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abossy

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About abossy

working on the Charlie coding agent, the teammate that every typescript engineer is missing -> https://www.charlielabs.ai/

ex-paloma learning, affirm, patreon, shopkick

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    It's early days and we don't fully understand LLM behavior to the extent that we can assume questions like this about agent design are resolved. For instance, is an agent smarter w…

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    Comment #45784858

    What others would you recommend that are comparable in quality?

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    Comment #44838485

    I love sitting in those planning meetings, too. /s This is exactly right. We've adapted our workflow to kick off a task and then kick off the next one and the next. Then we review …

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    Comment #44829492

    At my company (Charlie Labs), we've had a tremendous amount of success with context awareness over long-running tasks with GPT-5 since getting access a few weeks ago. We ran an eva…

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    Comment #44139867

    We must know very different 16-year olds.

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    Comment #43789833

    The company I work for generates thousands of these each week for children's personalized storybooks to help them learn how to read. The story text is the core part of the applicat…

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    Comment #43476115

    That's very interesting. I would have assumed that 4o is internally using a single seed for the entire conversation, or something analogous to that, to control randomness across im…

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    Comment #42830207

    In my experience, AI isn't very good at debugging AI-generated code. If it fails to make the right insight, it loops continuously until it's completely off the rails. I'm surprised…

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    Comment #42090100

    Very interesting, thanks!

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    Comment #42087956

    > I fine-tuned GPT-4o to turn Claude's sketch of changes into a git patch, which would add and remove lines to make the edits. I only finished generating the training data late at …

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    I wonder if the script can be flipped to both encourage the use of ChatGPT and scrutinize its output among students. I imagine that analyzing the results of ChatGPT output for some…

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    Comment #11346978

    Could you share the process you used to write your script?

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    How much time do you give candidates to complete their work samples? I'm curious whether work-sample tests filter out, say, parents with young children, in which a company with a 4…

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    Comment #5326989

    If you're returning for the same socks year after year, why not simply buy 20 years worth of socks?

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    Comment #5113660

    The girl from the creepy ex-girlfriend meme actively capitalized on her stardom. It seems that the sociological phenomenon of involuntarily going viral is becoming more well-unders…

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    Comment #5055545

    Are sign-ups intended exclusively for people listing their gear? Perhaps you can have sign-ups for people trying to rent, too, and request additional information that would help yo…

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    I've heard, anecdotally, that Safeway acquired the vans for their own delivery service.

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    Agreed. I do about 50%/50%. It's improved my posture tremendously.

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    Nobody I know is capable of standing for an entire workday. A drafting stool is absolutely required, and it's often the trickiest part of the configuration; for men taller than six…

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    Comment #3650367

    Preparing well for your interview and applying directly is much more efficient. I'm sure most entrepreneurs want to salvage they're failing startups and are eager to quit for the n…

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    Comment #2541843

    They don't have a pretty website because they don't need one. Most Silicon Valley startups work with them by default. In addition to regular banking services, they provide networki…

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