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ravintpillai

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About ravintpillai

Ex Google, The Hut Group Head of Paid Search

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    Comment #40810999

    1.You should definitely just have the argument and decide who is the CEO. Yes, it will be challenging. But understanding who actually makes the final decision about what now will a…

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    Comment #40635974

    really interesting to see them hire two folks from consumer-tech backgrounds, rather than B2B or developer tools. I wonder if that signals an increasing focus on ChatGPT as a consu…

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    Comment #40385245

    The incentive for first party tool providers to do this is going to be huge, whether its Slack, Google, Microsoft, or really any other SaaS tool. Ultimately, if business want to av…

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    Comment #39674921

    I once encountered this in the real world as a data analyst a long time ago. I was working at an e-commerce company, called The Hut Group, and the whole year our marketing team had…

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    Comment #39633455

    I'm a big fan of Fern's SDKs (disclaimer, I became an investor in their company, but after I used their product)

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    Comment #39349093

    I think incident.io have done a really great job of putting "product engineer" really front and centre of their recruitment process, and have a bunch of awesome folks / talent ther…

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    Comment #39080340

    Curious if you have a resource to read that shows this?

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    Comment #38380151

    Of course, the profit incentive also applies to all the employees (which isn't necessarily a bad thing, its good to align the company's goals with those of the employees). But when…

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    Comment #38272745

    someone commented this ChatGPT link as a summary of the changes... (but the comment seems to have been deleted? not sure why it was deleted but I thought the summary was useful - a…

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    Comment #38272034

    its extremely hard to tell what actually changed here

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    Comment #38155379

    There's a really interesting analogy here with the LLM platforms that both are a vendor to companies that use their APIs, but also potentially compete with those companies as well …

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    Comment #37988196

    this seems exactly backwards. AI will make good software engineers even more productive, and of course like any new technology those who learn to use it best will see more lift tha…

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    Comment #37745356

    hi! reach out to me @ ravin@credal.ai would love to hear from you! And yup, that's one of our verticals :)

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    Comment #37743315

    Credal.ai | Full Stack | New York ONSITE Credal is a security first data platform for enterprises building AI Apps. We have point & click connectors to your data sources (like GDri…

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    Comment #37420748

    It sucks, but the only thing to do is kick ass in the field. The more successful you are, the more companies will copy you. We had companies with 30 or even 100 people hard pivot i…

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    Comment #37313251

    Python ended up 'specializing' in data contexts, thanks to Numpy / Pandas, and as a result, ended up becoming the first exposure to programming than anyone doing data stuff had. Th…

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    Comment #37313149

    I think you have every single one of these risks exactly backwards: Potential for Data Breaches: - The idea that third parties have inherently higher breach risk is pure FUD. Data …

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    Comment #37309360

    Thanks for the feedback! Going to make some changes to the website to reflect that later today! Right now we support connecting Google Doc, Google Sheet, PDFs from Google Drive, Sl…

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    Comment #37300731

    There are great tools that do this already in a support-multiple-ecosystems kind of way! I'm actually the CEO of one of those tools: Credal.ai - which lets you point-and-click conn…

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    Comment #37282117

    Got it, thanks! For context, Im at Credal.ai (an LLM governance platform), and we have a shared customer who I'm pretty sure does fall into that description with you (use Cody for …

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    Comment #37281900

    Is it possible to use our own LLM account if we have anthropic or open AI accounts?

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    Comment #37054807

    How are you thinking about preventing customer PII making it to OpenAI?

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    Comment #36993834

    We use both a lot. Their both great, they have different strengths and weaknesses. Right now, my default go to in GPT 4, but Claude for stuff where I need an answer to more reliabl…