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Comment · 4 months ago
You should add a timer. Bullet chess is fun
Comment · 4 months ago
Wait until LLMs is used for medical diagnoses or court decisions.
Comment · 4 months ago
Anonymous records feel like one of those features that are obviously useful once you work with JSON-heavy systems, but surprisingly uncommon in statically typed languages
Comment · 4 months ago
Why it's called Gaussian?
Comment · 4 months ago
Most great products are nothing, but well-timed and well-executed stolen ideas.
Comment · 4 months ago
Interesting, but I think it works only for quick ad-hoc analysis. For dashboards or deeper research, you still need other tools
Comment · 4 months ago
If you live by the sea or on a boat, you don't need AC
Comment · 4 months ago
Unfortunately, model quality is not the only criterion for users, and often not even the most important one. Adoption is also driven by marketing, UX, integrations, pricing, ecosystem, and a lot of other non-benchmark factors.

Also, model providers are not interested to have their models compared head-to-head under identical conditions. And “Model A is better than Model B” is almost meaningless by itself. Better for what task? With what prompt? What inputs? What budget? What failure tolerance?

It would be nice to have a place where users could run their own benchmarks, define evaluation criteria for their actual use cases, and make those runs verifiable by others.

Comment · 4 months ago
Totally agree. I used to work with a team that built a project for creating ontologies of Git repositories. The goal was to help LLMs onboard faster and navigate the repo better.

In the end, it became heavy overengineering: people no longer understood not only the repo itself, but also the extra layer describing it. Meanwhile, coding assistants are already quite good at reading codebases directly.

Comment · 4 months ago
It would be nice to see some metrics. I think the missing layer here is evaluation. If agents are going to produce applications, the platform needs not only guardrails, but public-ish evidence that those guardrails actually catch failures

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