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Comment · 2 months ago
If you saw OpenAI launch Computer History you might have seen that data collection and aggregation are becoming more prevalent.

It turns out it's useful!

But having all my data sent to an AI lab in realtime feels wrong.

So I built an open-source version instead. Interestingly, local inference worked in my testing though it's certainly lower quality. Once we capture more data, we can explore LoRA adapters to improve local quality even more.

Open to feedback!

Comment · 1 year ago
This is a funny post. Shows how deeply technical folks fail to understand business, risk, and open source.

Chromium is great. Why exactly should they innovate their first? A v1 should take whats available and not seek to reinvent the wheel.

Comment · 1 year ago
Also curious how the agent works?
Comment · 1 year ago
The worst ever YC demo and company I've ever seen.

Technology is supposed to make the world better. This is vile, and the script itself shows the founders do not care or understand what they are doing.

Comment · 1 year ago
Love the idea.
Comment · 1 year ago
I guess, just my opinion (probably worthless), if you can get it to speed up even ~20%, I think that would be enough to make the average person agree.
Comment · 1 year ago
How much faster will the robotic arms be able to go? Currently this looks far too slow, though as a v1 it's great.
Comment · 1 year ago
Those look... far worse? What am I missing.
Comment · 1 year ago
I almost thought the opposite, but im no db guy.
Comment · 2 years ago
But annoyingly sometimes this is great advice. It's not that dissimilar to YC's make something people want, but it relies on you having taste/needs/wants that are an addressable market. Which is sometimes true.
Comment · 2 years ago
Will be excited to see the typescript bindings once out. We may be able to use this to handle some of our workloads at Embra.

Will reach out! Congrats on the ship.

Comment · 2 years ago
The difference in the size of the TAM of consumer vs military application must be wild.

Seems radically useful for military apps. Somewhat useful for RV/camper vans. Cool either way.

Comment · 2 years ago
Sounds to me like he made a couple unfortunate moves:

- Propose a 5 year plan (lol) - Don't lead the incident with leadership, but with blame - Speaking about problems more than solving problems (hard to do) - Lack of relationship building

On one hand, I empathize with Chris. On the other hand, this sounds to me like he just didn't know how to perform in this environment. And that's totally fine! Not everything should learn how to perform in the bureaucratic knots -- startups are simpler in this way. And there's a reason the big guys lose their edge over time, and then some exec in a board room is faced with -10% YoY loss without any truthful VPs around the table.

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