News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

wehadit

Why not get it 1st time right before it's sent to the Sr. Devs?

Granted AI creates sloppy code, but there are ways to make it Sr. Dev grade, mainly by getting rid of what I call Builder's Debt: - iterate the shit out of it to make it production grade OR - extract ACs from Jira, requirements from docs, decisions and query resolutions from Slack, emails, meeting notes, stitch them together, design coding standards relevant to the requirements and context before coding

Re:How to run Qwen 3.5 locally on Thursday March 12, 2026 @04:37PM (#47356722)
If you use the models like we execute coding tasks, older models outperform latest models. There's this prep tax that happens even before we start coding, i.e., extract requirements from tools, context from code, comments and decisions from conversations, ACs from Jira/Notion, stitch them together, design tailored coding standards and then code. If you automate the prep tax, the generated code is close to production ready code and may require 1-2 iterations max. I gave it a try and compared the results and found the output to be 92% accurate while same done on Claude Code gave 68% accuracy. Prep tax is the cue here
Thank you will have a look

Stop Blaming Embeddings, Most RAG Failures Come from Bad Chunking

Everyone keeps arguing about embeddings, vector DBs, and model choice, but in real systems, those aren’t the things breaking retrieval. Chunking drift is. And almost nobody monitors it. A tiny formatting change in a PDF or HTML file silently shifts boundaries. Overlaps become inconsistent. Semantic units get split mid-thought. Headings flatten. Cross-format differences explode. By the time...

( Read More... | 3 comments | 2 points | on HN )
That's another way to look at it. Getting AI to reliable and accurate output is where we feel there are steps that'll need better structure, like for Ingesting and chunking strategies.

Most Agentic AI failures I've debugged turned out to be ingestion drift

Over the last few months, we’ve been working on creating an autonomous Agentic AI, and something unexpected kept showing up. I went in thinking the issues were with embeddings or the retriever, but the root cause was usually ingestion drifting upstream.Some patterns that kept repeating: • PDFs extracting differently after a small template or export tool change • headings collapsing or shifting...

( Read More... | 2 comments | 2 points | on HN )

Is generation of reliable tailored code helpful?

Hey devs, I am building an agentic AI to be the AI tool for developers. I was wondering if it'll be helpful if the agentic AI generates the 1st working ver of app in one prompt with re-usable code that is tailored to project specs from Figma/Motiff, Postman or requirements docs. Additionally, what if the agentic AI also helps with elevating coding skills on every project, does code review,...

( Read More... | no comments | on HN )

We need more than AI auto complete to do what matters most

The reality is that since the 90s, we've all gone from spending 70% of our time on things we enjoy to 30%. This shift is due to info overload, multitude of apps and processes creating mundane tasks a necessity or 40% of our life. At 9 to 5 is now such a phased out term that it irks people , it's since we struggle to make time for things we enjoy. The same has happened on our personal lives as...

( Read More... | no comments | on HN )