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Dylan Ratcliffe

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297 total appearances

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Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S12 E1: Dylan Ratcliffe, Overmind

And we thought that would be incredibly helpful.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S12 E1: Dylan Ratcliffe, Overmind

And while it's information that people didn't have before, it's also work they didn't have to do before.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S12 E1: Dylan Ratcliffe, Overmind

And so people would look at that and go, are you telling me I have to review these 500 different things to see how my change is going to affect them?

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S12 E1: Dylan Ratcliffe, Overmind

That is that's terrible.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S12 E1: Dylan Ratcliffe, Overmind

That doesn't help me at all.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S12 E1: Dylan Ratcliffe, Overmind

And so that was a pretty big realization that that the whole thing that we had built, the whole real time discovery engine

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S12 E1: Dylan Ratcliffe, Overmind

In fact, actively unhelpful to show to a human.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S12 E1: Dylan Ratcliffe, Overmind

It was, we were actually in Greece at the time.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S12 E1: Dylan Ratcliffe, Overmind

The team is fully remote, but we get together every now and again.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S12 E1: Dylan Ratcliffe, Overmind

And like a few times a year, and we're all in Greece at the time.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S12 E1: Dylan Ratcliffe, Overmind

And GPT-3 had just, we just got API access.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S12 E1: Dylan Ratcliffe, Overmind

We'd been on the wait list for quite a long time.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S12 E1: Dylan Ratcliffe, Overmind

And we were doing a bunch of experimentation with what you could do with the data set that we already had, the features that we already had, that we realized that

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S12 E1: Dylan Ratcliffe, Overmind

nobody wanted because it was actively unhelpful.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S12 E1: Dylan Ratcliffe, Overmind

And what can an LLM do with that?

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S12 E1: Dylan Ratcliffe, Overmind

And it turns out that having a directed graph that it can traverse in real time of all of the dependencies and having certainty of it is the perfect thing for backing an LLM.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S12 E1: Dylan Ratcliffe, Overmind

It means that it's not possible for it to hallucinate because we're telling it what the dependencies are, but it can still reason about impact and risks and things like that.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S12 E1: Dylan Ratcliffe, Overmind

When we had that realization, our roadmap was suddenly we are going to build a product that tells you what the risks of your deployments are.