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interesting, so in the particular project where they not allowed to solve them, or what was the blocking mechanism that prevented a product hunt post?

This is quite an interesting approach. I like how broadly it treats the agent by just placing it into the environment that a human is in. Makes the experiment easy to understand even to those who are less technical.

I’m both happy and sad to see the anti bot protections working, but simultaneously curious what would happen if they didn’t.

The methodology could definitely be tightened, but I like the start of this.

Throwing a tiny little LLM at it helped me assess that it was far too slow for me to reasonably use at the scale I needed. So it didn’t really matter how accurate the prompt was. I was more just pointing out that I didn’t know if would be too slow without trying it. I maybe could have done some simple math in retrospect, but trying it out was easy enough

Yeah, Ive tried a bi-encoder, cross encoder and some small LLMs so far. I think I’ll do BERT soon too

Yeah exactly, I literally don’t know how to change my spec until I’ve gathered more data.

I was building a transaction classifier recently and I initially thought it would be a trivial “solved” problem. Throw transactions into a tiny local LLM, let it classify. But that approach was too slow, and not accurate enough. I didn’t know that though until I tried and then needed to change the spec.

I like that you point out that the cost to build software is still not 0. And in my expirence it’s further from 0 than I would expect. I often find myself thinking I can rebuild a project (or usually improve upon an existing one) in just a few days. And yet when it comes down to making anything well, it still takes time and iteration.

It’s a bit funny because I felt this way before coding agents as well, like you could clone something in just a few weeks. But in practice my expectations are rarely accurate.

Reading this on my eink Bigme Hibreak pro :).

I use the bigme hibreak pro as my primary device. Its an eink device but also just a full phone. Almost bought the boox palma, but held back because I only really want to carry a single device.

It doesn't always ask great questions, but even just the fact that it does makes me re-think what i am asking.

I definetly sometimes ask really specialized questions and in that case i just say "do the search" and ignore the questions, but a lot of times it helps me determine what i am really asking.

I suspect people with execellent communication abilities might find less utility from the questions

This is one of the reasons I really like deep research. It always asks questions first and forces me to refine and better define what I want to learn about.

A simple UX change makes the difference between education and dumbing users of your service.

I am somewhat in the same boat as this. At least i try to be super intentional about it. I replaced my iphone with the Hibreak bigme pro which is an e-ink phone.

Its not perfect. Ironically I still can doomscroll on it, but it is much bettter.

For youtube if you disable reccomendations, shorts eventually the feed disappears. I also use an extension called youtube block feed, which only allows me to see my subscriptions.

Its an imperfect firewall, but I am happy with it so far.

This was a pretty thoughtful piece and a pleasure to read. My gut reaction at first was that it was going to be some critque on children not reading due to generative ai (a cynial piece), but it was quite an interesting reflection on simply how reading is changing from the prepective of this author whose spent a his life deeply reading books

The ending had a nice flair of grandness to it as well.

The irony of an open source alternative to a fork of an open source project is hopefully not lost here

A stupidly simple CLI to store MCP configs. I need to change them all the time and move them from client to client which is annoying. Hopefully this solves my problems and maybe one of yours.