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Making stuff. Mostly with computers. Run a lot. Play some video games. elliotcsmith.com - product/dev/growth/broader stuff Currently Director of Growth at Explorate working on supply chain software.

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03.03.2026 03:14 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Can a Contract Freeze the Law on Autonomous Weapons? – Answer.AI OpenAI claims its contract with the Department of War locks in current laws on autonomous weapons. Based on the contract language OpenAI has shared, 150 years of Supreme Court precedent, and the found...

According to OpenAI, their contract with the US DoW locks in current law, "even if those laws or policies change in the future".

Our legal analysis, with Virgil Law CEO Luke Versweyveld, shows that this is almost certainly incorrect.
www.answer.ai/posts/2026-0...

02.03.2026 20:12 πŸ‘ 60 πŸ” 9 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

It'd be interesting to compare this to other companies that have grown as rapidly. While some of the blame is probably on AI coding I think we'd struggle to find a lot of companies that handled this sort of rapid growth without a bit of down time.

02.03.2026 21:25 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

For real though, this is a good feature.

26.02.2026 02:04 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Continue local sessions from any device with Remote Control - Claude Code Docs Continue a local Claude Code session from your phone, tablet, or any browser using Remote Control. Works with claude.ai/code and the Claude mobile app.

You just know we're hours away from LinkedIn posts about "We saved $100k on our CI/CD pipeline by installing Claude code on our production server and now fix bugs faster than ever via WhatsApp"

code.claude.com/docs/en/remo...

26.02.2026 02:04 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

This annoys me for 2 petty reasons unrelated to toppings.

1. 'overtaken' only makes sense if you are comparing this to the same chart in a previous year
2. Inter generational implies that this is some change in that cohort of people and suggests these same 18-24 year olds will not flip as they age.

18.02.2026 01:37 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This, but for all software. 5 mins to check changes means at most 96 changes a day if you work at 100% efficiency. You either need to be very confident in your changes or willing to accept failure. This applies to tests, manual and automatic as well as reviewing user flows. Speed matters.

31.01.2026 09:19 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Large and in charge? Not a chance. Medium and full of tedium.

30.01.2026 08:30 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I think the first time they did I'd probably be kinda impressed. Only the first time though.

27.01.2026 08:13 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I continue to be baffled by how clunky the Pandas syntax feels. You can do a lot of stuff but it always feels like such a hack. Years and years of using it and I still feels like I am guessing half the time if what I am doing is going to work.

27.01.2026 01:49 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

One thing I wonder about is whether LLMs will result in more or less tiny packages like the famous left-pad.

When it was removed from npm it was 17 lines of code, trivial to implement but previously "not worth the effort"

Is this going to make code supply chains stronger or weaker? Time will tell.

26.01.2026 09:56 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Arrogant Ignorance, the original AI

26.01.2026 08:25 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Knuckles falling in Sonic Blast

22.01.2026 08:08 πŸ‘ 309 πŸ” 19 πŸ’¬ 10 πŸ“Œ 0

*begins intensive interpretative dace in front of a pile of lead*

20.01.2026 23:13 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

works on my machine

20.01.2026 22:33 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Any plans to launch on other platforms (Linux in particular)? Looks slick in any case and will give it a go on my laptop.

20.01.2026 22:30 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

The stumbling block that has led so many weaker men to start podcasts and talk for 4 hours instead of writing words.

20.01.2026 00:41 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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I mean, the dude lives in a trash can. Are we sure this is an accurate statement.

20.01.2026 00:38 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Has AI removed the appeal of vertical SaaS? Let's put aside for a moment the question of 'is AI bad for humanity' and accept that it is a thing that exists in the world. Particularly in the world of 'tool that writes code'. Right now, for circa $200 a month you can
17.01.2026 22:38 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

As of right now what would you say is the 'best' model someone with a reasonably recent GPU could self-host and use with open code? Plus, what delta do you think exists between that model and something like opus 4.5 in terms of day to day code output?

15.01.2026 20:52 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

If you can substitute "hungry ghost trapped in a jar" for "AI" in a sentence it's probably a valid use case for LLMs. Take "I have a bunch of hungry ghosts in jars, they mainly write SQL queries for me". Sure. Reasonable use case.

"My girlfriend is a hungry ghost I trapped in a jar"? No. Deranged.

13.08.2025 00:56 πŸ‘ 2783 πŸ” 678 πŸ’¬ 43 πŸ“Œ 67

I read the same HN comment and imagined cow-ork to be an off brand centaur.

12.01.2026 22:35 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Likely a combination of terrible marketing advice (all content = more SEO) and laziness. I’d even be willing to bet that half of these were never even seen by their authors and just posted by the companies marketing team on their behalf.

12.01.2026 21:41 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

there's vomit stderr already, claude's spaghetti
he's nervous, but assures it's production ready

24.12.2025 11:04 πŸ‘ 144 πŸ” 12 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

who decided to call it Secret Santa when Nondisclosure Claus was right there

01.12.2025 22:55 πŸ‘ 3587 πŸ” 918 πŸ’¬ 26 πŸ“Œ 23

I wish my house had a huge walk

02.12.2025 00:23 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

And once again Valve finds a way to take more of my money.

12.11.2025 21:54 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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GitHub - lmmx/syncdoc: Proc macro to inject docs from external files into Rust code Proc macro to inject docs from external files into Rust code - lmmx/syncdoc

Just made 'mkdocs for Rust' github.com/lmmx/syncdoc

10.11.2025 22:32 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1

I can’t help but feel this whole humanoid robot thing is folks trying to inflate a new bubble before the AI one pops

07.11.2025 22:11 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Reply THINKBOI for my secret ChatGPT prompt to turn that 2000 word think piece into seven instantly postable insights guaranteed to get you engagement.

07.11.2025 10:23 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0