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Why not apply changes to the underlying model so that you crush every available eval?
Re:Microsoft makes Zork open-source on Thursday November 20, 2025 @10:40PM (#46000993)
awesome
Can I download all the messages & attachments?
Everyone is a decent programmer now who can solve nearly any problem with help from LLM.
Re:Introducing Copilot+ PCs on Monday May 20, 2024 @04:44PM (#40420123)
It made sense when I named GitHub Copilot, since that product was a passive addition to your regular workflow.

The name was sticky enough that they've run with it, misunderstanding or ignoring that fundamental metaphor.

New business models come around very rarely. In the mean time, existing companies optimize everything they can relentlessly - that's why people own their stock.
Hono still doesn’t support request cancellation well.

So if you’re streaming tokens from an LLM and you cancel the request from the client you’ll be wasting money.

Lilac for dataset cleaning and polishing https://www.lilacml.com/
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2023) on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @01:18PM (#38101483)
Minion AI | Fullstack Eng, ML Eng, Tools Eng | SF or Remote | Full-time

Creator of GitHub Copilot here <wave>.

Minion AI is on a mission to build a useful web agent that performs tasks for you. Our personal AI is at the forefront of rethinking human-computer interaction in light of AI advancements.

Join us to work at the bleeding edge of AI: prompting, fine-tuning, synthetic data, learning by example, codegen, planning, reasoning, and memory for embodied agents.

See Minion in action here: https://twitter.com/ai_minion/status/1719455863973323111

Apply at https://minion.ai/jobs or DM @alexgraveley on X

Re:Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month on Thursday September 21, 2023 @05:45PM (#37604844)
love kagi!
Re:My total comp for creating GitHub Copilot on Wednesday June 21, 2023 @03:17PM (#36423035)
This is the correct take. Copilot impossible without the years of work from the brilliant people at OpenAI, VScode, Azure, and GH.
Re:My total comp for creating GitHub Copilot on Tuesday June 20, 2023 @03:56PM (#36409620)
Orilly? We had no PM, EM, or designer: I played all those roles for 1.5 years.

I was one of the first to touch the OAI code model. Me and Albert developed the in-the-wild testing harness still in use today. We pulled all nighters to get GitHub approved for participation in the MSFT-OpenAI deal using those test results.

Existing Microsoft AI teams worked to halt our work, pushing their own small, worse models instead of OpenAI's.

I protoyped and lobbied for creation of the VScode extension. I invented and hacked the ghost text prototype into VScode, I invented the block based termination and implemented all the tree-sitter based logic needed to do it. Then I had to lobby up to Satya to get VScode to implement proper support in less than 6 months.

I named it Copilot.

I implemented GH auth, made the waitlist and onboarding. Helped design the e2e http/2 go server, after designing the fast.ly based precursor. Coordinated moving from OpenAI datacenter to Azure to improve Asia experience, and oversaw the cutover.

I was Chief Architect. It was my baby. Sad if this is how they are spinning the story internally at GitHub today.

I built something similar to this 16 years ago based on Firefox: http://web.archive.org/web/20080905102046/http://www.pyrodes...
Re:Fq: Jq for Binary Formats on Saturday June 03, 2023 @03:34PM (#36179798)
jq is awesome
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2023) on Friday June 02, 2023 @12:22AM (#36161030)
Minion.AI | Hardcore frontend hacker | SF or Remote | Full-time

I made GitHub Copilot. Now I'm making an AI assistant on the web. Today it can order pizza, answer questions about articles, toggle settings, fill out forms, buy plane tickets, etc.

I need someone who understands the web deeply to help on frontend and internal tooling.

Join us to work at the bleeding edge of AI: prompting, fine-tuning, synthetic data, learning by example, codegen, planning, reasoning, and memory for embodied agents.

[email protected] or DM @alexgraveley

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2023) on Wednesday March 01, 2023 @12:43PM (#34985506)
Minion AI | Remote in US | Full-Time

Stealth AI company focused on B2B2C intelligent agents operating on the web.

Ex-GitHub Copilot and Ex-Apple ML founders. Well-funded, seed stage.

Hiring Senior Full Stack engineer and Senior ML Engineer.

Learn more and apply here: https://minion.ai/jobs

> users had to explicitly ask the assistant for answers

Renders the study useless IMO.

I faffed around forever with lisp and bash and perl, never really getting it. Eventually I read one of these “Learn C++ in 30 Days” books and it just clicked.

Today I would recommend getting Copilot and just start typing :)

Re:What has kept you going during a personal crisis? on Monday September 26, 2022 @12:03AM (#32979289)
Lung cancer. I found a higher power, pray all the time, try to view all actions through that lens - of what my higher power would have me do. I’ve never been happier. I was an atheist previously.
Re:Nearly a third of new code on GitHub is written with AI help on Wednesday October 27, 2021 @03:32PM (#29017993)
The actual quote is:

> For some languages, we already see about 30% of newly written code being suggested by Copilot.

It writes about 30% of Python and 20-25% for other languages.

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