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New comment by allan_s in "A Preview of DuckDB v2.0"

allan_s — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 19:28:01 +0000

As somebody new to this and with a use case very similar to yours , what would have been a more suitable solution for this ?

The guy who first built the architecture made the same decision as yours (I.e one local duckdb for each tenant to work as a copy of big query/their data warehouse) and I dont know what the state of the art for this kind of use cases ?

New comment by allan_s in "Auto mode is now the default in Claude Code"

allan_s — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 05:26:46 +0000

There's actually a setting.json key to not have to put the option

New comment by allan_s in "OfficeCLI: Office suite for AI agents to read and edit Microsoft Office files"

allan_s — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 12:30:55 +0000

Is it better than letting claude code use python directly ? Especially on those 3 metrics: 1. better prompt adherence 2. visually more pleasing 3. token consumption

Especially as I think claude code got some reinforcement learning on these use cases ?

New comment by allan_s in "Senior SWE-Bench: open-source benchmark that assesses agents as senior engineers"

allan_s — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 04:22:11 +0000

I think the source of your issue is in your statement itself, why do you want a task that evaluate things as broad to be only a coding task ? Shouldn't it be a planning task, documentation task, knowledge retrieval task etc. And very certainly not with just an initial prompt but an existing codebase + existing doc + tickets ?

New comment by allan_s in "Show HN: Decomp Academy – Learn to decompile GameCube games into matching C"

allan_s — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 10:00:11 +0000

Is "the layout scream AI generated" the new Bootstrap ? I.e what people use to quickly convey their ideas (bad or good)

Ironically, for myself at least, the least it looks AI, the more I've spent time prompting for it to not look AI.

New comment by allan_s in "Claude Tag"

allan_s — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 22:43:41 +0000

Fortunately hr system in most companies are from software vendors that are 2 gen behind so a mcp with a "fire $EMPLOYEE " tool will not come up

Would also be funny if it fires the one who done the request.

New comment by allan_s in "ChatGPT's image generator can be manipulated to produce violent, sexual content"

allan_s — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 17:17:37 +0000

Why ? The comment I was replying to was not about the kids ?

New comment by allan_s in "ChatGPT's image generator can be manipulated to produce violent, sexual content"

allan_s — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 12:57:28 +0000

At the same time I opened netflix and it started cycling around and I got a very gory scene from the walking dead and my intent "show me something to watch" was even more ambigous and implicit.

New comment by allan_s in "Is grep all you need? How agent harnesses reshape agentic search"

allan_s — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 22:38:10 +0000

Long before AI I remember asking people in code review to add comments specifically to make the code grep-able. Same for for privileging key value mapping to dynamic string concatenation.

New comment by allan_s in "I just sequenced a human genome to 30× coverage at home"

allan_s — Mon, 25 May 2026 21:40:13 +0000

I dont have twitter so my thought reading the post

1. Wow i want to do that too !

2. Wait is there a follow up on how to reproduce this at home

3. Does it mean i will have my "full" dna sequence ?

4. If not, what would be missing (my understanding is that dna while dns is static, genes get activated /deactivacted depending on a lot of factors ? And how to get these missing parts?

5. What are the pratical current and future use of it ? Can i see my family doctor with it ?

New comment by allan_s in "Frontier AI has broken the open CTF format"

allan_s — Sat, 16 May 2026 21:24:32 +0000

I think what the author meant is that it does help not more than the same knowledge provided the old way.

New comment by allan_s in "DeepSeek v4"

allan_s — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 14:44:19 +0000

Sorry, I have lived and worked there 6 years in different cities and I do speak a fluent (though with a very heavy French accent) mandarin. It's totally not my projection but my experience first hand.

During the "diaoyu island" incident in the 2010s the sushi shop 200m near my appartment got sacked, and all japanese-brand car get smashed.

My black (and indian) friends all complained how hard they were treated. And when talking with my Chinese friends they all had very .... interesting... point of view.

Edit: also, I'm not from the US

New comment by allan_s in "DeepSeek v4"

allan_s — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 07:40:25 +0000

Ask a gay, a black or a Japanese how it feels living in China.

New comment by allan_s in "Spiral staircase with a single guardrail once led to the top of the Eiffel Tower"

allan_s — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 18:05:00 +0000

I also wonder how practical it was to climb there, I went to the eiffel tower several times and climbing stairs is an exercice by itself ,especially spiral ones

New comment by allan_s in "Show HN: Shader Lab, like Photoshop but for shaders"

allan_s — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 15:09:20 +0000

As a ESL, what is unnatural in the language used ?

New comment by allan_s in "Thoughts and feelings around Claude Design"

allan_s — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 21:49:53 +0000

As someone who spent quite some times these days to reverse the figma protocol[0] I can't agree more with

> Figma accidentally excluded themselves from the training data that would have made them relevant in the agentic era.

Their binary format is so much of a "let's reinvent everything" which I think come from the fact it's a tool you can use for web design, android app design, ios design and anything-you-want design that it became a jack of all trade and so mapping it to web is not a perfect 1:1 translation.

And for being useful to agent, any people who got to implement the figma from a UX guy know that even human can't know truly the intent of most figma design, so how a LLM could ? Common source of question that even the UX guy has no answer for:

  1. Ok this button looks great, but in German how will it look ? 
  2. Oh and actually this button does not look great when i put in CSS, it wraps on two line, you cheated again with the letter spacing, did you ?
  3. How does it look on a phone that is not an iphone ? 
  4. You know that doing a border with a gradien is not possible in CSS, so what should i put ?
  5. How does it look on a 4k screen ?
  6. etc.

I know that most of these question can be answered by props and autolayout, and I've been asking the 5 question above these days on a figma that had these but it's just that the UX guy is not that mythical beast that "know-how-to-use-figma-right"

So I can't wait for these tools that are html behind to catch up, even more if we can have the prompt with it. (As a developer I never got to see the prompt the product manager made to the UX guy)

[0]https://github.com/allan-simon/figma-kiwi-protocol

New comment by allan_s in "Are the costs of AI agents also rising exponentially? (2025)"

allan_s — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 11:43:24 +0000

that's what I'm telling my non-tech friends when they say "Looking to how fast AI progress and robotics, me as an electrician, will a robot soon take my job?" I reply to them "My job as a software engineer will be replaced sooner than yours, because for your job, the robot will be much more expensive than the minimal wave, and you don't need to buy a human"

New comment by allan_s in "Claude Design"

allan_s — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 06:29:39 +0000

Are these ugly and hard to use website made by people who did want to be unique ?

New comment by allan_s in "What Claude Code's Source Revealed About AI Engineering Culture"

allan_s — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 23:57:45 +0000

Its the same for a lot of bundled things, mac hardware + os or windows pre-installed, chrome being pushed by google.com etc.

New comment by allan_s in "God sleeps in the minerals"

allan_s — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 15:01:05 +0000

I did that with my kids and it was pretty cool !