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You should try Mirror. The LLM-powered programming-by-example programming language I made:

signature is_even(x: number) -> bool

example is_even(0) -> true

example is_even(1) -> false

example is_even(222) -> true

example is_even(-99) -> false

It will take your examples and "compile" to a callable function. You can read more or try it out: https://austinhenley.com/blog/mirrorlang.html


So many agent tools now. What is the special sauce of each?


Gemini has 1 Million context window, which usually works better for coding.

When it gets priced, it's usually cheaper (for the same capability)


The whole "industry" right now is hacked together crap shoved out the door with zero thinking involved.

Wait a year or two, evaluating this stuff at the peak of the hype cycle is pointless.


Spoiler alert: there isn't one


Context Window and Pricing absolutely matters


But many "agentic" tools are model-agnostic. The question is about what the tool itself is doing.


Looks like their GitHub Copilot Workspace.

https://githubnext.com/projects/copilot-workspace


This is beautiful. I think I'll add a similar page to my website. Side projects are what I look forward to!

Right now, I just have my blog + github as a messy portfolio of personal projects, but I like this much better.


Go for it! I love creating list sites, so I listed my side projects too. xD


If you had a blog or YouTube channel where you just went around to open source projects optimizing them down, I’d be very interested.


Objectively the best podcast. https://www.acquired.fm/


Previous discussion from 2023: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38262251

Recent discussion on the follow-up, "The Fifth Kind of Optimisation": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43555311



Fairly small change, just some changes to the initial piece placement.

“All Kings, Rooks, Pawns are in their original locations as chess but other pieces are placed randomly in their first and last ranks, with no symmetry requirement between two sides, with the only restriction for bishops of each side must be on different colored squares.”


so the knights and bishops can swap places?


I've been trying to get approval from Google for the sensitive scopes to use IMAP, and they classified us as needing "CASA Tier 3 Security Assessment". It looks like it is going to be a long, tedious, opaque, and expensive process.


What are you building?


An email client for Gmail.


Interesting. I take it you've seen Notion's new product?

Are you aiming to directly compete with Notion/Superhuman?

Edit: I see you're an academic, perhaps my questions are irrelevant


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