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Re:Mistral raises €3B on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @02:56AM (#49606496)
It’s thought to be because it’s a private company but it’s very well cited.
Re:Social media use on the rise among Australian under-16s after ban: ... on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @06:29AM (#49446632)
Of course they have a say in it. It’s bordering on neglect to give a 10 year old that junk.
Re:LinkedIn CringeBot 3000 on Wednesday August 12, 2026 @06:52AM (#49270417)
It’s been on the long slow decline for a decade. It used to be filled with interesting content and made it easy to access interesting people and get your message out. It’s really in the dregs now but I still open it and post to it more out of habit than anything. I’ve deleted the app and just use it from my laptop to try and break the habit and it’s very questionable ROI.
Re:Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5... on Tuesday June 30, 2026 @11:39PM (#48741972)
Every big business in the world biases towards risk reduction and cost reduction over getting an edge.
Re:An oral history of Bank Python (2021) on Friday June 26, 2026 @10:44AM (#48687242)
I was lucky enough to start my career sat on the next desk across from Kirat. Genius programmer and nice guy! He later went on to found Beacon platform which was the same again, as a cloud hosted service.
Re:How's Linear so fast? A technical breakdown on Monday June 08, 2026 @08:35AM (#48444553)
You can vibe code a clone of Trello in 30 minutes.
Re:Domain expertise has always been the real moat on Sunday May 31, 2026 @02:24AM (#48343465)
Brilliant framing. If you understand a domain and understand software architecture then you are in an extremely strong position right now.
Re:Googleworkspace/CLI on Thursday March 05, 2026 @03:07AM (#47258962)
They need something like this as it's hard and flaky to automate Google apps with AI. However, step 2 drops me to a fairly technical looking page where I have to configure Google Cloud. If they had a one click installer to automate Google Apps it would be an absolute killer use case for AI for me.
Re:ClickHouse Agentic Data Stack on Saturday February 14, 2026 @05:11AM (#47013300)
A demo of using an LLM/agent to analyse data stored in ClickHouse. This stuff is getting really good!
Re:OpenClaw – Moltbot Renamed Again on Friday January 30, 2026 @07:37AM (#46823758)
I’ve been saying the same and the same about data more generally. I don’t want to go and look, I want to be told about what I need to know about.

What's the Point of Clawdbot?

Posted by benjaminwootton on Tuesday January 27, 2026 @09:24AM
from the self-post dept.

I personally don't get it.I can interact with ChatGPT and Claude directly using apps on my phone.I can already upload pictures and files from my phone to both the above.Before long those apps will be able to access other data sources on my phone directly such as email, Google Drive with better integration.I never need to work with files stored on my Mac mini remotely when I'm out and about. ...

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Re:Google is dead. Where do we go now? on Monday December 29, 2025 @10:39PM (#46429285)
I wish I knew the difference. I’ve ran or been close to tens of businesses over the last 20 years and we’ve always paid the Google tax, but I’m not sure it’s ever had a positive ROI.
Re:Google is dead. Where do we go now? on Monday December 29, 2025 @10:35PM (#46429261)
The AdWords platform is extremely complicated nowadays, and try as I might I can’t get any impressions from it. I then went through a period with an AdWords specialist from their team who also couldn’t get any impressions. It’s like they don’t want or need my money.
Re:Nvidia buying AI chip startup Groq for about $20B on Thursday December 25, 2025 @05:15AM (#46383466)
It’s yet another way for investors to screw early employees whose face doesn’t fit.
Re:Don't Force Your LLM to Write Terse [Q/Kdb] Code: An Information Th... on Monday October 20, 2025 @01:04AM (#45640298)
The bigger issue is that LLMs haven’t had much training on Q as there’s little publically available code. I recently had to try and hack some together and LLMs couldn’t string simple pieces of code together.

It’s a bizarre language.

Re:Ask HN: Abandoned/dead projects you think died before their time an... on Sunday October 12, 2025 @04:05AM (#45556282)
There is some truth in this. I fit into a few of these buckets and I don’t think I could ever recommend their enterprise stuff after having my favourite consumer products pulled.
Re:The AI bubble is 17 times the size of the dot-com frenzy, analyst says on Friday October 03, 2025 @03:29PM (#45466829)
The public markets are hitting all time highs every week. It’s going to be painful if that pops.
Re:Why many young adults turn on TV or movie subtitles, according to a... on Monday September 29, 2025 @03:36AM (#45411210)
This has pretty much ruined TV for me. I watch with a remote control and constantly turn it up and down. It breaks the immersion.
Re:Stripe Launches L1 Blockchain: Tempo on Thursday September 04, 2025 @07:14PM (#45133300)
You are correct but with Venmo or PayPal there’s a middleman charging fees who can lock your funds. A decentralised PayPal is appealing.
Re:AWS CEO says using AI to replace junior staff is 'Dumbest thing I'v... on Friday August 22, 2025 @12:00AM (#44980890)
Try Claude Code. You’ll literally be able to automate 90% of the coding part of your job.
Re:Enough AI Copilots, We Need AI HUDs on Sunday July 27, 2025 @10:01PM (#44706513)
I think there is a third and distinct model which is AI that runs in the background autonomously amd over a long period and pushes things to you.

It can detect situations intelligently, do the filtering, summarisation of what’s happening and possibly a recommendation.

This feels a lot more natural to me, especially in a business context when you want to monitor for 100 situations about thousands of customers.

Re:I've launched 37 products in 5 years and not doing that again on Monday July 21, 2025 @11:21PM (#44642926)
Yeah, I spent some time researching this crowd and most of the ones I found have the playbook of selling to indie hackers and talking about how successful they are with fake MRR screenshots.
Re:Cognition (Devin AI) to Acquire Windsurf on Monday July 14, 2025 @04:36PM (#44564952)
I’ve always dwelled over $5 a month subscriptions for iPhone apps due to subscription fatigue. I find myself signing up for $200 AI subscriptions without a moments hesitation.
Re:OpenAI’s Windsurf deal is off, and Windsurf’s CEO is going to Google on Saturday July 12, 2025 @03:54PM (#44544644)
I do agree, Claude Code absolutely changed the game. It is outstanding.

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