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Launch HN: Meticulate (YC W24) – LLM pipelines for business research

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Re: Launch HN: Meticulate (YC W24) – LLM pipelines for business research

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Post by sroussey »

andy99 wrote: post #20
JPalakapilly wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is a great point. We completely agree that high-quality results is essential for adoption. It's basically table stakes for any tool like this to be useful. We've had several versions of this tool that weren't quite "good enough" and never saw any real use. Our latest version seems to meet the first quality threshold for actual work use. Our method of evaluating quality is not super systematic right now. For this…

I wonder if it's more about convincing yourself that it faithfully follows the same workflow an analyst would follow. It's always possible to miss stuff, so the best a person or a machine can do is be demonstrably methodical, it sounds like... and that is easier to test. Unless there is really some magic tacit step that human analyst perform to get better answers.

Well, human analysts get on the phone and ask people questions.

Not that an AI can’t do that too!

Though I may hang up…

Re: Launch HN: Meticulate (YC W24) – LLM pipelines for business research

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Post by alexdoesstuff »

internet101010 wrote: post #15
swatcoder wrote: post #8

> delivering results 50x faster at 50x less cost What about quality of results? Are you measuring that too? Did you do so for the traditional reference practice? Using what sort of methodology? How did it your technique compare in quality? What kind of errors was it most likely to make? What techniques have you devised for spotting those errors? Are they the same kind of errors that users would experience when outsou…

Yeah when it comes to anything involving numbers there is absolutely no room for hallucination. It must be 100% accurate 100% of the time. No exceptions.

Have you ever seen the research coming out of some of the outsourcing shops that the OP discusses in the post? They are hard not living up to that standard. It's important to realize that this is input for the analyst at a fund or investment bank to do some more digging on the companies and in the process potentially discover more. This isn't going straight to the CEO to form the basis of an investment decision.

Re: Launch HN: Meticulate (YC W24) – LLM pipelines for business research

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Post by barfbagginus »

I once had a business owner interview me and conclude that he wanted to hire me because he felt that I was a good thinker, someone who was, "real meticulate".

I told the boss that actually that is spelled meticulous. They said that he was pretty sure that it was spelled meticulate. I got the job offer, but I refuse the job. The thought of working as and inferior for somebody who would sucker down on the spelling "meticulate" was just way too much for me. What other harebrained bull** would they have me commit to?

Not sure why I bring that up here. It's a personal experience that makes me have no interest in this product whatsoever. Which is not rational. I guess I'm just a hater and I wanted to share this funny story while also maybe causing a loss of revenue to a random company I have nothing to do with.

Cheers!

Re: Launch HN: Meticulate (YC W24) – LLM pipelines for business research

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Post by VoodooJuJu »

barfbagginus wrote: post #28

I once had a business owner interview me and conclude that he wanted to hire me because he felt that I was a good thinker, someone who was, "real meticulate". I told the boss that actually that is spelled meticulous. They said that he was pretty sure that it was spelled meticulate. I got the job offer, but I refuse the job. The thought of working as and inferior for somebody who would sucker down on the spelling "met…

It's ironic because you were the one harebraining over trivial bullshit.

We have millions of customers to serve and billions of dollars at stake, but you're going to nitpick over this guy's colloquial word misuse?

Come on.

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