software design @harvey, prev @atlassian via @loom, @twitter ☧

Washington DC
Joined December 2012
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The “as a Service” part of SaaS remains underrated.
The exploits of the last few days are a good reminder of why we use SaaS. Our company pays for ~20 SaaS services. If we self-hosted them, we’d now be responsible for all of the security patches this week. Instead, our small monthly bill pays for their teams to handle everything.
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How @ShawnFarsai uses @figma @ElevenLabs and @claudeai to create hyper personalized marketing videos with agents
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In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgent to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity.
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Harvey Q3 Recap: Metrics: - Added over $100M ARR and crossed $400M ARR - 97% GRR - 20% of the Fortune 500 and 40% of the Fortune 50 use Harvey - 80% of the Am Law 100 use Harvey Key hires: - @asadovsky, Chief Research Officer (former CVP AI, Microsoft AI & Distinguished Engineer, Google DeepMind) - @stevezad, Chief Revenue Officer (former GVP Rubrik) Product: - Harvey II - Horizon Scanning - Command Center GA Engineering: - Agent harness end-to-end redesign - Brought agents to Word, Outlook, Vault, and Review Tables - Vault files 2x+ in Q3, token throughput 20x+ since January, vector DB migration, major cost & efficiency gains AI: - Harvey Tenet, our first model post-trained for legal - Legal Agent Bench extensions for M&A Diligence and Firm Knowledge - Research collaborations with @FireworksAI_HQ, @appliedcompute, @baseten, @EngramLab, and @trajectorylabs
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sharing this beautiful almost Cubist image from a frame of a vertical video on Sweden's new warship class
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Introducing Harvey II: smarter agents from the start. - Featuring Harvey Tenet, our first model trained for legal work - Built around matters and projects - Agents start with the files, context, permissions, and history they need - Assign tasks to lawyers or agents, then track and review the work - Harvey remembers how you work and writes like you
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Sean Goodwin retweeted
I love DC there's nothing you can do to make me stop loving DC
Imagine New York, but without any of the things you like about New York Now imagine Baltimore, but only the worst parts of Baltimore Now put them together. That’s DC.
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Had so much fun giving this talk at @sequoia about @harvey’s moneyball approach to building a research lab. The biggest mistake I made in the early days of Harvey was trying to play the Yankees baseball style of frontier intelligence. I found out the hard way that we were the Oakland As - we couldn’t raise the capital or attract the talent to build a frontier lab. However a lot has changed since then and it now feels possible to build frontier intelligence without a frontier budget. Winston and I’s most quoted line from Moneyball is “We can recreate him in the aggregate” when Billy Bean talks about his strategy for building the team The talk outlines our playbook to building frontier intelligence in the aggregate and how we leveraged the frontier ecosystem to do so. This is only now possible with inference providers like @FireworksAI_HQ and @baseten, neolabs like @trajectorylabs, @appliedcompute, and @EngramLab, data providers like @mercor, eval infra like @LangChain and many more. I talk about how we build training data and benchmarks, work with the neolabs and training infra providers to post-train, and give an overview of our serving and eval infra to ensure post trained models work in our product. At the end of Moneyball Billy says that if they don’t win everyone will dismiss this strategy but “if we win, with this budget, and this team, we will have changed the game”. Every application layer company, software company, frontier ecosystem company and startup now has a massive opportunity to play moneyball for frontier intelligence. Go change the game.
Want world class research capabilities, but don’t have the resources of a big lab? At our recent Sovereign AI event, @gabepereyra shared @harvey ’s “moneyball” approach. Here’s the playbook: 00:00 Introduction 00:37 Building a research lab on a budget 02:28 Legal Agent Bench, contracting, and the diligence dataset 03:57 Domain experts guiding synthetic data generation 05:23 Why Harvey open sourced its datasets 06:55 Working with the neo labs – and why more than one 08:20 Post-training in-house: building "Associate 1" 09:44 The model serving matrix: 60 countries, fallbacks, SLAs 11:05 Deciding what stays in production 12:29 Simple open source switches and model routing 13:55 Moneyball: "If we win on this budget, we change the game" 14:53 Q&A: Training with sensitive data 17:16 Q&A: Competing for research talent 18:46 Q&A: Designing rubrics that actually challenge frontier models 20:19 Q&A: Where the pipeline breaks — data, research, or infra 22:59 Q&A: The tension in open sourcing a benchmark 25:02 Q&A: Biggest remaining open problems 27:10 Q&A: Competing with horizontal products
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Sean Goodwin retweeted
do I know any design systems folks who love shepherding an elegant design system in figma+in-code? @harvey is looking for someone amaze who wants to help us continue to build the most elegant Legal AI platform DMs open :) / plz share 🙏
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if you’ve never worked on nav, this sounds like a joke if you have worked on nav, this made you put down your phone, call your parents to say you love them, read seneca, and go on a long walk
Replying to @brian_lovin
it's funny because sidebars are like final boss tier difficult design challenge in the age of super apps
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A concept of something I would love to use myself: a speaker where you insert a physical book, and it plays the audio version of it. A more tactile way to experience audiobooks.
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Very crude but potentially useful mental model for how AI might affect startups. For the right business models: Software drove COGS to almost zero The internet drove distribution costs to almost zero AI could drive G&A to almost zero
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can't imagine getting your face smashed in on a TT and then the guy posts this
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This is from one of the first @wrkhrsco work sample doc we put together in April of 2014. What a time to be alive! 💪🏼🐴📐
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A lot of people have asked how we built this hero. I think you might be a bit disappointed with how simple it is but lets take a look anyway 👇
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Astonishingly, we have just learned more about Plato's last evening. Battling a fever, he listened to a Thracian slave girl play the flute and criticised her lack of rhythm. theguardian.com/books/2024/a…
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Our designs for some new wrought-iron bicycle racks.
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