benjaminfh

Congrats team! Really enjoyed the warts and all video - those fly-away moments remind me of my first drone flights :D

Are you mostly software stack focused or designing lots of hardware too?

Super interesting. I need to give it a proper read through with fresh eyes!

I just posted a Show HN re my graph storage for research chat sessions - curious on your thoughts!

Really awesome and thoughtful thing you've built - bravo!

I'm so aligned on your take on context engineering / context management. I found the default linear flow of conversation turns really frustrating and limiting. In fact, I still do. Sometimes you know upfront that the next thing you're to do will flood/poison the nicely crafted context you've built up... other times you realise after the fact. In both cases, you didn't have that many alternatives but to press on... Trees are the answer for sure.

I actually spent most of Dec building something with the same philosphy for my own use (aka me as the agent) when doing research and ideation with LLMs. Frustrated by most of the same limitations - want to build context to a good place then preserve/reuse it over and over, fire off side quests etc, bring back only the good stuff. Be able to traverse the tree forwards and back to understand how I got to a place...

Anyway, you've definitely built the more valuable incarnation of this - great work. I'm glad I peeled back the surface of the moltbot hysteria to learn about Pi.

This is cool - I’ll definitely give it a try.

Re the patent of voice control, does it really sound defendable? That sounds a bit too obvious to be patentable at the level of “observe speaker’s speech and adjust text accordingly”, I’d have thought. Maybe they’ve patented a particular technical approach but now there must be dozens of voice to text models that you could leverage in a slightly different way. I’d love to try the result of something like that.

Seems to get a bit funky if I scroll on the screen while it’s playing. It changes the speed permanently until I reset. The speed slider also seems to invert after that??

I love the premise and I felt that a lot in SF. The transport system is not really a complex enough network that I need to be shown routing options. Just wanted to know when to leave the house and not stand at the stop for 20 minutes :’(

(In a highly networked place like London, seeing all options is helpful)

In those places salary (and good public services) follows respect

The next worst is to popularise its beauty on Instagram :’( . As a hobbyist landscape photog I have a complicated relationship with this

Do you do extra spam filtering? I see the advantage of not always giving out my email (I use Apple relay sometimes) but ultimately, a thing that routes to my email is another avenue for spam (until I kill that route).

Clay is expensive for sure. To clarify, it’s more of a data enrichment tool than a sequencing tool.

Do you do much in terms of SEO on the post pages?

Does WP actually provide (1) any more? I built my first personal (photog) website on WP about 10 years ago and it was ideal. I went to do a simple website this year and WP is web builder framework inception - it’s web builders all the way down. You install a theme and it brings its own rat nest. So yes, I think it’s cooked but was before this spat. Webflow is simple. I assume there’s an OSS alternative by now(?)

I had mixed feelings until I read the quote “better not to waste the credit”. That attitude rubs me up the wrong way for (a) a take what you need if/when you need it type perk and (b) someone being paid 400k.

I wouldn’t want to employ someone who saw their sick leave as something they deliberated used up in full each year (even when they didn’t need it). It’s a similar attitude IMO.

Do you have an ICP in mind right now? Reason I ask, is that while hyper scaler to hyper scaler makes sense and I can see that being easy to digest and therefore valuable to many, many enterprises are actually making more complicated trade offs. Namely a managed SaaS solution vs. (a pipe dream) of build it themselves on hyper scaler infra. IMO that’s the really interesting question plaguing enterprises and I saw it a lot when at Palantir doing pre sales engagement.

In practice, the hyper scalers often “buy” an enterprise customer by undercutting the incumbent (eg when a new CIO comes in), which makes the sticker price arbitrary a lot of the time.

I think a lot about software for productivity (my own niche obsession is note taking / retrieval). How much do you see this as a people problem? Specifically, I think there’s something usefully weighty about manual friction in defining follow up tasks (and writing notes manually) and automating these things can be unhelpful. Creating these artefacts helps my think, remember, re-think and prioritise. I basically wonder if automating things that engineering teams don’t like doing, means they can avoid engaging in the planning and put a tick in a box that it’s being done. I’m old fashioned though ;)