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This startup seems to have been at it a while.

From our look into it - amazing speed, but challenges remain around time-to-first-token user experience and overall answer quality.

Can absolutely see this working if we can get the speed and accuracy up to that “good enough” position for cheaper models - or non-user facing async work.

One other question I’ve had is wondering if it’s possible to actually set a huge amount of text to diffuse as the output - using a larger body to mechanically force greater levels of reasoning. I’m sure there’s some incredibly interesting research taking place in the big labs on this.

I've heard a few stories of QA departments being near-burnout due to the increased rate developers are shipping at these days. Even we're looking for any available QA resources we can pull in here.

No harm meant with the question - but what's the advantage over Claude Code + the GitHub integrations?

I'd intended my message to be one of actual hope and optimism - that those in the position to do so may affect a small positive change in the world at the individual level. This might be myopic by ivory-tower standards, but the intention was to empower and encourage people not to give up, and that their actions do have a measurable effect on their destiny.

We might not be able to change the circumstances easily (We certainly should be trying to do so), but parallel to this we can support and encourage those going through the tough times.

Many Gen-Zs are demonstrating remarkable resilience - this post was intended as a celebration of that, not to downplay the severity of the society-wide issues at play.

Thanks for the fair critique.

For those with the means to do so, try hire the Gen-Zs out there who want to succeed despite the circumstances - especially the ones skipping college. They’re some of the most capable, self-motivated people you will ever have the chance to work with!

One difference is that you don't necessarily need structured data in, just output validation from the LLM. This is a big difference from ML because you're not having to worry too much about doing complex data engineering - or at least it solves the annoying ingestion problem in many cases.

Another observation is that most businesses don't have any ML engineering capabilities in-house - they're pretty much willing to pay a premium, because unlike the bespoke ML solutions, you can just do it with an off-the-shelf system (provided it's designed with the right validation loops).

The agent is in some ways an abstraction that just enables use and adoption - even if it would be orders of magnitude worse than normal ML solutions - it's competing against no solution, not ML-based ones.

Last thing is just around what level of autonomy people expect from these things. You can go pretty far, but like flipping N coins, the more you flip the greater the chance that something goes awry. Agents still need a lot of guidance and it's up to the system builders to bring that to them, either by connecting humans or very tightly integrated, well-designed tools.

This is why tools like cursor work so great, they’re able to work in a super tight feedback loop with the compiler, linter and tests. They operate in a super well-known, documented environment.

If we can replicate the same thing on business systems… that’s when the magic happens - just very hard to do without deep knowledge of those platforms and agentic AI because everyone does stuff differently in each org. The overlap of people with skills in both AI and specific business ops areas is absolutely tiny.

An example of where we’re using this is in a fully AI native CRM (part of SynthGrid - see https://mindfront.ai). We don’t even have any way to interface with it outside of AI, but we’d also never want to do so again anyway because the efficiency gains are so huge for us.

The Pareto frontier will continue to inexorably advance forward, dragging even the complex or non-standardized domains in with it. For those tightly integrated business systems, we’ll probably see huge gain in utility, if not function, from the improved underlying models combined with the excellent tools. Be sure to try out Claude 4 Opus hooked into some systems if you haven’t already!

We’re solving the problem of “How can agentic AI interface with legacy and existing business systems.” - if you’ve got a boring job and are tired of filling out forms in business software or swapping between 10 different systems, convince management to let us come and have AI do it for you.

https://mindfront.ai

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The idea is to not contradict the instructions, instead causing them to be re-interpreted to align with the goal.

They allow one team to move ahead without requiring group-level collaboration.

For software, they suck, but sometimes it’s the less-bad choice vs never getting anything done.