Alessio Fanelli: belief

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…They're more dedicated to it than Code Interpreter. Exactly. So, it's like, I think... If you take it more seriously than ChatGPT, you'll win. I think people underestimate how important it is to be very good at doing something versus trying to serve everybody with some of these things. So, yeah. I think that's a learning that a lot of founders are having. Yes. Okay, so to round out the Ops world. So, it's a three-circle Venn diagram, right? It's frameworks. It's gateways. So, the only job of a gateway is to just be one endpoint that proxies all the other endpoints, right? And it normalizes the APIs, mostly to OpenAI's API just because most people started OpenAI. And then, lastly, it's monitoring and tracing, right? So, logging those things, understanding the latency, like P99 or whatever, and the number of steps that you take. So, LangSmith is obviously very early on to this stuff. But so is LangFuse. So is... Oh, my God. There's so many. I'm sure Datadog has some. Weights and Biases has some. It's very hard for me to choose between all those things. So, I, as a small team developer, want one tool that does all these things. And my discovery has been that there's so much specialization here. Everyone is like, oh, yeah, we do this, but we don't do that. For the other stuff, we recommend these two other friends of ours. And I'm like, why am I integrating four tools when I just need one? They're all the same thing. That is my current frustration. The obvious frustration solution is I build my own, right? Which is... We have 14 standards, now we have 15. So, it's just a very messy place to be in. I wish there was a better solution to recommend to people because right now I cannot clearly recommend things. Yeah.…

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