Simon Willison: belief

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…goes, right? I mean, the second all was drop from this space and then start actually according to this. And then we'll come back here and then we'll see. Go ahead Simon and hear. I just wanna say for me until today, the functions thing was always a hack, right? You could get it working on top of language model, but you had to do some pretty weird prompt engineering and mucking around to, to get that to happen. And now that it's part of the core platform, it feels so much the, the friction involved in getting that working feels so much lower. I'm no longer afraid of it. You know, I was kind of cautious of doing this trip in the past cuz I knew there were so many ways that it might break. Now that I know that opening, I fine tuned a model for it. I feel a lot more confident in using it. So I think that makes a big difference. I won't say thanks for. Everybody here on stage sharing with us, like exploring with us Simon and Sean and Riley and Miston and Zov Farrell and Mayor, and Steph and Roy, and so many great folks here discussing kind of these late exchanges. They're definitely exciting, potentially if, if you are siding with miston groundbreaking and earth shattering, which I tend to agree. And this is, this is was the reason for the space with, with Sean. We discussed this in DM and we brought a great panel of friends to discuss how, how big this is. And I think now that we're hitting like an hour and a half, I think we're here. Let's do a fairly quick kind discussion about what are we building with this new tool that we have. Yeah. So I'll let Steph go and then let's, let's maybe everybody feel free to turn mute and kind of have an unstructured debate. And then we'll gonna close this out because I'm losing my voice and although this has been fun, it prevents all of us from going, actually playing with this, with these new tools. So Steph, go ahead and then feel free folks to chime in and say, what are we building with this?…

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