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MiniMax M3 on AI Gateway
MiniMax M3 is now available on .Vercel AI Gateway M3 is MiniMax's first model with a 1M-token context window and native multimodality, built around MiniMax Sparse Attention (MSA). M3 improves on software engineering, terminal-based tool use, and agentic web browsing, and is tuned for multi-turn collaboration. To use MiniMax M3, set model to in the .minimax/minimax-m3AI SDK Pass an image alongside a prompt to use M3's multimodal input: AI Gateway provides a unified API for calling models, tracki
Please Do Not Vibe Fuck Up This Software
Article URL: https://github.com/RsyncProject/rsync/issues/929 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48342705 Points: 448 # Comments: 395
Context graphs: when nearest-neighbor search isn't enough
Your retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipeline works well on simple questions. You embedded your documents, built a vector index, and retrieval does its job. Then someone asks something that requires distributed facts, and the whole thing falls ap...
AI Can Introduce Complexity Without Introducing Noise — But Only If the Repo Knows How to Hold the Complexity
One of the things I keep thinking about with AI-assisted development is that the conversation around AI coding is often backwards. A lot of people talk about AI as if the goal is to hand it a vision and let it materialize the finished thing. Describe the app, describe the feature, describe the experience, and then let the agent build it. But I don’t think that is what most serious builders actually want. If you are designing software, you are not just asking for “an app.” You are deciding how a
🛠️Building My First AI Agent with Hermes Agent 🤖
*This is a submission for the [Hermes Agent Challenge] When I first heard about agentic AI systems, I imagined something much more capable than a traditional chatbot. A chatbot answers questions. An AI agent plans, reasons, uses tools, and works toward a goal. That idea led me to explore Hermes Agent and build my first autonomous AI project: Hermes Commander. As someone interested in AI, prompt engineering, and autonomous systems, I wanted to understand how modern AI agents actually work. Most t
I Built a Flutter App with Firebase + MercadoPago and Turned It Into a Starter Kit (Real Production Code)
Most Flutter tutorials show you how to build a todo app. This is not that. Flutter (Dart) — cross-platform mobile Why MercadoPago and not Stripe? Flutter devs building for the Latin American market Get it [email protected]
Hermes Commander: An Autonomous Research Assistant Powered by Hermes Agent 🧠
*This is a submission for the [Hermes Agent Challenge] Hermes Commander is my first AI agent project built using Hermes Agent. The goal of this project was to explore how an AI agent can go beyond simple question-answering and perform structured tasks using tools. Hermes Commander acts as an autonomous research assistant that can understand requests, create research plans, access available tools, and organize workflows. As someone interested in AI, prompt engineering, and research, I wanted to b
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