Aaron Villalpando
@aaronvi
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Building a framework for AI called BAML. (YC W23). @BoundaryML
Joined August 2011
We are hiring Rust devs to work on building out a programming language (BAML) with crazy new, useful features for making AI pipelines. Our entire team is senior+ engineers. We are a team of 5. We work hard and in person in Seattle. We accept new grads. The interview is not
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I think people may be underestimating the Meta AI /VR glasses. It’s one piece of tech ive seen more and more normal people use
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Achieving 20%+ improvement in structured extraction tasks using @DSPyOSS and GEPA Building on a blog post from @CleanlabAI I wanted to see how quickly I could optimize a structured extraction task with DSPy + GEPA In about 3 hours (mostly me getting in the way of claude code):
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Wild how people will just assume the worst intentions
I find it obnoxious how @Rippling (and others) turn payday from "we are fulfilling our end of the employment bargain" into a "dance, monkey, dance for your money" bullshit presentation that I, as the employer, cannot disable.
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oof Claude is completely down. Definitely wish we had at least 99.9% availability
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Here is a great coding benchmark: We have a json error-correcting parser with 465 tests and many unique parsing cases -- e.g. missing quotes, extra commas, etc. It can be quite slow compared to normal json parsing and could be made 5x faster. There is no LLM that can do this yet
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not being able to stream json is a skill issue
JSON not having streaming/comments support will be the death of it in the age of AI engineering @mojombo's toml > yaml because it's sane and streamable, but for whitespace dependency. idk about TOON, not in the data enough, but someone should create a TOONbench and just make
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It is funny seeing this happen. Like basically LLMs are so good at slurping text but we need nice little knobs and colors to keep the humans entertained
This is the most exciting trend in design. TUIs and GUIs are converging. While TUIs are getting more two-dimensional by the week, I suspect we'll see a trend of GUIs that are rendered (and work) more like modern-day TUIs. Can call that future style, "Tuimorphic."
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If claude code does everything why don’t you just write it all in C
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(Fun fact: the distillation paper was rejected from NeurIPS 2014 because it was "unlikely to have significant impact").
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My life always gets more interesting when I go off script
You have to be weird. You all have to find the right way to be weird. The normal path today is one of total inertia, grooves carved into life that guide you forward but away from the most fascinating possibilities. Life like every fairy tale begins when you go off-script
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this workflow builder (and nearly 99% of workflow builders are designed in a backwards way -- you should be going from code to a UI, not the other way. You can't get claude code or gemini to help you build this. And even non-technical people can use claude code. Non-technical
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The second one seems like it’s the fault of javascript, not the llm.
I'm slowly giving up on coding agents for certain things. - Code quality overall mostly bad - It loves to do inline `await import` - It often duplicates code that already exists At the end I'm spending more time babysitting with worse output
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It's hard for me to recommend using python to someone new to code, even with AI help. There are still too many ways to shoot yourself in the foot. The main one is not enforcing any types. You have to explain to this new user the concept of typing.
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The best thing you can do for your career is work at a startup at some point. You can always go back to big tech but you’ll learn 5x faster
Have to admit it If you have only done engineering at Meta you probably wouldn't know - what is a "service" - how to deploy a simple Go/Node/Python independent app - REST APIs - how to deploy your own DB - how to split a monolith into services - any language outside of
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the real benefit of people liking this is that we can finally move away from tool-use apis and go back to good ol' json parsing
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we are making a thing
We're making a programming language for AI in Rust. https://t.co/YTRiPZrvTO
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