Pumped to join promptfoo as an engineer. I'll be working on AI agents/evals/red teaming/security for open source + enterprise.

Nice man, it really is the best feeling.

Nice yeah that’s far better than a per-hand rake.

How much bankroll do you need to absorb the swings?

It’s an interesting question whether we’ll actually have a 100% reliable way to do this or not in a timeline where we have really strong AGI.

I guess you could always require showing up somewhere in person, but short of that?

How old is she?

What’s the rake? A lot of soft live games are impossible to beat long term because the rake is too high.

Yeah I wonder why that is

NL hold em I assume? Is there NL omaha anywhere? It’s always PLO right?

I’m pretty much self-taught in all those areas so I think it’s possible, but will grant it’s not the most efficient way to learn

For sure. I think many people (myself included) default ignore anything that smells even a little bit automated, and default read/consider anything that feels authentically one to one.

Yeah I think you always get a better response with the one to one outreach.

Apart from emails which definitely work, having a Discord has been helpful to me for encouraging these kinds of convos.

Nice! I think it’s easy to feel you’re doing the right thing when talking to users. Not many devs do *that* too often 😀

Unless an actual goat has caused you serious bodily harm

#buildingpublic two questions for you:

- what are you working on right now?

- from 1-10 how confident are you that it’s what you *should* be working on? i.e. that it’s the most important and impactful task on your todo list.

atproto question: this account is banned on the default bluesky server, and what does that mean exactly?

if I hypothetically wanted to see their posts (not saying I do) they can still post to a different server and then I’d have to import or follow that other server somehow or…? How does it work?

Sure! Clicking that Get Started button is an important conversion point so I’d say it’s good to be trying to convince users it will be fun/valuable for them to proceed.

Awesome thank you!

Take it with a grain of salt but my feedback:

- why should I want to save my favorite locations? what is the benefit to me? I’d make a tagline that focuses on that as a hook

- I’d use a photo (or slideshow maybe) showing cool places it could help me remember. with brighter/louder design maybe

Nice so you are getting steady signups then, good stuff! 😀

It’s pretty stark when you compare the two side by side. I think X only works for the big shots now. bsky is making it fun for new accounts.

Cool idea! The logos look good 👍

20 waitlist signups is a solid start! Over how long a time period were the signups (if you don’t mind sharing)?

Congrats!! W18 alum here 👋

Hopefully someone will make it soon so I can follow it! 😀

I’m in San Mateo, CA, USA

- Too expensive but a great place to live overall

- Nature here is wonderful. I ❤️ the ocean 🏄‍♂️🐬

- Startup VC land vibe can be too much sometimes

- Bay area homelessness is hard on the soul

#buildinpublic
where do you live and how do you like it there?

Congrats! 10k is a huge milestone 👏

Yep imho only makes sense to consider if you need ultra low latency and eventual consistency is ok.

For the typical app I think you just end up (badly) reimplementing postgres once you realize you need read-after-write consistency or transactions.

First rule of distributed systems is… 😀

Great post!

Seems like sqlite is perfect for projects that def won’t ever need to scale horizontally.

Otherwise, still seems simpler to me to use postgres/mysql even if it’s on a single node. Similar benefits and easy to scale if needed without distributed systems headaches.

For sure. Integrating feedback into the app can also help.

Building with LLMs is a lot of fun but can also be quite frustrating when you thought you’d fixed a bug/bad output path but it turns out you just got lucky 10 times in a row and really it’s still broken. DX can be rough.