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The AI ran his logging tool locally and routed around an encoding wall with a proxy

Set the AI the task of running Parseable locally against another of his apps; it worked around a protobuf limitation by running a proxy, he switched his stack to JSON and got it running.

How it works

  1. He sets the AI the task of running the tool locally against another of his apps
  2. It works around a format limitation by running a proxy
  3. He switches his stack to the simpler format

Why it’s worth knowing

The workaround taught him the better design: drop the format.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on news.ycombinator.com. See the original ↗

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