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bkrausz
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About bkrausz
Previously built much of Claude.ai / the API at Anthropic and much of Connect at Stripe. Ex-cofounder of GazeHawk (YC S10), acquired by Facebook, and Kenchi (2020).
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Stainless | Engineers, EMs, GTM, Former Founders | NYC & SF (onsite) | Full-time When you npm install openai or pip install anthropic, you’re pulling code generated by Stainless. W…
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Comment #46113062
Stainless | Engineers, EMs, GTM, Former Founders | NYC & SF (onsite) | Full-time When you npm install openai or pip install anthropic, you’re pulling code generated by Stainless. W…
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Stainless | Engineers, EMs, GTM, Former Founders | NYC & SF (onsite) | Full-time When you npm install openai or pip install anthropic, you’re pulling code generated by Stainless. W…
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Comment #44763150
Stainless | Engineers, EMs, GTM, Former Founders | NYC & SF (onsite) | Full-time When you npm install openai or pip install anthropic, you’re pulling code generated by Stainless. W…
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Comment #39708432
In lieu of an official comment: the fraud detection that we run on account signup was overly aggressive, especially in response to the massive attention we've seen/new shapes of at…
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Comment #39708411
We haven't seen any issues in the last day+ with SMS delivery. Sometimes Twilio will blackhole a phone number if they suspect abuse, but not sure if that's the case here. If you wa…
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Comment #39592924
Claude.ai is not currently available in the EU...we should have prevented you from signing up in the first place though (unless you're using a VPN...) Sorry about that, we really w…
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Comment #38562784
(I work on product at Anthropic) Sorry to hear about that! It sounds like you might have been using an unpinned model version, e.g. `claude-2`, which is designed to automatically g…
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Comment #36688321
We changed our naming to remove the v going forward: claude-2 should work https://docs.anthropic.com/claude/reference/selecting-a-mode...
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Comment #36687092
Can you contact support via https://support.anthropic.com/en/ (button in the bottom right) and mention bkrausz: that'll capture some browser information and I can dig into it from …
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Comment #36684163
Send an email to support@anthropic.com and mention my username...I'll see what I can do :)
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Comment #36682809
We had a bug we fixed shortly after launch with how we were sending prompts to Claude that was causing worse output. I retried your prompt and it's acting much better now.
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Comment #28741989
Kenchi | San Francisco / Remote (North American Timezones) | https://kenchi.com/jobs Brian and Michael here! We're 2 ex-Stripe engineers (and previously Facebook and YC). We starte…
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Comment #28384337
Kenchi | San Francisco / Remote (North American Timezones) | https://kenchi.com/jobs Brian and Michael here! We're 2 ex-Stripe engineers (and previously Facebook and YC). We starte…
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Comment #27835595
Don’t fully thank me, I was also the architect of the Transfers API to Connect transition :). There’s a lot I would have done differently there were I doing it again, though much o…
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Comment #27827702
Hi Basta! Can confirm both that he works at Stripe and is right. Years ago there wasn't even a Kafka portion, that's newer.
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Comment #27827375
When designing something like this as a service, the biggest question is what other developers will find easy to use. Every cheap host supports inbound HTTP requests, and most web …
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Comment #27824944
I was responsible for Stripe's API abstractions, including webhooks and /events, for a number of years. Some interesting tidbits: Many large customers eventually had some issue wit…
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Comment #27705678
Kenchi | San Francisco / Remote (North American Timezones) | https://kenchi.com/jobs Brian and Michael here! We're 2 ex-Stripe engineers (and previously Facebook and YC). We starte…
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Comment #27358954
Kenchi | San Francisco / Remote (North American Timezones) | https://kenchi.com/jobs Brian, Michael, and Kevin here! We're 3 ex-Stripe engineers (and previously Facebook and YC). W…
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Comment #15022329
I built a lot of the new system at Stripe: the old system would set a flag that was globally accessible inside of an API request. This meant that it was impossible to scope down wh…
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Comment #12534401
> does this mean we would instantly know if a transfer has failed? Within 30 minutes in the worst case. Most failures we would be able to communicate synchronously, such as if the …
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Comment #12533819
With managed accounts the platform owns ultimate liability. This is because with managed accounts we agree not to contact the account holder directly under normal circumstances, so…
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Comment #12533777
Yup, we saw a lot of platforms looking for a completely customized experience, so we built managed accounts as a way for them to have complete control over the UX. We're currently …
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Comment #12533669
@devbug I work at Stripe. nope—neither, we’ve worked with Visa and Mastercard to get funds on to debit cards instantly. This isn’t a refund or a loan. Without getting too into the …