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swyx
24,264karma·6,033submissions·December 9, 2015
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Writer/Angel in devtools and smol AI enjoyer.
ai engineer pod/news: https://latent.space/
conference: https://ai.engineer
devrel/devtools: https://dx.tips/
personal blog: https://swyx.io/ideas
book: https://learninpublic.org/
but you can also email username [at] ai dot engineer
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not at all about stealing karma, i dont care much about fake internet points. yes you got the important thing!
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yes but a lot of legacy code wil still need to be maintained and written. you dont see how this can be confusing/annoying?
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its not even about the ingest, every major semver change now is a problem because now LLMs will need to contextually distinguish whether or not they are expected to output Pandas 2 or 3, unless ofc yo…
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this is like Tavus but it doesnt suck. congrats!
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oh i was here to post it haha - thank you for doing that job for me so I'm not a total shill. I really enjoyed meeting them and was impressed by the sheer ambition of the AI for Science effort at…
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we did a podcast with the Crixet founder and Kevin Weil of OAI on the process: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2cBTVr8nxU&pp=2Aa0Bg%3D%3D …
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ok so it now begs the question... whos plane was this?
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use mastra, get acquired!
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sorry how did employees get fucked? theres more money after the 1.7B.
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he actually did not! came together quickly. https://x.com/jamesreggio/status/2014520219847557619?s=20 …
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Brex's CTO recently came on LS to talk about their AI strategy and tech: https://latent.space/p/brex …
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hahahah oh no
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ty! btw your docs search is broken, as i tweeted to Ward.
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> a `.network()` method that turns any agent into a routing agent say more pls?
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> That last one took a bit of time, we went down the ESM/CJS bundling rabbithole, ran into lots of monorepo issues, and ultimately opted for a more explicit approach. shudders in vietnam war …
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ooo i love this term. does it have an origin? related meme i saw today: “bro I spent all weekend in Claude Code it’s incredible” “oh nice, what did you build?” “dude my setup is crazy. i’ve got all th…
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ooh, LLM Recsys alert! (we had an LLM Recsys track at ai.engineer last year). official announcement here: https://x.com/XEng/status/2013471689087086804 looks like this is th…
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Why NanoLang?
NanoLang solves three problems: LLM Code Generation - Unambiguous syntax reduces AI errors Testing Discipline - Mandatory tests improve code quality Simple & Fast - Minimal syntax, n…
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> HN is obviously very pro-ai mm i'd actually say its more moderated, lots of cynics/skeptics.
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maybe throw it in your friendly neighborhood LLM
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> single keystroke could move the cursor halfway across the file to exactly the right spot. sorry what is this? exaggeration?
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semi relatedly i stumbled upon Dead Planet Theory a while back and it stasy rent free in my head. https://arealsociety.substack.com/p/the-dead-planet-theory …
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> So, much like with a public git repo, you should be comfortable with the fact that anything you put there is public and will get indexed. whats the sota on atproto encryption dan? just publish en…
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> Apps may come and go, but files stay—at least, as long as our apps think in files. yes: https://www.swyx.io/data-outlasts-code-but all lasting work is done in files/data (ca…
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hi! :) thanks for supporting my work. ok yea that makes sense - i was a langfuse only user but sounds like i might want to check out promptlayer (tbh i was until recently of the opinion that you shoul…
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i'm sorry for your porcupine :(
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say more about what you were looking for that promptlayer had/langfuse didnt?