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>As does the economic picture that justified the massive infrastructure building that’s now broadly funded by a complex network of debt. I have a genuine question and I'd like to h…

Yes -- definitely that's the value prop. But it's not binary all or nothing. AI automation is about trust (honestly, same as human delegation). You give it access to a little bit o…

Bastion hosts. You don't give it your "prod email", you give it a secondary email you created specifically for it. You don't give it your "prod Paypal", you create a secondary payp…

Hi Kypro this is very interesting perspective. Can you reach out to me? I'd like to discuss what you're observing with you a bit in private as it relates heavily to a project I'm c…

Ah, I probably should have listed some of the "assumptions" I'm developing it on top of: 1) Regarding the "generation is how learning occurs" claim, I'm going off of this: https://…

Hi Swyx I always appreciate your insights, something you wrote really resonated with a personal theory I've been developing: >"While I never use AI for personal writing (because I …

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Search tool calling is RAG. Maybe we should call it a "RAG Agent" to be more en vogue heh. But RAG is not just similarity search on embeddings in vector DBs. RAG is any type of a r…

I built a distributed software engineering firm pre-covid, so all of our clients were onsite even though we were full-remote. My engineers plugged into the engineering teams of our…

I've been lucky enough to have a few conversations with Scott a month or so ago and he is doing some really compelling work around the AISDLC and creating a factory line approach t…

^ this guy knows Jobs To Be Done theory ;) For those who don't, reading "Competing Against Luck" by Clayton Christensen will dramatically improve your ability to create successful …

Yes. Absolutely it is. For different workloads it is an insanely effective tool.

Hi Paul, been following the aider project for about a year now to develop an understanding of how to build SWE agents. I was at the AI Engineering Summit in NYC last week and met a…

Hey! this is exciting to see! Hi Earl and Oisin! (I've had the pleasure of meeting Earl and Oisin face to face a few times. Really friendly and smart guys, fwiw based on my convos …

You find issues when they surface during your actual use case (and by "smoke testing" around your real-world use case). You can often "fix" issues in the base model with additional…

This post is using regression to build a reward model. The reward model will then be used (in a future post) to build the overall RL system. Here's the relevant text from the artic…

Hey HN! I've been working on a series capturing the industry best practices in producing fine-tuned LLMs. Our first post covered training data preparation, and for this one we'll b…

I recently interviewed Kyle Corbitt (YC23 Founder) who has been deeply involved in the LLM fine-tuning space the last couple years. Much like with pre-training models, most of the …

Greatly appreciate the suggestion! but I recently joined another YC backed Gen AI startup in the fine-tuning space (OpenPipe) :-D Speaking of, there's a good chance fine tuned mode…

Do you build a syntax tree of the code, then loop the tree to auto-write an article for each node (or the larger or more material nodes) and then also reference the tree to pull in…

Can you share some basic insight into how your system processes an open source repo to generate a wiki with a hierarchy and structure that maps to the same or similar hierarchy and…

Founding AI Engineer at OpenPipe here, using a fine tuned "router LLM" to route between various specialized (inc fine tuned but not necessarily) applied models depending on the inp…