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Re:OpenChamber: An Agentic Development Environment on Thursday August 13, 2026 @05:33PM (#49292151)
what is the goal of these tools, having a hard timeunderstanding the value vs just running them on terminal

Claudio? Why we need and open source Claude

Imagine if operating systems, browsers, or databases had evolved with only closed systems. We wouldn’t have the internet we know today.AI needs world-class open alternatives to great tech.In response to this, we’ve been busy building Mindshub. A high quality, open-source AI coworker you can truly make your own. Where we know. Good enough wasn’t an option. You can check it out...

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Re:Anton – The most advanced AI data-coworker on Thursday April 02, 2026 @04:36PM (#47619835)
Open-source, very smart and It will make you think that Glean, ThoughtSpot, and practically any tool you've ever used to "answer questions from data to get your job done" look like fax-machines at an antique shop.
we have been trying to make it so that people dont have to reinvent the wheel, over and over and over again, and have a very straight forward all batteries included that can scale to many millions of documents, combining the best of RAG with traditional search and parametric search, https://docs.mindsdb.com/mindsdb_sql/knowledge_bases/overvie... Would love your feedback.

Hello to Unstructured Analytics

Traditional analytics “loved” neat rows and columns (oh, how they adored orderly databases!), so anything messy—emails, PDFs, customer feedback, doctor notes, ... your grumpy aunt's product complaints— account for about 80–90% of enterprise data, yes it lives in that messy land of unstructured chaos [ask MIT, IBM]. Sitting pretty, ignored, shunned like the weird cousin at Thanksgiving. Which is...

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Re:Federated Data Access for MCP (Model Context Protocol) on Monday April 07, 2025 @03:38PM (#43615073)
1000% we think it can be very valuable, and also it can add a layer of security, have you been able to try it?
Re:Federated Data Access for MCP (Model Context Protocol) on Monday April 07, 2025 @01:16PM (#43613742)
Please share what you think about this! Your feedback means the world to us
At Mindsdb we have been using it, and I truly believe it’s the future of open source code management.

Building Llamas That Think?

Hey HN,So, casually trying to make LLaMA achieve consciousness (as one does on a Tuesday), when I stumbled upon something hilarious. Turns out, you can make these language models "reason" with about as much code as it takes to write a "Hello World" program. No, really!https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1jfsG0_XP8a5mME76F5a6xeP9uu-tvDZ3#scrollTo=fNg798sHpuqkHere's the philosophical crisis...

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Re:Llama That Thinks on Tuesday February 11, 2025 @05:50PM (#43019386)
Hey HN,

So, casually trying to make LLaMA achieve consciousness (as one does on a Tuesday), when I stumbled upon something hilarious. Turns out, you can make these language models "reason" with about as much code as it takes to write a "Hello World" program. No, really!

https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1jfsG0_XP8a5mME76F5a...

Here's the philosophical crisis I'm having now: When you ask an LLM to code something vs. asking it to reason about something... are we basically watching the same neural spaghetti being twirled around?

The real question is: If one can make an AI model "think" with 5 lines of code, does this mean: a) An LLM should be able to write its own reasoning code b) We've been overthinking AI? c) The simulation is running low on RAM d) All of the above

Would love to hear your thoughts, preferably in the form of recursive functions or philosophical paradoxes.

P.S. No LLAMAs were harmed in the making of this experiment, though several did ask for a raise.

Re:Agents suck – but it can be better on Sunday January 26, 2025 @12:04PM (#42831584)
great question, i think rather than smaller inputs, you should be able to have as much context as needed in. Its more aboue smaller outputs, that are well typed and allow you to control workflow via standard coding mechanics. Therefore getting the best of both worlds, llms power of understanding unstructured info (which python sucks at) and being able to control things which python is great at.

Agents suck – but it can be better

Watching Agents try to complete tasks is like watching a drunk person trying to solve a Rubik's cube. Entertaining? Yes. Reliable? Not always!However. Instead of asking an LLM to "do the whole thing" (which is indeed prone to inconsistency) and thus letting LLMs run wild like unsupervised toddlers maintaining the "do not press" buttons at a nuclear facility. A FLAT approach puts control and...

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Use Llama 3 models for free via OpenAI-compatible API

Hey developers! We at MindsDB are really thrilled with the newly launched Llama 3 models! So we decided to make them available for everyone for free to try via MindsDB Inference Endpoints, utilizing OpenAI-compatible APIs. You can discover more at mdb.ai

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LLMs: What if we did unlimited tokens instead?

Partnering with the best LLM providers in the world (because we love them all), and we see two gaps: - The token based pricing model - There is no agreed and universal common API (OpenAI has a slightly different API than google and same with anthropic).So, we are running an experiment, a Poly-LLM Service(you can play with it and read more at https://mdb.ai/llm-serve).What's exciting? -...

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Re:Feedback wanted: How to build a chatbot with GPT4 on Tuesday December 12, 2023 @10:56AM (#38613866)
Hey — We built a text-to-SQL skill, connected it to an agent, and in the end, you can publish a Chatbot to Slack.

This is useful because it lets non-technical people ask questions of a database and get the answers they need.

Please check out our demo above and let us know what you think.

Feedback Wanted: How to Build a Text-to-SQL Agent

Preview..... Please tell us what you think about this new open-source capability below.You can create a Text-to-SQL skill, connect it to an agent, and publish a chatbot to Slack.Here's the demo.https://www.loom.com/share/7c206876892e4ae688d9e6d3ad94b011?sid=75d521ec-15c0-448a-bba2-cbeea6ee7bd3

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Re:Build a user-friendly chatbot for database queries on Monday December 11, 2023 @10:56AM (#38601681)
A MindsDB engineers demonstrates how to create a Text to SQL skill, connect it to an agent, and publish a chatbot to Slack.
Re:How to build your own Midjourney with SQL on Wednesday November 15, 2023 @12:51PM (#38279837)
Learn how to make your own Midjourney bot with a few simple SQL commands. This tutorial uses a Twitter bot, but you can use texts, Slack, Rocket.chat or email.
Are you excited for Hacktoberfest 2023? While this year’s event may offer only digital rewards, we’ve got something extraordinary in store for you! Join us at MindsDB for the most thrilling open-source contribution journey, where you can unlock a world of exciting prizes.
actually, yes they do have support for Llama2 70B, you need 39GB of ram, compared to 130GB that it originally takes.

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