Scotrix
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Technical enthusiast, startup founder, in the look to fix one of the biggest challenges mobile games developers are facing with publishing…
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Comment · 3 months ago
I run 3 servers for 200 EUR, thanks to Hetzner, exactly for this reason (and I’m cheap and I never understood cloud/services like Vercel and Railway as serious alternatives ;-)).
Comment · 7 months ago
Chuck Norris doesn’t die.
Comment · 9 months ago
Comment · 10 months ago
Quite a beast for a very good price…
Comment · 11 months ago
I played a lot with LLMs over the last year and built a multitude of products with it and it’s always just the same bottom line outcome:
- be specific
- keep it small
- be precise when adding context
- don’t expect magic and shift deterministic requirements to deterministic code execution layers
All this is awfully painful to manage with current frameworks and SDKs, somehow a weird mix of over-engineered stuff while missing the actual point of making things traceable and easy changeable once it gets complex (my unpopular personal opinion, sorry). So I have built something out of my own need and started to offer it (quite successfully so far)to family & friends to get a handle on it: Have a look: https://llm-flow-designer.com
Comment · 11 months ago
While working on a new startup I had exactly the same challenges and issues. As soon as it gets complex, data gets bigger, amount of tools increases it becomes tremendously difficult to control agents, network of agents or anything LLM related. Add then specific domains like legal or finance where most of the time there is just 0 or 1 and nothing in between (metaphorical speaking) it becomes a nightmare in code and side effects.
So I started to actually build something to solve most of my own problems reliably and pushing deterministic outputs with help of LLMs (e.g. imagine finding the right columns/sheets in massive spreadsheets to create tool execution flows and fine tuning finding a range of data sources). My idea and solution which helped not only me but also quite a few business folks so far to fix and test agents is visualizing flows, connect and extract data visually, test and deploy changes in real time while keeping it very close to static types and predictable output (other than e.g. llama flow).
Would love to hear your thoughts about my approach: https://llm-flow-designer.com
Comment · 1 year ago
Just find a Hoster with low traffic egress cost, reverse proxy normal traffic to Cloudflare and reply with 2GB files for the bot, they annoy you/cost you money, make them pay.
Comment · 1 year ago
would be good to have an indicator if it’s available with your distro by default or what package you’ll need to install it since all tools are only as useful as available they are…
Comment · 1 year ago
+1 I dropped school relatively early (I was extremely bored and the way of education was certainly somewhere close from the Stone Age times). I did an apprenticeship as software engineer with some (extremely useless) school component. Most of the time in the late 90ties was trial and error, for me, the master and the master of masters. Playing around with Linux and make it ISDN routers with servers for websites built in HTML, Perl, PHP. This was devops (before it got hyped) and real engineering by figuring stuff out with almost no documentation, a lot of crazy creativity and push the boundaries of what’s possible. And it reminds me just a little like today’s world with AI and vibe coding just on a complete different level and with significant more pressure…fun times :-).
Comment · 1 year ago
cool, i'll have a look. thanks for sharing.
Comment · 1 year ago
I input text and preferably I output JSON but doesn’t matter much as long as it’s somewhat structured.
Ultimately I’d like to extract information like date ranges, specific indications of tool usages (e.g. I have a bunch of data apis with their own individual data and semantic meaning which need to be picked and then a combination of tools to transform the data)
Comment · 1 year ago
The first few seconds/minutes I felt the same but it was fine quite fast. I think the typical spotlight reindexing was the culprit.
Comment · 1 year ago
I switched as well and I actually use the AI assistant since then primarily. It’s awesome to connect search directly with AI, almost always get what I want immediately.