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Re:Warp builds self-improving agents on Claude on Saturday August 29, 2026 @08:05PM (#49494423)
I tried this and after being unhappy about how much longer the agent seemed to take, I wonder if there’s some tradeoff between a model’s performance (and task cost) and the amount of principles / rules you’ve invoked so far in the session
Re:Show HN: Design Engineering, as a Service on Monday August 10, 2026 @12:38PM (#49246108)
Just fyi the rquest availability button is a smaller grey button that shows its misfit with the background (on iPhone 16) You might want to have a look
i think people say that thinking that only training to produce the next likely word would end up producing some local minimum word that generally fits but doesn't actually lead to intelligent thought.

that feels like a misunderstanding of how the loss function behaves when used within a sequence

What's this one? Fable or Sol?
Re:Prove You Are a Robot: CAPTCHAs for Agents on Sunday April 19, 2026 @07:06PM (#47828523)
Is it even possible to have an inverse captcha without time bounds?

Humans can use agents behind the scenes to crack it, right?

Re:The worst volume control UI in the world on Friday March 20, 2026 @06:35PM (#47461660)
I feel like that one’s actually pretty good, why should the ear calibrate to the device when it can be vice versa?
this is a great thread

it’s hard to isolate the effect size of policy, covid happened, car weights changed, policing may have decreased, US drivers may have driven differently, population size, etc.

I want to learn more about “it did not work in the us… excess deaths”

Do you have a link handy for this?