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A Peek into Tesla's Autonomous Future by VP Ashok Elluswamy at ICCV25 [video]

tristanz — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 23:08:00 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRu-cPkpiFk

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45908188

Points: 1

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New comment by tristanz in "Tools: Code Is All You Need"

tristanz — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 17:04:01 +0000

Yes, I think you could get quite far with a few tools like memory/todo list + code interpreter + script save/load. You could probably get a lot farther though if you RLVRed this similar to how o3 uses web search so effectively during it's thinking process.

New comment by tristanz in "Tools: Code Is All You Need"

tristanz — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 15:55:44 +0000

You can combine MCPs within composable LLM generated code if you put in a little work. At Continual (https://continual.ai), we have many workflows that require bulk actions, e.g. iterating over all issues, files, customers, etc. We inject MCP tools into a sandboxed code interpreter and have the agent generate both direct MCP tool calls and composable scripts that leverage MCP tools depending on the task complexity. After a bunch of work it actually works quite well. We are also experimenting with continual learning via a Voyager like approach where the LLM can save tool scripts for future use, allowing lifelong learning for repeated workflows.

New comment by tristanz in "The Problem with AI Welfare"

tristanz — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 14:37:29 +0000

Not considering the potential for AI consciousness and suffering seems very shortsighted. There are plausible reasons to believe that both could emerge from an RL processes coupled with small architectural and data regime changes. Today's models have inherent architectural limits around continual learning that make this unlikely, but that will change.

New comment by tristanz in "ORPC 1.0 – Typesafe APIs made simple"

tristanz — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 16:51:24 +0000

Coming from TRPC, ORPC is a breath of fresh air. I tested out a migration from TRPC to ORPC and I found two things particularly beneficial.

The first is contract-first development which separates the contract from the implementation. This allows you to avoid codebase dependencies between your server and client. TRPC works fine when you only use your client from your server package, but if you need to export it elsewhere, e.g. a public SDK, you can easily end up with circular dependency issues and a bunch of pain.

The second is OpenAPI support. TRPC doesn't support OpenAPI generation and trpc-openapi is unmaintained. ORPC has first class OpenAPI support, which means you can use ORPC internally but expose a public OpenAPI API to customers and generate OpenAPI based clients if you want to.

I'm hoping this project gets traction since it is amazingly well done. I have zero affiliation or interest in ORPC to be clear, I just loved it from my quick tests.

ORPC 1.0 – Typesafe APIs made simple

tristanz — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 16:44:28 +0000

Article URL: https://orpc.unnoq.com/blog/v1-announcement

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43695365

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by tristanz in "OpenAI: Streaming is now available in the Assistants API"

tristanz — Thu, 14 Mar 2024 04:15:11 +0000

As an FYI, this is fine for rough usage, but it's not accurate. The OpenAI APIs inject various tokens you are unaware of into the input for things like function calling.

The AI Revenue Wave

tristanz — Fri, 01 Dec 2023 21:06:57 +0000

Article URL: https://www.continual.ai/blog-post/the-ai-revenue-wave

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38492406

Points: 1

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Drive Anywhere: End-to-End Autonomous Driving with Multimodal Foundation Models

tristanz — Sun, 29 Oct 2023 17:19:44 +0000

Article URL: https://drive-anywhere.github.io/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38060660

Points: 1

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Black holes as the source of dark energy

tristanz — Fri, 17 Feb 2023 19:23:46 +0000

Article URL: https://aasnova.org/2023/02/15/black-holes-as-the-source-of-dark-energy/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34839090

Points: 113

# Comments: 77

It's not you, it's SQL

tristanz — Mon, 30 Jan 2023 16:54:04 +0000

Article URL: https://stack.convex.dev/not-sql

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34582549

Points: 61

# Comments: 83

New comment by tristanz in "ChatGPT won’t replace search engines any time soon"

tristanz — Sun, 08 Jan 2023 01:20:43 +0000

ChatGTP maybe, but OpenAI hasn't even tried to train a model to replace search.

Until somebody tries to fine-tune a model using RLHF explicitly with the goal of replacing Google it's very hard to know what the resulting experience would look like. It could be shocking if ChatGTP is any guide.

New comment by tristanz in "“Twitter will be forming a content moderation council with diverse viewpoints”"

tristanz — Fri, 28 Oct 2022 21:03:38 +0000

https://www.zdnet.com/article/what-is-elon-musks-x-the-every...

Dylan Field pitches and demos seed-stage Figma

tristanz — Thu, 15 Sep 2022 17:09:18 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1UUVdN3kdQ

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32855171

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by tristanz in "PRQL – A proposal for a better SQL"

tristanz — Mon, 24 Jan 2022 22:35:49 +0000

To get 10x I think you need to wed it to solving broader workflow challenges, like dbt does today.

The Self Provisioning Runtime

tristanz — Sat, 01 Jan 2022 01:48:15 +0000

Article URL: https://www.swyx.io/self-provisioning-runtime/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29754608

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by tristanz in "Build models like we build open-source software"

tristanz — Wed, 08 Dec 2021 17:01:23 +0000

Collaborative incremental improvement of models would be extremely disruptive. While this happens via research, it's massively inefficient, particularly as pretrained models get larger and span multiple modalities.

Build models like we build open-source software

tristanz — Wed, 08 Dec 2021 16:59:26 +0000

Article URL: https://colinraffel.com/blog/a-call-to-build-models-like-we-build-open-source-software.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29487212

Points: 51

# Comments: 8

The Modern Data Stack Ecosystem – Fall 2021 Edition

tristanz — Fri, 29 Oct 2021 00:42:00 +0000

Article URL: https://continual.ai/post/the-modern-data-stack-ecosystem-fall-2021-edition

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29033931

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by tristanz in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2021)"

tristanz — Wed, 01 Sep 2021 16:27:18 +0000

Continual | Frontend, Fullstack, and ML Engineer | SF, REMOTE | https://continual.ai.

Continual is building the missing AI layer for the modern data stack. We're hiring multiple roles (frontend, full stack, ML engineer) at all levels. This is an opportunity to get in early on a massive opportunity in one of the most interesting areas of technology – democratizing operational AI/ML.

Email tristan@continual.ai to learn more.