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I'm not sure it's astroturfed exactly; but the hype is not coming from technical professionals. Like you find a linkedin post with a thousand likes about this or similar projects, …

Pretty sure they are still losing money on it, which is great for us. And these limits wouldn't even be happening if there weren't people bragging about having their CC running con…

Circuit MCP allows agents to use webapps and electron apps like a human would. For a while I've been using browser automation MCPs to have my agents test webapps as they developed …

For serious implementations, frameworks are not very helpful, even LangChain. All the components provide good SDKs/APIs, having a bunch of "integrations" doesn't add any real value…

Vector is better for some use cases (open-domain, more conversational data) and term-based search is better for others (closed-domain, more keyword-based). I've found that internal…

You need a vector db because all the vector db companies need customers... You definitely do need information retrieval. It just shouldn't be limited to vector dbs. Unfortunately v…

Yeah that exact use case keeps coming up in my work - populating forms or structured documents based on retrievable information is possibly the best broad enterprise application ca…

Interesting that now, in contrast, startups are desperate to claim any specificity at all for differentiation, with the general solutions being so powerful

@rafaelero I'm working on a blogpost ( https://colinharman.substack.com/ ) to demonstrate this fact since I get a lot of tiresome questions like "why don't you just train instead o…

Vector search is not always the right tool. So why do VCs pretend that it is?