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Launch HN: Grapevine (YC S19) – A company GPT that actually works

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Re: Launch HN: Grapevine (YC S19) – A company GPT that actually works

#11

Post by eambutu »

doctorpangloss wrote: post #6

> the day-to-day questions that actually blocked people do you have a very strong opinion about how companies should work? "No" Okay, does Dario Amodei? He thinks more than half the workforce should "just" be replaced. That's a strong opinion! Do you see what I am saying?

I can't speak for other people, but our strong opinion about how companies should work is to reduce the massive amount of chores and tedium that exist in our work days today.

With the company GPT, we want to tackle things like: 1.) having to answer a repeated question from a colleague, 2.) answering questions to coworkers that are purely informational, and eventually 3.) things like standup updates, written updates to leadership on status, etc.

I think human interaction at work is one of the most valuable experiences if you're lucky enough to have good colleagues and interesting work. But I think they should almost entirely be around creativity, decision-making, debate, etc. rather than sharing information that exists elsewhere.

Re: Launch HN: Grapevine (YC S19) – A company GPT that actually works

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Post by eambutu »

maxspero wrote: post #4

I've been using Grapevine at my company for the last couple weeks. One of the coolest features is that it proactively answers questions (with citations!). Not everyone thinks to tag the bot but it often surfaces the relevant answer and document and saves everyone some time.

Thanks for using it! Any feedback on what could be made better? And did you guys try any of the alternatives before using Grapevine?

Re: Launch HN: Grapevine (YC S19) – A company GPT that actually works

#14

Post by eambutu »

ebiester wrote: post #2

I've seen Gleam and Onyx, and I think the real problem is that there is a lot of garbage coming in. If you want to solve the problem, you need to find a way to clean the information coming in. And if you've cleaned the information coming in, you have a lower need to have an LLM answer the question.

Our experience, especially with the most recent reasoning models, is that the LLM's are a lot better now at sifting through the garbage. So if you last gave these products a try more than a month ago, I would try them again.

(Additionally, there are a lot of details that do make a big difference in data processing / search algo too, which have taken our own internal accuracy on hard questions from 30% => 80%+)

Re: Launch HN: Grapevine (YC S19) – A company GPT that actually works

#15

Post by lsowen »

Perz1val wrote: post #7
loudmax wrote: post #5

Is the "ChatGPT" brand name becoming a generic term, like Baid-Aid or Kleenex? There is the ChatGPT product, operated by OpenAI, Inc, which you can access via their web site or their API. OpenAI does publish gpt-oss as an open-weights model. I suppose you could argue that gpt-oss is "a ChatGPT," though I'd normally think of it as "a large language model." Much like Claude, DeepSeek, Qwen and so on are other large lan…

Well GPT = general purpose transformer

Generative pretrained transformer, I think? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generative_pre-trained_transfo...

Re: Launch HN: Grapevine (YC S19) – A company GPT that actually works

#16

Post by [deleted] »

Perz1val wrote: post #7
loudmax wrote: post #5

Is the "ChatGPT" brand name becoming a generic term, like Baid-Aid or Kleenex? There is the ChatGPT product, operated by OpenAI, Inc, which you can access via their web site or their API. OpenAI does publish gpt-oss as an open-weights model. I suppose you could argue that gpt-oss is "a ChatGPT," though I'd normally think of it as "a large language model." Much like Claude, DeepSeek, Qwen and so on are other large lan…

Well GPT = general purpose transformer

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Re: Launch HN: Grapevine (YC S19) – A company GPT that actually works

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Post by arahman4710 »

ebiester wrote: post #2

I've seen Gleam and Onyx, and I think the real problem is that there is a lot of garbage coming in. If you want to solve the problem, you need to find a way to clean the information coming in. And if you've cleaned the information coming in, you have a lower need to have an LLM answer the question.

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Re: Launch HN: Grapevine (YC S19) – A company GPT that actually works

#18

Post by doctorpangloss »

eambutu wrote: post #11
doctorpangloss wrote: post #6

> the day-to-day questions that actually blocked people do you have a very strong opinion about how companies should work? "No" Okay, does Dario Amodei? He thinks more than half the workforce should "just" be replaced. That's a strong opinion! Do you see what I am saying?

I can't speak for other people, but our strong opinion about how companies should work is to reduce the massive amount of chores and tedium that exist in our work days today. With the company GPT, we want to tackle things like: 1.) having to answer a repeated question from a colleague, 2.) answering questions to coworkers that are purely informational, and eventually 3.) things like standup updates, written updates t…

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Re: Launch HN: Grapevine (YC S19) – A company GPT that actually works

#20

Post by ripped_britches »

lsowen wrote: post #15
Perz1val wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well GPT = general purpose transformer

Generative pretrained transformer, I think? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generative_pre-trained_transfo...

It’s actually generally prime t-bones
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