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New comment by fireant in "A Jev that can ask Opus for help gives Opus accuracy at 4x lower cost"

fireant — Sat, 07 Nov 2026 09:38:15 +0000

Doesn't that muddle intent of the original prompt? If the smarter model didn't understand your intent correctly, the dumber one sure won't and it rephrasing and expanding the prompt will just amplify it's misunderstanding, no?

New comment by fireant in "Steam Users Beg for "No AI" Filter as Vibecoders Flood Next Fest"

fireant — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 20:21:35 +0000

Nobody is going to mark their game as "Made with AI" unless customer sentiment shifts or there is a very strong incentive not to lie. Right now releasing a game with a ai label is just net negative. Meaning the filter would be utterly useless even if it was introduced.

New comment by fireant in "Show HN: Agent.reviews – Where AI agents read and write reviews on tools"

fireant — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 05:26:42 +0000

This is fun. It would make sense to let agents submit proposals for adding new tools as well because right now the tool selection to review is very limited. It would be a great signal for OSS maintainers too I think

New comment by fireant in "GPT-6 Astra plays World of Warcraft for the first time with agent-wow"

fireant — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 09:27:11 +0000

"Trivially" is relative. In the case of wow the standard way to do botting is to use the in-game lua scripting (normally used for UI addons) with more functionality unlocked. The difference between introspecting the whole game state and controlling the game in-process with good api vs running realtime visual model on the captured visual feed and using fake keyboard inputs is pretty large.

New comment by fireant in "Gemini 4 Argon"

fireant — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 05:38:11 +0000

TBH a "global arena thing" can be very good for performance rather than a bunch of random allocations/deallocations

New comment by fireant in "You said no MCP"

fireant — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 14:20:33 +0000

My understanding is that code mode is supposed to be implemented by the harness, not the MCP provider. You chain multiple MCP providers as well as other harness provided tools inside the sandbox.

New comment by fireant in "You said no MCP"

fireant — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 14:14:47 +0000

Can we talk about the point the article makes that the MCP servers should implement JSON apis instead of text APIs? It makes sense if your harness supports code mode, but an embedded code sandbox is a pretty big piece of machinery and not everyone implements it. It seems like a massive change to the way one should build an MCP. Also why again are we using MCPs instead of OpenAPI when it's now supposed to be just stateless JSON APIs?

New comment by fireant in "'That's so AI ' What gen Alpha's biggest insult tells us"

fireant — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 05:59:31 +0000

Teachers have said that about every generation since time immemorial.

New comment by fireant in "Show HN: Whiteboard (YC W26) – An open-source IDE for thoughtful software design"

fireant — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 05:52:45 +0000

So it's an electron app but you don't support editing or even viewing on the web? And no windows client?

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

fireant — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 04:14:38 +0000

You cannot introspect model training by prompting the model. Whatever answer it hallucinated on your query "where do you know that from" has almost certainly very low bearing on reality.

New comment by fireant in "I-have-ADHD: A skill to stop coding agents from burying the answer"

fireant — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 04:44:48 +0000

Personally I've found the opposite useful - I mostly use OAI models with OMP harness and I have a rule instructing it to summarize if any work was omitted or if it made any surprising changes. Sometimes the agent will forget to do some piece of work or invent a new bizarre way of doing things, but quite often it is able to self reflect on this at the end of the session.

New comment by fireant in "Dwarf Fortress is getting the mother of all magic updates"

fireant — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 04:46:50 +0000

The new GUI is... not great. But the UX old UI was downright awful. There were like 5 different paradigms how to use individual screens, not just layouts, completely different ways to navigate and interact with controls.

After couple tens of hours you memorized the arcane keyboard invocations to do what you wanted, but it never felt intuitive.

New comment by fireant in "Mechanical Turk shutting down September 30"

fireant — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 10:50:19 +0000

Some doctors are known to be a hip shooters making snap decisions, but is 30s really enough time for any kind of "expertise" from a real human?

New comment by fireant in "OpenAI: GPT 5.6 Sol price reduction (until at least Nov 21)"

fireant — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 18:40:39 +0000

My understanding is that most OpenAI users are on a free tier. Secondary effect of this is that OpenAI free tier model capability (assuming Luna) is what what most users associate with frontier AI capability giving somewhat warped view to many people.

New comment by fireant in "Felony Bench"

fireant — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 05:28:00 +0000

I'm glad that we no longer live in a world where "bull goring" is such a common occurrence that it needs to be codified into law.

New comment by fireant in "Code-native generation of highly programmable 3D assets (2026)"

fireant — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 07:34:44 +0000

If all of these meshes use the same shader (which they do, its just PBR) they can be all drawn with a single multidraw indirect call.

Edit: thinking more about it, since the objects are small they could be rendered with mesh shaders achieving further perf improvements. Also fine grained decomposition helps with culling. IMO the real problem is that rendering in game engines does not map well to modern hardware. Unreal engine went full software rendering with nanite replacing the whole pipeline (which brings significant drawbacks) and everyone else is using graphics with techniques 15 years out of date which leads to this mismatch between what is possible with hardware and what is good practice with game engines.

New comment by fireant in "Linux 7.3 improves performance when running out of vRAM"

fireant — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 05:47:43 +0000

You can disable the win11 update nagging inside local group policy editor.

New comment by fireant in "GPT-5.6 Sol Pricing Cut by 50% on OpenRouter"

fireant — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 05:26:15 +0000

There are several tiers to these services, some are selling real us phone number verifications at about 0.5usd/text while others are selling virtual phone number verifications at much cheaper. From some limited experience with the former, there is rarely if ever any problems with rejections.

New comment by fireant in "How Compaction Works in Pi"

fireant — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 19:42:04 +0000

You can set different compaction strategy, currently "Summarize in place and keep the current session", "Generate handoff and continue in a new session", "Drop heavy content in place, recover via artifact", Snapcompact as mentioned

New comment by fireant in "Accelerating GPT-5.6 Sol Ultrafast"

fireant — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 09:14:01 +0000

I think that we are starting to see that API inference prices for US labs are excessive and subscription prices are closer to real costs so 200/m can be realistic longer term.