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New comment by chse_cake in "Warranty Void If Regenerated"

chse_cake — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 23:13:55 +0000

this is such a beautiful essay. thank you op for posting. made my day :)

Show HN: Aft, a Python toolkit to study agent behavior

chse_cake — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 20:06:37 +0000

aft was my stab at having a way to understand what claude is doing and also having the language to reason about differences in model behavior when we make them do long agentic runs / change prompts / alter tools etc. The intention of the toolkit to provide an empirical measure of how agent behavior can differ as things changes like environments, tools, prompts etc.

It gives the tools to measure the changes in "behaviors that the users define". This means that it is more like a hypothesis testing framework for what the agent is doing over actually telling what the agent might do.

The reasoning and derivations behind these tools is given over here https://technoyoda.github.io/agent-science.html

Would be very happy to hear feedback and questions. (Please ignore the names given to theorization, it was for shits and giggles)

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47223362

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Agents are not thinking: Science of agent behavior

chse_cake — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 02:41:36 +0000

Article URL: https://technoyoda.github.io/agent-science.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47203076

Points: 7

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Agents are not thinking, they are searching

chse_cake — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 08:31:48 +0000

Article URL: https://technoyoda.github.io/agent-search.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47134441

Points: 1

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Notes/Learnings from building software at a fast paced startup

chse_cake — Sat, 21 Jun 2025 19:03:21 +0000

Article URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/ExperiencedDevs/s/DnaZJZXWiK

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44339913

Points: 4

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New comment by chse_cake in "Netflix has open-sourced its Maestro Workflow Orchestrator"

chse_cake — Tue, 23 Jul 2024 17:37:51 +0000

this comment needs to be at the top

New comment by chse_cake in "Big Companies vs. Startups (2015)"

chse_cake — Thu, 16 May 2024 05:04:04 +0000

I joined the startup I work for because it’s exciting and not because it will be valuable ( statistically it’s a lottery ticket ). We have a small team and the problems we solve are very complex and challenging. the kind of things I can do here, exposed me to learnings and knowledge I would never get from a bigger company. Big tech derisks most problems they solve because of specialized people helping solve specific problems but your opportunities to learn things across the spectrum are lower.

But milage may vary. I work for a startup where everyone is really experienced/wise and have worked in big tech too. But choosing and finding a good startup is a lot more work then cracking LC and working at a big tech company.

50+ hot takes on the current and future of AI/ML

chse_cake — Sun, 12 May 2024 20:58:03 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/techno_yoda/status/1789755827777102204

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40337531

Points: 3

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New comment by chse_cake in "A generalist AI agent for 3D virtual environments"

chse_cake — Wed, 13 Mar 2024 20:24:53 +0000

That's a fair assessment but it was also 6 years ago. Back then transformers had recently come out. Tricks to do DL at scale were still brewing. Even achieving what they did for 10 heroes showed DL could work in "non-deterministic-ish" problem settings.

The more interesting question is: can we train a Dota model that plays with all 124 heroes today?

New comment by chse_cake in "Show HN: 3 years and 1M users later, I just open-sourced my "Internet OS""

chse_cake — Tue, 05 Mar 2024 18:37:07 +0000

how can I pip install on this?

New comment by chse_cake in "Better Airflow with Metaflow"

chse_cake — Tue, 21 Feb 2023 17:33:34 +0000

I have used Airflow as a product for over a year and I can say for sure that Airflow sucks for orchestrating ML.

The ability to pass state in Airflow absolutely sucks. It's interesting that Metaflow is trying to compile into Airflow but I am skeptical about it's scalability on Airflow especially with DAGs that have a larger task footprint.

New comment by chse_cake in "UC Berkeley launches SkyPilot to help navigate soaring cloud costs"

chse_cake — Tue, 13 Dec 2022 08:46:03 +0000

It lost me when the specification was in YAML. I hate YAML for ML.

New comment by chse_cake in "Exploring 12M of the 2.3B images used to train Stable Diffusion"

chse_cake — Wed, 31 Aug 2022 00:09:38 +0000

If we consider a frame rate of 60 FPS then a 5 year old would have seen about ~ 6.3 billion images [60 (frames) * 60 (seconds) * 60 (minutes) * 16 (waking hours) * 365 (days) * 5 (years)]. Even with 30 FPS you can halve the number and it's still a huge number.

A cool fact is that this model fit ~5B images in 900M parameter model which is tiny compared to the size of the data.

New comment by chse_cake in "India's largest stock broker has 30 devs (2020)"

chse_cake — Wed, 06 Jul 2022 01:35:33 +0000

Yes. Zerodha is hands down the largest broker in India. They provide really beautiful suite of products that play very well with each other.

New comment by chse_cake in "Apple Music is the most buggy and annoying software I use"

chse_cake — Sat, 04 Jun 2022 12:30:31 +0000

I changed countries on the apple store and in transition I lost my entire apple music library which I curated for over 6 years (thousands of songs). All vanished. It was so painful.

I have moved to spotify but I am still overcoming the grief :(

New comment by chse_cake in "What does “shitty job” mean in the low-skill, low-pay world?"

chse_cake — Sun, 17 Apr 2022 18:10:45 +0000

India is notorious for paying shit money to people. When I started my first software job in India i was paid less than 4k$ a year, I lived in a slum and worked 60 hour weeks. I obviously did not have to pickup some one else’s shit. And I am not saying that America has a prettier picture but overall being on minimum wage in America/Europe is actually a little better than being on minimum wage in 3rd world / developing nations.

New comment by chse_cake in "Launch HN: MutableAI (YC W22) – Automatically clean Jupyter notebooks using AI"

chse_cake — Thu, 24 Feb 2022 21:12:18 +0000

Not to gripe on your work, But I am extremely skeptical about tools like these. How do you ensure the equivalence of the computation ? What are the SLA's on equivalence and how do you even verify if the programs are equivalent?

The solution to bad code written by data scientists is not more AI tools that write non-verifiable code. Its ergonomic API frameworks which can relieve the pain-points / bad practices via throughly testable / verifiable / deterministic code.

The site even promises test-case generation in the future. This seems very flaky at best.

Code Foundations: Things I would tell my 10-year past self

chse_cake — Thu, 02 Sep 2021 15:24:21 +0000

Article URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/ExperiencedDevs/comments/pgcgyd/code_foundations_things_i_would_tell_myself_if_i/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28393202

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