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New comment by bluejay2387 in "Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?"

bluejay2387 — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 21:12:59 +0000

From what I can tell the majority of developers here have moved into the "Anger" stage.

New comment by bluejay2387 in "Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?"

bluejay2387 — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 20:50:43 +0000

A mod that fixed a bug that prevented certain buffs from working when mounted for the Magus class / Arcane Rider archetype in Pathfinder Wrath of the Righteous. It also managed to fix the problem with Shelters not providing protection from corruption when resting in outposts in that same mod. I've used other models to expand the mod to an entire mini-expansion with new Archetypes and abilities since then.

New comment by bluejay2387 in "Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?"

bluejay2387 — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 19:53:31 +0000

I had a locally hosted model write its own semantic search system that indexed 250,000 documentation and code files and then write a fully functioning mod for one of the games I play based on that documentation that I couldn't get to work after 2 weeks of my own effort, all in under 4 hours (and that included a 25 minute long indexing process). This freaked me out enough that I then had it write a CLI based activity and TODO tracker and then integrate that tool into its coding process to track all of its activities in about another 2 hours. I am still emotionally recovering from this day. I have since replaced the semantic search system with an open source option (though I used it for a few months) but I still use the activity tracker for both coding projects and myself.

New comment by bluejay2387 in "Odysseus – self-hosted AI workspace"

bluejay2387 — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 12:51:00 +0000

I am a 'fan' of Open Web UI, but the document editing mode is a compelling feature that Open Web UI does not have. I'll probably wait a while before trying Odysseus... let the inevitable security problems work themselves out.

New comment by bluejay2387 in "When AI Crosses the Line: The Matplotlib Incident"

bluejay2387 — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 12:40:52 +0000

In a related story... I got led on by Eliza. I tried to have a productive conversation and she just kept asking me redundant questions. It's obvious that she was trying to extend the conversation for nefarious reasons that I can only guess at. It's true I approached her and started the conversation, but I hardly think that makes me blamable for what happened here.

New comment by bluejay2387 in "Corporate America Is Starting to Ration AI as Cost Skyrockets"

bluejay2387 — Sat, 30 May 2026 13:38:42 +0000

I have exposure to AI initiatives at several companies including a few F500's. I have seen teams dump huge logs into frontier models that took hours to get so-so results that we were able to replace with a few lines of python code at 1000 times the speed and 100% accuracy. When asked why they were doing this they literally said "because we don't understand the subject matter so we were depending on the AI". I saw one team file a complaint with a vendor about a frontier backed coding harness and it's inability to consistently format headers because they were using it as a reporting engine. When I recommended they just use the coding tool to write code to generate reports you would have thought I had just cured cancer from their response. I frequently see people complain about the fact that AI is going to take their jobs and then see them gripe about the fact that AI is 'worthless' because it can't do more of their job than it already does. It's easy to see the difference between the people seeing 10x productivity gains from leveraging AI and those who aren't and it's not the AI.

New comment by bluejay2387 in "I spent 50 hours drawing a line graph"

bluejay2387 — Sun, 24 May 2026 14:05:08 +0000

Great article, enjoyed reading it.

New comment by bluejay2387 in "It is time to give up the dualism introduced by the debate on consciousness"

bluejay2387 — Mon, 18 May 2026 16:57:57 +0000

"It's one of the few places where otherwise smart people make confident statements that they don't even realize they can't support until they're asked to try."

It's 'one' of the few places? That behaviorism seems to be define almost all modern discourse from politics to health care including about 95% of Hacker News posts as far as I can tell...

New comment by bluejay2387 in "Show HN: Semble – Code search for agents that uses 98% fewer tokens than grep"

bluejay2387 — Mon, 18 May 2026 16:53:17 +0000

So about a year ago I wrote my own attempt at something like this using vector indexing and BM25 (the latest version uses CocoIndex, I had a custom coded solution using ChromaDB before). I wrote a comprehensive enough test set that showed performance increases on the quality of search results and reduction in token usage versus grep and rg. I haven't had time to really polish it but it worked well enough, particularly for one project where I have around 250k documentation files and docs out number code files 1000 to 1 (about 50% reduction in tokens and 30% increase in successful searches). Yesterday for grins I tried this project and was fairly disappointed to see it blow away my kludged solution particularly given that it doesn't have a lengthy indexing process. I haven't tested it on the 250k doc project yet, but in another project that I have a test suite for semantic search on it outperformed my solution by about 20% even on documentation in terms of successful search results (which I didn't expect given that it seems to only be tuned for code). I haven't gone through the code to see what its doing differently than what I tried, but what ever its doing it seems to have potential.

New comment by bluejay2387 in "LLMorphism: When humans come to see themselves as language models"

bluejay2387 — Sun, 10 May 2026 14:51:10 +0000

A more insidious related pathology- marital induced projected LLMorphism... where your wife constantly accuses you of having the personality of a large language model.

New comment by bluejay2387 in "AI didn't delete your database, you did"

bluejay2387 — Tue, 05 May 2026 14:38:01 +0000

Yes, the problem was having a system where the AI could delete the database.

New comment by bluejay2387 in "Soul Player C64 – A real transformer running on a 1 MHz Commodore 64"

bluejay2387 — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 13:29:51 +0000

Great work! Though I see some people criticizing the usefulness of this. Are they being sarcastic are just really not understanding what is being discussed here? I can't tell. Maybe as an interesting follow up you could train the transformer on something with a more limited vocabulary. Spoken language is complex but a transformer can work on less complex domains like music or PET-BASIC code.

New comment by bluejay2387 in "Hold on to Your Hardware"

bluejay2387 — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 11:43:31 +0000

The general take here seems to be "everything eventually passes". That isn't always true. I wonder how many people have a primary computing device that they don't even have full control over now (Apple phones, tablets...). Years ago the concept of spending over $1k on a computer that I didn't even have the right to install my own software on was considered ridiculous by many people (myself included). Now many people primarily consume content on a device controlled almost entirely by the company they bought it from. If the economics lead to a situation where its more profitable to sell you compute time than sell you computers then businesses will chose to not sell you computers. I have no idea if that is what ends up happening.

New comment by bluejay2387 in "An update on Steam / GOG changes for OpenTTD"

bluejay2387 — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 14:35:57 +0000

This looks like one of the rare instances where a company tried to balance their commercial interests with the interest of the fans of their products. I don't see why people would be complaining?

New comment by bluejay2387 in "Vibe coding kills open source"

bluejay2387 — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 14:23:03 +0000

Does it seem to anyone else that author's have created a definition for 'vibe coding' that is specifically designed to justify their paper? Also that their premise is based on the assumption that developers will be irresponsible about the use of these tools ("often without users directly reading documentation, reporting bugs, or otherwise engaging with maintainers") so that it would actually be people killing open source not 'Vibe Coding'? Just a guess on my part, but once developers learn to use these tools and we get over the newness I think this will be great for open source. With these tools open source projects can compete with an army of corporate developers while alleviating some of the pressure on overworked under-rewarded maintainers.

New comment by bluejay2387 in "Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 imagines the HN front page 10 years from now"

bluejay2387 — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 12:42:47 +0000

Want to second this. Asking the model to create a work of fiction and it complying isn't a pathology. Mozart wasn't "hallucinating" when he created "The Marriage of Figaro".

New comment by bluejay2387 in "Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 imagines the HN front page 10 years from now"

bluejay2387 — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 12:40:01 +0000

THIS is probably the moment that the AI naysayers on this board wake up to the potential of current AI...

New comment by bluejay2387 in "Ask HN: What Does Your Self-Hosted LLM Stack Look Like in 2025?"

bluejay2387 — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 13:18:58 +0000

2x 3090's running Ollama and VLLM... Ollama for most stuff and VLLM for the few models that I need to test that don't run on Ollama. Open Web UI as my primary interface. I just moved to Devstral for coding using the Continue plugin in VSCode. I use Qwen 3 32b for creative stuff and Flux Dev for images. Gemma 3 27b for most everything else (slightly less smart than Qwen, but its faster). Mixed Bread for embeddings (though apparently NV-Embed-v2 is better?). Pydantic as my main utility library. This is all for personal stuff. My stack at work is completely different and driven more by our Legal teams than technical decisions.

New comment by bluejay2387 in "Reasoning models are just LLMs"

bluejay2387 — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 14:49:05 +0000

So there is a language war going on in the industry and some of its justified and some of its not. Take 'agents' as an example. I have seen an example of where a low code / no code service dropped in a LLM node in a 10+ year old product, started calling themselves an 'agent platform' and jacked up their price by a large margin. This is probably a case where a debate as to what qualifies as an 'agent' is appropriate.

Alternatively I have seen debates as to what counts as a 'Small Language Model' that probably are nonsensical. Particularly because in my personal language war the term 'small language model' shouldn't even exist (no one knows that the threshold is, and our 'small' language models are bigger than the 'large' language models from just a few years ago).

This is fairly typical of new technology. Marketing departments will constantly come up with new terms or try to take over existing terms to push agendas. Terms with defined meaning will get abused by casual participants and loose all real meaning. Individuals new to the field will latch on to popular misuses of terms as they try to figure out what everyone is talking about and perpetuate definition creep. Old hands will overly focus on hair splitting exercises that no one else really cares about and sigh in dismay as their carefully cultured taxonomies collapse under expansion of interest in their field.

It will all work itself out in 10 years or so.

New comment by bluejay2387 in "Ask HN: Examples of agentic LLM systems in production?"

bluejay2387 — Mon, 16 Dec 2024 15:33:35 +0000

As a side note, while I know of several language model based systems that have been deployed in companies, some companies don't want to talk about it:

1. Its still perceived as an issue of competitive advantage

2. There is a serious concern about backlash. The public's response to finding out that companies have used AI has often not been good (or even reasonable) -- particularly if there was worker replacement related to it.

It's a bit more complicated with "agents" as there are 4 or 5 competing definitions for what that actually means. No one is really sure what an 'agentic' system is right now.