Laurent Py

Entrepreneur, Product Leader, Lego Builder

[Soheil Feizi @FeiziSoheil]

Current benchmarks miss the central challenge in agent optimization.

Most evaluations test one-shot improvement, while real-world use requires recursive optimization as new tasks continue to arrive.

To study this, we built a two-phase continual-learning evaluation on hard Terminal-Bench 2.0 tasks, comparing GEPA, Meta Harness, and RELAI.

The methods behaved very differently:

- GEPA improved initially but transferred negatively to unseen tasks, indicating overfitting.
- Meta Harness transferred well but could not continue improving.
- RELAI was the only method that both generalized to unseen tasks and improved again without regressing prior performance.

Full results are in the article below.

You can access RELAI’s continual-learning engine to run similar optimization studies and apply it to your own agents at https://t.co/xuJxZo1Nqj

[Laurent Py @py_laurent]

@shai_wininger @packmind_app would love to understand more about what you've built and how your team solved it. Is there someone I could reach out to?

[Laurent Py @py_laurent]

@shai_wininger Really interesting and definitely a call to action 😀. At @packmind_app, we're building a tool to solve exactly this problem: capturing your unique context and technical decisions in all their nuances, guiding AI assistants, and deterministically enforcing these rules.

[DevoxxFR @DevoxxFR]

Merci à Packmind d'être sponsor Bronze de Devoxx France 2025 @packmind_app

[Rich Holmes @richeholmes]

Remember when GitHub said that Copilot helped engineers write code 55% faster?

Well, a first of its kind study has concluded that this will lead to a doubling of the rate of code churn - the percentage of lines that are reverted or updated less than two weeks after being authored.

The report was pretty scathing in its analysis, saying:
Code generated during 2023 more resembles an itinerant contributor, prone to violate the DRY-ness of the repos visited.

[Cedric Teyton @TeytonCedric]

Je suis ravi de lancer le podcast "Tech Lead Corner" dédié aux missions des Tech Leaders.

Quel joie d'accueillir @DorraBartaguiz, VP Tech chez @ArollaFr, pour ce premier épisode 😊(dont voici un extrait)

A retrouver sur https://t.co/jJi6M8Y9C6

[Laurent Py @py_laurent]

Why is it so hard for big companies to successfully innovate and disrupt? https://t.co/iH330aJcnS

[Laurent Py @py_laurent]

@libe Cette comparaison n a pas de sens. La fortune de BA vient de son entreprise qui crée de la valeur et dont la valorisation augmente en consequence dans le temps. Conclusion: investissez! Ceci n enleve rien au besoin de taxation mais utilisez des vrais arguments...

[Aaron Levie @levie]

ChatGPT is one of those rare moments in technology where you see a glimmer of how everything is going to be different going forward.

[Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz]

Linear in the software engineering project management world feels like what Figma is in the design world.

I don’t know any startup that went back to another tool after using Linear, and have not seen software engineers before raving about *a project management tool*

[Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz]

This is exactly what happened at Uber Eats 3-4 years ago.

A few key leaders who were executing amazing at Uber Eats were denied their L+1 promotion thanks to Uber Prime’s bureaucracy. So they went to L+2 to DoorDash and are still crushing it. What a loss for Uber, win for DD.

[Ryan Petersen @typesfast]

Average engineer's tenure at major tech companies is too short

[sarah guo @saranormous]

If the best public cloud company (Snowflake) trades at 20X EV/NTM revenue with 60% NTM growth at scale and +FCF, mid-stage startups are not going to do rounds in the near term at much bigger multiples

Expectations still meeting the asphalt of reality for private software co’s

[Nikita Bier @nikitabier]

Things that don’t exist:

• “Zero to one” product manager
• Viral content marketer
• Full stack engineer
• Designer who can prototype

If you find one, don’t fuck it up because they can start their own company. They don’t actually need you.

[Scott Farquhar @scottfarkas]

I'm proud of many things we do at Atlassian. But when we support each other I'm the proudest of all: https://t.co/O03DZFleZX

[John Whittaker @alertsource]

Looking forward to moderating next week's fireside chat on @YourZephyr's 10 years of success in the @Atlassian Marketplace with @SmartBear visionary @py_laurent and others.

Happy birthday @AtlassianMarket!
#QualityAtSpeed #OpenDevOps solution on @Jira https://t.co/SseNlz7tKT

[Laurent Py @py_laurent]

I voted today #presidentielles2022 and so grateful I could when I think about all these autocratic countries and the ongoing war

[Atlassian Apps & Services @atlassianapps]

This what you need to know today about #AtlassianApps -> https://t.co/sjQydWKnK2 #Atlassian - vía @cucumberbdd @kreuzwerker @zapier #devops #jira

[Laurent Py @py_laurent]

💯. In my top 10 books.

[Patrick OShaughnessy @patrick_oshag]

This book is really f**king me up

[Harry Stebbings @HarryStebbings]

It is not even 4PM on the first day back and I have already seen:

$100M pre for pre-product company.

$1BN pre for $1M ARR company.

$10BN pre for company less than 15 months old.

My oh my, welcome 2022.