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New comment by elijahbenizzy in "Apache Burr: Build reliable AI agents and applications"

elijahbenizzy — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 17:32:25 +0000

So decorators here specifically attach metadata to make a function a reusable component. Builder makes a workflow. In Hamilton it's all decorators because it's purely declarative construction (sans reusability, really).

New comment by elijahbenizzy in "Apache Burr: Build reliable AI agents and applications"

elijahbenizzy — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 17:26:35 +0000

Right it was a bit of a joke. Originally stefan and I presented frameworks when we were at stitch fix -- stefan called his "hamilton" and I called mine "burr". His was better for the use-case. But then we wanted to build something for state machines as opposed to DAGs, so we called it Burr. I wanted the git tagline to be "make your agents go burr..."

New comment by elijahbenizzy in "Apache Burr: Build reliable AI agents and applications"

elijahbenizzy — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 17:24:41 +0000

Ha! We went all out on the modern one (user contribution!).

New comment by elijahbenizzy in "Apache Burr: Build reliable AI agents and applications"

elijahbenizzy — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 17:24:19 +0000

This is where it's nice to have some guardrails -- coding agents work etremely well with limitations.

New comment by elijahbenizzy in "Apache Burr: Build reliable AI agents and applications"

elijahbenizzy — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 17:22:42 +0000

Right I think this is why we made it unopinioated to a fault. Burr doesn't really do these things rather it just provides an orchestration framework. So it's pure BYO functions, classes, components, etc...

New comment by elijahbenizzy in "Apache Burr: Build reliable AI agents and applications"

elijahbenizzy — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 17:13:48 +0000

Right -- possible it's slightly out of date https://github.com/apache/burr#-comparison-against-common-fr.... Good point on differentiating.

New comment by elijahbenizzy in "Apache Burr: Build reliable AI agents and applications"

elijahbenizzy — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 17:09:15 +0000

One of the co-creators/maintainers here! Will try to answer Qs over the day.

New comment by elijahbenizzy in "Mark Zuckerberg Says Social Media Is Over"

elijahbenizzy — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 19:10:34 +0000

And then says... "you're welcome"

New comment by elijahbenizzy in "Elliptical Python Programming"

elijahbenizzy — Thu, 10 Apr 2025 15:10:53 +0000

Ok do this but for JavaScript

New comment by elijahbenizzy in "Real Time Chess – A physical chess board without the concept of turns"

elijahbenizzy — Sat, 29 Mar 2025 19:20:33 +0000

This is amazing! I love that it requires very fancy hardware that is well designed. It's good someone finally made a chess game appropriate for the tiktok generation.

New comment by elijahbenizzy in "Launch HN: Maritime Fusion (YC W25) – Fusion Reactors for Ships"

elijahbenizzy — Wed, 26 Feb 2025 17:09:32 +0000

Really excited about this! Congrats on the launch. Ships make sense as a first target, but I'm curious -- do you see a future in which we have household fission reactors? E.G. power an entire house (city block, etc...) with fission reactors?

New comment by elijahbenizzy in "Why OpenAI's $157B valuation misreads AI's future (Oct 2024)"

elijahbenizzy — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 05:03:05 +0000

We’ve just learned that it’s possible to do AI on less compute (deepseek). if OpenAI doesn’t scale and that’s the problem then I’d argue that in the long run, if you believe in their ability to do research, then the news this week is a very bullish sign.

IMO the equivalent of moores law for AI (both on software and hardware development) is baked into the price, which doesn’t make the valuation all too crazy.

New comment by elijahbenizzy in "Portrait of the Hilbert Curve (2010)"

elijahbenizzy — Sat, 18 Jan 2025 17:16:50 +0000

This is one of those fun reads because it unifies quite a few things that I’ve read about or been interested in recently — Hilbert curves for geospatial indexing in dbs, Gray codes, and fractals! And it’s all fairly intuitive — the 1-bit shift makes sense for space traversal and makes the numbers curve pattern easier to reason about.

New comment by elijahbenizzy in "A Marriage Proposal Spoken in Office Jargon"

elijahbenizzy — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 20:55:40 +0000

Not believable, didn't read "double click"

Parallel, Fault-Tolerant Agents with Burr and Ray

elijahbenizzy — Sun, 12 Jan 2025 15:30:10 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.dagworks.io/p/parallel-fault-tolerant-agents-with

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42674241

Points: 1

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Lean Data Automation: a principal components approach

elijahbenizzy — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 17:41:04 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.dagworks.io/p/lean-data-automation-a-principal

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42647963

Points: 2

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Parallel multi-agent workflows with Burr

elijahbenizzy — Tue, 24 Dec 2024 16:12:09 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.dagworks.io/p/parallel-multi-agent-workflows-with

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42502827

Points: 3

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Deep Dive on Hamilton Decorators

elijahbenizzy — Wed, 18 Dec 2024 20:01:54 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.dagworks.io/p/deep-dive-on-hamilton-decorators

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42454414

Points: 2

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New comment by elijahbenizzy in "Diátaxis – A systematic approach to technical documentation authoring"

elijahbenizzy — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 19:09:39 +0000

We've leveraged Diataxis heavily for Hamilton and Burr documentation:

- https://hamilton.dagworks.io

- https://burr.dagworks.io

It's not always the easiest to follow (we often have disagreements about whether something is a tutorial or a how-to), but it's a really valuable framing and I think our docs have gotten better because of it.

New comment by elijahbenizzy in "Show HN: Updates on Burr (OS) – a full-stack AI agent framework"

elijahbenizzy — Tue, 19 Nov 2024 14:37:06 +0000

Links to various resources + writeups!

Recursion/parallelism: - Docs: https://burr.dagworks.io/pull/370/concepts/parallelism/

- Example: https://github.com/DAGWorks-Inc/burr/tree/main/examples/para...

UI annotations: - Blog post: https://blog.dagworks.io/p/annotating-data-in-burr

OpenTelemetry: - Docs: https://burr.dagworks.io/reference/integrations/opentelemetr...

- Blog post: https://blog.dagworks.io/p/trace-all-parts-of-your-agenticai

Time-travel/forking: - Docs: https://burr.dagworks.io/concepts/state-persistence/#initial...

- Blog post: https://blog.dagworks.io/p/travel-back-in-time-with-burr

Monitoring: - Deployment: https://github.com/DAGWorks-Inc/burr/tree/main/burr/tracking...

- UI overview: https://blog.dagworks.io/p/burr-ui

And a few other writeups we're excited about: - Collaboration with instructor: https://python.useinstructor.com/blog/2024/07/11/youtube-tra...

- Full-stack example of a streaming app: https://towardsdatascience.com/how-to-build-a-streaming-agen...

- Human-in-the-loop app with Burr: https://towardsdatascience.com/building-an-email-assistant-a...