beemaestro's comments

I have to say, this is pretty neat! Most examples of this that I have seen have been in Python. But the flexibility of REST opens up a lot of possibilities.

One thing I’m curious about is if function calling can reduce token usage and by how much. GPT 4 is quite expensive for any large app with a lot of usage.

Okay this might be an overkill but my images are on CloudFront. I store them in S3, which get served through the CDN. It’s practically free at my scale. The actual blog is a GitHub pages site.

I worked at Ab Initio for two years before I left about a year ago. It is the successor to Thinking Machines that is referenced by the article but not mentioned by name. Today, Ab Initio is wildly successful but nobody knows about it because that’s how Sheryl has engineered both the internal and external culture of the company. The paranoia and bureaucracy the article discusses are very much alive and well at Ab Initio. But so are Sheryl’s culinary taste and aesthetics.

Sadly, the Ab Initio Wikipedia section that discusses its Thinking Machines connection (no pun intended) has been scrubbed recently. I don’t know if that’s because the company’s current culture is too reminiscent of the past or just an attempt at rebranding.

Ab Initio is a great tech company and I would recommend people to check it out (unfortunately you cannot apply there directly; they have a way of finding people). I left because it wasn’t the right place for me.