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New comment by mathieudombrock in "Over-editing refers to a model modifying code beyond what is necessary"

mathieudombrock — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 18:53:13 +0000

A major difference is that _someone_ knew what was going on (compiler devs).

New comment by mathieudombrock in "Claude Opus 4.7"

mathieudombrock — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 17:54:26 +0000

The same input twice is only nondeterministic if you don't control the seed.

New comment by mathieudombrock in "Pro Max 5x quota exhausted in 1.5 hours despite moderate usage"

mathieudombrock — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 07:32:46 +0000

This includes open and closed models ranked by popularity and other metrics.

https://openrouter.ai/rankings

New comment by mathieudombrock in "Pro Max 5x quota exhausted in 1.5 hours despite moderate usage"

mathieudombrock — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 07:32:46 +0000

This includes open and closed models ranked by popularity and other metrics.

https://openrouter.ai/rankings

New comment by mathieudombrock in "US cities are axing Flock Safety surveillance technology"

mathieudombrock — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 17:58:33 +0000

The Amish are generally pacifist.

New comment by mathieudombrock in "Gonon: Building a Clock with No Numerals"

mathieudombrock — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 06:57:45 +0000

Ignoring the orientation constraint, one easy way to tell is that one has a flat line on the bottom and the other doesn't.

New comment by mathieudombrock in "Copilot edited an ad into my PR"

mathieudombrock — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 06:47:10 +0000

LLMs are determistic. Just like everything else computers are capable of doing.

Commercial front-ends just hide the random seed parameters.

New comment by mathieudombrock in "Neovim 0.12.0"

mathieudombrock — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 21:50:01 +0000

Vim mode in vscode is not even close to emulating a real neovim setup.

New comment by mathieudombrock in "Neovim 0.12.0"

mathieudombrock — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 21:47:36 +0000

CodeCompanion.nvim is a pretty nice plugin. I use that for quick stuff and opencode in the embedded terminal for larger tasks.

New comment by mathieudombrock in "Show HN: We built a terminal-only Bluesky / AT Proto client written in Fortran"

mathieudombrock — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 07:01:49 +0000

I think the best answer you're really going to get here is that it's cool and fun to learn and use old languages.

New comment by mathieudombrock in "Show HN: Wikipedia as a doomscrollable social media feed"

mathieudombrock — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 01:40:47 +0000

This is unfortunately loading very, very slowly for me.

New comment by mathieudombrock in "Show HN: Drum machine VST made with React/C++"

mathieudombrock — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 03:04:47 +0000

I'm not OP but I've worked on JUCE plugins with React UIs for JUCE8 web view.

The UI load is pretty instantaneous.

Everything uses the native web view. This means that on macOS you get WebKit and on Windows you get Chrome (or sometimes IE).

So it's generally faster than Electron. In the project I worked on it was not noticeably slower than native UI.

Memory usage is really close to what you might expect from any other app running native web view.

New comment by mathieudombrock in "Wren: A classy little scripting language"

mathieudombrock — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 01:14:38 +0000

Wren is super neat. I've written a few small games for TIC-80 using it. It's a really fun language to write.

New comment by mathieudombrock in "Look, Another AI Browser"

mathieudombrock — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 18:26:26 +0000

I think Google has proven with their recent actions concerning android that they really can't be trusted with big, critical open source projects.

New comment by mathieudombrock in "The Greatness of Text Adventures"

mathieudombrock — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 18:31:36 +0000

I tried this. It sounds good on paper but the LLM will just "forget" to use it's tools. Either it will decline to query the database and just make stuff up, or it will decline to update the database when it should. The further along the game play gets the more out of sync the game word gets from the external state. I'm sure there is a clever solution but I never found it.

New comment by mathieudombrock in "The Greatness of Text Adventures"

mathieudombrock — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 18:28:20 +0000

Neat, it seems to me like Lua is a great language for text adventures.

New comment by mathieudombrock in "The Greatness of Text Adventures"

mathieudombrock — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 18:25:44 +0000

I love text adventures. Collosal Cave Adventure and Zork are some of the coolest programs I've ever seen.

I've always wanted to try writing one and this article might have just inspired me to finally do that.

New comment by mathieudombrock in "The Greatness of Text Adventures"

mathieudombrock — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 18:24:11 +0000

This is a neat idea and I wish it worked. I've spend hours and hours trying to get LLMs to be a "dungeon master" for text adventures. I've written a good amount custom code trying to facilitate this. Trying to force the LLM to keep it's story straight.

I'm pretty convinced that the current generation of LLMs is nowhere close to being capable of this. No matter how many context hacks you throw at it.

It inevitably derails and ruins the immersion.

Best of luck on this. If you can pull it off it would be really cool I think.

New comment by mathieudombrock in "The Programmer Identity Crisis"

mathieudombrock — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 18:04:51 +0000

I found this article really interesting. This is pretty much exactly how I feel about LLM programming.

I really enjoy programming and like the author said, it's my hobby.

On some level I kind of resent the fact that I don't really get to do my hobby for work any more. It's something fundamentally different now.

New comment by mathieudombrock in "What I Self Host"

mathieudombrock — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 17:31:04 +0000

For what it's worth, I wrote a very bare bones RSS reader in an afternoon. It really just renders a set of RSS feeds into HTML and nothing else.

But it was fun to and educational to build and could pretty easily be extended to add more features.

I would recommend just going for it if you are interested in writing one. It's not as hard as it sounds.