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Ben Burns

@benjamincburns

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Engineering @LangChainAI - DMs open.

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Joined March 2009
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Ben Burns
7 months
I don't know what it is exactly, but I've been falling back in love with writing code lately. I know there is a lot of fear over AI floating around, but honestly I don't think there's ever been a better time to dive back in and start building something.
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RT @BraceSproul: šŸŒSiteRAG - an open source Chrome extension for RAG SiteRAG allows you to quickly extract the page/website contents and inā€¦
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RT @Hacubu: So excited for this! Come join us in SF to connect with some of the best and brightest in the industry. Star-studded speaker lā€¦
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Ben Burns
1 month
RT @Hacubu: šŸšØ LangChain is putting on an AI Agents conference this year! Stay "in the loop" and grab your ticket below:
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Ben Burns
1 month
@ashamil435 @BraceSproul @ollama You can connect to most anything you care about via LiteLLM. Itā€™s a reverse proxy that exposes an OpenAI-compatible API.
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Ben Burns
1 month
RT @BraceSproul: šŸ“‹šŸ¦™Local LLMs with Open Canvas Open Canvas now supports using local LLMs through LangChain's @ollama package! Now you canā€¦
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Ben Burns
1 month
@AmandaAskell The turn-based conversation model feels like a kludge. It should fluidly move in and out of the driverā€™s seat as a human would. Ideally it would also be able to decide to sit and think for a bit, and refine its previous response with a follow up message. Agents need more agency.
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Ben Burns
1 month
Thanks for the shoutout, @Hacubu! It was a pleasure to work on this with you guys, and I still canā€™t believe that Iā€™ll be joining the team in less than two short weeks! Really looking forward to the year ahead! šŸ’œ
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Jacob Lee
1 month
šŸ„³ Thanks to the entire @LangChainAI šŸ¦œšŸ”— JS/TS community for making 2024 fantastic! We passed 20 MILLION core downloads in 2024 (LangGraph.js + LangChain.js >0.0.x), and 2.6 million in November alone! And I'd like to single out a few contributors in particular... šŸ§µ (1/11)
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Ben Burns
6 months
@t3dotgg nice job actually following through on the promise of exposure re: the UT design contest. I'm curious, now that it's over, would you do it again? If a ton more people participated, how would you scale it? I imagine design contest award shows aren't a great YT niche.
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Ben Burns
11 months
Thinking chargeback thoughts.
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Ben Burns
1 year
@nicksdjohnson Are you paying for work output, or buying shares? For profit companies (VC-funded or otherwise) absolutely can and do produce works that are public goods (e.g. FOSS). Why would it be a bad thing if some VC-funded firms were incentivised to do more of that?
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Ben Burns
1 year
RT @atdavidmurdoch: Should I fork Ganache and try to keep it up to date in my spare time? I won't have time to update Ganache UI or add neā€¦
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Ben Burns
2 years
Just Wednesday things...
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Ben Burns
2 years
@slaterkodish that tree was a ficus? It might not have died. They're divas and like to drop their leaves like crazy. If you still have it, check in with r/marijuanaenthusiasts on reddit (r/trees was taken). They'll hook you up.
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Ben Burns
2 years
So I've been learning to cook Neapolitan style pizza...
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Ben Burns
2 years
RT @i0n1c: My email password got hacked again. Thatā€™s now the fourth time Iā€˜ve had to rename the cat.
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Ben Burns
2 years
@Modular_AI I'm afraid that your survey has a fatal flaw, and you're probably getting bad data as a result. It assumes that respondents are currently employed. Incentivising the survey compounds this issue, as it gives the respondent motivation to lie.
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Ben Burns
2 years
@Modular_AI your JDs say "this role is based out of North America." Does that mean that you only consider candidates who are physically located in NA?
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Ben Burns
2 years
@TheFigen_ It's a pram bug living inside the hollowed-out corpse of a salp.
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