sbene970's comments

On: A layoff fundamentally changed how I perceive work

[sbene970]

This can be generalized to life in many situations in my experience.

E.g. replace "company" in the quoted statement by "nation"/"religious organization"/"political party" etc.

On: Thank HN: My bootstrapped startup got acquired today

[sbene970]

Almost! It's 'firefoxd' vs 'foxfired', lol

Edit: Ah no, you're right, seems he made a second account.

On: Uv's killer feature is making ad-hoc environments easy

[sbene970]

I've started a repo with some of these scripts, the most recent one being my favorite: a wrapper for Microsoft AutoGen's very recent Magentic-1, a generalist LLM-Multi-Agent-System. It can use the python code, the CLI, a browser (Playwright) and the file system to complete tasks.

A simple example a came across is having to rename some files:

1. you just open the shell in the location you want

2. and run this command:

uv run https://raw.githubusercontent.com/SimonB97/MOS/main/AITaskRu... "check the contents of the .md files in the working dir and structure them in folders"

There's a link to Magentic-1 docs and further info in the repo: https://github.com/SimonB97/MOS/tree/main/AITaskRunner (plus two other simple scripts).

On: I made $100K from a dick joke

[sbene970]

> It's very silly to invest $billions in brand awareness and building market share, if your product is junk and customers will eventually find out. Marketing spend could be seen as the "peacock's tail" of the business world -- a credible signal that the company stands by their product.

Interesting, never thought about it that way. I often find that obviously expensive advertising lowers my expectations in the product and especially in the price performance ratio, since I can't stop thinking about having to pay for the advertising too, not just the actual product/service I want. Which I don't want to.