Is it all just vapourware?

Maybe I’m just too cynical but it’s really starting to feel like more or less all of this new “AI”/agent software is vapourware. I’ve been trying to take this whole “agentic development” thing seriously and there is just so much friction in this ecosystem it’s absolutely insane. It’s very clear that all this stuff is … Devamını oku

How I use LLMs to learn complex topics

Many engineers I know use generative AI for many functions, like building PoCs, internal tools or dashboards, or even learning new stuff. I personally find the style used by LLMs to explain things difficult to follow. It’s just too simplistic and depending on the number of emojis used, a bit annoying too. While I was … Devamını oku

Saying No

I’m reading a book calledThe Coaching Habitso I can coach my team better and specifically make my 1:1s with them more productive. While reading, I came across a quote by Peter Block who defines an adult-to-adult relationship as one in which you are able to ask for what you want, knowing that the answer may … Devamını oku

OpenChamber: An Agentic Development Environment

Set a finish line. The agent keeps working toward it, turn after turn — even with the app closed. Run one task across up to five models. Keep the best result, or fuse the strongest parts. A large diff, grouped into ordered steps that explain how the change fits together. Point at an element in … Devamını oku

Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)

https://tokenpony.dev/It has a few potentially interesting side effects:- enterprises can plug their preferred LLM into the SaaS they use.- self hosters can extend their rigs into the web.- simple SaaS products can offer LLM integrations without their entire pricing model being upended by LLM hosting and infrastructure.- we can all live like Ender in Xenocide … Devamını oku

Mea Culpa – Dark Hours

Last week I launched a project called Dark Hours, which was a website utility to give you an idea of what could be seen in the sky that night. A developer who created another web app calledDarkHours.appreplied to my comment on Bluesky yesterday to show me how similar the project was to his, including the … Devamını oku

Show HN: DeepSeek-V4 Latent Reasoning – moving “thinking” into latent space

No comments yet.Be the first to comment. DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731-Latent-Reasoning. A self-contained model that does thinking in latent space, NVFP4-quantized, with a production vllm form for serving runtime. https://huggingface.co/nmitchko/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731-Latent-Reasoning Last time I grafted aCoLaR head(Compressed Latent Reasoning) onto DeepSeek Flash v4. The work had all the makings of a demo. A head that lets the model think … Devamını oku