Nicolas Bustamante
@nicbstme
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CEO @Fintoolx (AI Equity Research Copilot) | prev. founder @Doctrine (acquired). Value investing & BJJ 🇺🇸
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Joined January 2022
As a Frenchman I agree.
Just 250 documents can poison an LLM training run with a sleeper agent. American clearly needs to send a secret agent to Mistral HQ with a USB stick full of Kid Rock lyrics to teach the French about the value of a cold beer, an F150, and a pretty girl by your side.
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@emollick First, it solves our hardest tests. Next, it will solve our hardest unsolved problems.
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AI is accelerating product bloat. Teams can ship features 10x faster, so they do - without asking if they should. Result: Frankenstein products with features bolted on, no coherent design, high cognitive load. AI gives you 80%. Your job is the remaining 20%: solve real user
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AGI: filesystem/grep/glob/read
I have increased confidence that the core AGI algorithm will be less than 10k loc (intelligence is a process, not a model).
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@nicbstme is probably the best writer on where LLMs are going right now The trend in brief is increasing context windows and more capable models. Pipelines built to feed the model the right information (RAG etc) are being replaced by direct API calls with open tools. How do
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Localhost:3000 and locahost3001 Welcome to SF.
best sf tech week events to go to?
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How Cursor's codebase indexing works: "At our server, we chunk and embed the files, and store the embeddings in Turbopuffer. To allow filtering vector search results by file path, we store with every vector an obfuscated relative file path, as well as the line range the chunk
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Looking at a Honduras drug dealer counting their cash in front of my San Francisco office in the Mission made me realize those guys make more ARR than most of the startups in my building
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Prediction: OpenAI Dev will be about agent SDK. They can’t afford to lose the agent war to Anthropic. Whoever controls the agent controls which model is used (aka API business $$$)
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