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New comment by winrid in "Cloudflare to cut about 20% of its workforce"

winrid — Fri, 08 May 2026 09:48:04 +0000

lol does all of European tech companies combined even make more than what the EU brings in from taxing US companies yet?

New comment by winrid in "Cloudflare to cut about 20% workforce"

winrid — Fri, 08 May 2026 05:20:21 +0000

Should companies be forced to retain talent of a certain age group? Should they be forced to retain less competent people? How do you expect this to work?

New comment by winrid in "Windows API is Successful Cross-Platform API (2024)"

winrid — Sun, 03 May 2026 08:47:58 +0000

the other way around is kind of how libgdx games run on iOS :)

New comment by winrid in "Ghostty is leaving GitHub"

winrid — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 04:46:47 +0000

Could just be the status page software itself. It looks like it uses https://github.com/louislam/redbean-node which is kind of cursed

> This automatically generates the tables and columns... on-the-fly. It infers relations based on naming conventions.

New comment by winrid in "GPT-5.5"

winrid — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 16:58:04 +0000

I'll be launching the game in a couple months so you can see it then :)

There are bugs, it doesn't work perfectly, but that's just part of testing and refinement at this point.

My initial prompt was just: "let's work on converting this java game to c++ using panda3d. you're a panda3d c++ expert. you will be the agent that owns the project, creating the plan, and the delegating each step to sub-agents that create each system in the correct order."

it created like 17 different tasks and sub agents and opus 4.7 orchestrated it. I did personally validate which rendering engine would be good for the project etc first.

New comment by winrid in "Refuse to let your doctor record you"

winrid — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 16:09:52 +0000

"healthcare company lowers cost instead of absorbing new found profits" sounds like an Onion headline

New comment by winrid in "Habitual coffee intake shapes the microbiome, modifies physiology and cognition"

winrid — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 15:49:33 +0000

The bean is already only like 2% caffeine lol so cheap decaf can definitely really be "half caf" even if they say that.

New comment by winrid in "GPT-5.5"

winrid — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 06:41:07 +0000

Weird. I don't have this behavior, although I did with codex and 5.4 haha. I bet the providers are playing with settings underneath and different users are routed to different deployments, or they're secretly routing us to different models under load.

New comment by winrid in "GPT-5.5"

winrid — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 06:39:39 +0000

what?

New comment by winrid in "GPT-5.5"

winrid — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 20:05:51 +0000

Interesting, I just had opus convert a 35k loc java game to c++ overnight (root agent that orchestrated and delegated to sub agents) and woke up and it's done and works.

What plan are you on? I'm starting to wonder if they're dynamically adjusting reasoning based on plan or something.

New comment by winrid in "Qwen3.6-27B: Flagship-Level Coding in a 27B Dense Model"

winrid — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 07:13:55 +0000

Because it's a great tool and the second it's not we can just do what you're doing :)

New comment by winrid in "Android CLI: Build Android apps 3x faster using any agent"

winrid — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 23:03:06 +0000

I didn't say caught up did I? :)

New comment by winrid in "Isaac Asimov: The Last Question (1956)"

winrid — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 16:28:33 +0000

My favorite Sci-Fi AI is probably in Larry Niven's World of Ptavvs, the "brain board". It's not covered in much depth but I like it because it's basically vibe coding GPT3.5 from 1966:

> He read, "Time to recharge battery:" followed by the spiral hieroglyph, the sign of infinity.

> Thud, said the brain. Kzanol read, "Re-estimate of trip time to Thrintun:" followed by a spiral.

At the brain board he typed: "Compute a course for any civilized planet, minimum trip time. Give trip time."

...

Thud! The screen said, "No solution."

Nonsense! The battery had a tremendous potential, even after a hyperspace jump it must still have enough energy to aim the ship at some civilized planet. Why would the brain...?

Then he understood. The ship had power, probably, to reach several worlds, but not to slow him down to the speed of any known world. Well, that was all right. In his stasis field Kzanol wouldn't care how hard he hit. He typed: "Do not consider decrease of velocity upon arrival. Plot course for any civilized planet. Minimize trip time."

The answer took only a few seconds. "Trip time to Awtprun 72 Thrintun years 100.48 days."

New comment by winrid in "Android CLI: Build Android apps 3x faster using any agent"

winrid — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 03:52:44 +0000

I meant in terms of development speed with agents.

New comment by winrid in "Claude Code Routines"

winrid — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 03:10:31 +0000

nope

New comment by winrid in "Android CLI: Build Android apps 3x faster using any agent"

winrid — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 03:09:43 +0000

Catching up to Flutter.

New comment by winrid in "Cal.com is going closed source"

winrid — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 03:35:29 +0000

> Come talk to us and build with us

do we need an appointment :)

New comment by winrid in "Do you even need a database?"

winrid — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 18:01:18 +0000

The security level is the same actually as the codemasters servers.

New comment by winrid in "Claude Code Routines"

winrid — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 18:00:33 +0000

I tried to use 5.4 for something pretty straightforward - create scripts to automate navigating a game UI and capturing the network traffic. 5.4 was super frustrating, constantly stopping and waiting for feedback etc, even after telling it to never wait and just iterate/debug. I quit and switched to Opus 4.6 and it did much more of the work by itself.

New comment by winrid in "Do you even need a database?"

winrid — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 17:59:02 +0000

EA is shutting down Clubs. That is the primary motivation here.

Sadly no solution for non-rooted consoles.