rushingcreek

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Founder and CEO at Standard Signal (YC P26)

Previously co-founder & CEO at Phind (YC S22)

https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelroyzen

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Comment · 3 months ago
Many people are talking about price, but I think that the most interesting aspect of this release, by far, is customization.

Any startup can download the weights, tinker with them, and fine-tune them. The real win here isn't necessarily cost, but performance on your data and IP sovereignty. It's a huge win. Kudos to the Kimi team.

Comment · 4 months ago
This seems like AI washing to me. If the company was already doing well, the AI investments should allow it to grow faster and therefore still be able to give employees bonuses. This announcement implies they view this as a zero-sum investment. Well-run businesses tend not to think this way.
Comment · 7 months ago
Very cool, congrats! I'm curious how you were able to achieve this given Apple's many undocumented APIs. Does it use private Neural Engine APIs or fully public Metal APIs?

Either way, this is a tremendous achievement and it's extremely relevant in the OpenClaw world where I might not want to have sensitive information leave my computer.

Comment · 9 months ago
One major point I haven’t seen mentioned is maintenance.

Nvidia GPUs, particularly H100s, have a failure rate orders of magnitudes higher than traditional CPU-only hardware. I myself have accidentally melted an H100 during a large-scale training run.

While it’s trivial to replace a broken GPU in the ground, it seems to be infeasible in space during the life of the satellite. Getting a human or robot “fixer” spacecraft to it would likely cost more than the $30K GPU itself.

Comment · 9 months ago
Greptile is a great product and I hope you succeed.

However, I disagree that independence is a competitive advantage. If it’s true that having a “firewall” between the coding agent and review agent leads to better code, I don’t see why a company like Cursor can’t create full independence between their coding and review products but still bundle them together for distribution.

Furthermore, there might well be benefits to not being fully independent. Imagine if an external auditor was brought in to review every decision made inside your company. There would likely be many things they simply don’t understand. Many decisions in code might seem irrational to an external standalone entity but make sense in the broader context of the organization’s goals. In this sense, I’m concerned that fully independent code review might miss the forest for the trees relative to a bundled product.

Again, I’m rooting for you guys. But I think this is food for thought.

Comment · 10 months ago
Congrats on the launch! Definitely a problem I’ve run into myself.
Comment · 11 months ago
Thank you, will take a look!
Comment · 11 months ago
Thanks for the specific example -- I'll take a look at this. In the meantime, you can use old.phind.com if you still want the old experience.
Comment · 11 months ago
I hear you, but why not use something like Google AI Mode or AI Overviews for that? That's pretty hard to beat for simple questions in terms of speed, especially for one-liners.
Comment · 11 months ago
thanks for reporting!
Comment · 11 months ago
sorry to hear that -- could you please elaborate?
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Comment · 11 months ago
What type of apps would you like to see it make? How does this version of Phind work for it? And thanks for sticking with us :)
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