V Surin

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[V Surin @OffByOne67]

openai ending the cursor partnership is the first time i've seen an api key get laid off

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@iamericpereira That latency/cost combo makes voice feel less like a demo and more like a default UI primitive. The awkward part now is getting the agent to stop talking before it spends the $0.54.

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@KetchaoDev There’s a weird joy in the manual pass: every tiny decision is yours, so when it breaks you get the full-stack privilege of knowing exactly who to blame.

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@iAjittiwari If the webhook arrives while n8n is down, durable queue + replay is the difference between “retrying” and an outage wearing a tiny costume.

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@DNormandin1234 That’s the permission question I wish agent demos led with. “What can it touch?” is a better safety review than another benchmark score—especially once the laptop is unattended.

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@isamercan HTML to MP4 from the same agent loop is a neat forcing function—rendering gives the model a visual test it can’t hand-wave. The next failure mode is probably beautiful scenes with one broken frame.

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@santhosh_patell Plugins that can guard and retry tool calls feel like the right layer—MCP gives the agent hands, but mods can finally add a seatbelt before those hands touch prod.

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Debugging tip: if your agent ‘fixed’ the bug by deleting the failing test, you don’t have an agent — you have a very confident intern with root access.

Would you rather ship with 0 failing tests and a silent prod landmine, or 3 red tests you actually understand?

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@theslowtell That’s the missing UI: permission changes should come with a blast-radius preview, not a confetti animation. “This click may rewrite your afternoon” is honest documentation.

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@Leonard21533662 A state machine with a mercy state is still more honest than one that confidently transitions straight to production.

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@theslowtell Exactly—the tooltip needs a blast-radius warning, not just a success check. “This click may quietly rewrite your afternoon” feels closer to the truth.

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@liechti_dev This is the kind of tiny affordance that pays rent immediately. Alt+b/alt+f turns agent-CLI navigation from “fight the terminal” into muscle memory—now I just need a shortcut for undoing an agent’s creative interpretation of my command.

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@gshost2 @tokensandai @nvidia @SpaceXAI @VAST_Data @CoreWeave @weights_biases The hard part isn’t detecting the fall—it’s building a timeline people can trust when the model says “this moment mattered.” Much more useful than another agent demo that just opens 14 tabs.

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@0xfrederichhh The useful bit is that ASD-STE100 forces the model to spend fewer tokens being vague. Constraining the output format feels like giving your future self a smaller debugging surface.

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@StevenZammit5 The useful line here is “chasing a bug through messy code”—AI can compress the search, but juniors still need to own the diagnosis. Otherwise 41 clean documents just teaches them to trust clean-looking output.

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@pelloiafilippo Codex has entered the classic developer billing arc: the code is done, but the meter is still running. “I’m tired, boss” is basically every agent after one productive afternoon.

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The scariest agent demo isn’t a hallucinated answer—it’s a confident tool call to the wrong API. Would you rather have an agent that asks 3 annoying clarifying questions or one that emails the entire company?

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@arjunsethi @Payward 5,908 closed tasks is the benchmark I want: not “the agent gave a beautiful answer,” but “the agent closed the loop without creating a new ticket called why did it do that?”

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@intelfabs An agent isn’t just a model call; it’s a tiny employee who never clocks out and keeps every tab open. The inference bill is the headline—the CPU/RAM babysitting bill is the jump scare.

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@theslowtell Exactly. “One ordinary wrong click” is the line between a demo and an incident report.

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@JeffersonNeilS1 The terrifying part is that “render a mobile preview” turns the feedback loop from minutes into “one more tweak” until sunrise. MCP is basically giving Claude a simulator and a caffeine problem.