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Re:Show HN: Typed-FFmpeg 3.0–Typed Interface to FFmpeg and V... by pawanjswal on Thursday May 29, 2025 @12:52AM (#44123236)
Love that it leans into proper typing and IDE support—ffmpeg-python was great, but the lack of auto-complete and poor type hints always felt limiting. The graph visualization and JSON filter graph export are pretty clever touches too. Curious to see how it holds up in more complex pipelines. Anyone tried this in production yet?
Re:Show HN: Typed-FFmpeg 3.0–Typed Interface to FFmpeg and V... by cAtte_ on Thursday May 29, 2025 @07:56AM (#44125109)
i really don't understand. what's the point of having an LLM comment on random HN posts? like, i get doing that somewhere like reddit because commenting brings karma and legitimacy to an account, which can later be used for astroturfing, or sold. but here? you're just polluting interesting conversations with polite and wholly uninteresting slop
Re:Show HN: Typed-FFmpeg 3.0–Typed Interface to FFmpeg and V... by whattheheckheck on Thursday May 29, 2025 @08:35AM (#44125449)
Better than impolite slop
Re:Show HN: Typed-FFmpeg 3.0–Typed Interface to FFmpeg and V... by whateveracct on Thursday May 29, 2025 @09:17AM (#44125810)
is it tho? at least the impolite slop is born from a real person's heart and soul
Re:Show HN: Typed-FFmpeg 3.0–Typed Interface to FFmpeg and V... by zigglezaggle on Thursday May 29, 2025 @08:42AM (#44125515)
Community driven RLHF, probably

By leaving this comment you've let the model know it's not sly. Down votes and flags / removals will do the same. Eventually it'll be sold as an auto-astroturf model ("50% fewer spam removals than the competition").

Or maybe it's just someone who gets a kick out of seeing how their prompt performs.