themanmaran

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by themanmaran 7mo ago
In terms of "[XYZ] for agents", I think CRM is a big one that people haven't talked about as much. It becomes super relevant as soon as people start using an agent for anything customer related. And the design principals are
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by themanmaran 8mo ago
OmniAI (YC W24) | https://getomni.ai | Full Stack Engineers | SF In-Person | Full Time | $125k–$200k • 0.50%–1.50% Tech stack: TypeScript | Node | React/Next.js | Postgres | Docker | K8s | LLMs We’re building the AI-powered
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by themanmaran 8mo ago
I understand the pitch, and the extra value add of having some existing relationship with the hotels / etc. But the quality of the actual AI response is just worse than GPT 5.2. Which makes it feel like a tacked on thing and more of a
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by themanmaran 8mo ago
> If it were me, I would have avoided involving third party regulators in the initial contact at least. I'm surprised to see this take only mentioned once in this thread. I think people here are not aware of the sheer amount of frau
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by themanmaran 8mo ago
Anthropic regularly publishes research papers on the subject and details different methods they use to prevent misalignment/jailbreaks/etc. And it's not even about fear of being sued, but needing to deliver some level of resi
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by themanmaran 8mo ago
Oh nice. Yea I was annoyed it didn't show the actual timestamp. But suppose I didn't hover long enough.
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by themanmaran 8mo ago
Github doesn't show timestamps in the UI, but they do in the HTML. Looking at the timeline, I doubt it was really autonomous. More likely just a person prompting the agent for fun. > @scottshambaugh's comment [1]: Feb 10, 2026
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by themanmaran 8mo ago
> Heroku remains an actively supported, production-ready platform, with an emphasis on maintaining quality and operational excellence rather than introducing new features [1] This sentence is what really seals the death for me. I used to
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by themanmaran 8mo ago
> Not an expert or a nefarious actor If it helps, I know @noleary and can confirm this is a true statement!
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by themanmaran 9mo ago
OmniAI (YC W24) | https://getomni.ai | Full Stack Engineers | SF In-Person | Full Time | $125k–$175k • 0.50%–1.50% Tech stack: TypeScript | Node | React/Next.js | Postgres | Docker | K8s | LLMs We’re building the AI-powered
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by themanmaran 9mo ago
68. The unique title texts are really fun. But I strongly disagree that "chipmunks are squirrels".
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by themanmaran 9mo ago
I don't think they use the agentmail domain for sending emails. Users connect their own domain and manage reputation (similar to all the other email marketing tools)
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by themanmaran 9mo ago
We build "long running" email agents. But it's not really long running in the sense of an agent taking 1000's of actions in a giant loop. It's more "long running" because the agent takes 4 steps, then wait
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by themanmaran 9mo ago
Harder than you would expect! Since we tried this ourselves before switching to Agentmail. Threads, attachments, ccing, DNS management, sending to gmail vs outlook vs yahoo, etc. It add up to be a major pain.
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by themanmaran 9mo ago
By that logic why send email newsletters when I could hire 10 or 100 people email them manually instead? Obviously there's a cost tradeoff here where it's worth it to have email negotiation in an automated way, but not in a human
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by themanmaran 9mo ago
I think it's easy to blame the evil profit maximizing social media companies. But IMO even the most simple 'engagement' algorithm will produce negative externalities. Regardless of who's running it. ``` show_me_posts_peo
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by themanmaran 9mo ago
Not the founder, but having run conversational agents at decent scale, I don't think the cost actually matters much early on. It's almost always better to pay more for the smarter model, than to potentially give a worse player exp
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by themanmaran 9mo ago
The problem here is the "so what?" Imagine OpenAI is required by law to list their weights on huggingface. The occasional nerd with enough GPUs can now self host. How does this solve any tangible problems with LLMs regurgitating s
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by themanmaran 9mo ago
> should be playable on anything that has perl and a curses library (pretty much anything but Windows). Maybe I'm missing something, but how do I play?
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JavaScript Demos in 140 Characters(beta.dwitter.net)
340 points by themanmaran 9mo ago|59 comments
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by themanmaran 9mo ago
https://foundertrace.com/companies/fair_square/
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OpenAI API and ChatGPT are down
13 points by themanmaran 9mo ago|1 comments
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by themanmaran 9mo ago
This is awesome! One note, some of the batch years are wrong, I see someone from S24 marked as S19.
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by themanmaran 10mo ago
OmniAI (YC W24) | https://getomni.ai | Full Stack Engineers | SF In-Person | Full Time | $125k–$175k • 0.50%–1.50% Tech stack: TypeScript | Node | React/Next.js | Postgres | Docker | K8s | LLMs We’re building the AI-powered
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by themanmaran 10mo ago
Did you just generate a GPT rant and find-replace every — with --?
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by themanmaran 10mo ago
You could build one today! Lots of hard problems around a proper humanoid form, but if you're cool with wheels it would be pretty easy to hook up a little robot to GPT.
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by themanmaran 10mo ago
Yea mixed up my units in a couple places. Should be: - Solar: 1–2 MW of average power; ~24–48 MWh of energy per day. - Diesel: about 60 MW of mechanical power while underway; ~1,440 MWh of energy per day.
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by themanmaran 10mo ago
Unfortunately, it's not even close. Maybe 1-2% in a highly optimistic scenario. - 20k square meters of hull space - If fully covered with solar panels, on a sunny day, you could expect 1-2 MWh (when averaging in night time) - Current d
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by themanmaran 10mo ago
Simon Wilson has some good blogs on this: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Aug/26/gemini-bounding-box-vi...
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by themanmaran 10mo ago
"reasoning" models like GPT 5 et al do a pre-generation step where they: - Take in the user query (input tokens) - Break that into a game plan. Ex: "Based on user query: {query} generate a plan of action." (reasoning tok

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