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by jbecke 3mo ago
Very cool work and writeup. Why do we need a swarm for shorter docs not just 1 agent? And does the number of agents scale with the doc size?
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Show HN: Macro – unified system for email, chat, tasks, docs, agents (AGPL/Rust)(github.com)
8 points by jbecke 4mo ago|1 comments
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by jbecke 5mo ago
Investors should optimize for long term growth, yes. The problem is Management (CEO, etc.) will get fired if things look bad. So the incentive for management, if they can get fired, is to ensure monotonic increase. Sometimes — especially fo
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by jbecke 5mo ago
You can, e.g. Zuck/Meta. (I understand you are making a moral argument, not a legal one, I understand it, I disagree, courts disagree too)
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by jbecke 5mo ago
You can either concentrate power or disperse it. NASA, Boing, etc. is what happens when you disperse it. Committees aren't bold. The reason SpaceX exists is because Elon willed it into existence.
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by jbecke 5mo ago
Option 1: Elon has control and optimizes for cool shit and going to Mars, and maybe abuses the corporate entity a bit, as a piggy bank, or whatever. Option 2: the market has control, and optimizes for short term starlink revenue and the lau
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by jbecke 2y ago
Macro.com for PDF (better than Acrobat)
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by jbecke 2y ago
macro.com In-person Manhattan. Hard technical problems: WebAssembly and CRDTs. Impressive co-workers. Engineering-led company. We are building a new text editor with AI and a Git-like version control system. Andreessen Horowitz is our lead
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by jbecke 2y ago
We (macro.com) have something similar but without the recipe part in our pdf/word processor. It works pretty well on numbered headings but not so well on non-numbered. We’re thinking of porting over to LLMs at some point.