This part. And Andrej even mentioned he uses medium! I wonder what went into the prompt that prompted the agent to dig deep. Mine seems to stop at very mediocre results fairly consistently and then I just reprompt it a couple of times and it does some back and forth contradicting itself.
I have projects and I made real apps using only LLMs, but it feels tedious. Definitely not a 2 hour thing. And definitely not magical and smooth sadly :(
I've done similar work simply by giving a model a database of text, and asking it to do a unit of work for every passage. "Checking for spam" would be the model checking surrounding messages and user's history, likely an opinionated verdict, but would work. Difficulty comes in when those units of work become complex or have to work in tandem, which isn't the case here.
> HackerTube was built by Claude Opus 5.5, Anthropic's AI model, working in Claude Code: the data pipeline, the search and recommendations, and this site.
however I still get the same issues with sol getting more apologetic and is more likely to stop working when i tell it is wrong, instead of fixing course and trudging ahead.