keithwhor

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by keithwhor 7mo ago
The economics of production cost, investment and distribution have created a lopsided industry where only guaranteed hits get funded. Less soul = pandering to more people. With new tools we can reduce the production costs of great movies co
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by keithwhor 7mo ago
My guess is that intelligence gets commodified to the point where LLMs and diffusion models are sold on chips and we seamlessly integrate them into the HW + SW stack. Then they’re just another abstraction; we talk to our computers to get th
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by keithwhor 7mo ago
A friend and I are working on something like this. It’s more Slack-adjacent; the problem we’re tackling is, “what does a future where agents seamlessly integrate with day to day communication look like?” We’re a little more focused on the d
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Ask HN: Should engineers who use less inference be paid more?
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by keithwhor 1y ago
One that goes boom.
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by keithwhor 1y ago
You’ve just described what Roblox is already doing.
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by keithwhor 1y ago
It’s also possible for LLMs to be inevitable, generate massive amounts of wealth and still be mostly fluff in terms of objective human progress. The major change from my perspective is new consumer behavior: people simply enjoy talking to a
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by keithwhor 1y ago
I think it's likely we learn to develop healthier relationships with these technologies. The timeframe? I'm not sure. May take generations. May happen quicker than we think. It's clear to me that language models are a net acc
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by keithwhor 1y ago
I am building a company in this space, so can hopefully give some insight [0]. The issue right now is that both (1) function calling and (2) codegen just aren't really very good. The hype train far exceeds capabilities. Giving great de
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by keithwhor 1y ago
I think this is a cop out. OpenAI literally published a better integration spec two years ago, stored on `/.well-known/ai-plugin.json`. It just gave a summary of an OpenAPI spec, which ChatGPT could consume and then run your funct
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by keithwhor 1y ago
In the grand scheme of things I think we are still very early. MCP might be the thing which is why I'd rather try and contribute if I can; it does have a grassroots movement I haven't seen in a while. But the wonderful thing about
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by keithwhor 1y ago
Quick follow up: I anticipate alignment issues as well. Anthropic is building MCP to make the Anthropic experience great. But Anthropic's traffic is fractional compared to ChatGPT - 20M monthly vs 400M weekly. Gemini claims 350M monthl
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by keithwhor 1y ago
On MCP's Streamable HTTP launch I posted a issue asking if we should just simplify everything for remote MCP servers to just be HTTP requests. https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/modelcontextprotocol... MCP as
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by keithwhor 1y ago
I've been programming since I was eight, but truly fell in love with biology in 12th grade chemistry: the first introduction to organic chemistry and biochemistry. It was the first time I truly started grokking the application of syste
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by keithwhor 1y ago
I mean you don’t need gRPC. You can just treat all tool calls as SSEs themselves and you have streaming. HTTP is pretty robust.
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by keithwhor 1y ago
At least this uses existing standards, which was my biggest gripe with MCP. That said - protocol whiplash. And it might get worse.
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by keithwhor 1y ago
If this is a bet, I'll happily take the other side and give you 4:1 on it.
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by keithwhor 1y ago
I don’t disagree. I fought this battle for a long time — ran a company where I tried to simplify SDK development by making every endpoint POST and JSON params; sorta like SOAP / just simple RPC. Why do you need all the HTTP methods whe
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by keithwhor 1y ago
That makes sense. But if that's the case I think we should call a spade a spade and differentiate "Local-first MCP" and "Remote MCP"; because what (many, most?) companies are really trying to do is integrate with
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by keithwhor 1y ago
Would disagree there — system integration probably accounts for like 90% of development work; just at different layers of abstraction. It’s evergreen work that companies are endlessly trying to eliminate or automate yet keep running headfir
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by keithwhor 1y ago
This is very cool but definitely has the XKCD standards vibe [0]. If the industry is standardizing on MCP but then we decide it's not good enough, we just end up back where we started. I hope there's enough willpower (and low enou
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by keithwhor 1y ago
The good thing to note is that (AFAIK) MCP is intended to be a collaborative and industry-wide effort. Whereas plugins was OpenAI-specific. So, hopefully, we can contribute and help direct the development! I think this dialogue is helpful a
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by keithwhor 1y ago
The `stdio` approach for local services makes complete sense to me. Including using JSONRPC. But for remote HTTP MCP servers there should be a dead simple solution. A couple years ago OpenAI launched plugins as `.well-known/ai-plugin
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by keithwhor 1y ago
Today MCP added Streamable HTTP [0] which is a huge step forward as it doesn't require an "always-on" connection to remote HTTP servers. However, if you look at the specification it's clear bringing the LSP-style paradig
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by keithwhor 1y ago
Great read. I think connecting with nature while you’re young is great — when you’re older, even better. Would love to read more of these.
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by keithwhor 2y ago
DeepSeek V3 is easily the best cost / performance non-reasoning model on the market but accessing it via API is not straightforward -- at least for people who want their model hosted in the US. For the layperson OpenAI / Anthropic
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by keithwhor 2y ago
This is incredible. IMO, saving one life justifies every cent invested into OpenAI. How many thousands (or many, many more) will we never know about? This is a huge differentiator from Google, where doctors sigh and act aggressively skeptic
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by keithwhor 2y ago
Conversely, I think you're overestimating the impact of the value (or lack thereof) of technology over distribution and market timing.
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by keithwhor 2y ago
(1) That's a big if. It requires building a team specialized in delivering what Cursor has already delivered which is no small task. There are probably only a handful of engineers on the planet that have or can be incentivized to devel
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by keithwhor 2y ago
I think an argument could be reasonably made that the app layer is the only moat. It’s more likely Anthropic eventually has to acquire Cursor to cement a position here than they out-compete it. Where, why, what brand and what product custom

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