Drew Breunig

Writing about and working on AI, DSPy, geo, and data.

Trying to prevent prompt debt and help others build maintainable intelligent applications.

[Drew Breunig @dbreunig]

@pamelafox But there are four options above

[Drew Breunig @dbreunig]

The biggest issue in open source right now is the devaluing of the PR.

Everyone OSS project of note is drowning in AI committed PRs. A few add heavy processes; most ignore them.

The only way to get a PR merged is to know a maintainer. At recent conferences, when talking with maintainers, we're frequently interrupted by people asking them to look at their PR. That's what OSS contribution looks like today: finding people in person.

But people do it because landing a PR means something. It's how people enter the community. It's how people become maintainers. It's how people GET JOBS. (That's why we're drowning in automated PRs. Any public route to value will be deluged by agents.)

PRs were our engine. It's how people got cred. It's how the community distilled knowledge and discussion into artifacts. PRs were the engine for OSS.

So how do new programmers get a foothold, now that the PR is gone? How do we incentivize people to participate and build knowledge with us?

[Drew Breunig @dbreunig]

DSPy's Monty Interpreter has been updated for 3.5: https://t.co/ryzWgtn587

[Drew Breunig @dbreunig]

@charlespacker @OpenAI Hermes. But I use it in kind of a weird way, so your mileage may vary.

[Drew Breunig @dbreunig]

@charlespacker @OpenAI Interesting! I find Muse Spark to be a great driver of agents and a pleasure to read.

[Drew Breunig @dbreunig]

@charlespacker @OpenAI Open meta*** models fared? (I am aware how iOS autocorrect models are faring…)

[Drew Breunig @dbreunig]

@charlespacker @OpenAI How have the open mud models fared? Do you all have figures?

[Drew Breunig @dbreunig]

Watch this!

[Raymond Weitekamp @raw_works]

hey apparently my talk on "operating system one" is now live on the @aiDotEngineer yt!

https://t.co/sYZzkSnp6f

[Drew Breunig @dbreunig]

What a lede, from @TheEconomist

[Omar Khattab @lateinteraction]

DSPy 3.5 (and efforts for DSPy 4 underway…)

[Drew Breunig @dbreunig]

brb, adding IP-based buzzword localization to my blog for San Francisco readers

[Drew Breunig @dbreunig]

@proximalcoast Sure! But good luck owning that term on Google! 😂

[Drew Breunig @dbreunig]

In June, someone said to me, “Computer programming has always been about getting a computer to do what you want. AI doesn’t change that.”

[Harrison Chase @hwchase17]

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goal engineering

[Drew Breunig @dbreunig]

cc @raw_works

[Drew Breunig @dbreunig]

@dotpem @nateberkopec There’s a fleet manager that’s not abliterated, and can escalate to me if needed

[Drew Breunig @dbreunig]

Have you used Fable 5.2 to complete a task for which you would pay Fable 5.2’s API rate? If so, what was the task?

[Drew Breunig @dbreunig]

@dotpem @nateberkopec I tried first with readonly and a tool to take notes/write briefs. Then, sandbox with tool use approvals for dangerous commands.

[Drew Breunig @dbreunig]

@NoahZiems @Therran Wait, two of my favorite people to chat with are discussing railroads and AI without me???

[Drew Breunig @dbreunig]

@dotpem @nateberkopec abliterated*

[Drew Breunig @dbreunig]

@dotpem @nateberkopec I have tried it with 6 concurrent ds41-flash ablated, and let me tell you, they are persistent. Used a VM with pi-durable with a tiny coordinator around it.