Makes sense! Agreed on the diversity for agents being a bit contrived here.
All of the retrievers do support pre-filtering, you just add the where clause within the retriever function. We're working on more query optimization to make this automatic also.
>> it is getting harder for small software vendors
I think maybe this trend will continue and not specifically for indie developers, but for all software vendors. If AI becomes capable of producing genuinely highquality software, competition will intensify, and the industry will start to resemble the music industry. Alternatively, AI may continue to generate software that is not necessarily high quality but is largely indistinguishable from competing products; in that case, the market for lemons dynamic will apply. In either scenario, the value of software will decline...
I think that mathematical proofs, as they are actually written, rely on natural language and on a large amount of implicit shared knowledge. They are not formalized in the Principia Mathematica sense, and they are even further from the syntax required by modern theorem provers. Even the most rigorous proofs such as those in Bourbaki are not directly translatable into a fully formal system.
Yup. I'm starting to wonder if the startup space has a pretty big blind spot not realizing that how easy it is to build mostly/semi functioning software is not a unique advantage...
I left an AI startup to do tech consulting. What do I do? Build custom AI systems for clients. (Specifically clients that decided against going with startups' solutions.) Sometimes I build it for them, but I prefer to work with their own devs to teach them how to build it.
Fast forward 3+ years and we're going to see more everyday SMBs hiring a dev to just build them the stuff in-house that they were stuck paying vendors for. It won't happen everywhere. Painful enough problems and worthwhile enough solutions probably won't see much of a shift.
But startups that think the market will lap up whatever they have to offer as long as it looks and sounds slick may be in for a rude surprise.
Of course it still makes sense to have a startup. Not because you will ever find a decent enough market. But if you are well connected enough you can find a VC and play with other people’s money for awhile.
You aren’t doing it to get customers, it’s for investors and maybe a decent acquisition
Tested it on a bug that Claude and ChatGPT Pro struggled with, it nailed it, but only solved it partially (it was about matching data using a bipartite graph).
Another task was optimizing a complex SQL script: the deep-thinking mode provided a genuinely nuanced approach using indexes and rewriting parts of the query. ChatGPT Pro had identified more or less the same issues.
For frontend development, I think it’s obvious that it’s more powerful than Claude Code, at least in my tests, the UIs it produces are just better.
For backend development, it’s good, but I noticed that in Java specifically, it often outputs code that doesn’t compile on the first try, unlike Claude.
I have the feeling that we are still in the early stages of AI adoption, where regulation hasnt fully caught up yet. I can imagine a future where LLMs sit behind KYC identification and automatically report any suspicious user activity to the authorities... I just hope we won’t someday look back on this period with nostalgia :)
I took it as an honest question, but the quotations mean you're probably right. For the record, it's still a widely used term in DEI contexts, even though there has been some criticism and alternatives promoted:
There were a lot of signs in America at one point in time that said "No Coloreds", "Colored Section", and similar phrases to indicate the spaces that white people had decided non-white people could or could not go.
At the same time, there were not a lot of signs saying "No Persons of Color" or "Persons of Color Section".
Likewise, my grandfather who died 35 years ago was very fond of saying "the coloreds". His use of the term did not indicate respect for non-white people.
Historical usage matters. They are not equivalent terms.
To who? Not to me, and I don't have a single black friend who likes "person of color" any more than "colored". What gives you the authority to make such pronouncements? Why are you the language police? This is a big nothing-burger. There are real issues to worry about, let's all get off the euphemism treadmill.
I loved the article, but it overlooks one important point: although the JPEG format is frozen, encoders are still evolving !
Advances such as smarter quantization, better perceptual models, and higher-precision maths enables us achieve higher compression ratios while sticking to a format that's supported everywhere :)
This is true, but there are limits. It's a little bit like DEFLAT. Sure, very advanced compressors like Zopfi exist which can get better compression ratios. But then, there's also just Zstd which will get a better compression ratio and compression speed trivially.
Anywhere from 5-15% if I remember correctly depending on source material. I was at one point thinking this would make JPEG-XL and AV1F moot because all of a sudden JPEG became good enough again. But the Author of JPEG-XL suggest there is still so much JPEG-XL encoder can do to further optimise bit / quality especially in the bpp below 1.0 range.
What I like about mechanical watches is that, having survived a near-death experience when quartz watches were introduced, they’ve evolved into a completely different kind of product. It’s fascinating that, unlike most other businesses and products, people don’t buy them for their utility, and the less automated their production process, the better. Brands like A. Lange & Söhne even pride themselves on assembling their movements twice.
When inefficiency and craftsmanship are considered features rather than flaws, you have an industry that won’t easily be replaced by AI or robots.
In a quick web demo, this library was the only one that could handle interactive viewing and manipulation of a very large graph using its GraphGL component !
I don’t think it's a well-known visualization library, but it's quite interesting ...
Not sure if Michael Roth is related to Philip Roth, but it somehow reminds me of American Pastoral and that era of protests against the Vietnam War and its aftermath. I'm not entirely sure how those demonstrations compare to the ones we’re seeing today, but the parallels are striking
On Instagram this is a good thing, but here the example is hotel and flight search, where a more deterministic result is preferable.
In the retrieve → filter stage, using predicate pushdown may be more performant: first filter using hard constraints, then apply hybrid search ?
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