bmulholland
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Email: hn bmulholland ca
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Comment · 29 days ago
Location: Berlin, Germany
Remote: Yes; also open to Berlin-based roles
Willing to relocate: No; happy to travel
Technologies: Ruby/Rails, PostgreSQL, GraphQL, Elasticsearch, LLMs, AI coding
Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brendanmulholland1/ — CV available by email
Email: [email protected]
Technical co-founder and former CTO with around 15 years in startups, spanning engineering and product. Most recently spent six years building Recital, an AI product for corporate legal teams, staying hands-on in the code while leading engineering.
Looking for senior IC roles in AI products/infrastructure or agentic engineering/developer experience. Particularly interested in making AI useful and reliable in production, and improving how teams build with coding agents. Also open to bounded consulting engagements.
Comment · 2 months ago
Probably! But not viable yet; the chips would be about a year behind SOTA. Note the ~16 months that the article quotes as being insanely fast to get this chip to tape-out (read: start producing). We'll have to bootstrap our way there: AI is actively being used to get us closer to viable lead times for this.
Unfortunately, there's some real physical constraints: IIRC, manufacturing a wafer takes on the order of a month, start to finish, for the physical processing.
Maybe once LLM improvements asymptote further?
Comment · 2 months ago
You're not missing anything. That's correct.
Comment · 2 months ago
Comment · 9 months ago
Most Berlin sidewalks are uneven cobblestone, not a flat uniform concrete, so the cleaning is probably a lot more difficult than you're envisioning :)
Comment · 11 months ago
Recital | Remote (Canada) | Full-time | https://recitalapp.com
In-house lawyers waste 25% of their time looking for stuff. Recital uses non-obvious ML approaches, uniquely enabled by LLMs, to help them find it. We're diving into the relatively-unexplored data buried in contracts, building layers of data analysis that are shown into an interface that feels simple and easy. It's an AI product that doesn't feel like an AI product.
We're a small, global, all-remote startup. It's our second startup in the space (the first was acquired). We follow modern product management (discovery) & development (DORA) practices, emphasize developer experience as an accelerator of customer value, and use provably effective management techniques (à la Manager Tools). Our team emphasizes strong emotional intelligence and self-awareness.
We're looking for Canada-based senior+ full-stack developers, with solid professional experience in both Ruby on Rails and a modern frontend framework (Vue, React, etc). Experience in data wrangling is a bonus.
Comment · 1 year ago
I'm curious what others' experiences have been with this. I haven't tried it out yet. Is it comparable to Cursor's capabilities? More on par with VS Code Copilot? Something else entirely?
Comment · 1 year ago
Eh, from the company's perspective this is logistically easiest--the laptop's value is hardly worth the effort.
Comment · 1 year ago
Recital | Remote (Canada) | Full-time | https://recitalapp.com
In-house lawyers waste 25% of their time looking for stuff. Recital uses non-obvious ML approaches, uniquely enabled by LLMs, to help them find it. We're diving into the relatively-unexplored data buried in contracts, building layers of data analysis that are shown into an interface that feels simple and easy. It's an AI product that doesn't feel like an AI product.
We're a small, global, all-remote startup. It's our second startup in the space (the first was acquired). We follow modern product management (discovery) & development (DORA) practices, emphasize developer experience as an accelerator of customer value, and use provably effective management techniques (à la Manager Tools). Our team emphasizes strong emotional intelligence and self-awareness.
We're looking for Canada-based senior+ full-stack developers, with solid professional experience in both Ruby on Rails and a modern frontend framework (Vue, React, etc). Experience in data wrangling is a bonus.