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by swyx 1y ago
see also https://cursor.com/changelog/2-0 and https://cursor.com/blog/2-0 other links across the web: https://x.com/amanrsanger/status/1983581288755032320?s=46 https:&#
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by swyx 1y ago
im particularly sympathetic to typo learning, which i think gets lost in the synthetic data discussion (mine here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXPPcBlcF8U ) but i think in this case you can still generate typos in images
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by swyx 1y ago
love the share, ty
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by swyx 1y ago
> LLM: GPT 4.1 -> GPT 5 -> GPT 4.1, covered by Azure credits whats this roundtrip? also the chronology of the LLM (4.1) doesnt match the rest of the stack (text-embedding-large-3), feels weird
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by swyx 1y ago
the entire point is that stressing sustainable business practices here at this point in a startup's life is extremely short sighted and is the kind of shitty analysis that gives HN a bad rep. pull up Uber's financials leading up t
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by swyx 1y ago
that's really naive im afraid. you have to take pro rata or the percentage goes down. amzn did not take pro rata.
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by swyx 1y ago
it's a number 2 years out of date. they invested 8b and ant is now worth 183b.
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by swyx 1y ago
if you are worried about AWS spend, i have news for you about non AWS spend. "coming soon" is also really over simplistic. you would have missed some of the greatest tech companies in the past 20 years if you evaluated startups ba
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by swyx 1y ago
> Based on discussions with sources with direct knowledge of their AWS billing, I am able to disclose the amounts that AI firms are spending, specifically Anthropic and AI coding company Cursor, its largest customer. so he got a leaked c
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The only Permanent Underclass are the ones who believe it is permanent(swyx.io)
2 points by swyx 1y ago|1 comments
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by swyx 1y ago
hey sorryjust saw this. i do think its majority serial processing, BUT, parallel calling the same tools also gets issues that i honestly havent spent the time to dig into (something something locks and threading). all i know is ive been stu
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by swyx 1y ago
i think the demand for provability is too high a bar actually. our bar is "can you surface context at the level of a human coworker engineer sitting next to you explaining things"
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by swyx 1y ago
no - grep is just the closest analogy/use case that we have for it. if we end up releasing the CLI it should be as handy and nobrainer as using ripgrep idk what you expect from a question about "how much data". its tool based
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by swyx 1y ago
we have other things in store that can be used by other coding agents, this one was tuned to use custom fast search tools that kinda wouldnt be useful in other agents
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by swyx 1y ago
got a lot of traffic and was taken down temporarily for a couple reasons - team got it online again last night
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by swyx 1y ago
(OP here) i posted this old blog actually because i'm working on a similar AI powered feature now. teased a bit here but unreleased https://x.com/swyx/status/1977906767771086898 i feel like HN might be the on
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by swyx 1y ago
well thats what the playground is for! playground.cognition.ai
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by swyx 1y ago
nice, what does booped up mean? is this gen z lingo?
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by swyx 1y ago
(coauthor) main charts/evals here https://x.com/cognition/status/1978867021669413252 you can try the https://playground.cognition.ai/ here i wrote a longer explainer here https://x
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by swyx 1y ago
i mean they have attributed but also it's open source software, i guess the more meaningful question is why didn't ggerganov build Ollama if it was that easy? or what is his company working on now?
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Make Videos Devs Love(dx.tips)
1 points by swyx 1y ago|0 comments
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by swyx 1y ago
they HAD to? didnt Apple refuse to do this exact thing?
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by swyx 1y ago
right but "BDFL left" is clearly the wrong thing to blame when "BDFL never cared enough" so it doesnt matter if he left
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by swyx 1y ago
poor answer. guido had very little impact on the packaging mess.
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by swyx 1y ago
sharing some useful resrources for learning Muon (since I'm also just catching up on it) - https://x.com/leloykun/status/1846842883967692926 - https://www.yacinemahdid.com/p/muon-optimize
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by swyx 1y ago
> Thank you to chief LLM whisperer Alec Radford for advice/guidance. oh man an Alec x Andrej podcast would BREAK THE INTERNET... just saying... going from glory days of GPT1 to now building GPT3? in 4 hours
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DevRel Is -Unbelievably- Back(dx.tips)
3 points by swyx 1y ago|1 comments
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by swyx 1y ago
> Data startups Fivetran and dbt Labs will merge in an all-stock deal, creating a combined data infrastructure company with nearly $600 million in annual revenue, the two companies told Reuters. last update we had was Fivetran had 200m i
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by swyx 1y ago
those are heavy accusations to toss around and that the title would like you to conclude, but doesnt pass the basic smell check of fivetran's founders still having control of the company. dbt was the hottest company in the data world 3
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by swyx 1y ago
this is meta and not directly addressing Pedram's points (though thanks for the shoutouts in there - the three pillars here are as good as any) but I wrote up a reaction here - https://dx.tips/devrel-is-back I observed

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