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darkhanakh

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About darkhanakh

20 yo kazakh, founding eng at nace ai (general catalyst). built the core AI system thats used by some big US companies — i own agents, billing, orchestration, basically everything that can break.

dropped out to do this

open source: pg-kazsearch

astana, kazakhstan → san francisco soon

outside of work i read too much philosophy, argue about hard determinism, and lose MMR in dota 2 to griefers. top global listener of alex g on spotify which is probably the most impressive thing here

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    Comment #47674200

    so the 100% LongMemEval score is a bit misleading if you actually look at whats going on. they took the 3 questions that were failing and applied targeted fixes for those specifica…

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    Comment #47663156

    hey, so postgres has zero support for kazakh full-text search. no dictionary, no stemmer, nothing. if you try searching kazakh text today you basically get trigram matching which i…

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    Comment #47661976

    fair points. i was probably overstating the subsidy argument as if its some trap that snaps shut. compute costs do trend down and if moores law dynamics still roughly apply to acce…

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    Comment #47659495

    the part thats missing from this whole discussion is that the cost of running frontier models is heavily subsidized right now. companies are making "ai efficiency" decisions based …

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    Comment #47645066

    eh i'd push back on "just RAG". like yes the retrieval-generation loop is RAG shaped, no ones arguing that. but the interesting bit here is the write loop - the LLM is authoring an…