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today marks one full year working on
@ellipsis_dev
. before i started, i took one day off.
when Ellipsis fully automates my job, i will rest again
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introducing VimGPT: an experimental LLM agent/toolkit for fast file edits using
@Neovim
.
Compatible with all your favorite agent runtimes including
@LangChainAI
- thanks to
@LiteLLM
for client,
@promptlayer
for observability,
@helicone_ai
for caching!
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@patio11
i find this is often engineers thinking "but we can just have it be *correct*" before someone teaches them how to socialize
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awesome time at the
@ycombinator
alumni reunion this weekend
startup life is always a roller coaster, and it's invaluable to have a community like this with such good vibes
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here are some strategies i'm experimenting with to get extra energy in the morning
- low carbs
- 5 minutes of direct sunlight
- WAKE UP AT 4AM TO 30 SENTRY ALERTS
- cold shower
hbu
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prompt engineering late at night can lead you down some interesting paths
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what i love most about Pinecone is that it takes 10x as long to upload embeddings as it does to actually produce them in the first place. really lets me savor the experience
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no better feeling than when customers love
@ellipsis_dev
so much they feel compelled to thank the AI (and to send us a Slack for posterity)
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anyone want to join a themed book club?
disclaimer: i have no free time anymore so you have a few months to read
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update: switched from pinecone to
@turbopuffer
, and it's been an absolute joy to use. team has been super helpful with my qs too
what i love most about Pinecone is that it takes 10x as long to upload embeddings as it does to actually produce them in the first place. really lets me savor the experience
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huge new feature for
@ellipsis_dev
- the review agent will learn from your feedback!
just leave a 👍/👎 on Ellipsis review comments, and/or reply in thread with details
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how is everyone's experience with "AI Sales Rep" products?
got an email today that seemed to confuse our startup with a youth support non-profit in Iowa, and also imply that their platform can prevent murder...?
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whoever told me "finding PMF" was the hardest part about a startup had clearly never experienced SPRING ALLERGIES
destiny is written by the invisible hand of the tree pollen
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as a young engineer, i once told sought the aid of a Tech Lead, saying: "Lead, there is a bug in my code."
the Tech Lead replied: "There cannot be a bug in your code, for the code does exactly what you specified. The bug is in your mind."
in that moment, i was enlightened
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big feature release for
@ellipsis_dev
dropping on Product Hunt next week 👀
check it here so you don't miss it =>
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as a kid i never understood why adults seemed so happy when i held the door open for them
unrelated, a random 12 year old just held the door for me, it totally made my week and restored my faith in society
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currently at the gym, using
@ellipsis_dev
to ship bugfixes from my phone between sets
unreal opportunity for gains (in revenue)
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Fare thee well, Reading. I'm off to college, and I'll be back in 9 months with a 4.0 GPA, a Mercedes, six job offers and a fiancé.
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first round of internal evals on
@AnthropicAI
Claude 3, annihilates GPT-4 (and to a lesser extent, Gemini) on 32k-length search/retrieval/synthesis
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my favorite part about living in a pre-war building in NYC is that excessive luxuries like *heat* or *hot water* cannot be taken for granted.
the more emails like this I wake up to, the stronger I become
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is there something new in the air getting devs interested in prompt optimization? DSPy getting more reach?
have had three separate startups reach out about it in the last 24hr (to sell, not buy)
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@prasoonds
there are only two kinds of product launches on HN: the ones everyone roasts, and the ones nobody reads
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🚀 How to Ace the
@ycombinator
Interview
Interviews for the S24 batch are in full swing, here’s the advice I’ve been giving to everyone I’ve referred 🧵
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<in voice of Galadriel> and for you, startup founder, I give the Progress Bar of Vanta, our most beloved bar. May it be a hit of dopamine in dark places, when all other sources of dopamine run out
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turns out the GPT-4 release had a noticeable impact on my life
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@jxnlco
nah imo it's "we're a sports team", membership in a startup is contingent on performance, and you expect the coaches to be pushing you to be your best, not giving unconditional love
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not many people know that for 14 years I've been working on a satirical epic fantasy novel called Spellcraft as a Service
i don't have much time to write these days, but just hit a milestone: first time a stranger on the internet read it and reached out with kind words :)
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seven years ago I took a 2-hour train to see
@mwseibel
give a talk about YC at MIT, being in this audience was surreal 🙏
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search over combined code + past PRs is insanely convenient, my new favorite
@ellipsis_dev
feature
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one of the underrated benefits of making your product self-serve/PLG is the energy you get every morning when you wake up and see that revenue went up while you were sleeping
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if a startup launches on HN but prod doesn't horribly crash and burn under the extra load, does it still make a sound?
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why would chrome history not use this space to show me the actual URL instead of just the domain
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so sad how gpt-4-turbo continues to be unusable for coding agents, while gpt-4 languishes with no updates since June. feels more like GPT-3.75
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@ellipsis_dev
now supports a `quiet` mode if you want to suppress "LGTM" comments like this =>
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is there any better feeling than poking around for how to do something in VSCode, finding a related github issue from 2017, and then seeing that the feature finally went live 6 weeks ago?
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if GPT-4o is actually better across text use cases, i really feel for gpt-4-turbo-2024-04-09 - it had a shorter lifespan than a fruit fly
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super excited to launch Grit: we use LLM agents + static analysis to automate your large-scale codebase migrations!
You can migrate JavaScript -> TypeScript, Next.js 12 -> 13, and much more with just a click, check it out:
Most of the software we rely on, from e-commerce to aviation, desperately needs modernization.
With AI, we can finally deliver that upgrade painlessly.
I’m excited to release the open beta for Grit and announce that we’ve raised $7M.
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@nstfkc
"ship fast" is advised so often because (saas) startups are much far likely to die from shipping too slow than too fast. tons of startups fail simply because they never shipped anything at all
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shoutout to
@linear
team for <24hr turnaround to add a feature to their GraphQL api, this does help explain why their product is so nice
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@danielleboccell
is this just a question of what you/they mean by "understand"? sure we know some things, but take any mechanistic interpetability paper and they'll work very hard to explain a narrow behavior in a model much smaller than GPT-4
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@jxnlco
i've been on so many teams that let CI tests take hours just to save a few dollars
upgrading our runners to
@namespacelabs
has been a ridiculous productivity boost
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GPT-4 has made me ~10x more productive at the fun parts of coding (rapid prototyping, using a new language/framework) but has barely helped the hard parts (debugging, dependency hell), with the result that instead of making things feel easier, life is now "just the hard parts"
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having a bed at all during YC is purely symbolic, as there is no time for sleep.
Much like a D&D High Elf, a founder simply enters a 4hour meditative trance at their desk, wherein they mentally draft responses to customer emails
Our room during YC when we first started Mixpanel in 2009.
Stay strong founders. You got this!
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"i know looking at the data is important, but maybe this time is the exception” i think to myself
"maybe the data is already clean" i say as i comb the backlog for anything else to do
"there won't be anything unexpected in the data" i mutter as I rewrite the backend in rust
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"what's your AGI timeline"
-ambiguous
-moving goalpost
"what's your time to Kardashev Type 2 (or doom)"
-fuels imagination
-measures AI's effects, not its characteristics
-dyson sphere or gtfo
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@DanielW_Kiwi
@jxnlco
A monad M is anything you can flatMap:
def flatMap(m: M[A], f: A => M[B]): M[B]
or equivalently, map() and flatten()
def map(m: M[A], f: A => B): M[B]
def flatten(m: M[M[A]]): M[A]
def flatMap(m, f) = flatten(map(m, f))
Ex) Lists, Futures/Promises, Options...
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i think 5pm is the ideal time for a gym break because it's exactly halfway through the workday - perfect opportunity to reflect and plan
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curved 32" is the only correct size for a 4k monitor and all other sizes are dangerous and heretical
change my mind
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i know sonnet 3.5 is getting a ton of hype, but gonna be honest: I have yet to run a single eval where it outperforms gpt-4o, and it often does significantly worse :/
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5) 𝐒𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐥𝐲?
Yes! YC was an awesome experience for us - it changed the trajectory of our startup. Even if you don’t get in, we found the application process itself was valuable.
Want some eyes on your application? send me a message, happy to help!
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increasingly convinced platform-as-a-service is *amazing* right up until the moment when you get absolutely demolished
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pretty sure if i had a dollar for every meal i accidentally skipped bc i got carried away coding, that would pay for the rest of my meals
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very soon we'll have LLM agents behind every API call, with your digital clone coordinating hordes of specialist AIs to accomplish your every wish with perfect personalization
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@VicVijayakumar
i shudder to think of the decades of collective time humanity has probably wasted due to this design decision
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@_michael_z
@ycombinator
@ellipsis_dev
we're good for async tasks - PR reviews, and code gen with a sandbox that can build/lint/test your code
it only takes 30 seconds to install us into your GitHub/GitLab repo (free trial) and will *just work* automatically, you should give it a shot! 😄
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finally got around to removing the last vestiges of gpt-4-32k and turbo from our codebase
awfully convenient
@OpenAIDevs
made their models 24x cheaper over the last 6 months (while getting slightly better on our benchmarks)
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@skeptrune
really? imho there were whole categories opened by GPT-4, such as agents and codegen
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@mitch_troy
checkout
@ellipsis_dev
, tons of open-source projects and companies alike are using us for this exact use case! You can install in your repo in <30 seconds
I think when people think of AI code review, you think of them editing the code. But honestly, this is just as impactful.
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@Altimor
truly mind-blowing as an eng manager, my biggest timesink by far was convincing people to just post convos publicly and tag instead of DMing me to DM another engineer to DM another EM to...
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my debut short story "Flexitarian 2048" is out!
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@HunterFromNYC
@ycombinator
@ProductHunt
@coldreach_ai
@CentralHQX
@ellipsis_dev
love to see it, all different batches too
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tired of lame, sad forms? we built to let you create and fill forms with chat. it's faster, easier, more powerful, and open source! check it out:
🚀 Launch alert!
@N_S_Bradford
and I felt like forms needed an upgrade.
🚨 Introducing 🚨
Collect form responses through conversation.
Oh, and we've open sourced it:
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@jmj
what's a GPT with PMF? it seems like the same hype initial hype everyone had about plugins, which never really got adoption outside browser and code interpreter
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@danielleboccell
fair enough re: magic. We have scaling laws, but what behaviors will emerge as we push down the loss is guesswork, and I think being able to make predictions is an important part of understanding (and very few people predicted LLMs in advance)
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@pradeep24
yea we have to do a lot of manual repackaging messages into different formats, generating empty messages with tool call responses, etc
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@Keithamus
but have you tried reviewing it with
@ellipsis_dev
? very useful for catching subtle bugs in huge PRs
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tragic how society is just sitting back and letting Spotify degrade their UX.
I try opening it on Desktop, which used to look great, and.... ???
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4) 𝐊𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐲𝐨𝐮’𝐫𝐞 𝐠𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐲
What’s your path to $1B in revenue? Keep it simple. You don’t need a 5-tier pricing strategy and a multi-year product roadmap, you need to know roughly how many potential customers you have and how much they’re
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@imjaredz
we've been thinking of releasing this at
@ellipsis_dev
, how often does this come up for you guys?
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Is anyone working on a "
@nomic_ai
Atlas for production" - observability for embeddings when debugging RAG workflows or evaluating different embedding models?
Nomic has a great visualizer, but it's limited to static datasets
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@hassantsyed
yea. another way of saying it: markets don't become efficient on their own, they need active investors to respond to things. in highly liquid markets like US equities, there are so many actors moving so quickly that all the alpha is taken, so to an external observer they appear
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2) 𝐁𝐞 𝐬𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞. 𝐁𝐞 𝐝𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐭.
Explain your idea clearly in 1-2 sentences: who are your users and what problem do you solve? Avoid jargon, marketing-speak, technical intricacies, or an exhaustive list of features. Tacking on “...with AI” or “...with blockchain” is not
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An average (non-expert) person should be able to understand what you’re building and for whom.
Ours for
@ellipsis_dev
: “We’re a developer tool that automatically reviews code and fixes bugs.”
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local LLM chat is an essential tool, and this UX has been an actual joy to use
Launching GPT4All 3.0: The Open-Source Local LLM Desktop App
- Completely Private Experience
- Supports 1000’s of models and all major operating systems
- Major UI/UX Improvements
- Local File Chat
- MIT Licensed
Get started below:
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@cyrusofeden
@lateinteraction
ah, they were looking to sell not buy, but happy to checkout zenbase too!
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@BEBischof
checkout
@ellipsis_dev
😊 very easy to customize - here's an example on the Instructor repo by
@jxnlco
:
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@hassantsyed
@AnthropicAI
coming. sadly moving over agents is not quite as seamless as just switching providers because you have to tweak the prompts to get good performance.
@LiteLLM
very helpful for the rest though
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i currently get more messages from
@GoogleWorkspace
informing me that I'm receiving a lot of spam than I do actual spam
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@BEBischof
basilisk is a good one, but i prefer to imagine this is a combination of the Wheel of Time ouroboros with Asimov's "The Last Question", because that seems much more hopeful
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