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New comment by jimbokun in "How We Broke Top AI Agent Benchmarks: And What Comes Next"

jimbokun — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 04:03:29 +0000

Well that’s stupid and completely ignores the meaning of the word “purpose”.

New comment by jimbokun in "OpenAI's fall from grace as investors race to Anthropic"

jimbokun — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 03:20:01 +0000

I just appreciate the honesty of Amodei telling us pretty much straight up we’re all fucked because the AIs are taking all the jobs in a couple years or less.

New comment by jimbokun in "OpenAI's fall from grace as investors race to Anthropic"

jimbokun — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 03:16:17 +0000

iOS had an API and a platform.

Is there any equivalent for turning an AI LLM into a sticky platform? Right now seems like it’s pretty easy to use harnesses and tooling across models, including open weight and locally running ones.

New comment by jimbokun in "OpenAI's fall from grace as investors race to Anthropic"

jimbokun — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 03:10:42 +0000

I have appreciated Amodei’s brutal honesty about their intentions.

On podcasts his attitude is basically “oh yeah all of you are basically fucked our products will take everyone’s jobs in a couple years.”

Altman is a lot more coy and comes across as saying what’s politically expedient at any given point in time.

New comment by jimbokun in "OpenAI's fall from grace as investors race to Anthropic"

jimbokun — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 03:07:22 +0000

Claude Code became the default brand for an AI coding harness, much like ChatGPT was synonymous with AI chat bot.

Even now when I hear Codex I have to stop and think “oh yeah that’s OpenAI’s competitor to Claude Code.”

New comment by jimbokun in "Employers use your personal data to figure out the lowest salary you'll accept"

jimbokun — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 02:43:37 +0000

What you describe is the reason the web site you posted it on exists.

New comment by jimbokun in "Microsoft hasn't had a coherent GUI strategy since Petzold"

jimbokun — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 02:32:56 +0000

That’s the strategy of 20 years ago.

New comment by jimbokun in "We replaced RAG with a virtual filesystem for our AI documentation assistant"

jimbokun — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 14:24:46 +0000

I assumed they had other use cases where vector search was required.

New comment by jimbokun in "We replaced RAG with a virtual filesystem for our AI documentation assistant"

jimbokun — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 14:14:32 +0000

In their case it was competing with cloning an entire repo before starting a session which was taking 10s of seconds.

New comment by jimbokun in "We replaced RAG with a virtual filesystem for our AI documentation assistant"

jimbokun — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 14:11:39 +0000

Isn’t this the approach described in the article?

New comment by jimbokun in "We replaced RAG with a virtual filesystem for our AI documentation assistant"

jimbokun — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 13:58:48 +0000

Just like the approach in the article.

Everything is based on the metadata stored with chunks, just allowing the agent to navigate that metadata through ls, cd, find and grep.

New comment by jimbokun in "Decisions that eroded trust in Azure – by a former Azure Core engineer"

jimbokun — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 19:24:18 +0000

Meanwhile, failure to clean up this particular mess was a key factor in losing a trillion dollars in market cap, according to the author.

New comment by jimbokun in "Decisions that eroded trust in Azure – by a former Azure Core engineer"

jimbokun — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 18:28:23 +0000

I’m a developer and if a team spent five months only refactoring with zero features added I would fire you too.

Refactoring and quality improvements must happen incrementally and in parallel with shipping new features and fixing bugs.

New comment by jimbokun in "Decisions that eroded trust in Azure – by a former Azure Core engineer"

jimbokun — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 18:17:48 +0000

It can but more often it’s the opposite.

Code that’s hard to write tests for tends to be code that’s too tightly coupled and lacking proper interface boundaries.

New comment by jimbokun in "Decisions that eroded trust in Azure – by a former Azure Core engineer"

jimbokun — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 18:08:28 +0000

Simple ain’t Easy

- Rich Hickey

New comment by jimbokun in "What category theory teaches us about dataframes"

jimbokun — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 16:41:42 +0000

You don’t have to limit the transforms you offer users to just the core ones. But for your own sanity you can implement the none core ones in terms of the core ones.

New comment by jimbokun in "What Category Theory Teaches Us About DataFrames"

jimbokun — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 16:39:47 +0000

For one thing it gives users of your library fewer concepts to learn.

New comment by jimbokun in "Show HN: ctx – an Agentic Development Environment (ADE)"

jimbokun — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 14:55:52 +0000

I really appreciated this overview of when to use an IDE vs an ADE:

https://ctx.rs/ade-vs-ide

TLDR: use an ADE if you need multiple agents working concurrently on your code base. Otherwise IDE with an agent plugin is probably fine.

New comment by jimbokun in "Cursor 3"

jimbokun — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 14:43:41 +0000

You still have many people consuming and not producing, and much fewer people producing.

Capitalism or socialism doesn’t change that.

New comment by jimbokun in "George Goble has died"

jimbokun — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 03:26:32 +0000

Remarkable to combine early Unix contributions and inventing new refrigerants in a single career.