Good question though I expect it'll get buried amongst all the other comments. Maybe create an "Ask HN" post.

I asked Google/Gemini about a tutorial and it responded with several YouTube videos and also produced this subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/AI_Agents/

Found this too: https://nitter.net/bcherny/status/2007179832300581177#m

Thank you. It is always intimidating to see how people are using 5-10 agents for coding, but haven't seen practical examples of the process and how people do this specifically.

Let's see you do it! Do cars and solar panels.

Have you seen what the president of the US posts about renewable energy?

No.

Probably should have linked to the actual report and not a second-hand condensation of it: https://www.quilter.ai/project-speedrun#

That home page is so promotional that it will probably generate (even) worse responses but we can at least put it in the toptext above. Thanks!

Where are the mainstream media stories about this? The article mentioned the story blowing up but a Google search showed only one media outlet covering the story.

Or like any mea culpas. I remember Larry Summers scoffing about this, as well as our very own Walter Bright.

Google AI does a pretty good job of this already:

> I'm on page 750 of Anathem. Please give me a recap.

> You are currently reading the section of the book where the main characters have been launched into orbit aboard a repurposed military rocket and are preparing to board the alien starship, the Daban Urnud.

more recap details follow....

Given different printings and formats for books, I’d be very surprised if asking about a specific page number works reliably at all across books. I don’t even know if epub has page numbers embedded to keep track because the number of words on a page of an ereader is entirely arbitrary. My wife has her kindle in grandma mode or something. Only about 50 words fit on a page.

I would expect much more reliable results from chapter numbers though.

Or were away from the book for a while and are coming back to it. I've read 1000 page books that I just got tired of reading, so put 'em down for a bit to read something else. Anathem by Neal Stephenson comes to mind.

No way anyone wants to hang out at McDonald's. If they're trying to make McDonald's a third space they need to do some remodeling first. Restaurants aren't warm and appealing; they're hard and easy to clean.

The one near me is always full of old people just hanging out. They use it in a similar way to many kids with starbucks, but they speak to each other instead of using laptops.

Then you've probably only been to/worked at McDonald's in the built-up parts of major cities.

McDonald's in the suburbs and more rural areas and smaller cities are quite pleasant. Spacious, clean, just local folks.

If your local McDonald's has a homeless person problem, then all your local fast food franchises do. It's a social services problem, not a McDonald's problem.

Exactly my experience. I've been to a lot of McDonald's everywhere from rural to old inner city, and the difference is Stark. The more rural locations tend to be clean and relatively comfortable and enjoyable to be in. The inner city locations tend to be dirty, crowded, and generally not very pleasant to be in.

And it's not just McDonald's, as you mentioned. I've observed the exact same thing with Wendy's and many other restaurants as well.

There are of course plenty of exceptions. It's perfectly possible to find a dirty uncomfortable restaurant in a rural area, and it's also not difficult to find a nice comfortable place in the inner city. But generally speaking the above is what I have observed most

Thirding this observation. Inner city fast food has been - nearly universally - a horror show since at least 25 years ago when I first experienced it. I expect it will continue to be like that forever. I also suspect with them being allowed to take EBT (since maybe 10-15 years ago?), that provides enough revenue that they won’t pull out of those places completely.

I live in the suburbs, and it's not like this. The entire place smells like feet (???), all the tables are sticky, and there's a constant stream of "beep boop beep boop... bebebebeb"

I suspect you are full of it. I've been to lots of McDonald's locations, and I've rarely seen homeless people inside. Keep in mind I've been everywhere from California to Maine, From Kentucky to Florida to Texas. Nearly every state except the PNW, and I've never seen homeless people sleeping in a McDonald's (McD's used to be my goto with the $1 value menu when traveling). Ordering food? sure. As someone who once worked in fast food, I also know for a fact that management would kick them out, and so would the few dozen police officers in a lot of areas that walk in to get breakfast/coffee.

...Unless you mean Canada of course, however, I bet a well traveled Canadian would say the same thing.

Also, stop vilifying the homeless.

Nobody’s vilifying the homeless. Tons of homeless people are perfectly fine human beings who don’t bother anybody. Unhinged and dirty drug addicts on the other hand, are pretty categorically unpleasant. If you enjoy being around them, you can let them move in with you and then they won’t be homeless anymore.

As others have suggested, you have a narrowly scoped view of the world and the use of McDonalds in it. While my city slicking McDonalds trips are usually not great, for many it’s actually very good.

Photographer and author Chris Arnade has written fairly extensively of his travels around the “forgotten” parts of America, which frequently lands him in McDonald’s stores that do serve as a community third-space, https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/jun/08/mcdonalds-c...

>No way anyone wants to hang out at McDonald's.

My anecdotal experience says they do. So what makes our observations different?

Yeah, it's tough to sell "gather here for warmth" when the chairs feel like they were engineered to speed-run customer turnover

Basically, "Clean with a hose" decor.

Working on in-house software can be satisfying: no marketing BS, work closely with users in developing software that helps them perform their job, rarely have unrealistic schedules or demands.

Yes. Social awkwardness then is not seen as a character flaw but more like a birth defect.