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low-TAM recruitment post: looking for someone who has experience in (any of): - self-hosting open-weight LLMs at scale - fine tuning, RL - self-prompt optimisation, e.g. GEPA - caching, speculative decoding high hourly rate to mine your experience over a call
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timelapse of Sail one-shotting a project management app
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A human-facing IDE for watching agents work in real-time on top of the dependency graph of the software they're building. Easy way to review the architecture/see changes happen without having to read the code.
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A bit more about sail: The core idea is an inversion on agent coding orchestration: - before: agent reads/writes files, runs tests. unless guided, over time architecture drifts, context gets bloated, it forgets to do stuff instructed. - with sail: agent reads/writes code directly through the sail CLI. if it makes an a...
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Working on something new - a TypeScript programming environment built for agents, not humans. npm i -g sail
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Working on something new - a TypeScript programming environment built for agents, not humans. npm i -g sail
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On the introspection debate: - you can't get much done if you're constantly distracted by ego thought: "can I do this?" "will I actually achieve what I want" "wow I'm so great/powerful/terrible/strong/weak". the more you think about how what you're doing relates to your own conception of "I", the less time you have to...
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Hallo Berlin! Here for at least 3 months, based in Neukölln. Keen to get involved in the local builder scene :)
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My third ever time hitting HN front page!
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How I built a sub-500ms latency voice agent from scratch | Nick Tikhonov
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How I built a sub-500ms latency voice agent from scratch | Nick Tikhonov
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got codex working on the same prompt for an hour now 👀 that's a personal record for me, all tests passing so far.
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having a lot of fun with my BitClaw. I keep giving it new tools and tinkering with it's source code to modify its core behavior. some things it does for me, now on a regular basis: tracks workouts, gives nutrition advice manages my inbox, auto-archives spam schedules meetings, manages my calendar feeds granola transcr...
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looking for work! open to consult and help you build AI products. I have experience in: - voice agents - recommendation systems - large-scale data/sentiment analysis - agents and harnesses
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built my own claw - 1.2k LOC (vs. openclaw's 400k and nanoclaw's 7k) - runs claude agent sdk in a container, so it's secure - all the core stuff working: memory, crons and heartbeat - it knows how to install and customise itself (just run claude in the dir) - talk to it on telegram, or just ask it to upgrade itself to...
GitHub - NickTikhonov/bitclaw: A functional, secure and self-building claw in under 1500 lines of code
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GitHub - NickTikhonov/bitclaw: A functional, secure and self-building claw in under 1500 lines of code
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here's the app I've built to help me learn 60 new Chinese words every week. included: generate rich media flashcards, spaced repetition, AI sentence translation and a lot of nerdy stats (including a model of your memory!) slowly growing the beta - we have 4 active users now! I'm looking to onboard a few more. If you'r...
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ok one project written up and wrapped up. now I want to build my own openclaw. I like openclaw, but I want to run my agent on my own machine, and there's no way I'm running openclaw on my own machine.
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built a SOTA voice agent from scratch in ~1 day. ended up beating off-the-shelf platforms by 2× on latency (~400ms e2e)
Building sub-500ms SOTA voice agents from scratch | Nick Tikhonov
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Building sub-500ms SOTA voice agents from scratch | Nick Tikhonov
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