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New comment by groovetandon in "Agents need control flow, not more prompts"

groovetandon — Thu, 07 May 2026 21:00:29 +0000

This is so true have been working on a project for exactly this principle -

https://www.decisional.com/blog/workflow-automation-should-b...

I think there is a fundamental incentive problem - code + llm + harness is bound to be more efficient but the labs want you to burn tokens so they are not going to tell you to use the code, just burn more tokens. They are asking us to forget about the token cost and reliability for now - model will become better.

This means that most people just believe that their agent should just be able to do anything with the help of some Model fairy dust with prompts + skills.

People need to watch their agents fail in production to be able to come to the right conclusion unfortunately.

New comment by groovetandon in "Launch HN: Omnara (YC S25) – Run Claude Code and Codex from anywhere"

groovetandon — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 21:00:58 +0000

Been looking for something like this - I feel like I lose a lot of work during lunch runs and on the commute home.

New comment by groovetandon in "Coding Assistant wiped my Mac"

groovetandon — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 21:26:54 +0000

Yes, it can be done by a humam but if you are working on multiple things in parallel, you tend to start delegating even small tasks to AI. Not saying its a good thing.

New comment by groovetandon in "Coding Assistant wiped my Mac"

groovetandon — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 20:18:31 +0000

An AI coding assistant deleted everything on our Mac so wanted to let everyone know so that they can be more careful

It created a config folder for MCP under /home/user/project/~/.cursor/mcp.json Best guess: We asked Composer to copy this file to “the correct location”.

It moved it and then attempted to delete the incorrect file. However, it got confused and somehow ran a delete on the ~ path which ended up deleting everything on our mac.

Privacy mode prevented the team from retrieving detailed logs to confirm exact commands. We’re now isolating AI coding tools in containers and tightening local safeguards.

Coding Assistant wiped my Mac

groovetandon — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 20:18:31 +0000

Article URL: https://www.decisional.com/blog/coding-assistant-wiped-our-mac

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45859614

Points: 5

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New comment by groovetandon in "How I, a non-developer, read the tutorial you, a developer, wrote for me"

groovetandon — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 03:21:58 +0000

But is this tutorial meant for a non developer to read? I would imagine a linguistic psychology tutorial would have the same effect on a dev written by an expert.

New comment by groovetandon in "Designing NotebookLM"

groovetandon — Sun, 21 Sep 2025 06:25:50 +0000

There’s a lot of great things here that I like - adaptive 3 panel structure, source viewer on left.

But I think there are a few things that I noticed about NBLM which was painful for me.

1// The three panels should be toggle based with icons on the top bar. There is no need to occupy real estate for both notes and chat together if they are not being used together.

2// The center of screen or the largest middle section should be focused on outputs and not chat. If you are focusing on creating something why should it be on the side. Especially since chat isn’t all that special a feature compared to the audio overviews, etc.

3// Information density - the buttons and icons are all too large and clunky. You are in fight for real estate because AI is helping you process superhuman amounts of information.

I think the magic of NBlM is the audio overviews, the chat based Q&A is with citation is pretty standard for all LLMs.

Also I think it only uses Gemini flash which feels like a search model - this needs to be paired with a reasoning model instead.

New comment by groovetandon in "Anthropic agrees to pay $1.5B to settle lawsuit with book authors"

groovetandon — Sat, 06 Sep 2025 01:19:01 +0000

So if you buy the content legally and fine tune using it that's fair use?

New comment by groovetandon in "Show HN: Wormhole for Perplexity Comet"

groovetandon — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 08:30:26 +0000

I use comet but had no clue that this was a game. I saw it at least 15 times. I think the CTA “enter the wormhole” didn't indicate to me that it was a game. Looks super fun though, will give it a shot.

New comment by groovetandon in "Most people don't care about quality"

groovetandon — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 00:30:37 +0000

I think quality and art are two different things, quality is craftsmanship employed in solving a problem and art is a form of creative expression.

Even for Netflix, sure the content on Netflix may be for casual watching but from a product design perspective I feel it is far superior to prime, max and disney. I strongly believe that I keep paying for netflix because of this, it is the easiest place for me to watch and reduces all friction in the entertainment experience.

Quality matters but it needs to be more holistic - the world doesn't care for your pixel perfection but solving the need - in this case casual entertainment.