mackenziebowes

I ask ChatGPT o3 for “how do I” primers on new concepts then use my cmd+i keybind in vs code whenever I forget syntax for doing something like Object.entries(map.entries()).map().

I feel like it’s pretty low tech, but I’m very happy with it. I’m getting exposure to new concepts in a very low friction way and sailing through tasks in a satisfying way.

I think coding agents are… not quite a psyop, but a marketing egregore designed to sell as many tokens as possible to non technical folks. I often don’t get what I ask for or things I’m embarrassed to put my name on when I let an agent do it’s thing.

I do load up the Claude Code CLI for documenting my stuff when I’m done, my backlog has a todo that’s basically using Block’s Goose + local R1 for that kind of thing because it’s a non-interactive batch job.

Most startups are massively over capexed, yea.

I think it’s still reasonable for solo devs or polymaths to shoot for solving small $5-$10/mo problems. Finding 1000 folks for $10/mo out of all 1,000,000,000 in anglosphere countries seems not hard, it just doesn’t make you a millionaire or afford staff.

You can forward user keys to OpenAI on behalf of a user as a dev.

Maybe there’s a world where it’s like bring your own keys and pay $3-$5 for my UX work and could rental delivering that to you.

I also see a world where web app devs shift to distributing free self hosted versions of products; new tools like CLAY make transitioning from web dev UI to local GUI pretty easy :)

Some more Show HNs have come in behind me that are links to full web apps with paywalls

Commenting to confirm prehop that CTQL is fully FOSS, please fork it for your own devices :)

Trying not to be sneering here; most consumers consider this to be offensively difficult compared to the traditional app store experience - I had to do a lot of guides and handholding to get my PWA installed. But, Yea, true for us computer expert guys.

Handsome site, but doesn't seem very active sadly.

PWAs really struggle with distribution - it comes down to the PWA maker (or team) having enough charisma, alignment, and budget to get people to follow the kind of arcane instructions for installing each unique PWA.

I can't be certain, I'm not at all an AI engineer or math guy, but I think at the "wake up" point you equalize instances. Like during 'sleep' some list of functions/operations `m` are applied to model weights `n` producing a new model, `n + 1`. Wouldn't you just clone `n + 1`, send it to work, and start a new training run `m + 1` to make `n + 2`?

Web Apps & PWAs :) There's a lot you can do to optimize offline PWA use.

The cool thing about AI that I'm seeing as an outsider/non-academic, is that it's relatively cheap to clone. Sleeping/resting could be done by a "clone" and benefits could be distributed on a rolling schedule, right?

I'm frustrated that they named it SEAL when SAL is both more accurate and anthropomorphic. Naming the main takeoff technology after a stereotypical swarthy Reuben lover would have made history much more delightful.