · Posted by u/ArmageddonIt
zeech · 11 hours ago
If you don't like all the fluff on the results page, DDG provides two alternative interfaces [0] [1] with much simpler layouts.

[0] https://html.duckduckgo.com/html

[1] https://lite.duckduckgo.com/lite

verdverm · 11 hours ago
cool, but they block curl requests with an iframe and such

I would pay DDG if they gave me an API for search, ideally pay-per-request. I'm not paying them for Ai, I can get that much better elsewhere

verdverm commented on Some surprising things about DuckDuckGo   gabrielweinberg.com/p/som... · Posted by u/ArmageddonIt
coffeefirst · 13 hours ago
You might like Kagi. The ability to upvote/downvote/block domains completely transforms the product.
verdverm · 12 hours ago
It looks like just another search engine trening towards Ai UX. Do they have an API?

I'm now looking for APIs to integrate with my custom / personal agent setup. I'm done outsourcing my UX to Big Ai/Tech. I don't think we should repeat the same mistakes of outsource a core human/digital UX to Big Ai/Tech. We (HNers) complain so much about all the bad stuff the prior iterations (social media, saas out the wazoo), are we going to repeat it again by defaulting to whatever they give us, misaligned incentives and all?

verdverm commented on SSE sucks for transporting LLM tokens   zknill.io/posts/sse-sucks... · Posted by u/zknill
embedding-shape · 15 hours ago
If you don't have a proper grasp of what is the transport, what the is the protocol and what is your application protocol, I think chucking in libraries to try to help often makes things too complicated. You still would need to understand the differences and nuances.
verdverm · 13 hours ago
yup, I have recently started saying "building blocks over batteries included"

particularly as it comes to people trying to sell me on their Agent "framework", which amounts to little more than some well built tools and prompts, but pigeon holes me into how they think about solving certain issues in the agentic space, based on how things work today. If I go out 2 years, do I have to wait for the "framework" to realize their ideas are now out-of-touch and wait for them to course correct, or have I selected a framework that allows me to easily experiment, evaluate, and adjust any technique, with an ecosystem of building blocks for both the provider and user side of what I am building

verdverm commented on Some surprising things about DuckDuckGo   gabrielweinberg.com/p/som... · Posted by u/ArmageddonIt
verdverm · 13 hours ago
I went to DDG to get away from all the Google AI stuff being shoved down my throat.

While it seems DDG is on the same path of AI / chat centric search UX, at least they allow me to turn off all that stuff. But... search has gotten so bad in general, DDG is having the same results issue I had on Google. I don't see DDG as a player in the Ai space so I think my usage will only decrease as search result quality continues to decrease.

I am hopeful in the long run that search index / results will become better as the core UX for most people becomes chat, search result pages become low human traffic (meaning ads are worthless), and search becomes one of many research tools for to the agents

verdverm commented on SSE sucks for transporting LLM tokens   zknill.io/posts/sse-sucks... · Posted by u/zknill
ivan_gammel · 14 hours ago
A database can be the implementation of choice for the cache. But not all use cases do require long-term storage like that.
verdverm · 13 hours ago
yup, the ADK framework I use handles all that bookkeeping for me, has a few options built in, and pretty easy to add new implementations. I'm extending it to attach filesys+exe changes during a session, persisted as container layers via Dagger
verdverm commented on The Agents Shared Cognition Protocol (ASCP)   github.com/Reframe-Techno... · Posted by u/talljeff68
talljeff68 · 3 days ago
Thank you for the thoughts. Relative "made up words", what if the concepts reference things that didn't exist before their definition in these specifications?

ie: At one point "hyperlink" and "Uniform Resource Locator" were made up words. No different that say "web log" (blog) and "Client-Server Architecture" were being made up as well.

I contend that both "Artipoint" and "Cortex Layer" have similar parallels in the sense they refer to concepts newly formulated or at least are captured into a formalism with a label for the first time!

verdverm · 15 hours ago
Cortex Layer is not made up, rather it is an anthropomorphization you want to become one of these words. Stop anthropomorphizing, it turns rational people off

Putting "Cognition" in the acronym is another example. These things are not cogniating, that's not how they work, they don't think, they have been gradient descended to use special <think> runs in their token generation

verdverm commented on GPT-5.2   openai.com/index/introduc... · Posted by u/atgctg
aydyn · 2 days ago
Thanks for the reference I'll check it out. But it doesnt really take away from the point I am making. If a level of description would give away proprietary information, then go one level up to a more vague description. How to describe things to a proper level is more of a social problem than a technical one.
verdverm · 15 hours ago
You seem stuck on the idea that they should have to share information when they don't have to. That they share any is a welcome change. Push too hard and they may stop sharing as much
verdverm commented on GPT-5.2   openai.com/index/introduc... · Posted by u/atgctg
remich · 2 days ago
Any particular papers or articles you've been reading that helped you devise this? Your experiments sound interesting and possibly relevant to what I'm doing.
verdverm · 15 hours ago
Conversations among practitioners on Bluesky (there is an Ai subcommunity)

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