Packet Farmer. Product and Engineering at https://xitter.cf/t.co/4WPKnSJwVU
Champaign, IL
Joined April 2010
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I'm out here trying to make grain marketing as simple as possible. If we can get rid of steering a tractor, we can make contracts, hedging, and insurance more straightforward.
Advice is not my game - I build great tools.
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Eric Barnard retweeted
Even if we get 10x better reasoning in the next wave of models, I see 2 major problems that will likely delay agents being real: cost and reliability.
In the current prompt-in-text/data-out, costs are already brutal on frontier models to the point where product margins are razor thin compared to traditional SaaS.
When it comes to agents, running the current frontier models in a loop is comical at current price points. It’s ngmi. At minimum, new middleware is going to be needed to properly select model size for the task(s) at hand, queue + batch process, and efficiently pass around state, files, and memory.
Even if that’s all solved (which it’s not), there’s another elephant in room: reliability.
Frontier model provider’s error rates are abysmal relative to other parts of the stack. This problem is already acute when all you’re doing is little chat or completion. But with agents, you’re effectively rolling the dice again and again and again. Reliability must be at nearly 100% for them to work and that’s so far from reality right now.
Exactly what we have @harves_iq … forgot to mention automated end-to-end tests that gate deploys and prevent regressions. Were not perfect but we rarely make the same mistake twice
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Pretty sure I can hear coyotes howling in the neighborhood… that or its other parents with small children.
Hour 6 of @i3Broadband outage … and its getting tough. My kids are curled in balls on the floor sobbing bc all their toys only work w/ companion apps on the iPad. I showed them a basketball but they said they werent that desperate yet.
Eric Barnard retweeted
Just discovered this corner of the internet where people in Thailand are strapping a 12 valve Cummins diesel on to a small boat and racing.
I have never been more inspired
Do NOT mock the database (or whatever is the primary data store).
Majority of backend code is just data reads and writes. Biggest value in testing is knowing those code paths work.
You can make those tests run in parallel and be fast with much less work than it takes to mock pg
"Thou shalt mock nothing [except third party services] in tests" - @alexdotjs
Do you agree?
Browsers? This is not a new concept. Instead of manually crafting the buttons and textboxes AI will handle that … but devs likely just move up and focus on training AI to generate contextually correct UX
Yep. Add: pray that other 2 kids sleep at least 6hrs
Day in the life of a small business guy:
4:30 - feed baby & pray he doesn’t puke
- listen to Bible
5:30 - peloton & hope I don’t puke
- listen to peloton pop music
6:30 - help get other kids up
- listen to giggles and grumbles
7:00 - head to office
7:30 - set priorities for day and emails
9:00 - office team meeting for week
9:20 - rough draft training curriculum
11:00 - film “why choose us” video
1:00 - 50k uncomfortable conversation
3:00 - pick up daughter from school
4:00 - training curriculum & math games
4:30 - sales manager prep for week
5:25 - head home
Post work routine sprint - Dinner, bed time, feed baby, talk with wife, head to bed
Do it again
