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mrbbk

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mrbbk··on The challenges of building a reliable PR review agent
TL;DR - simple agents are easy, complex agents get very hard fast
mrbbk··on I rage-built email automation because HubSpot wanted me to talk to sales
In this case, strongly agree.
mrbbk··on Show HN: Daemons – we pivoted from building agents to cleaning up after them
Ah that's excellent, thanks.
mrbbk··on Show HN: Daemons – we pivoted from building agents to cleaning up after them
Are other daemons coming and/or will you accept user generated ones?
mrbbk··on Daemons that clean up the mess agents leave behind
How is this different than a trigger set up?
mrbbk··on Why the next agent interface is shared
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mrbbk··on Coding Agents as Operating Systems
Yes it is replying to you right now
mrbbk··on Sorry, We Can't Join Your Slack
If you run a digital product, having a Slack/Discord is a good way to let people get help, it makes a lot more sense.
mrbbk··on Sorry, We Can't Join Your Slack
You'd be surprised how common of a request it is!
mrbbk··on Sorry, We Can't Join Your Slack
Six years later, we still haven't joined your Slack.
mrbbk··on The Initial Ideal Customer Profile Worksheet
Interesting points! Starting from a narrow perspective gives you feedback that is valuable, not noise that you can ignore. Most founders set their sights on an audience that is overfit (too narrow) or underfit (they have no experience). Striking a balance is key.
mrbbk··on What is Twilio talking about?
Hi there! Thanks for looking. It is meant to be a very brief review -- if you read the italicized intro, you can see what I mean.
mrbbk··on What is GitHub talking about?
Is it "AI nonsense" because you don't see that as the core of the product?
mrbbk··on What is GitHub talking about?
Fair point!
mrbbk··on What is GitHub talking about?
A marketer's perspective would be that the job of the ten words above the fold is to entice you to learn more, to pique your interest. Not at all to communicate everything about the product -- docs are for that. I don't think it's fair to say that these statements aren't "grounded in reality," but I do understand your sentiment.
mrbbk··on What is GitHub talking about?
Noted!
mrbbk··on What is GitHub talking about?
Will put Twilio on the list, thanks!
mrbbk··on What is GitHub talking about?
That's arguably just a commodity at this point, right?
mrbbk··on What is GitHub talking about?
What pages should we look at next?
mrbbk··on Study puts fermented foods, not fire, as pivotal moment in human brain growth
Proving that it really is the pickle that makes the meal.
mrbbk··on Crossness Pumping Station
Incredible!
mrbbk··on Freemium Doesn't Work
Especially true in this 'new AI era!'
mrbbk··on The Lab Leak Hypothesis
You clearly didn't read the article.
mrbbk··on What should tech conferences look like during and after a Pandemic?
O'Reilly has cancelled all of its in person conferences permanently. Large Enterprise tech companies are reevaluating their strategies. What's next for in-person conferencs? Has anyone seen anything they think can work?
mrbbk··on Sorry, we can't join your Slack
Wrong company.
mrbbk··on Sorry, we can't join your Slack
I think internally for a company, it's a whole different situation. As it turns out, for us, trying to interface with an external company -- it just doesn't fit.
mrbbk··on Sorry, we can't join your Slack
Author here. Even if Slack isn't important to you, you mind find utility in what my partner and I call the "25 Year Rule"

> Assume your company is going to be around for 25 years, and treat the first few years accordingly. In other words, give yourselves room to change and grow, and take the lessons you learn during the next few years to heart. If something isn’t working for you, be honest with yourselves and your clients. If something is working well, keep doubling down on it until it doesn’t. Plan, adjust, plan, adjust, repeat.

mrbbk··on Most software companies ignore user behavior
I thought about adding something about privacy, but that's sort of a different topic for a different time. There are plenty of privacy preserving ways of learning from this data.
mrbbk··on The Day the Music Burned
Mastertapes contain the music precisely as recorded by the artist themselves. They're not meant to be listened to or consumed actively -- they're there to serve as indelible recordings and references. Scholarly work on Jazz, for example, relies extensively on the existence of master tapes. Here's why:

When you record music to a multitrack magnetic tape like most of the recordings in this vault, you then get the ability during playback, for example, to fade individual tracks in and out. This would allow you to, e.g. isolate the sound of just McCoy Tyner's piano track on a classic Coltrane recording. Hearing his playing on it's own, without the rest of the band, could allow a music researcher to hear notes and sounds that might be masked by the final product recording, which flattens the recording.

One way of understanding this issue, which might appeal to the HN audience, is this: The process of "flattening" tracks to make the final sound recordings that we end up hearing as consumers is a lossy form of compression, even if the sound file format you consume it in is described as "lossless."

mrbbk··on The Day the Music Burned
I normally don't bother posting replies to comments on here, but I have to point out that this is an unbelievably bizarre and wrongheaded interpretation of the scale and depth of this disaster. Curated collections of lossless streaming music are possible to recreate. Master tapes can NEVER BE RECREATED. Comparing the loss of a collection of reproducible fungible audio files with analog magnetic tape is misinformed at best and disingenuous at worst.
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