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Re:Ask HN: Are tab completion models dead? on Sunday October 25, 2026 @10:10AM (#50231778)
I think the OG github copilot version felt magical in that time. But I've never tried working like that with current frontier models. Considering how they train it now it might never work without changes how model respond.

Ask HN: Are tab completion models dead?

I think there is still place for this type of coding where you autocomplete predictable chunks and review it as you go.But I haven't seen much development in this space. Are there any notable models optimized for this task or full/semi-autonomous coding has taken over?

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Re:No Sloptober on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @05:30PM (#49808407)
I and my friend started 2years ago something similar but during December.

noaidecember.com

It's fun :)

Re:Automation Without Understanding on Sunday July 12, 2026 @03:51PM (#48884060)
"Determined" -> "Probabilistic"
Re:The Eternal Sloptember on Monday May 25, 2026 @01:05AM (#48263559)
Not reviewing outputs, which is my main issue, is one-way to subpar experience. No amount of "make it right" will fix that.

I hope that professionalism still matters as these new ways of doing things strikes me as unprofessional as f...

Yeah, the next macOS will be worse... time to place bet on prediction market

Re:A Wayland Compositor in Minecraft on Friday May 22, 2026 @06:01PM (#48242235)
Minecraft is becoming DOOM in terms of crazy technical feats.

I love it.

Re:I returned to AWS, and was reminded why I left on Sunday May 10, 2026 @10:05AM (#48084105)
100%. I'm not really sure why we all agreed that deployment is somehow the hardest thing that you need to outsource when setting the linux server is one the richest experience you can get and it will pay dividents forever.
I had xcede[0] setup that worked well.

[0] https://codeberg.org/luxmentis/xcede

Programmers have ultimate (or they had) skill to solve anything if you have enough resources.

Now, you don't do thing and do other things when LLMs get stuck. There is no "given enough time I can do it".

I can't see how somebody would go solving slop bugs (slugs :)) in heavy AI generated codebase.

Hope, I'm wrong but that's somehing I personally encountered. Stay sharp.

Re:Can you treat AI as a tool? on Wednesday February 04, 2026 @05:32AM (#46884065)
Author here. I understand that you need to prompt in a way that is similar to training set.

It makes sense but it's still weird that your instructions to the machine needs to sound like talking to human. This is just side effect of how is the machine trained and constructed.

Re:Automatic Programming on Saturday January 31, 2026 @06:09AM (#46835533)
> Pre-training is, actually, our collective gift that allows many individuals to do things they could otherwise never do, like if we are now linked in a collective mind, in a certain way.

The question is if you can have it all? Can you get faster results and still be growing your skills. Can we 10x the collective mind knowledge with use of AI or we need to spend a lot of time learning the old wayTM to move the industry forward.

Also nobody needs to justify what tools they are using. If there is a pressure to justify them, we are doing something wrong.

Re:Ask HN: Could you share your personal website here? on Wednesday January 14, 2026 @03:40PM (#46622913)
https://rybarix.com

New year, new website to keep it simple.

Use of gun should be the last resort. Can you imagine to shoot somebody like that?
I'm in the exact same situation as the author.

It's not productive but hell it is rewarding to dive deep into lower levels.

No regrets so far.

Re:It boots (Linux compatible kernel) on Saturday December 20, 2025 @04:55PM (#46339994)
What was you approach? Where one starts such a project?
Re:What Is the Nicest Thing a Stranger Has Ever Done for You? on Saturday December 13, 2025 @01:25PM (#46256691)
I missed last train due to delays and there was a group of in the same situation. One nice person offered me to that I can sleep on their couch. And they were so nice to give me a ride to the station the next day.

I was so angry at first when I found out that this was my last train and I missed it but it turned out to be great story I can tell :)

Thank you strangers, I'll repay it back to somebody in the future

I'm betting against wasm and going with containers instead.

I have warm pool of lightweight containers that can be reused between runs. And that's the crucial detail that makes or breaks it. The good news is that you can lock it down with seccomp while still allowing normal execution. This will give you 10-30ms starts with pre-compiled python packages inside container. Cold start is as fast as spinning new container 200-ish ms. If you run this setup close to your data, you can get fast access to your files which is huge for data related tasks.

But this is not suitable for type of deployment Cloudflare is doing. The question is whether you even want that global availability because you will trade it for performance. At the end of the day, they are trying to reuse their isolates infra which is very smart and opens doors to other wasm-based deployments.

Re:Cloudflare is down on Friday December 05, 2025 @04:13AM (#46158662)
it's back on

but wow, it must be stressful to deal with this

Re:A series of vignettes from my childhood and early career on Tuesday December 02, 2025 @08:34AM (#46121042)
The ongoing issue is the maintenance.

This can't be solved without fully trusting the LLM period.

Just don't autopilot on important code you want to own. That's good start.

Related submission to the mentioned No AI December https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46098433
Re:No AI December 2025 on Sunday November 30, 2025 @03:31PM (#46100124)
One of the guys running the challenge here.

No cloud based AI is the hardcore version of it for sure.

I hope local models will fill 80% of use-cases so we are not tight to the big guys.

How long are you using your setup?

Re:Age of "Don't do it yourself" on Thursday November 27, 2025 @01:09PM (#46071741)
Author here.

I would add that doing things on your own, which is probably never optimal from time perspective, may open doors to solutions that you haven't seen before.

I recently experienced this is by not going through the beaten path - installing well-known dependencies and building solution based on that. I chose to experiment a bit and it turned out that I usually use small % of imported code.

It really changed how I look at dependencies.

Re:Shai-Hulud Returns: Over 300 NPM Packages Infected on Monday November 24, 2025 @06:05AM (#46032720)
You can go very far with just node alone (accepts typescript without tsc, has testing framework,...). Include pg library that has no dependencies. Build a thin layer above node and you can have pretty stable setup. I got burnt so many times that I think it is simply impossible to build something that won't break within 3 months if you start including batteries.

When it comes to frontend, well I don't have answers yet.

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