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shaburn··on Ask HN: Who is working on a SOC2 Security Audit Agent while you sleep"?
thats what the auditors that charge a fortune are for
shaburn··on Trump wins presidency for second time
You should now assume your sources are compromised if you did not expect this
shaburn··on Launch HN: Skyvern (YC S23) – open-source AI agent for browser automations
Would be great to have a fixed blockchain based event log, ideally encrypted.
shaburn··on Ask HN: Would you let AI negotiate a raise for you?
How would you score your ability to negotiate 1 to 10 (10 as the best)?
shaburn··on Ask HN: Where do I get the data to have an LLM help me grow food?
Which books? Where do I find them exactly? More quantitative than qualitative. More like SEC data.
shaburn··on Ask HN: Where do I get the data to have an LLM help me grow food?
My brain.
shaburn··on Ask HN: Where do I get the data to have an LLM help me grow food?
I mostly just want to know how much water/nutrients to provide it and when.
shaburn··on SEC Probes Investment Advisers' Use of AI
Current Admin = EA ... "'The speed of SEC rule-making has created difficulties for firms. The IAA said the SEC should take a step back from that proposal and work with the industry. “The pace of the rule-making and the complexity of the proposals and how they may interact with each other puts a large burden on the compliance department to be able to practice in a way that is coherent,” Ropes & Gray’s Longo said.' "
shaburn··on LLM Visualization
Visualization never seems to get the credit due in software development. This is amazing.
shaburn··on Ask HN: How can political bias across LLMs be factored?
I beleive the model bias is highly influenced by the modelers. See Grok and OpenAI.
shaburn··on Ask HN: How do you keep up with advances in AI-assisted programming techniques?
LlamaIndex, HuggingFace, LangChain, and Ludwig are functioning as partial proxy aggregators of what is working and working better than alternatives. Most people in this space have multiple models for virtually every step in their heads. You cannot and should not process them. Thus you need aggregation and filtration on some objective(s) and presumptions with a purpose or you're a boat on a turbulent sea.

One simple tool I use to evaluate is how easy is it to spin up a working demo, in isolation or context of other tools, to show the maturity of thought on the idea moving to application. If there is no benchmark on output(s) before you start that is more science/fantasizing than business. but maybe that's your goal, just don't delude yourself in what you're doing. I also look up project leads on Linkedin and such since these things require push and without a good promoter, usually don't pan out(see crypto for example).

Buried lead: I've built a few tools allowing me to parse the tree and graph structures of new projects in charts/schemas to get quick visuals for myself and the LLMs I use to code. Additionally, I have built tooling to test rapidly. For if everything is dynamic, optimizing measurement is quite valuable in and of itself.

shaburn··on Ask HN: How will software architecture change in light of LLMs?
Why will function names and variables be named better? Will this also apply to the better code bases?
shaburn··on Ask HN: How will software architecture change in light of LLMs?
I think structure will shrink and simplify to fit context window token limits at the expense of developer(human) experience and developer bias.
shaburn··on Show HN: Uproot – See and feed LLMs project structure down to functions via CLI
Problem: How do I give an LLM context of a code repo with a limited token window? Solution: Top-down tree-like map parsing files
shaburn··on Ask HN: Who is responsible/liable for an LLM Output?
I am not referencing republishing the output results. That is a seperate act entirely. There are countless examples, particularly in regulated usecases, where threads are audited. Thus, who is liable for the output of the LLM in those threads?
shaburn··on Ask HN: Who is responsible/liable for an LLM Output?
I don't understand how a user will be liable when they are receiving non-deterministic outputs and have no objective way to know or control what they receive.
shaburn··on Ask HN: Who is responsible/liable for an LLM Output?
There exists legal precidents for all other forms of software and content production. Why is this different?
shaburn··on Ask HN: Who is responsible/liable for an LLM Output?
My primary question is from a legal standpoint, partially in response to new US regulation coming online.
shaburn··on Ask HN: If you have LLM/Agents do you still need a co-founder?
GPT-4 with Web Browsing: Co-Founder vs LLMs General then Specific Situation...

____________ General... Advantages:

Complementary Skills: Co-founder: 15 LLM/Agents: 0 Investor Confidence: Co-founder: 15 LLM/Agents: 0 Decision Making and Strategy: Co-founder: 10 LLM/Agents: 0 Moral Support and Resilience: Co-founder: 10 LLM/Agents: 0 Networking: Co-founder: 10 LLM/Agents: 0 Liability and Responsibility: Co-founder: 5 LLM/Agents: 0 Customization and Creativity: Co-founder: 10 LLM/Agents: 0 Downsides:

Conflict: Co-founder: 0 LLM/Agents: 10 Equity Dilution: Co-founder: 0 LLM/Agents: 10 Speed of Decision Making: Co-founder: 0 LLM/Agents: 5 Operational Complexity: Co-founder: 0 LLM/Agents: 5

_____________ Now Specific situation of prospective co-founder is unknown, the Founder is a repeat Founder with domain expertise and technical talent with a very large network. And the LLMs have been tailored and are part of the company offering...

Advantages:

Complementary Skills: Co-founder: 5 LLM/Agents: 10 Investor Confidence: Co-founder: 5 LLM/Agents: 10 Decision Making and Strategy: Co-founder: 5 LLM/Agents: 10 Moral Support and Resilience: Co-founder: 5 LLM/Agents: 0 Networking: Co-founder: 0 LLM/Agents: 0 (Assuming the repeat Founder’s large network suffices) Liability and Responsibility: Co-founder: 2 LLM/Agents: 3 Customization and Creativity: Co-founder: 5 LLM/Agents: 10 Downsides:

Conflict: Co-founder: 0 LLM/Agents: 10 Equity Dilution: Co-founder: 0 LLM/Agents: 10 Speed of Decision Making: Co-founder: 0 LLM/Agents: 10 Operational Complexity: Co-founder: 0 LLM/Agents: 5

shaburn··on Ask HN: If you have LLM/Agents do you still need a co-founder?
I am. And it is the best experience I've had so far, including having worked with technical founders from top schools and 8 figure exits.
shaburn··on OpenAI is too cheap to beat
Only hundreds of billions at stake if successful.
shaburn··on OpenAI is too cheap to beat
Your Uber/AirBnB/Wework all have physical base units with ascending costs due to inflation and theoretical economies of scale.

AI models have some GPU constraints but could easily reach a state where the cost to opperate falls and becomes relatively trivial with almost no lowerbound, for most use cases.

You are correct there is a race for marketshare. The crux in this case will be keeping it. Easy come, easy go. Models often make the worst business model.

shaburn··on Ollama is now available as an official Docker image
This will unlock a ton of Enterprise use cases. I have met with a number of enterprises that have a hard no on sending much of their data into OpenAI, even on Azure. I think this will persist as the brand faces many hurdles with respect for IP, in public perception.
shaburn··on Hired by Google as L4 but rejected by top colleges
Then what are the comp sci departments screening for and why?
shaburn··on Ask HN: Why aren't we using ChatGPT in the CLI?
No. And I beleive there is a ton of product to be built to account specifically for this in big systems.
shaburn··on Ask HN: Why aren't we using ChatGPT in the CLI?
I started on this 4 weeks ago on my own but haven't published.
shaburn··on Every database will become a vector database sooner or later
Postgres and Mongo support it. ElasticSearch incorporates vector search. I have failed to identify an objective difference(beyond marketing nomeclature) between any pure play vector solution after exaustive research.
shaburn··on Bloomberg Outlines Succession Plan for Bloomberg L.P
https://archive.ph/oqhuJ#selection-353.0-353.53
shaburn··on Costco now offering virtual medical care for $29
That costs less than transportation to many doctors required for insurance approvals.
shaburn··on How many medical studies are faked or flawed?
Really curious how a profitable industry like medical research ranks against less profitible.
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