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New comment by creaghpatr in "I built an AI receptionist for a mechanic shop"

creaghpatr — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 16:39:46 +0000

Amazon support does this pretty well with their chat. The agent can pull all the relevant order details before the ticket hits a human in the loop, who appears to just be a sanity check to approve a refund or whatever. Real value there.

New comment by creaghpatr in "Golfing Is Not Rowing"

creaghpatr — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 19:55:34 +0000

>Then there is the true reality unbound by theory like course management is, where if you thin the hell out of that 3 wood it is still going to skip forward at least 130 yards making it a safer shot than the 9 iron with a risk free attempt at the green coupled in.

Yes, I improved when I accepted that the objectively correct decision based on a perfect shot execution was not necessarily the right decision for me. Subtle but crucial distinction I didn't have at the beginning and had to develop with experience.

New comment by creaghpatr in "Golfing Is Not Rowing"

creaghpatr — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 14:38:17 +0000

I loved this. Having recently transitioned from running ultramarathons to trying to break 100 on the course, I figured I already had the discipline to brute force effort my way by hitting balls 4-5 days per week. It wasn't until I worked with a coach and rebuilt my swing from scratch that I began to see any improvement and I actually got worse in the beginning for weeks.

One thing the two sports have in common is that good decision-making has much more leverage than in short distance sports like swimming and shorter road races (and presumably rowing, I wouldn't know). Most of my score improvement in golf so far has been due to making better shot decisions on the course rather than improved shot execution. Feels like a life metaphor in there somewhere but im sensitive about becoming one of those ppl who compare everything in life to golf.

New comment by creaghpatr in "How private equity is changing housing"

creaghpatr — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 19:21:52 +0000

Probably the latter, the appraisal is typically mandated by the bank issuing the mortgage.

New comment by creaghpatr in "Lessons from interviews on deploying AI Agents in production"

creaghpatr — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 14:11:41 +0000

Agree with your prediction in many cases but not bookkeeping. The whole point of bookkeeping is to balance the ledger to the penny so people would toss bookkeeping altogether before accepting a 'probabilistic' output. Agents will be used to accelerate the recon process though, or maybe they will become advanced enough to provide a (correct) deterministic result.

New comment by creaghpatr in "Chipotle stock craters: young people without jobs cannot afford their food"

creaghpatr — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 18:05:58 +0000

Someone tweeted it somewhere, but Chipotle should make a burrito that is half the size and half the price.

New comment by creaghpatr in "Meta Ray-Ban Display"

creaghpatr — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 14:24:11 +0000

Meanwhile, I saw someone using their windshield mounted phone to watch videos while sitting in traffic yesterday (and driving erratically as a result which led me to notice). The self-driving cars can't come soon enough.

New comment by creaghpatr in "Uber raises in-office requirement to 3 days, claws back remote workers"

creaghpatr — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 13:26:42 +0000

Got to enjoy a National Championship though

Nigel, JFrog Is Cloud Native. Here's the Evidence You Missed

creaghpatr — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 13:35:36 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/@yonatanarbel/no-nigel-jfrog-is-cloud-native-heres-the-evidence-you-missed-15a898150c7a

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43716607

Points: 1

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New comment by creaghpatr in "Benchmarking LLM social skills with an elimination game"

creaghpatr — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 02:23:17 +0000

Would love to see a 'Murder Mystery' format of this.

New comment by creaghpatr in "Crew-9 Returns to Earth"

creaghpatr — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 17:10:09 +0000

I think OP meant relative to the 70s.

New comment by creaghpatr in "Google to buy Wiz for $32B"

creaghpatr — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:44:47 +0000

>That data could be fed to GCP sales team though customers might riot if that happens

Large enterprises don't sign the stock terms and conditions that would enable this, most do or should have legal teams redlining contracts around how cloud data is accessed and used by vendors. Maybe Wiz is so good they would agree to it, but it would get challenged and negotiated during the sales cycle.

New comment by creaghpatr in "What happens to SaaS in a world with computer-using agents?"

creaghpatr — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 01:36:15 +0000

The analysts know where the bodies are buried, so to speak. The execs may not even be aware there are bodies.

New comment by creaghpatr in "Next stop: Miami"

creaghpatr — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 20:26:11 +0000

They are frequently spotted but not yet available in ATL.

New comment by creaghpatr in "Training myself to run farther with Strava's API and an IoT dog feeder of M&Ms"

creaghpatr — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 17:58:16 +0000

It can be approximated using your age, HR, efficiency, etc. The treadmill/mask test is more accurate though.

New comment by creaghpatr in "Legalizing Sports Gambling Was a Mistake"

creaghpatr — Fri, 27 Sep 2024 14:42:19 +0000

Not the bettors as much as the organizations facilitating it.

New comment by creaghpatr in "CrowdStrike to Delta: Stop pointing at us"

creaghpatr — Mon, 05 Aug 2024 15:39:11 +0000

More specifically, a huge amount of legal negotiation goes into a B2B SaaS deal between parties of this size up front, incl liability caps, SLAs, and MSA, etc. One of the bigger obstacles in the sales cycle even (getting legal alignment).

New comment by creaghpatr in "Schwab users are unable to log in"

creaghpatr — Mon, 05 Aug 2024 14:21:10 +0000

Except Robinhood halted 24 hr trading last night https://www.investing.com/news/stock-market-news/robinhood-h...

New comment by creaghpatr in "Is a 'slow' swimming pool impeding world records?"

creaghpatr — Wed, 31 Jul 2024 21:05:46 +0000

Thats pretty nice, when I swam the 500 I would have to lift my head to see the lap counter dropping the sign in the pool which messes with your head position

New comment by creaghpatr in "If AI chatbots are the future, I hate it"

creaghpatr — Thu, 11 Jul 2024 12:46:30 +0000

I've found Amazon's customer support bot excellent for teeing up a chat with an actual human support agent. It collects all the context up front so the actual chat is about the substance of the issue. Still need a human for taking follow up actions in most cases though (ie. processing a refund, contacting the seller on your behalf, etc)