Thomas Crosley

SWE / AI @VannevarLabs

Previously @awscloud (Amazon Go), @axon_us (0-1 ASR products), @facebook (FAIR CV Research), @AmazonLab126, @UW, and @UTAustin

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We're about to get AGI from markdown files that say to update other markdown files. At least it'll be interpretable?

[Thomas Crosley @tmcrosley]

Preference Engineering
Context Engineering
Prompt Engineering

[Thomas Crosley @tmcrosley]

Learning/building with @CopilotKit and @langchain reminds me of learning Kubernetes in 2018. There’s a bit of a learning curve, lots of people think it’s overly complex, but it feels like learning the core abstractions that will be used for all future apps

[Vannevar @VannevarLabs]

Commanders need clarity. @15thMEUOfficial used our platform in the Pacific to cut through the noise and get a real-time picture of their impact. Mission-ready AI at work!

https://t.co/IicJL5BZaU

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New post on 5 emerging patterns for intelligent applications - Chat, Generative UI, CoPilots, Headless Agents, and CoAgents

https://t.co/JDGmcirRva

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@OfficialLoganK @CopilotKit - specifically their CoAgent tooling. https://t.co/LH5LXHvHad

[Vannevar @VannevarLabs]

Today Vannevar Labs announced the transition of the company’s prime contract with @DIU_x from a prototype contract to a production scale contract. This production agreement will field capabilities developed under the prototype agreement for exquisite sensing capabilities that enable DoD teams to identify adversary activity, manage their forces’ signature, deliver effects, and assess the impact of those effects in strategic competition.

Learn more here: https://t.co/zL3hzGNAyp

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@diamondbishop Check out - https://t.co/zmSbPsvcPc

[Jeff Schneider @jeffrschneider]

@abrakjamson @MadronaVentures @jturow I'm thinking I'll call this "Tool Augmented Generation" (TAG).

RAG-TAG is the 1-2 punch of generative computing.

[Thomas Crosley @tmcrosley]

@lhagoodjames True, good point. If it’s on-device agents accessing strictly local data I suppose you’d want good mobile app developers?

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(1/2) When LLMs first came out there was a lot of alpha in being a great frontend engineer because you could quickly spin up interesting demos using out-of-the-box LLMs. As LLM-based agents become mainstream there will be a lot of alpha in being a great backend engineer.

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@jheitzeb Cc: @Flock_Safety @glangley @lhagoodjames

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GAL is built with great existing tools like @UnstructuredIO @langchain @Deepgram @guardrails

I’d love to hear what others are experimenting with in this space!

[Thomas Crosley @tmcrosley]

New post on a technical approach I’ve been experimenting with that I’m calling GAL - Generate, Attribute, Localize - getting LLMs to pinpoint what parts of the original source data influenced their output in a retrieval augmented generation setup. https://t.co/a8PfWysX0K 🧵

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I show how to make this work on any data type from text to audio to PDFs.

This aligns closely with new open-source work by @jxnlco and commercial work like @cohere’s Coral and @magicaltome's Reference feature.

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This will be a fun one! Feel free to reach out beforehand if you want to talk through ideas

[Joe Heitzeberg @jheitzeb]

🚀 Join the AI Tinkerers Seattle Summer Hackathon on June 10th! Sponsored by @awscloud, @CohereAI, @MadronaVentures & supported by @OpenAI, @pinecone, @weaviate_io, @statsigio, @getblueprintai. Amazing prizes, networking, food & drinks await! 🏆🍻 🤖

Sign up & spread the word:
https://t.co/lw9DqX0ghx #AIHackathon #AISeattle

[Thomas Crosley @tmcrosley]

@sksq96 @acvfdsggy Ah - thanks for letting me know! They should be open now. Can you check?

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(1/5) I'm open-sourcing a new project today called MirrorGPT aimed at making personalized Agents/LLMs and solving the individual alignment problem.

Mirror provides the structure, and some early implementations, of 3 core functions for building personalized Agents:

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@acvfdsggy Yep! The good folks at @getgather_xyz are building that piece for websites

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@SurfingPigment I'm focused on the AI-core and won't get to Vercel/Replit for a bit but would love to see a contribution in that area!

I have been looking into a Whisper integration today and hope to have that one soon