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New comment by llamavore in "Show HN: Marimo pair – Reactive Python notebooks as environments for agents"

llamavore — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 08:07:49 +0000

I will add I’m sad to see Anthropic go anti-community on their Claude subscription usage but since Codex works in pi then using pi as the underlying harness is probably the best thing to do. I did use open source codex rust in cleon to easily bring that into python directly. Big thanks and props to OpenAI for building their coding harness in rust and doing it open source.

New comment by llamavore in "Show HN: Marimo pair – Reactive Python notebooks as environments for agents"

llamavore — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 08:05:12 +0000

Yeah I use it myself when I need to quickly debug something in Jupyter because I can just pip install cleon anywhere and then do @ question to get codex involved.

I took Jeremy’s solveit course and built this in homage to the concept of AI agent within Jupyter.

Keen to collaborate with anyone if they want to take this paradigm further.

New comment by llamavore in "Show HN: Marimo pair – Reactive Python notebooks as environments for agents"

llamavore — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 12:53:12 +0000

Looks cool. I love notebooks.

I built something similar with just plain cli agent harnesses for Jupyter a while back.

It supports codex subscriptions and pi, (used to support Claude subs, might still be okay since I didn’t modify the system prompt).

Has some bugs and needs some work but getting help and code changes inline in Jupyter is way better than copy pasta hard to select text from cells and cell output all day.

https://github.com/madhavajay/cleon

New comment by llamavore in "996"

llamavore — Sun, 07 Sep 2025 00:01:43 +0000

Cal Newports Slow Productivity has a lot to say about this topic.

Creativity comes in bursts and can’t be scheduled. Happiness and health move with the seasons. Treating humans as divisible units of 1 hour blocks of factory farmed ROI will never yield amazing results.

It’s sad to see the more technology and automation we invent the more we become slaves to the cult of pseudo-productivity, virtue signalling hours at work in place of meaningful output or results.

New comment by llamavore in "I miss using em dashes"

llamavore — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 03:30:31 +0000

Not at all! Pizza for everyone.

New comment by llamavore in "I miss using em dashes"

llamavore — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 02:41:26 +0000

I agree with this too, I have read a lot of academic stuff with - em dashes and it reads like the author doesn't know how to write and is just translating spoken word to text.

When you are talking, an aside can make a lot of sense because you are thinking and speaking in real time. When you write you have the luxury of time to reformulate your words more precisely. Em dashes are best kept for prose that mimics speech rather than constructing logical text.

It's no coincidence that em dashes are rare in legal texts because they are too imprecise. Where as semicolons are extremely common in legal texts.

The S in semicolon stands for S-Tier. Maybe the E in em dash stands for E-Tier?

lolz

New comment by llamavore in "I miss using em dashes"

llamavore — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 02:35:37 +0000

I 100% agree. I hear a lot of pushback from em dash lovers on the semicolon; if you can learn to love an em dash, you can learn to use and love a semicolon.

Remember, meaning is based on common usage, so now em dash is slop-nonymous, semicolons can take on a more casual vibe.

For example: I love pizza — it's my comfort food.

Can just become: I love pizza; it's my comfort food.

For asides: I love pizza — especially pepperoni.

Can just become: I love pizza (especially pepperoni).

New comment by llamavore in "Asahi Linux Lead Developer Steps Down"

llamavore — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 05:35:42 +0000

Wow!

Ship a great driver? Check.

Conformant OpenGL 4.6, OpenGL ES 3.2, and OpenCL 3.0? Check.

Conformant Vulkan 1.4? Check.

Proton gaming? Check.

Bravo!

Just think of the value that will have downstream for game devs or others who wish to target macOS. Apple really should do more to publicly acknowledge this kind of work and donate to these kinds of projects since they are beneficiaries.

Theres a chance here for them to open up further support for Linux across the hardware, software chain (Swift), containerization (finally) and maybe even allow app store virtualization on iOS (think running a fast linux compliant container on your phone via an intent or shortcut).

If not, perhaps DHH's Omarchy will be the Barbarians (with great hair) at the Gates which could turn the tide back away from Apple dev hardware dominance. If we could only get something like that on our phones without being blocked at every turn by "big app store".

New comment by llamavore in "Uncomfortable Questions About Android Developer Verification"

llamavore — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 06:41:58 +0000

Maybe we can finally spark an omarchy style user driven linux mobile OS ala DHH?

Or are users just going to face network bans and additional tracking like with grapheneos?

New comment by llamavore in "Full-Breadth Developers"

llamavore — Sun, 03 Aug 2025 00:40:22 +0000

Great article. Lots of similarities to other terms floating around like forward deployed engineer and full stack builder. This is obvious if you ask ChatGPT to list all the professions over the years which have been combined and subsumed during technical innovation.

I think the most obvious recent event would have been the personal computer. How many office jobs that existed pre-computer were combined once they became software?

Filing clerks, switchboard operators, darkroom technicians etc.

Self-Hosting AI Models After Claude's Usage Limits

llamavore — Sat, 02 Aug 2025 04:58:03 +0000

Article URL: https://steipete.me/posts/2025/self-hosting-ai-models

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44764995

Points: 18

# Comments: 0

New comment by llamavore in "From Async/Await to Virtual Threads"

llamavore — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 09:59:12 +0000

Totally agree, the FFI escape hatch and excellent tooling from rust, maturin pyo3 etc means so many python problems can just be solved with rust. Which begs the question, has anyone tried doing a greenthread implementation in rust? Maybe offload some of the dynamically evaled python code to a seperate process maybe with https://github.com/RustPython/RustPython

New comment by llamavore in "From Async/Await to Virtual Threads"

llamavore — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 05:17:30 +0000

Great article, the previous related one goes into a lot more detail on some of pythons different concurrency implementation details: https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2024/11/18/threads-beat-async-await...

Something which would be immensely helpful for the community is to create a test suite of pathological problems with existing python concurrency patterns and libraries.

At that point it should just be a matter of time before the right implementation and PEP(s) can be iterated on that solves said problems while maximizing for devex.

For anyone interested in learning more about different concurrency models I can highly recommend Paul Butcher's: Seven Concurrency Models in Seven Weeks.

New comment by llamavore in "Will the Fear of Being Confused for AI Mean That We Will Now Write Differently?"

llamavore — Sun, 20 Jul 2025 11:56:01 +0000

Long live the semicolon!

New comment by llamavore in "Agentic Coding Slot Machines – Did We Just Summon a Genie Addiction? – Part 1"

llamavore — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 05:40:48 +0000

It’s actually really good at small bugs but you need to make sure it can understand what’s broken by giving it context. Logs, curls, screenshots etc. The biggest problem is when it goes on vision quests and does stuff you didn’t ask.

The meme with the car and duck are basically how AI agents like to “fix bugs”, sometimes they’re like oh I fixed the bug and changed the button which you never asked for. Lol. Adding a wheel and changing the car into a cat!

New comment by llamavore in "Agentic Coding Slot Machines – Did We Just Summon a Genie Addiction? – Part 1"

llamavore — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 02:07:07 +0000

Check the post from Simon Willison: https://til.simonwillison.net/claude-code/playwright-mcp-cla...

You install the playwright mcp server and then it just launches chrome.

Also check out https://browser-use.com/ https://github.com/browser-use/browser-use

and

https://github.com/D4Vinci/Scrapling

New comment by llamavore in "Agentic Coding Slot Machines – Did We Just Summon a Genie Addiction? – Part 1"

llamavore — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 14:51:25 +0000

Yeah, thats the_mitsuhiko aka Armin Ronacher. It was a joy to talk to him about Claude Code.

Agentic Coding Slot Machines – Did We Just Summon a Genie Addiction? – Part 1

llamavore — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 14:38:46 +0000

Article URL: https://madhavajay.com/agentic-coding-slot-machines-did-we-just-summon-a-genie-addiction/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44455534

Points: 12

# Comments: 6

Taming agentic engineering: A complex porting job, 7x faster with Claude Code

llamavore — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 12:35:31 +0000

Article URL: https://mariozechner.at/posts/2025-01-02-prompts-are-code/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44454369

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by llamavore in "The Cold Start Problem: Using Network Effects to Scale Your Product – A Review"

llamavore — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 05:05:56 +0000

Thanks for the encouragement.