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i think the thread shows: - most people's perception of art is heavily affected by the framing (and to a lot of people ai = bad, and so they start seeing technical issues with it t…

Ya, the demos were pretty contrived (feels like a running theme amongst the labs...)

swe bench pro has a public and private test set, where the private eval is from proprietary codebases only

This is cool! I used to work on post-training & evals. it's really hard to make a good eval set and catch all forms of reward hacking. Excited to see more from poolside!

An omni model seems very useful for real-time human-computer interaction, off the top of my head: - Voice assistants - Customer experience - Gaming - Meeting assistants - Real-time…

i would argue its the opposite farming hit a ceiling because of demand software today is heavily, heavily constrained by supply. demand is basically infinite for actually good soft…

"She rejected several applicants with PhDs and engineering backgrounds, reasoning that their level of education could not compensate for a lack of hands-on specialty coffee experie…

1. part of the moat is their guardrails and obviously they are audited and tracked. there are agents issuing refunds and more at scale right now so not sure where the skepticism co…

1&2 are already happening, these startups take on brand liability and trust to do so 3 depends on how companies want to measure it, but lack of user submitting satisfaction score i…

that's fair, most implementations in the industry are in the early stages and implementing a full powered agent with access to all the tools it needs is hard (very political as you…

adding some context as someone who works in this space 1. most people (average, non-tech people) reach for the phone to call in for easily solvable problems. Plus, if the agent is …

its a moat vs. other startups and it carried them to multi-B valuation obviously the product needs to deliver and nrr needs to be good in the long run

true. we'll see how many ai cos become profit printers a few years from now

ai skeptic fanfic evolves in fascinating ways every day

hes board chair of openai and is ex co-ceo of salesforce, ex cto of facebook, can get a meeting with any exec in F500... their moat is distribution

ime its very implementation dependent but even a simple impl to answer questions can knock out like 50% of callers who are tech-illiterate at 100x cheaper cost, it's just strictly …

It's always interesting seeing how HN reacts to AI CX (as someone who works in this space). Yes, the tech savvy crowd loves to say how they always ask for a human and love old scho…

im not sure i understand your reply, but it sounds like you're agreeing with me that yts biggest advantage is the network effect?

Ive been preparing somewhat for this, as someone who knows they aren't a top N% engineer. My current role involves a certain amount of sales and product in addition to SWE (and luc…

my main qualm with Ed is his analysis on the financials is decent, but he absolutely refuses to admit that the technology is useful (especially in the hands of competent users), an…

Theres no viable yt alternative because of network effects not the video hosting Those same network effects dont exist (yet) on models