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Laya author is spitting more BS than Typesafe, the (incomplete) papers are nothing like Jev, they use RAG and azure hosted services for calculating embeddings, with an orchestrator. Jev is just a model, Laya was put together after Jev, almost certainly based on what the author learned from Typesafe, and then backported "his" idea

I suspect most people only read the blog post, and thought it was great how a VC company "stole" an idea and was "outdone" by a rando... without actually checking the facts. Confirmational reading bias, we live in a post-truth world with dysfunction media ecosystem

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I think you're right about Laya (and confirmation bias).

But like you said, at the end of the day he's just a rando.

He's not asking for $40m, not saying "I made ChatGPT, but i hate it, so I built the next big thing". Not claiming to co-invent RLHF.

Laya is just noise. Jev's bullshit affects me today - I see people injecting it into the codebases where it has no place.

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> He's not asking for $40m

Just how to "make fkn $500k ARR fast?"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49674396

too much LI/Xitter influencer consumption

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That's really funny, nice find.

To be fair, he's just asking how to get customers. And the post is 2 days before Jev's launch date? I don't think he's trying to sell Laya there (though he probably will at this point).

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There's something to be gleaned from the sum of their output across GitHub, arxiv, reddit, and HN (didn't delve LI, I hear it's a hot mess)
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