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Show HN: Dumped Wix for an AI Edge agent so I never have to hire junior staff 6 by axotopia | 2 comments on Hacker News. I run a building design consultancy. I got tired of paying Wix $40/month for a brochure that couldn’t answer simple service questions, and me wasting hours on the same FAQs. So I killed it all and spent 4 months building a 'talker': https://axoworks.com The stack is completely duct-taped: Netlify’s 10s serverless timeout forced me to split the agent into three pieces: Brain (Edge), Hands (Browser), and Voice (Edge). I haven’t coded in 30 years. This was 3 steps forward, 2 steps back, heavily guided by AI. The fight that proved it worked: 2 weeks ago, a licensed architect attacked the bot, trying to prove my business model harms the profession. The AI (DeepSeek-R3) completely dismantled his arguments. It was hilariously caustic. Log: https://ift.tt/4htj59E... A few battle scars: * Web Speech API works fine, right up until someone speaks Chinese without togg...

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If you thought the code writing speed was your problem; you have bigger problems 138 by mooreds | 69 comments on Hacker News.

GPT‑5.4 Mini and Nano 65 by meetpateltech | 26 comments on Hacker News.

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In Memoriam: John W. Addison, my PhD advisor 9 by herodotus | 0 comments on Hacker News.