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Patterns is building a platform to abstract away data science busywork

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36 pointswebmaven10 comments

Not sure the author understands what busywork is. It isn’t “tedious” work, it’s “work that doesn’t matter/has little value but we want to keep people busy.”

This is a pedantic criticism, the sentiment of reducing tedious work isn't lost by the current title.

This looks really polished. Patterns Studio App could empower a lot of non-technical users.

How do you plan to position yourself next to Scale's Spellbook, Vellum or others?

Serious question:

The title says "Patterns is building a platform to abstract away data science busywork," but the article body then says "Patterns, a platform that abstracts away AI model engineering."

That doesn't seem like the same thing at all. Am I just out of the loop on what data science is these days?

“Patterns is the platform for any exec looking to prepare for the new world of AI, stay ahead of the transformation it will bring to their business and start building core AI features into their product and operations,” Van Haren told TechCrunch in an email interview. “We help companies to handle the incredible rate of progress of AI, which involves adapting to new models and paradigms quickly.”

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But how?

Plus there are also already a million AI/ML platform services that claim to make this or that task easier or faster. Meanwhile "auto ML" stuff has been simmering for years, performing automated feature and model architecture search. What exactly does this one do?

At a glance this looks like closed-source langchain - is that a fair comparison?

Founder here, our core product is workflow software and infrastructure.

We love langchain, you can run it in Patterns actually!

New startup idea: Building an LLM to do all your ML work for you.

Relevant XKCD:

https://xkcd.com/2054/

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