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New ask Hacker News story: Codex's precision and attention to detail is *crazy* when set up correctly

Codex's precision and attention to detail is *crazy* when set up correctly 3 by ditchfieldcaleb | 2 comments on Hacker News. Lately I've been working on a Tower Defense game with Codex, in part to learn how game development works and in part to see how far I can get using just Codex, no manual coding at all. I've got my AGENTS md & my CODESTYLE md & six other ALLCAPS md files etc, and am working on some refactoring to keep the codebase clean & file sizes low, etc. And then I see this in the ExecPlan for my latest refactor: --- # Observations - Observation: The refactor made the screenshots pixel-identical after the baseline was recaptured correctly. Evidence: sha256sum screenshots/before-implementation-x.png screenshots/after-implementation-x.png reported matching hashes for before/after pairs 1, 2, and 3. --- Which is crazy! I've never told Codex to do an sha compare on before/after screenshots of the app, but I do have instructions in my PLANS.md to...
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New ask Hacker News story: .de TLD Issue Solved

.de TLD Issue Solved 3 by kaltsturm | 0 comments on Hacker News. works again with chrome
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New ask Hacker News story: How do you and your partner decide what to do on date nights?

How do you and your partner decide what to do on date nights? 3 by meashik | 1 comments on Hacker News.
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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Is there a term for feeling sad about forced AI adoption?

Ask HN: Is there a term for feeling sad about forced AI adoption? 9 by ge96 | 6 comments on Hacker News. I feel like I don't have a choice to accept it. If I want to keep my job I need to use it. I felt pride in making things with code but now that you can just type in words into a prompt and code comes out, it just feels empty now. There's no joy in writing code anymore doing this. I know for my personal hobbies I can do that... I need money is the thing, I can't walk away yet but I think I will if this is how every job will be. I'm not denying its capability it's like today I need to make a bluetooth android app that can do HFP today, NOW. I can't do that with my current knowledge but AI can... and anybody who can type can use it so why am I needed kind of thing. So yeah right now my plan is to coast using these tools, do the things I enjoy to do then make enough money to get out. I'll write my own code for my own fun. I've been a developer/writing ...
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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Best Embedding Models?

Ask HN: Best Embedding Models? 5 by devstein | 1 comments on Hacker News. Hey HN, which embedding models are people using? There has been so much development around foundational LLMs, but haven't seen much news about embedding models.
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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Where are you getting your AI news from?

Ask HN: Where are you getting your AI news from? 2 by baetylus | 0 comments on Hacker News. Besides Hacker News, I'm wondering where people are finding good sources of AI progression and news. Of course I can read arxiv and such, but wondering what folks have going for them!
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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: When did you move from AI agentic loops to simpler deterministic system?

Ask HN: When did you move from AI agentic loops to simpler deterministic system? 6 by laxmena | 1 comments on Hacker News. Industry is increasingly moving towards complex, autonomous agentic loops and feedback chains. They obviously comes with significant latency, non-determinism, low-accuracy and cost. I'm interested in hearing from engineers who have moved in the opposite direction. At what point in your product lifecycle did you decide that agentic approach was wrong tool for the job? What was the specific failure mode (reliability, cost, latency, maintainability) pushed you to replace agentic loop with more deterministic system/pipeline?
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