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New comment by bdlowery in "Real-SWE: Benchmarking AI models on private, real-world, enterprise codebases"

bdlowery — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 22:44:34 +0000

This is my exact experience with the model - https://x.com/ThePrimeagen/status/2095565354726502683

And it just BURNS tokens like crazy.

New comment by bdlowery in "Real-SWE: Benchmarking AI models on private, real-world, enterprise codebases"

bdlowery — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 21:56:40 +0000

The fact that gemini 3.8 flash is so high up there just tells you this is an awful benchmark.

Try and use gemini 3.8 yourself for any real world work and you'll see it's terrible. It'll just go in circles reading the same file 20 times for no reason making hundreds of tool calls for a simple change.

EDIT: I was using gemini cli... it's not a harness issue lol

New comment by bdlowery in "Muse Spark 1.3"

bdlowery — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 05:41:16 +0000

benchmaxxed model

New comment by bdlowery in "Google avoids a breakup of its ad tech business"

bdlowery — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 02:30:18 +0000

Good.

New comment by bdlowery in "A website for debloated open source alternatives"

bdlowery — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 21:37:12 +0000

i've found this site easier to use and have better results than alternativeto. https://openalternative.co/

New comment by bdlowery in "Scrap (2006)"

bdlowery — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 22:32:21 +0000

> I don't want a full screen pop up telling me to sign in or a persistent bottom bar telling me to open the tweet in the app or a reply section mostly hidden unless I log in.

make an x account then?

New comment by bdlowery in "The August 17 outage"

bdlowery — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 05:33:01 +0000

you seem to be uninformed. This should help: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_c6MWk7PQc

New comment by bdlowery in "Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub"

bdlowery — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 21:43:49 +0000

It's not exaggerated. If you use AI at all for any code in the project it cannot be hosted on codeberg. They made that pretty clear in their blog post.

You can read it yourself - https://blog.codeberg.org/protecting-our-floss-commons-from-...

New comment by bdlowery in "Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub"

bdlowery — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 15:20:34 +0000

use codeberg if you're ok with never using ai in any of your projects. Any AI use and your repo is banned. - https://blog.codeberg.org/protecting-our-floss-commons-from-...

New comment by bdlowery in "Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub"

bdlowery — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 15:18:16 +0000

if you use ai to program at all you can't use codeberg.

New comment by bdlowery in "Taste Is All That's Left"

bdlowery — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 19:05:53 +0000

I'm sure you'd like $100 then to give the founder of pangram an essay they classify as AI that is in fact not ai.

Free money, right?

https://x.com/max_spero_/status/2085041200923394459

New comment by bdlowery in "Taste Is All That's Left"

bdlowery — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 19:04:00 +0000

pangram says this is AI generated and has a very, very, VERY low rate of saying something is AI generated wrong.

https://www.pangram.com/history/0b397596-fa85-4869-bae3-2b1d...

New comment by bdlowery in "Ask HN: What was the last task where only a frontier model could do it?"

bdlowery — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 18:52:32 +0000

how is this slop? It's pretty good. Or do you classify ANYTHING made with ai "slop". So reddit is slop, x is slop, slack is slop, discord is slop, etc.

New comment by bdlowery in "Grok 4.5"

bdlowery — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 04:19:56 +0000

Cursors whole moat is their harness. Other people have benched opus and GPT models through Claude code, codex, and cursor, and cursor came out on top everytime because of their harness.

New comment by bdlowery in "I think I have LLM burnout"

bdlowery — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 04:09:11 +0000

What work are you doing where an LLM can’t meaningfully contribute to your everyday work

New comment by bdlowery in "Amazon without the knockoffs"

bdlowery — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 23:51:42 +0000

This guy isn’t taking financial contributions, and the Amazon brand list is only one part of the product.

New comment by bdlowery in "Amazon without the knockoffs"

bdlowery — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 21:24:11 +0000

That’s not the problem. The problem is buying stuff from AJSH or HUYA or BJFGL or MNQW or NBXA or any other random 4 letter “company” on Amazon for $40 when the item is crappy $2 item off aliexpress being drop shipped on Amazon.

New comment by bdlowery in "Amazon without the knockoffs"

bdlowery — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 21:19:31 +0000

This is like the maintainers of all Adblock lists getting upset at the creator of uBlock origin for using them.

New comment by bdlowery in "Princeton mandates proctoring for in-person exams, upending 133 year precedent"

bdlowery — Thu, 14 May 2026 00:56:30 +0000

well yes, you were in Toronto, where there is a very very veeerry high cheating ratio compared to other areas.

WenWare

bdlowery — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 15:50:52 +0000

Article URL: https://wen-ware.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47923193

Points: 2

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