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Yeah, wow, a 17M seed round and not a hint of irony. Ferocious. Capital is DESPERATE to throw money into anything that appears to be related to LLMs. "Value creation event of our l…

The landgrab going on in this space is ferocious. If you weren't convinced this is mania, and a 10M "seed" round for Langchain doesn't do it for you, nothing will. Well done Harris…

And sometimes it is.

Hey Naveed, this is a great project well done. I'm curious about the summarisation of longform content. You mention that you're using Langchain - are you using the MapReduce approa…

This is Searle's Chinese Room posit though right? The argument that there's no abstraction or internal modelling going on. Wish I could find the post I read recently that demonstra…

Agree to disagree.

Replying to both responses because they're all good points. My argument boils down to the fact that some private companies end up becoming social utilities and once that happens, t…

Research into systemically important infrastructure cannot be damned because that infrastructure isn't public. It's a cheap moralizing argument to say "pfff, this was predictable".…

No they're not mate, it's just you. I've read the guidelines (thanks for helpfully linking them). I see this on HN, people infer offense and cite the book rather than engage. By no…

Ouch, this nukes a few startups I was watching working on "basically this". What's the plan control.dev and cursor.so?

Can't remember who said it, but it went something like "any headline phrased as a potentially provocative question means the answer is no". Which is what the paper reduxes to.

Yep. I wanna dial back to being a 0.2 programmer thanks. GPT can fill in the rest. I'll be hanging outside with my kids.

Hah, ChatGPT has successfully poisoned the well. Well done sama. This lib is great work, a JS interface for running HF models. The comments about how "bad" the outputs are as surpr…

"In the months ahead..." They've not shipped this. They're planning to. You're reading a marketing piece about work in the pipe. Like so, so many other company product "launches" i…

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Your corporate memphis girl splash-art is holding a puzzle piece that can clearly never fit. The subtle negative implications of that really sat with me.