destraynor

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co-founder at Fin http://fin.ai I write on the Ideas Blog http://ideas.fin.ai @destraynor on Twitter. destraynor.com

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Low-Rank KV Attention: 50% Less Memory, Better Models fin.ai

2 destraynor 6 months ago 0 comments

Scroll to Accept? – AI's pull-to-refresh moment ideas.fin.ai

3 destraynor 9 months ago 0 comments

Optimising DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-7B for use in production fin.ai

4 destraynor 1 year ago 0 comments

Agency vs. Control vs. Reliability in Agent Design fin.ai

21 destraynor 1 year ago 5 comments

Comment · 1 year ago

Agree - and for once not by a VC who's basically creating a thirst trap for startups

The AI Dev Tools Landscape 2025 landscape.ainativedev.io

18 destraynor 1 year ago 4 comments

Comment · 1 year ago

100% there's definitely trade-offs here

Sparkling specificity – prompting will die, but specificity won't intercom.com

2 destraynor 1 year ago 2 comments

Stephen Fry and Brian Eno discuss AI and what changes it might bring youtube.com

3 destraynor 1 year ago 0 comments

Tessl raises $125M for a zero maintenance, spec-centric AI software dev platform tessl.io

24 destraynor 1 year ago 4 comments

Comment · 2 years ago

100 times this. The hardware is great. The software sucks.

I literally can't believe in 2024 it's still not straight forward to "send a blog post from my phone to my remarkable" without some mangling happening along the way. It was genuinely jawdropping for me, I ended up contacting an employee on LinkedIn to confirm that this wasn't a well supported workflow

Comment · 2 years ago

Congrats on the launch, and thanks for using Intercom (co-founder here)

Comment · 2 years ago

Thanks for featuring Intercom in your site :-)

Comment · 3 years ago

I wrote about how we did it at Intercom here: https://www.intercom.com/blog/how-intercom-got-our-first-cus...

In short it was a combination of individual customer outreach our CTO jumped on Skype (yes Skype) to help with installing, I did handholding through onboarding, I ran "webinars" to like 4 people, or less. Everything was just tiny tiny steps.