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Re:Incentives Are for Losers on Sunday August 09, 2026 @04:09AM (#49229452)
Totally, it all comes to incentives. People just choose which poison to take.

Ask HN: What should I do when the coding agents run?

Now that coding agents can run with minimal human effort, what should the human do during that time?Do we just become “watchers” who wait for results? Should we be monitoring them closely, or is it better to step away and do something else—like reading, watching a lecture, or even playing games—while the agents run?For people who use coding agents regularly: what’s your workflow? How do you...

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ported to macos using raycast

```

#!/bin/bash

# Required parameters: # @raycast.schemaVersion 1 # @raycast.title Ask LLM # @raycast.mode fullOutput

# Optional parameters: # @raycast.icon # @raycast.argument1 { "type": "text", "placeholder": "Your question" }

# Documentation: # @raycast.author Your Name # @raycast.authorURL https://github.com/you

QUERY="$1" [ -z "$QUERY" ] && exit 0

FULL_QUERY="Answer in as little words as possible, concisely, for an intelligent person: $QUERY"

# URL encode (pure bash) encode_query() { local query="$1" local encoded="" local c for (( i=0; i<${#query}; i++ )); do c="${query:$i:1}" case $c in [a-zA-Z0-9.~_-]) encoded+="$c" ;; *) encoded+=$(printf '%%%02X' "'$c") ;; esac done echo "$encoded" }

ENCODED_QUERY=$(encode_query "$FULL_QUERY")

# Get response RESPONSE=$(curl -s "https://ch.at/?q=$ENCODED_QUERY")

# Output to Raycast echo "$RESPONSE"

# --- Optional: also pop up a big dialog --- osascript -e 'display dialog "'"$RESPONSE"'" buttons {"OK"} default button 1 with title "LLM Answer"'

```

is it a good idea to alias "dig @ch.at TXT +short" to a command say `c`

then use `c "the prompt"`

Ask HN: What is your current LLM-assisted coding tool?

Hello everyone, I’m testing and comparing various LLM-assisted coding tools, and I want to know which tool you are currently using in your daily development workflow. Here are some observations and questions I have:1. Cursor and Windsurf - Both work nicely on local, but they use token-saving strategies: - With very long context, they may truncate important information, causing the...

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Re:Claude 4 on Thursday May 22, 2025 @01:14PM (#44064210)
Claude register need a phone number, but cannot select China (+86), and even if I have a account, it may hard to purchase because the credit card issue.

Some app like Windsurf can easily pay with Alipay, a everyone-app in China.

Re:Claude 4 on Thursday May 22, 2025 @12:57PM (#44064014)
How long will the VScode wrapper (cursor, windsurf) survive?

Love to try the Claude Code VScode extension if the price is right and purchase-able from China.

Re:The skill of the future is not 'AI', but 'Focus' on Sunday April 20, 2025 @12:41PM (#43744848)
the Exploitation and exploration got me thinking, what if LLM generate, say, 5 results at a time and let user choose the best
thank you

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