Shawn Wang: belief

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…Yeah. Yeah. And it chose that because the process supervision and the gen servers are super amenable to the type of process orchestration that we’re doing here. You are essentially spinning up little Damons for every task that is in execution and driving it to completion, which. Means the mall gets a ton of stuff for free by using Elixir and the Beam. I had to go do a crash course in Beam and Elixir, and I think most people are not operating at that scale of concurrency where you need that. But it is a good mental model for Resum ability and all those things. And these are things I care about. But tell me the story, the origin story of Symphony. What do you use it for? Is this, how did it form maybe any abandoned paths that you didn’t take? At the end of December we were at about three and a half PRS per engineer per day. This was before five two came out in the beginning of January. Everyone gets back from holiday with five two and no other work on the repository. We were up in the five to 10 PRS per day per engineer. And I don’t know about y’all, but like it’s very taxing to constantly be switching like that. Like I was pretty tapped out at the end of the day, again, where are the humans spending their time? They’re spending their time context switching between all these active tmox pains to drive the agent forward.…

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