jbellis
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Comment · 15 hours ago
They walked that part back within days. Still made me permanently leery off relying on anthropic for anything important.
Comment · 2 days ago
If you like Herdr, you might also appreciate https://github.com/BrokkAi/mjolnir/, which is similar in its multiplexing features (although built on ACP) but offers cross-provider subagents, memory and session log sync, live migration of sessions across profiles and providers, and load balancing across multiple subscriptions.
Comment · 2 days ago
Yes. And this is the right tradeoff vs the ossification you saw previously in Java (and we're starting to see now in Python, see the recent ejection of the CPython JIT), especially now when you can say "GPT, source dive the JDK and figure out which cutting edge is causing the bleeding."
Comment · 2 days ago
It's not that hard to create your own uncontaminated eval for the problems you care about, and compare.
Here's mine for coding in Rust, and I definitely see the same pattern of "most chinese models do much worse than on public evals that have been around long enough to train on" that AA v5 surfaces: https://slopcop.com/power-ranking
Comment · 5 days ago
My iPad Pro is six years old now, the last generation before they started putting M chips in them. Still not interested in buying another until I can run a Linux VM on it.
Comment · 11 days ago
As someone maintaining a close to 3M life Rust codebase, the downsides are real, especially rustc speed. I contribute to the mbx cache project but it only helps so much. It's only a small exaggeration to say that I fantasize daily about pursuing to Go.
Comment · 14 days ago
On mobile, but I linked one of the relevant issues in my writeup here: https://blog.brokk.ai/infrastructure-for-agentic-rust/
Comment · 14 days ago
In general, it really does reduce the prevalence of something to ban it or nearly so. To take examples that both the American left and right hate to think about:
- Banning abortion really does make it harder to get one.
- Banning handgun sales really do make those harder to get as well.
(And yes, I am using the word "ban" as shorthand for "extremely tight/onerous regulations in red and blue states, respectively".)
Comment · 14 days ago
Legalizing sports gambling was the biggest unforced error in United States public policy in living memory. I expect that almost nobody reading Hacker News has a gambling problem, but people at the other end of the economic spectrum are being absolutely ripped up by it. Unfortunately, it's probably not going to change soon. Too much money to be made now.
Reasonable overview here and it's only gotten worse since 2024. https://thezvi.substack.com/p/the-online-sports-gambling-exp...
Comment · 14 days ago
this looks like a bug, but even normal happy-path codex creates many GB of logs, openai apparently considers this fine bc it's been going on for months
two things help:
1. fs-level compression, I use ZFS bc Btrfs has massive contention problems with concurrent Rust builds
2. Archive your old sessions using something like sessionwiki (https://github.com/youdie006/sessionwiki), I've integrated this into my control plane (https://github.com/BrokkAi/mjolnir/)
Comment · 18 days ago
I built http://github.com/brokkai/mjolnir/ to do exactly this cross-harness over ACP. As a bonus it can let Opus drive Luna as a subagent, which is just ridiculously cost effective. (5x clst multiplier means Haiku is much more expensive for realistic task sizes.)
Comment · 23 days ago
I built mjolnir in large part so I could have Opus manage DeepSeek Flash subagents. It's phenomenal and extremely light on the Claude tokens. https://github.com/BrokkAi/mjolnir/
And yes, Opus is enough smarter than DSF that it's worth the extra steps. This ranking is from live tickets, no contamination: https://slopcop.com/power-ranking
Comment · 29 days ago
A couple recs for sccache, which is great, but I upgraded to mbx (https://github.com/jdx/mr-boxington/) which goes beyond sccache by wrapping cargo to give you better rust-specific management, including incremental compilation.
My harness control plane will autoconfigure mbx across all your machines, if you like. https://github.com/BrokkAi/mjolnir/
Comment · 1 month ago
Yes. And on subscription pricing it's even cheaper per task solved than DeepSeek.
Comment · 1 month ago
It is. TY!
Brokk keeps LLMs on-task in million-line codebases by adding compiler-grade understanding of your code's structure and semantics.
Previously: author of JVector, co-founder of DataStax, founding project chair of Apache Cassandra.
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