Dylan Mikus @dbmikus

Helping AI agents research the web just like people do @gofixpoint | YC alum, CMU CS + LTI fixpoint.co New York Joined June 2007

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Dylan Mikus @dbmikus

2 months ago

LinkedIn is the social network where the ads are ads, and the posts are also ads

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Dylan Mikus @dbmikus

2 months ago

There's a whole genre of startup LinkedIn and Twitter that just copy pastes YC advice as their own, and each time I see the same tagline I go a little more insane

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browser sandboxes for AI training... Super cool, much needed It's a PITA to test your AI agent or models against the real world internet, so it's really cool to see sandbox environments and data to speed up computer use AI training

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3 months ago

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Dylan Mikus @dbmikus

3 months ago

The good thing about a GCP outage is that when I'm having cloud problems, my customers are actually having bigger cloud problems and don't care about mine

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Nour Jedidi @nour_jedidi

3 months ago

(1/6) 🚨 Do passage rerankers need explicit reasoning? 🤔 Findings: 📊Standard rerankers outperform those with step-by-step reasoning! 🤯Disable reasoning from the reasoning reranker? Retrieval accuracy improves! 👇But, why? 📰arxiv.org/abs/2505.16886

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Dylan Mikus @dbmikus

4 months ago

fzf is still a 10x better fuzzy file finder than VS Code's file opener

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Dylan Mikus @dbmikus

5 months ago

Thinking of giving an AI RAG access to our whole Notion and then just let VCs ask my RAG agent questions about our startup instead of actually pitching

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Dylan Mikus @dbmikus

5 months ago

The "what is a 105 IQ person's idea of a 130 IQ movie" is antithetical to art. You can enjoy art without turning it into professional improvement min-maxing Same energy as when the answer to "what's your favorite book" is only non-fiction Steve Jobs would roll over in his grave

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Dylan Mikus @dbmikus

5 months ago

Is OpenAI timing out of is something screwed up with my Jupyter notebooks This is gonna ruin my SLAs!

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Dylan Mikus @dbmikus

6 months ago

I'm messing around with durable compute frameworks, and I can't help but think that maybe I should just write Erlang/Elixir code.

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Dylan Mikus @dbmikus

6 months ago

I love when the Xitter thirst trap bots like my tweets about B2B SaaS. Thanks for supporting me!

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Dylan Mikus @dbmikus

6 months ago

This workflow remains undefeated for writing sales emails: 1. copy your sales email into Claude 2. ask Claude to make it more concise 3. ask Claude to write it at a 7th grade reading level Once you dumb down to 5th grade it sounds a little too stupid (sorry 5th graders!)