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emil_sorensen

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About emil_sorensen

founder of kapa.ai (YC S23)

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    happy it helped!

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    Comment #48381377

    it's a cost/latency trade-off in production + very use-case dependent

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    Comment #48375906

    Thanks! Yep fixed

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    Comment #44509159

    Accuracy drops hard with context length still. Especially in more technical domains. Plus latency and cost.

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    Docs bots like these are deceptively hard to get right in production. Retrieval is super sensitive to how you chunk/parse documentation and how you end up structuring documentation…

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    Thanks for the feedback. We should definitely add that. :)

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    OP here. It's kind of ironic that making the docs AI-friendly essentially just ends up being what good documentation is in the first place (explicit context and hierarchy, self-con…

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    We focus mainly on external use cases (e.g., helping companies like Docker and Monday.com deploy customer facing "Ask AI" assistants) so we don't run into much of that given all da…

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    Super cool! Yep, a lot seems to get lost through distillation.

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    I suspect you're right here! Excited to get our hands on the non-distilled o3. :)

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    Yep even with a small bump in performance (which we only saw for a subset of coding questions), it wouldn't be worth the huge latency penalty. Though that will surely go down over …

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    Curious if anyone else has run similar experiments?

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    That's a great point. Reminds me of the "feature, not a bug" Karpathy tweet [0]. [0]: https://x.com/karpathy/status/1733299213503787018?lang=en

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    I find it so interesting that it's possible to develop a "feeling" of a new model.

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