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Thank you for taking your time to explain this in such a detail, greatly appreciated!
I was talking about
https://adrs.systems/screens/extension-open-questions.png .
Indeed, the acronym ADR is extremely confusing for everyone knowing Architecture Decision Records.
Obviously i (and many others) misunderstood and so, my comment is moot.
I think I see what happens with any new idea. You thought ADRs are important and now the agent produces piles of non-ADRs labeled as ADRs, which are really just some design decision, requirements, etc.
From your screenshot alone I can tell that those are not architecture decision records on the left side.
Ask yourself the question for each: is this truly an architecture decision or merely some design decision or requirement that now got some option a/b/c slapped onto it?
In the end you will just have a repo with hundreds of meaningless ADRs that your agent has to wade through.
And you think this is going to work so well, when Chinese Models and Chinese Hardware dominate the price-to-performance ratio by an order of magnitude?
Not sure about that. US may try to hide behind regulations and lose the market.
EU couldn't care less if US or China is the evil partner (and hopefully will just stand on its own, even with help of some open source models, for example).
That does not matter so much anymore, when Huawei starts selling those NPUs for a fraction of the NVIDIA price. It's all downhill from there on for OpenAI, Anthropic and NVIDIA.
As a developer myself i hear this so often. Yes, it's (probably) your job on the line as well, BUT everybody nowadays
can be a developer.
Maybe, don't call it developer. Everybody nowadays can built some software that fulfills some need (or just for fun). It's actually something good, isn't it?
Would you mind, if you could suddenly, over night, be a carpenter, a watch maker or glassblower?
Posted by
buster on Friday September 11, 2026 @06:47AM
from the show-hn dept.
https://crates.io/crates/watn
Hi everyone,as I spent a substantial amount of time in the console, even today, i sometimes need to think of some complex combination of git/find/ffmpeg/xargs and friends and so i've been using https://github.com/kagisearch/ask for some time.Since it appears to be unmaintained i started my own version (yes, thanks to some LLMs work) and i am quite happy with it.
It appears to have gained a lot...
Posted by
buster on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @02:49AM
from the show-hn dept.
https://github.com/buster/watn
When trying to figure out some complex shell command (What's the actual incantation of the git command, find or ffmpeg for my usecase?),
i used to use https://github.com/kagisearch/ask for some time, which seems to be unmaintained.
Also it tied to openrouter and some predefined model list.
So i set out to build a better version.In the end, the new implementation added some new (maybe unique)...
It's one of the greatest stories of all time directed by Nolan. CGI or not, whatever.
+1 for Ente. Replaced Google photos for me
Is it fair when the one is heavily subsidized and the other one is not?
I think it's most fair to compare the plain token pricing that is used by everyone.
No it's probably the most important idea.
> Forget maintaining stability, AI is a downright destabilizer. It worsens understandability, fixability, debuggability, teachability, guaranteability, all the bloody bilities.
This is just an assumption and the whole article falls flat if this turns out to be wrong.
In my limited (as everyone else's) experience, working with agentic AI needs good documentation, good specification (spec driven, you know it's all the hype nowadays). Those alone lead to much improvement. Now take into account that probably your senior dev also has more time to think about the big picture, to improve all those little things that were a nuisance in the past but now are a mere "Claude, fix that" in a worktree away.. I would not bet on the assumption of this article.
I am not questioning the benchmark.
But the benchmark is NOT measuring a real world application in a real world setting.
Anyway, I am merely wondering IF there is a company out there affected, at all.
I understand that this was only measured on a graviton 4 setting with very heavy lifting, without huge tables.
For example, this issue aside, I'd rather split such a workload into multiple smaller instances, naturally. Because the impact of a crash on this single node, heavy load, many cores, many clients scenario would be huge.
I'd rather like to know if any real world usage broke, before coming to the conclusion that an edge case synthetic benchmark is worth changing the kernel (back or wherever) where supposedly the change that broke the benchmark had real world benefits.
Since we will never know it might be a good idea to feature gate the change, change the default and let users decide to change it back.
This may give some feedback on the lkml or else to decide if the change is worthwhile?
Posted by
buster on Tuesday April 21, 2026 @01:21PM
from the twitter.com dept.
He said "enterprises" not "competent programmers".
I'm using fman, which is like a lightweight graphical alternative to mc.
I recently had to switch to macos for work and Jesus Christ is this not the pinnacle of engineering. Sure, I'm accustomed to my self configured Linux desktop but boy is Mac OS slow to use and hard to configure.
And so keyboard unfriendly.
You hopefully know thats not true. But it's a matter of quality goals. Need absolute robustness? Prioritize it and build it. Need speed and be first to market? Prioritize and build it.
You can do both in an agile way. Many would argue that you won't be as fast in a non-agile way. There is no bullet point in the agile manifest saying to build unreliable software.
May be I don't understand but I can see that I press a short cut and can connect via ssh, right?
Either you included your own ssh client (battery included and such) and you'll forever be chasing the features your customers are missing from their client or you just launch the standard ssh client (or psql or whatever) but then, what's the benefit as opposed to some shell configuration?
Genuinely asking, maybe I missed it from the first glance or maybe you could include that on the front page..
I don't understand all the hate about ente, to be honest.
Ente seems to try to solve the big tech lock in with their apps.
Personally, i'm a very happy Ente Photos user, so what's the problem with Ensu?
It's available on desktops and mobile, it's an app trying to give all a little bit more privacy and freedom and yet most comments are just hating on it.
If you can vibe code Ensu in a week end, please do. Make a better clone if you want to, but don't hate on someone for their work for stupid reasons.
What do you when you say defunct photos platform?
Keep in mind that kagi offers a wide range of models, not just one. I wouldn't want to have multiple subscriptions (for chatgpt, anthropic, gemini etc.)
As far as I know sqlite has such tests and probably others.
But that's not what is in the whole context. The whole context contains a lot of noise and false "thoughts".
What the AI needs to do is to document the software project in an efficient manner without duplication. That's not what this tool is doing.
I question the value in storing all the crap in git.
May be the point is, that the one engineer replaces 10 engineers by using the dark factory which by definition doesn't need humans.
That or the Kagi Browser... Waiting for a Linux release.
Sounds amazing, but i would rather be able to run the database locally and use the same in dev as in production. Is this possible?
