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randall
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About randall
Founder Vidpresso (YC W14, acquired by Facebook)
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More: https://twitter.com/randallb/status/1076215761872379904
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Comment #48875913
+1 to this.
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Comment #48875908
wow! i’ve been using deno for a long time, and one of my fav features is compiling a binary. i didn’t see anything about that, but might have missed something… do you all plan to s…
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Comment #48531018
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Comment #47896550
this isn't strictly true. not that it thinks, but it can reason about the tokens that led to the outcome.
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Comment #47805742
this is "you ship your org chart" not ai. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_law
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Comment #47634014
Does anyone have a link to the "read more"?
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Comment #47633986
exactly. They probably have unsustainable margins on accident.
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Comment #47309933
sweet. I've been out of the game for a bit but it's great to hear.
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Comment #47309925
This is the least informed take i've ever seen. I worked at fb, and I'm 100% certain we sponsored VLC and OBS at the time. It would be strange if we didn't sponsor FFMPEG, but rega…
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Comment #47207989
even marvel villain thanos was given a plausible motivation. i don’t think if you actually knew him as a person you’d think this was a reasonable perception.
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Comment #47202003
same. this is about losing a negotiation and saving face / exacting revenge.
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Comment #47200325
i don’t get it. what’s his motive in your view? he literally has no shares in openai.
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Comment #47103567
I wanted the AOL one to say "Welcome" before "you've got mail!" lol
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Comment #46970850
The last 3 years of LLM progress, to me, feel like 1994-1998.
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Comment #46839926
this is like irl cryptographic signatures for content lol
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Comment #46685944
thanks for the PR! :)
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Comment #46685937
yaaaaa exactly. You're totally on the same wavelength as me. Let's be friends lol
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Comment #46685929
once your team comes to a consensus on what PII is, you can roughly guarantee it... especially as models improve.
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Comment #46683016
So two things. 1/ crypto signing is totally the right way to think about this. 2/ I'm limiting prompt injection by using chain of command: https://model-spec.openai.com/2025-12-18.…
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Comment #46673270
i have a huge theory here that idk when we’ll implement but it has to do with “quorums” and other stuff. hard to explain… we’ll keep going.
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Comment #46673261
right now yeah we’re just dropping context… sub agents are short lived. thinking about ways to deal with that but we haven’t yet done it.
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Comment #46673251
yeah the way to do that stuff is through zod schemas… input and output schemas. you can set up really complex validation. thanks for checking it out!!
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Comment #46644603
i have a slightly different but related take. the models actually are getting smarter, and now the challenge becomes successfully communicating intent with them instead of simply g…
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Comment #46642459
So I look at something like Mastra (or LangChain) as agent orchestration, where you do computing tasks to line up things for an LLM to execute against. I look at Gambit as more of …
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Comment #46642431
thx, i appreciate it, believe it or not. :)