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About stanleydrew

blog: https://benton.io gmail: andrewmbenton

Co-founder and CEO at Riza, a company working on untrusted code isolation with WASM: https://riza.io / hello@riza.io

Previously COO at ngrok: https://ngrok.com.

I was the Founder and CEO of an MVNO/VoIP hybrid company called Charge (formerly known as Bolt): https://charge.co.

I worked at Twilio: https://www.twilio.com.

I wrote the original ruby library that wraps Twilio's HTTP API: https://github.com/twilio/twilio-ruby

Other projects include receive-only telephone numbers at https://oneway.tel and free HPKP report bin hosting at https://hpkp.org (now defunct).

[ my public key: https://keybase.io/andrewmbenton; my proof: https://keybase.io/andrewmbenton/sigs/m4O8mq4uxoPSm2XlB1RUT1XkH5v8KX7UR448y8T74mo ]

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    > Still, my point is that my parking space isn't actually mine, so I can't modify anything in the garage. Presumably over time shared parking areas will get upgraded with charging …

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    > idk why we need MCP servers when LLMs can just connect to the existing API endpoint Because the LLM can't "just connect" to an existing API endpoint. It can produce input paramet…

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    Technically it's not really much different from just giving the LLM an OpenAPI spec. The actual thing that's different is that an OpenAPI spec is meant to be an exhaustive list of …

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    > I have a silly theory that I only half joke about that docker/containers wouldn't've ever taken off as fast as it did if it didn't solve the horrible python dependency hell so we…

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    > Is this just junior devs who never learned it Seems more like it's fallen out of favor with senior devs who have moved to Go/Rust.

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    What risk do you foresee arising out of perverse incentives in this case?

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    Comment #41947108

    Also means you're not having to do a bunch of isolation work to make the server-side execution environment safe.

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    One of the design principles of sqlc is that SQL queries should be static in application code so that you know exactly what SQL is running on your database. It turns out you can ge…

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    Riza, Inc. ( https://riza.io ) | SWEs and DevRel Engineers | Full-time or part-time | San Francisco We use WASM to provide isolated runtimes for executing untrusted code, mostly ge…

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    Why do we have to "get there?" Humans use calculators all the time, so why not have every LLM hooked up to a calculator or code interpreter as a tool to use in these exact situatio…

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    I would argue that most sota models do know that they don't know this, as evidenced by the fact that when you give them a code interpreter as a tool they choose to use it to write …

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    Yes, we are doing this at Riza[0] (via WASM). I'd love to have folks try our downloadable CLI which wraps isolated Python/JS runtimes (also Ruby/PHP but LLMs don't seem to write th…

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    Plug in a code interpreter as a tool and the model will write Python or JavaScript to solve this and get it right 100% of the time. (Full disclosure: I work on a product called Riz…

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    The fix doesn't require removing code though as far as I can tell. Could just add an if statement.

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    This completely ignores the power of network effects. Even if all regulation were removed tomorrow I doubt the market would accommodate new entrants.

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    Yes, the word "only" is causing the confusion.

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    Presumably the code interpreter environment that you get with the OpenAI Assistants API [0] is identical to this ChatGPT environment? [0] https://platform.openai.com/docs/assistant…

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