Hacker News: agilebyte

New comment by agilebyte in "The unreasonable effectiveness of an LLM agent loop with tool use"

agilebyte — Thu, 15 May 2025 20:49:20 +0000

Markdown format with a comment saying what the file path is. So:

This is src/components/Foo.tsx

```tsx // code goes here ```

```tsx // src/components/Foo.tsx // code goes here ```

These seem to work the best.

I tried diff syntax, but Gemini 2.5 just produced way too many bugs.

I also tried using regex and creating an AST of the markdown doc and going from there, but ultimately settled on calling gpt-4.1-mini-2025-04-14 with the beginning of the code block (```) and 3 lines before and 3 lines after the beginning of the code block. It's fast/cheap enough to work.

Though I still have to make edits sometimes. WIP.

New comment by agilebyte in "The unreasonable effectiveness of an LLM agent loop with tool use"

agilebyte — Thu, 15 May 2025 20:07:19 +0000

I am avoiding the cost of API access by using the chat/ui instead, in my case Google Gemini 2.5 Pro with the high token window. Repomix a whole repo. Paste it in with a standard prompt saying "return full source" (it tends to not follow this instruction after a few back and forths) and then apply the result back on top of the repo (vibe coded https://github.com/radekstepan/apply-llm-changes to help me with that). Else yeah, $5 spent on Cline with Claude 3.7 and instead of fixing my tests, I end up with if/else statements in the source code to make the tests pass.

New comment by agilebyte in "Proposed coal plants in the United States"

agilebyte — Tue, 10 Aug 2021 18:58:46 +0000

Coal is used in (some) peaking power plants that only turn on during a surge of demand for electricity. Some also use natural gas. It's easier to spin them up/down and can deal with the strain of being used intermittently.

New comment by agilebyte in "Entire German bond yield curve back in sub-zero territory"

agilebyte — Tue, 03 Aug 2021 20:08:21 +0000

Individuals: Your mattress is not big enough for all your cash and your neighbors are eyeing it too...

Institutions: requirements that they hold a % of their portfolio in safe assets like bonds.

New comment by agilebyte in "DoorDash from Application to IPO"

agilebyte — Wed, 09 Dec 2020 18:13:30 +0000

Raise money, buy competition, raise fees?

New comment by agilebyte in "An update to storage policies across your Google Account"

agilebyte — Thu, 03 Dec 2020 22:15:37 +0000

Who are you trying to prevent from taking the handle? Seems like it's either a) adults - that have a legit use for it now, b) soon to be adults that will have a legit use for it sooner than your kid does.

New comment by agilebyte in "A Little Money Laundering Can Have a Big Impact on Real Estate Prices (2019)"

agilebyte — Thu, 29 Oct 2020 18:08:25 +0000

It drives up the price of real estate, all of it. Which means that for those Canadians that bought - it's a huge segment of their net worth. And they vote.

New comment by agilebyte in "India bans TikTok, WeChat, and dozens of other Chinese apps"

agilebyte — Mon, 29 Jun 2020 18:23:53 +0000

More democratic than China, yes. A low bar to clear.

New comment by agilebyte in "Santa Cruz, California bans predictive policing in U.S. first"

agilebyte — Fri, 26 Jun 2020 21:31:41 +0000

Given a choice between two neighbourhoods, would I want to move to one that has grow ops or a high rate of social services checkups? Some of that data is already easily available and I know it is being used by real estate agents already. The people that can avoid these neighbourhoods will, which leaves only those that can't. Gentrification.

The neighbourhood I grew up in was heavily mixed (along social strata) which prevented these problems from arising in the first place.

New comment by agilebyte in "Santa Cruz, California bans predictive policing in U.S. first"

agilebyte — Fri, 26 Jun 2020 17:11:30 +0000

If we had access to granular data like this, wouldn't it lead to further gentrification and a further rift within a society?

New comment by agilebyte in "More than half of American retailers didn't pay their rent in April and May"

agilebyte — Thu, 04 Jun 2020 22:55:12 +0000

Time in the market applies to all the market, there's no qualifier for just a bull market - that would be timing the market. Vast majority of people cannot time the market.

Bear Markets: This Time is Different (Every Time) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jh9Gn58r9Fw

New comment by agilebyte in "Revolut staff claim they’ve been told to quit their jobs or be fired"

agilebyte — Thu, 04 Jun 2020 15:11:49 +0000

2:1 is 60-70%

New comment by agilebyte in "Navajo Nation and Other Native American Reservations Hit Hard by Covid-19"

agilebyte — Wed, 27 May 2020 13:40:25 +0000

From a news story here in Canada about Navajo - their nation is a "food desert" so people have to keep driving to the cities to buy everything, exposing themselves in the process (can't do Foodora/Uber Eats/Instacart). Lack of PPE seems to be a general problem as well.

New comment by agilebyte in "AMD Ryzen 9 3900x price drop could take the wind out of Intel comet lake sales"

agilebyte — Sat, 23 May 2020 14:39:08 +0000

Launch date 7/7/2019, Vega 11 graphics, 4 cores (8 threads).

New comment by agilebyte in "110M year-old nodosaur is the best-preserved fossil of its kind (2017)"

agilebyte — Fri, 22 May 2020 21:49:50 +0000

Re 5) I don't think they knew how valuable it was when uncovering it, the region is filled with fossils. When I visited Royal Tyrrell Museum in 2016 they said they have more fossils in the storage than they have time to process them.

New comment by agilebyte in "Organ donation in England has moved to an opt-out system"

agilebyte — Wed, 20 May 2020 21:44:18 +0000

Dan Ariely

New comment by agilebyte in "Show HN: Planning poker online – estimate tasks without influencing others"

agilebyte — Tue, 19 May 2020 14:32:50 +0000

https://tools.wmflabs.org/hatjitsu is a free alternative that highlights if there are any differences among revealed points.

New comment by agilebyte in "AMD Ryzen 5 3600 Review: Why Is This Amazon's Best Selling CPU?"

agilebyte — Mon, 18 May 2020 15:53:42 +0000

Yes, 1080p at 60fps which is still the most popular resolution out there according to the Steam Hardware Survey.

https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/Steam-Hardware-Softw...

New comment by agilebyte in "The Great CoffeeScript to Typescript Migration of 2017"

agilebyte — Fri, 15 May 2020 21:10:24 +0000

Some things still remain in the "future" bucket and I miss in JS/TS, like the native support for literate programming which lets you write your code and documentation together and generate e.g.:

https://github.com/radekstepan/metalsmith-related#source

New comment by agilebyte in "Why is the stock market rallying when the economy is so bad?"

agilebyte — Mon, 11 May 2020 00:05:45 +0000

For anyone looking, the term is "Real Return Bonds". And if you are in Canada watch out, there are not as many of them and the average maturity is quite high so you can expect some wild swings (e.g. XRB ETF).