Caleb Winston

Systems4agents @ Stanford MAST

[Caleb Winston @realcalebwin]

Introducing BLAST, a step towards automating all the boring work we do inside web browsers.

pip install blastai && blastai serve

While prior art (OpenAI Operator, Manus AI) execute single-threaded, BLAST is multi-threaded (see GIF). Check us out: https://t.co/v1IlFhcaVG

[Caleb Winston @realcalebwin]

@confusedqubit @LoopholeLabs How much is the e2e speedup if I include paging in a little bit of memory?

[Caleb Winston @realcalebwin]

@ivanburazin This is true!

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@mikehostetler Code is THE asset.

If you're throwing it away to N different 3rd party agents what are you doing...

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@noahzender Would you bet on this?

The trend is people are becoming more capable when augmented with AI than they were before. Why would procurement and post-sales customization not be automated/commoditized?

[Caleb Winston @realcalebwin]

@willium Is it?

Of course administration should be centralized. But why ever centralize harnesses and skills?

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@JackStettner Standard General Applied Intelligence of New York City

[Caleb Winston @realcalebwin]

@BrendanFoody @mercor_ai Replace inference with offshore devs?

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@willccbb They have ChatGPT.

It's not about the model for them.

[Caleb Winston @realcalebwin]

@joncphillips If it is weird to look for then you must not be working on a very hard problem.

The hardest problems are at the boundary of model knowledge and accessible environments.

[Caleb Winston @realcalebwin]

@enesxdev @motatoeshq Or I should say more expensive than they need to be.

[Caleb Winston @realcalebwin]

@enesxdev @motatoeshq I think the emerging best practice is to use sandboxes for both.

Unfortunately, most sandbox providers are too expensive to use as devboxes.

Especially as each dev starts running multiple agents, multiple work trees, multiple sandboxes at once.

[Caleb Winston @realcalebwin]

@HeyGarrison VMs.

Virtual machines have been sandboxed since the 70s.

None of these sandbox providers have innovated much beyond Firecracker, Cloud Hypervisor, QEMU.

The axes are equivalence, safety, perf. (see Popek/Goldberg) and sure +startup/snapshot time where it matters.

[Caleb Winston @realcalebwin]

@Suhail This is the bull case for sandbox infra.

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@elliotarledge If anything the take-away is that all coding benchmarks are low signal.

[Caleb Winston @realcalebwin]

@GuangyuRobert The x-axis has way too many permutations to enumerate!

[Caleb Winston @realcalebwin]

@zeeg Windows takes more skill.

[Caleb Winston @realcalebwin]

@LonnyLot @haydenbleasel Prior art: https://t.co/FXktXt31hm

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@tanayj Truly the least solved highest value problem right now in the algorithms side of AI.

[Caleb Winston @realcalebwin]

@saleskhalifa Then the engineering isn't good enough.

Let me rephrase:

Engineers should engineer so hard that sales _is_ making friends on Zoom and getting paid.

[Caleb Winston @realcalebwin]

@Amank1412 It is Unix philosophy.

Agents would be useless without it.