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Show HN: Macro – unified system for email, chat, tasks, docs, agents (AGPL/Rust)

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8 points·by jbecke·29 giorni fa·1 comments

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jbecke
·5 giorni fa·discuss
Very cool work and writeup. Why do we need a swarm for shorter docs not just 1 agent? And does the number of agents scale with the doc size?
jbecke
·2 mesi fa·discuss
Investors should optimize for long term growth, yes. The problem is Management (CEO, etc.) will get fired if things look bad. So the incentive for management, if they can get fired, is to ensure monotonic increase. Sometimes — especially for a rocket company! — you should be allowed to fail for a few years. You should be allowed to take big swings, without risk of getting fired. If Elon knows he is in control, he can think long-term. If he's at risk of being let go if things look bleak, his optimization function will be different (and, IMO, net worse for society).
jbecke
·2 mesi fa·discuss
You can, e.g. Zuck/Meta. (I understand you are making a moral argument, not a legal one, I understand it, I disagree, courts disagree too)
jbecke
·2 mesi fa·discuss
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jbecke
·2 mesi fa·discuss
You can either concentrate power or disperse it. NASA, Boing, etc. is what happens when you disperse it. Committees aren't bold. The reason SpaceX exists is because Elon willed it into existence.
jbecke
·2 mesi fa·discuss
Option 1: Elon has control and optimizes for cool shit and going to Mars, and maybe abuses the corporate entity a bit, as a piggy bank, or whatever.

Option 2: the market has control, and optimizes for short term starlink revenue and the launch business.

I prefer Option 1.
jbecke
·2 anni fa·discuss
Macro.com for PDF (better than Acrobat)
jbecke
·2 anni fa·discuss
macro.com

In-person Manhattan. Hard technical problems: WebAssembly and CRDTs. Impressive co-workers. Engineering-led company.

We are building a new text editor with AI and a Git-like version control system.

Andreessen Horowitz is our lead investor: https://a16z.com/announcement/investing-in-macro/

TechCrunch covered us here: https://techcrunch.com/2023/02/08/macro-raises-9-3-to-layer-...

We are looking for software engineers that want to work hard on interesting problems with extremely impressive colleagues.

Revenue growth >5x in the past year, 7 figures ARR, awesome client list. ~15 employees growing fast.

Some companies I'm inspired by: Figma, Apple, Tesla, SpaceX.

Mostly painless Leetcode-free interview process.

-- Jacob Beckerman, Founder & CEO

https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/2389239650
jbecke
·2 anni fa·discuss
We (macro.com) have something similar but without the recipe part in our pdf/word processor. It works pretty well on numbered headings but not so well on non-numbered. We’re thinking of porting over to LLMs at some point.