taw1285's comments

For the less experienced devs, how should I be thinking about choosing between this vs Amazon Aurora?

Curious if anyone has applied this "Skills" mindset to how you build your tool calls for your LLM agents applications?

Say I have a CMS (I use a thin layer of Vercel AI SDK) and I want to let users interact with it via chat: tag a blog, add an entry, etc, should they be organized into discrete skill units like that? And how do we go about adding progressive discovery?

This tracks for me. I have deleted TikTok and Instagram but now I find myself browsing X short videos!! Addiction is a crazy thing.

I have a daily 30 minute one way commute. I usually put on a YouTube video about startup or tech talk. But I find myself forgetting it all the day after. I am curious how you go about remembering the content without being able to take notes while driving.

Thank you for this article. I have yet to discuss with my doctor about this. But I have noticed several issues that are severely lacking for me compared to my peers:

1. My brain drifts away very easily. Even in an important work conversation, my brain just starts thinking about a completely different project or upcoming meeting. 2. I have a hard time remembering things/events that my spouse and others can easily recall (ie: which restaurants we have been to) 3. I can't seem to form an opinion on very basic things like do you like restaurant A or restaurant B better? do you like option A or option B? I can't decide or come up with any heuristics.

At first I chalk it up to I am being too critical about myself and others are having the same issue. But that doesn't seem to be the case. Can these all be rolled up in the same conversation with my doctor?

This is so amazing. Are there any resources or blogs on how people do this for production services? In my case, I need to rewrite a big chunk of my commerce stack from Ruby to Typescript.

Your comment really helps me improve my mental model about LLM. Can someone smarter help me verify my understanding:

1) at the end of the day, we are still sending raw text over LLM as input to get output back as response.

2) RAG/Embedding is just a way to identify a "certain chunk" to be included in the LLM input so that you don't have to dump the entire ground truth document into LLM Let's take Everlaw for example: all of their legal docs are in embeddings format and RAG/tool call will retrieve relevant document to feed into LLM input.

So in that sense, what do these non-foundational models startups mean when they say they are training or fine tuning models? Where does the line end between inputting into LLM vs having them baked in model weights

I am fairly new to all this data pipeline services (Databricks, Snowflakes etc).

Say right now I have an e-commerce site with 20K MAU. All metrics are going to Amplitude and we can use that to see DAU, retention, and purchase volume. At what point in my startup lifecycle do we need to enlist the services?

This is very interesting to me. From this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43472971, I am wondering if there are anecdotal stories of how equity is being handled after a split.

On one hand, if the leaving co-founder retains all equity, it creates a sandbagging situation on a cap table that's no longer useful to the business. On the other hand, it feels right for the leaving co-founder to enjoy some upside for the years they put in.

I want to get better at taking project notes for work via Obsidian. I'm curious if you have a different page per project or do you just put everything in the same giant log? I like the idea of organizing it, but it takes me a bit of time to find out which notebook it should go under.

Love it! It would be cool to be able to auto tag cuisine type. Did you use an LLM to scrape and parse receipt details?

> 20-30 Lambda functions for different services

My team of 6 engineers have a social app at around 1,000 DAU. The previous stack has several machines serving APIs and several machines handling different background tasks. Our tech lead is forcing everyone to move to separate Lambdas using CDK to handle each each of these tasks. The debugging, deployment, and architecting shared stacks for Lambdas is taking a toll on me -- all in the name of separation of concerns. How (or should) I push back on this?

does this approach make sense for an app-router based nextjs app hosted on vercel?

This looks fantastic. I want to recommend this to my team. We are a small consulting team building apps for clients. I have a few questions to help me pitch my team and clients better: 1. the usual "vendor locked in". Is there a recommended escape hatch? 2. any big clients on this yet or at what scale do you expect people to start rolling their in house product