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calebhwin

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About calebhwin

Stanford CS PhD student building https://blastproject.org Let's talk calebhwin@gmail.com

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    Hard disagree. Two LLMs with the same numbers on important benchmarks could have vastly different behavior in actual deployment. Not sure if as hard to switch as Excel Libre but st…

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    Comment #48072086

    It's actually the perfect evergreen content to discuss on HN in an age where so much else is AI generated.

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    Comment #47037816

    Disney is actually quite excited about GenAI [0] [0] https://openai.com/index/disney-sora-agreement/

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    Comment #46993777

    It's just an abstraction people are excited about at the moment. Langchain was an exciting abstraction at one point. My bet is we converge on a super minimal model computer archite…

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    Comment #46993754

    True though pgvector is not deterministic in a strict sense since HNSW is probabilistic.

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    Comment #46993487

    Same, it's in a similar vein as pgvector - probably not as performant as turbopuffer or chroma but you get the benefits of being in a really nice ecosystem.

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    Show HN: Pgclaw – A "Clawdbot" in every row with 400 lines of Postgres SQL

    Hi HN, Been hacking on a simple way to run agents entirely inside of a Postgres database, "an agent per row". Things you could build with this: * Your own agent orchestrator * A pe…

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    Thought it was interesting to read about how farmers had to reskill as farming subsided as a common profession. In the context of the impact of AI on SWE.

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    Comment #46843829

    And it's more important than ever in the age of coding agents.

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    Will this continue to be true? I do agree with the principle. But I've sometimes had the feeling that poor design upfront can have compounding consequences, especially when AI is f…

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