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Re:Guiding AI writing to make technical text easier to review on Thursday September 10, 2026 @08:16PM (#49651880)
True, that's exactly how startups are, even before AI. It's not until they start getting big that they realize that they need to invest some time and create some processes to help them save time in the future
Re:Show HN: What if the speed of light was 5 km/h? on Thursday September 10, 2026 @12:18PM (#49646251)
So when we think we're looking at Andromeda today, we're actually seeing Andromeda as it happened 2.5 million years ago. That means someone/something? in Andromeda today, with the ability to see Earth clearly, would see some of our ancestors, like Homo habilis. I've always wondered, if we end up being able to travel faster than light, we'd technically be able to look into the past depending on how far we go. 1000 light years away and you can see your ancestors on earth.
Re:Guiding AI writing to make technical text easier to review on Thursday September 10, 2026 @09:27AM (#49643380)
The problem is that a lot of people who use agents to code nowadays, or Vibe coders, did not start from traditional engineering organizations, so they have no idea what best practices are in DevOps. Personally, I have a rule in every one of my tickets to update documentation when done. Ever so often, I would ask an agent to audit all the changes that have happened since the last audit, compare with the technical documentation and update whatever is stale. And occasionally, I would just have an agent do a pass and tighten the language, remove redundancies, and fine-tune it for human reading or agent reading.
Break out implies that the agents are bound by the sandboxes. Are they really?
Re:Uber allies with driver unions in bid to slow robotaxi rollout on Thursday September 03, 2026 @01:48AM (#49546360)
In 3 years Robotaxi allies with Uber to slow Hovercar rollout In 7 years Hovercar allies with Robotaxi to slow teleportation pods rollout
AI companies would lobby hard against such a law
And they all have the same tone, same inflection
Re:Apple Joins Google in Renaming Lake Ontario to "Lake America" on Wednesday September 02, 2026 @07:39AM (#49534807)
Isn't there an international process to these things? Shouldn't google and apple be following that process?
Re:Show HN: Open-Source Local Whisper Flow Alternative on Wednesday September 02, 2026 @07:38AM (#49534797)
Working good so far. It's slower than wispr flow
Re:Show HN: Open-Source Local Whisper Flow Alternative on Saturday August 29, 2026 @04:55PM (#49493261)
I like the concept. If it's truly offline, does it use AI? Do users have to download a local model?