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New comment by iot_devs in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)"

iot_devs — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 06:29:52 +0000

I put it online and accessible for people to try! Any feedback is welcome!

https://structo.redbeardlab.com/

New comment by iot_devs in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)"

iot_devs — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 22:02:51 +0000

A writing app.

The overall idea is to work/write at an higher level of abstraction where you work with "ideas" (just small paragraphs).

You can move them around and basically restructure many/whole paragraphs by simply changing few words.

The final text is generated by an LLM.

LLM that has the whole context so you can ask it questions, but more importantly it can provide you feedback

New comment by iot_devs in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)"

iot_devs — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 19:54:17 +0000

How is ironcalc different from other spreadsheets?

New comment by iot_devs in "Xiaomi-Robotics-1"

iot_devs — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 08:32:41 +0000

Absolutely!

Also if this scale anywhere close to LLMs in 2 years they will fold at super human speed and much better than me.

New comment by iot_devs in "The Mighty Big Array of Finn Jensen LA8YB"

iot_devs — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 11:36:32 +0000

The caption for the WAS aware clearly mention 52 US states.

Is that a typo or some quirk of radio amateur?

New comment by iot_devs in "First Principles of Model Routing"

iot_devs — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 04:11:17 +0000

I am afraid that this post is missing the biggest point.

Given a prompt (or task) how do I evaluate if it is a "simple" task that should be executed by a small model or if it is a complex one that may need a SOTA model?

Are you guys using heuristics? Which one?

New comment by iot_devs in "There is minimal downside to switching to open models"

iot_devs — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 04:40:21 +0000

Do you have any example?

New comment by iot_devs in "There is minimal downside to switching to open models"

iot_devs — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 04:37:22 +0000

I would love if you could make some examples

New comment by iot_devs in "Automating myself out of development"

iot_devs — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 23:03:43 +0000

Why I believe to be different this time is that the engineer themselves feel this need AND this is a real need making software delivery actually faster.

We will see!

New comment by iot_devs in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)"

iot_devs — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 18:29:38 +0000

What did you learn so far?

I am interested in a similar tool and it would be nice to skip some of the learning

New comment by iot_devs in "Automating myself out of development"

iot_devs — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 20:35:31 +0000

> Also the majority of people just don’t care enough.

Yet! It is the next frontier and we will need it for having agent as described in the post to really work

New comment by iot_devs in "How we index images for RAG"

iot_devs — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 01:33:41 +0000

How descripting is the caption that you obtain?

So you include colour, shapes, etc?

New comment by iot_devs in "Spain has become one of Europe’s cheapest power markets"

iot_devs — Sun, 10 May 2026 20:45:39 +0000

I mean it is hard to argue with the number - I believe everyone will benefit for more interconnections. More energy to Europe, more money to Spain.

And for the numbers it seems obvious that renewables are a fundamental part of the picture.

New comment by iot_devs in "Wiki Builder: Skill to Build LLM Knowledge Bases"

iot_devs — Wed, 06 May 2026 14:09:47 +0000

Maybe it is me, but I am much more interested in a way to maintaining a wiki.

Ideally something that doesn't require rescanning all the sources and something that can verify that the wiki is correct.

New comment by iot_devs in "GameStop makes $55.5B takeover offer for eBay"

iot_devs — Mon, 04 May 2026 15:42:09 +0000

Something that I never quite understood is who lend the money for this sort of activities?

The lender knows how risky they are.

New comment by iot_devs in "Mike: open-source legal AI"

iot_devs — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 05:40:58 +0000

I thought it was named after the characters of Suits: Harvey and Mike

New comment by iot_devs in "Agents Aren't Coworkers, Embed Them in Your Software"

iot_devs — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 01:37:04 +0000

Yeah, but my projects are personal and not popular.

I crafted the AI loop to do exactly what I would be doing by manually.

Out of 10 PRs, 6 to 7 gets merged. The other simply get closed.

New comment by iot_devs in "Agents Aren't Coworkers, Embed Them in Your Software"

iot_devs — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 01:14:36 +0000

> Give an agent the right interfaces and it becomes less conversational and more ambient. It no longer needs to constantly ask, explain, summarize, and negotiate. It can stay in the background, react to changes, and make steady progress with less supervision and less noise. That is closer to Weiser’s vision: calm technology, but for machines.

I tend to agree quite a bit.

I created a ambient background agent for my projects that does just that.

It is there, in the background, constantly analysing my code and opening PRs to make it better.

The hard part is finding a definition of "better" and for now it is whatever makes the longer and type checker happy.

But overall it is a pleasure to use.

New comment by iot_devs in "SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B"

iot_devs — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 04:12:20 +0000

On the other hand, I found MiniMax M2.7 a reasonable model that I could trust.

I guess really depends on tastes

New comment by iot_devs in "Anthropic takes $5B from Amazon and pledges $100B in cloud spending in return"

iot_devs — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 13:42:35 +0000

Someone can explain to me what's the expectations for these AI labs?

I mostly see their products as commodity at this point, with strong open source contenders.

Eventually it will become hard to justify the premium on these models.