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dhorthy

1,124karma·268submissions·March 2, 2018
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so I played with MCP for a while last night and I think MCP is great as a layer to pull custom tools into the existing claude/desktop/chat experience. But at the end of the day its just basi…
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i am gonna talk with the guy who made trykondo.com this week, I think he has a lot of experience in that area too
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the dystopian startups that use bounding boxes to observe workers in a warehouse and give the boss a report on how many breaks they took...they're here
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that makes sense - and have wondered a lot even more generally about the price of software and what makes a hard problem hard. Like Amjad from Replit said on a podcast recently "can anyone build …
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thanks for sharing your experience so far! Like I said, we built this ourselves for another idea and it was painful. I have played with Make and I actually chatted w/ the gotohuman guy on zoom a …
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great question - yeah i was actually heavily inspired by people trying to figure that stuff out on reddit back in july, and realizing that mapping that human input across slack, email, sms was never g…
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super relevant - yeah I think it was someone at anthropic who framed this as "cursor tab autocomplete, but for arbitrary API calls" - basically for everything else other than code
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great comment - today we don't provide the humans, i think there's two angles here - providing the humans can be super valuable, especially for low-context tasks like basic labeling - depend…
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thanks! What's your favorite potential use case.
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that's a great idea - I put together one example for getting an MFA code for a website, but the captcha thing "pull a human into a web session" is something I've wanted to play wit…
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thanks for the validation of the problem! totally open to feedback about the solution, and totally get that you only need something simple for now. I want to point out that we do have a pay-as-you-go …
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thank you! stoked for what's coming
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wow I'm so glad you asked cuz i just shipped this https://github.com/dexhorthy/mailcrew
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thanks dude!
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thank you for checking it out! what sorts of experiences have you had with agents so far?
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thank you! I updated the post and it should be fixed now!
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oh wow! thank you! fixing!
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hah thanks dude! I am very bullish on TS as the long term thing, Not to turn this into a language vs language thread but I spend a lot of time thinking about why ppl struggle so much with python...so …
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ah very cool! are there any things you wish it did or any friction points? What are the things that "just work"?
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P.S. nobody asked but since you made it this far - the next big problem in this space is fast becoming, what else do we need to be able to build these "headless" or "outer loop" AI…
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salesforce-ready is an interesting specialization, but makes a ton of sense if you're going after enterprise. Stoked to give this a spin. lemme know if/when you build the CLI agent that writ…
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most people who run into limits w/ frameworks tend to mention they want more control over the prompt. Were there other dimensions that autogpt/other frameworks made difficult?
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do y'all see a way to ramp from mostly-human-in-the-loop to mostly-ai? Can you take a system that does 1% at the hard part of signal/tuning and teach it to get better over time? I'm thi…
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great question and thanks for checking it out! I've talked to a number of folks who have built small/simple versions of this for various workflows. The idea for incorporating feedback into t…
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