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dbish
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About dbish
Currently Director of Eng/AI building experimental AI products at Datadog (skunk works). Previously founded a small AI startup called Augmend (acquired) and love to stay involved helping AI startups in any way, reach out.
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Previously led teams/orgs in the ML engineering and product space for: Meta (PyTorch), Amazon (Alexa AI and AWS Games/Simulations), Microsoft (Cortana and XboxOne spoken language understanding), Lockheed (stuff), and various other less interesting gigs before that.
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Comment #48863226
Yes and it’s still always better to try new things then wait for approval or something to be perfect if you want the company to keep innovating.
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Comment #48659967
"eval startups have a hard time finding customers, because clients have to be technical developers who want to build with APIs, but also not technical enough to run their own evals…
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Comment #48534071
The comms problems are exactly what makes it interesting to me, since autonomy is fully required really.
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Comment #48534060
Yep. The AI advances and pushing for much more autonomy are why I think there’s something new possible here.
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Comment #48523729
I’ve always wanted to start a company that builds automated underwater swarms of “probes” that just search and return info and carry out small exploration tasks but over long amoun…
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Comment #48511993
Yep. I love open source but there isn’t a model that comes close still to the closed source options like Opus 4.8 and that’s obvious from most people I see across the software indu…
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Comment #48002068
Press x to doubt. Moving slower is never the better way to create shareholder value unless you’re implying a million other things that are going wrong in your definition of moving …
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Comment #48000975
It’s very easy to do the same thing in a variety of ways and simple guis are basically solved by Claude/codex for almost anything.
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Comment #48000448
I’m relatively certain it’s just this at the end of the day. Everything I see people doing in their custom built TUIs or claude/codex CLI can be done, likely even easier, in a simp…
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Comment #47910140
None of the important projects or FANGs build with frameworks like that, sorry. Project management frameworks are all larp and mostly used by slow moving firms from the past.
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Comment #47885295
A couple reasons I would guess: 1. Full carrying cost of an employee is much more then their salary so this math is not as straight forward if you’re just cutting time and salary t…
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Comment #47769792
you're telling me dispatchagents.ai :) (open to new names if anyone has cool ones, didn't expect anthropic to start using dispatch with their agents, naming is way too hard)
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Comment #46667408
You want to be aware of your surroundings.
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Comment #46667402
Simply being polite. Understanding there are other people in the world you inhabit. Things like that.
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Comment #46664466
Pretty neat but as someone who commutes every day on the New York subway I hope it’s never “cracked” here. Phone usage without headphones is already annoying enough and I greatly a…
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Comment #46622966
https://ageof.diamonds
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Comment #46582529
If I recall correctly, a prior interview about claude plays pokemon stated they purposely chose pokemon as a use case that was not meant to be trained/finetuned on. That's what mak…
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Comment #46502136
Boris who created Claude Code has a multiple clauses setup it seems as daily usage https://x.com/bcherny/status/2007179832300581177
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Comment #46051675
Very cool. I built something similar but hooked it into a printer/publisher to get physical books -> BespokeBooks.io
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Comment #46050905
Not wanting to use Vercel is honestly a good enough reason. If you’re a heavy Vercel user you probably aren’t their target market since they’re aiming at enterprise types from what…
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Comment #45988012
What about forking it for your own use? Not worth it for the bugs you had fixes for?
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Comment #45987999
What were the problems? I've been trying it out and haven't hit issues yet, but not using it at scale yet so I'm curious what to watch out for. I figure it's open source (MIT) so I…