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LLMs make it really trivial to work with MermaidJS. Just yesterday I used it to sketch out some business logic. Seeing the whole flowchart like that helped me catch some corner cases.


Which cheap LLMs are good for Mermaid, and to sketch graphs from code? I had to switch between the cheap LLMs and "tutor" them a bit to edit Mermaid in a Markdown file, although Claude seems perfect.


Would be interested to know what drawbacks you found with Dagster or Prefect.


Prefect is amazing. Built out an ETL pipeline system with it at last job and would love to get it incorporated in the current one, but unfortunately have a lot of legacy stuff in Airflow. Being able to debug stuff locally was amazing and super clean integration with K8S.


Other guy said it right. These work and are fine but you lose the legacy stuff. If you know your limits and where the eventual system will end up it's great and probably better.

If you are building a expandable long term system and you want all the goodies baked in choose airflow.

Pretty much the same as any architecture choice. Ugly/hard often means control and features, pretty/easy means less of both.

On the surface the differences are not very noticable other than the learning curve of getting started.


Anyone compare this with BrowserUse ?

https://browser-use.com/


I think the use cases are slightly different between for the two. The playwright MCP depends on the mcp server (like claude desktop or cursor) to provide the intelligence, while browser-use can "think" by itself. Plus it seems that unless you use the vision mode, you are kind of restricted to the accessibility tree, which may not be present or well populated depending on the website you're using. This also means that it won't really work as well with stuff like cursor/windsurf since they don't really process images from MCPs right now.

I'm more in the camp of using claude computer-use/openai cua. I think they work better for most things, especially if you don't interact with hidden/obscured elements.

If you're interested in comparing these different services, you can try HyperPilot by Hyperbrowser at https://pilot.hyperbrowser.ai .

Disclaimer: I worked on Hyperpilot so I might be a bit biased.


What’s the tech stack like?


its a 100% client-side react app, there are no server requests except from the first one creating the anonymous user. the local DB is SQLite implementation that supports offline mode and cloud sync (not enabled in this version)


Do you support shortcuts for nested RDP connections. It’s a major pain point


There isn't good support for nested RDP connections, didn't even know that some people used something like this.

But there is very good support for nested shell connections and tunneling RDP over SSH. If your target system isn't reachable directly and require something like a bastion host connection first, you can still connect via RDP if you use SSH tunnels over multiple hops in XPipe.


What data do you analyze?


Commendable! After school, homework, sports and music we barely have time for other activites.


And its in those few minutes that he codes a little. Its like 1-2 hours a week right now haha


Well I don’t read much fiction, any good picks?


Not related to the app, but could someone explain how something with huge though finite mass can create a singularity which is a point of infinite density? Can there also be black holes which are just dark stars with intense gravity having a hard surface?


1. Division by zero

2. Neutron stars I think


It’s just a souped up version of Aider with an easier interface, isn’t it?


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