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Lets add another simple game! I vote flappy bird.

Add the current weather in my area to the top right, live-updating.

Tasklet | Staff Software Engineer - AI Agents | San Francisco, CA | ONSITE | $260k-$330k + 0.8-1.6% equity

At Tasklet (https://tasklet.ai/), we're building the world's most powerful AI agent platform for business automation.

We're looking for a staff-level software engineer to share technical leadership of our core agent infrastructure. You'll architect systems for multi-step agent orchestration, state management, trigger systems, and seamless integration with thousands of APIs.

Our stack: TypeScript, React, GCP, Kubernetes, Claude

Looking for: 5+ years experience building production-scale systems, proven technical leadership, experience building AI agents, exceptional programming skills across the full stack.

Compensation: $260k-$330k salary + 0.8-1.6% equity, competitive benefits including medical, dental, vision, 401k, 4 weeks PTO

Apply: https://shortwave.notion.site/Open-Positions-at-Tasklet-2a36...

This is the basic idea we built Tasklet.ai on. LLMs are great at problem solving but less great at cost and reliability — but they are great at writing code that is!

So we gave the Tasklet agent a filesystem, shell, code runtime, general purpose triggering system, etc so that it could build the automation system it needed.

If you’re looking for a (non-meta-owned) alternative, check out our startup Tasklet (tasklet.ai)

[founder here] Zapier, n8n, Agentkit, etc all have the user define a flowchart in software. This is a lot of work to set up and brittle -- can't work around edge cases & nuance.

We use an agent for execution -- so the LLM decides what to do at every step. No flowchart at all -- just text instructions.

Shortwave | Onsite in SF | Full-time | shortwave.com

We’re building Cursor for business communications (starting with email)

We’re currently growing revenue very quickly and are looking to more than double our team in the next 3 months. Hiring AI agent engineers, product engineers, frontend engineers, designers, and customer service & growth content roles. Aggressive comp.

I previously founded Firebase & sold it to Google. Shortwave is going to be much bigger.

Full details: https://shortwave.notion.site/Open-Positions-at-Shortwave-1a...

Shortwave | Onsite in SF | Full-time | shortwave.com

We’re building the [“strong form”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZpJXHiPwtQ&t=498s) AI agent app for business communications. We’re focusing on email initially, as it’s (1) ubiquitous (2) open and (3) has a diverse set of valuable business data. In the future we plan to expand beyond email to include all essential business communications tools, including Slack, Teams, CRMs, document platforms, project management tools, and so on.

Most people’s experience with AI today involves copy & pasting content back and forth from ChatGPT. Not only is this a terrible UX — it severely limits the transformative potential of AI.

Our goal is to unlock 10x (or greater) productivity gains for the average business user by bringing cutting edge AI together with their business communications in a single app designed for effective human-AI collaboration. With Shortwave, users can give the AI access to all of their data and then allow it to take action while still maintaining total control over its output.

I previously founded Firebase and sold it to Google. This time we're taking it to IPO :)

Hiring for multiple engineering roles. See full listings here: https://shortwave.notion.site/Open-Positions-at-Shortwave-1a...

This makes it onto the front page of HN like every couple years.

Jacob (its creator) is now my cofounder at Shortwave (https://www.shortwave.com). Check it out if you want to see his latest work :)

Hi HN -- founder here -- I believe we have something more powerful here for email than anyone out there (far more capable than the Bard or Duet AI features Google recently released, for example).

I go into some detail about how the whole system works on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/startupandrew/status/1704564773831197032

Excited to hear what ya'll think!

I go

Right now we use an LLM to extract a textual description of your writing style from past emails, and then we use that in the prompt.

The nice thing about this is that it's editable, so the user can customize the style to be the style they want, not necessarily exactly the style they have.

We're also investigating doing per-user model training for more refined voice... not launched yet though (and comes with tradeoffs).

Happy to swap notes -- email me: andrew@shortwave.com

Non-Gmail support is on our list!

There's definitely more we want to do here - including prompting you proactively in helpful ways. This is our v1 -- stay tuned for v2 :)

Bard's integration with Gmail is extremely basic -- it's just using regular Gmail search to include a few relevant emails in its prompt and then trying to answer your question. There's no AI on the email side.

We launched a much more capable Gmail + AI assistant this morning here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37585990#37586627

We're using embeddings + vector DB + x-encoder + GPT4 to deliver a much smarter & capable assistant.

Bard's integration with Gmail is extremely basic -- it's just using regular Gmail search to include a few relevant emails in its prompt and then trying to answer your question. There's no AI in the email side.

We launched a much more capable Gmail + AI assistant this morning here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37585990#37586627

We're using embeddings + vector DB + x-encoder + more to deliver a much smarter & capable assistant.

Boom! Glad you like it - and thank you for the kind words :)

[Co-founder of Shortwave here] I know a lot of folks are launching “AI Assistants” right now – but ours isn’t just a “chat with your PDF” thin shim on GPT4. We’ve got some serious infrastructure behind this.

Here are some notes on our architecture:

- We use LLMs at multiple places to choose what data to pull at each step. We use an additive approach rather than a chaining approach to avoid error propagation. We use GPT3.5-turbo with a bunch of hand-rolled prompts for most of this.

- We’re using InstructorXL + Pinecone running on GCP for vector-based search. We combine this with more traditional search methods backed by Postgres & Elasticsearch, to give the assistant the ability to fast searches of multiple types. We use a x-encoding model trained on open source Q&A data from Bing for scoring & reranking to allow us to combine multiple data sources and determine what makes the most sense to feed into the final prompt.

- We hand-rolled a bunch of rule-based algorithms and heuristics on top of the LLMs to deal with email-specific corner cases and other issues we couldn’t resolve reliably in prompts

- Our user-facing output is generated with GPT4.

This enables a bunch of capabilities that other AI assistants can’t match:

- Way better search — Ask a question and get a succinct direct answer, including finding emails that would be tough for you to find through traditional search (ie. you can’t remember a keyword to use).

- Scheduling – Since we can dynamically pull in multiple types of data, we can access calendar data at the right time to help you schedule meetings.

- Analyze across multiple emails & types of data - The assistant can synthesize answers across multiple emails, your calendar, setting, etc to give you an answer (eg. “What are the top 5 issues that customers emails support about last week”, “what are some meeting times that work for me and the other people on this thread”),

- Write in your voice — the assistant can automatically learn your style and tone based on your sent emails. This means it actually sounds like you and, while it still requires some tweaking occasionally, it’ll save you a lot of time.

- Summarize & translate – it can dynamically access the data you have on your screen right now if you reference it, so it can help you with whatever you’re reading.

A note on privacy: We take privacy very seriously. We’re running everything above on our own GPUs + using OpenAI for final outputs. We aren’t training any models on user data.

We’ve put a lot of thought and effort into this one – I hope you like it – either way, let me know what you think in the comments below!

-Andrew

Shortwave | Senior or Staff Software Engineer | ONSITE in San Francisco | $140k-$250k base + generous equity

I previously cofounded Firebase (YC S11) and sold it to Google, and most of our team is ex-Google / ex-Firebase.

Shortwave (https://www.shortwave.com/) is building a cybernetically enhanced email client. We're bringing the power of LLMs to your email to help you get things done. On top of this, we're bringing users a modern messaging UX and best-in-class productivity features. Email is an enormous market (4.5 BILLION users), and we're working to build the next unicorn productivity tool.

Imagine an AI virtual assistant with perfect knowledge of every message, attachment, receipt, newsletter, etc you've ever sent or received. Your AI assistant can answer questions about your email ("which candidates in my inbox have experience with Kotlin?") and act on your behalf ("Draft responses asking them to schedule a time with me").

We are building a world-class AI software team. We use a modern tech stack (Typescript, Kotlin, K8s, React, cutting-edge ML stack) and ship 5x+ times per day.

We want the best and are willing to pay for it. We like generalists with strong CS fundamentals, app development experience, scrappiness, speed, and grit.

Come help us build the future. Email if interested: joinourteam@shortwave.com

Shortwave | Sr. Software Engineer | ONSITE in San Francisco | $140k-$215k base + generous equity I previously cofounded Firebase (YC S11) and sold it to Google, and most of our team is ex-Google / ex-Firebase.

Shortwave (https://www.shortwave.com/) is building an email client with a built-in AI executive assistant. We're bringing the power of LLMs & a modern messaging UX to 4.5 billion email users.

Imagine an AI virtual assistant with perfect knowledge of every message, attachment, receipt, newsletter, etc you've ever sent or received. Your AI assistant can answer questions about your email ("which candidates in my inbox have experience with Kotlin?") and act on your behalf ("Draft responses asking them to schedule a time with me").

We want the best and are willing to pay for it. We like generalists with strong CS fundamentals, app development experience, scrappiness, speed, and grit.

Come help us build the future. Email if interested: joinourteam@shortwave.com

Shortwave | Sr. Software Engineer | ONSITE in San Francisco | $140k-$215k base + generous equity

I previously cofounded Firebase (YC S11) and sold it to Google, and most of our team is ex-Google / ex-Firebase.

Shortwave (https://www.shortwave.com/) is building an AI-powered email client. We're bringing the power of LLMs & a modern messaging UX to 4.5 billion email users.

Imagine an AI virtual assistant with perfect knowledge of every message, attachment, receipt, newsletter, etc you've ever sent or received. Your AI assistant can answer questions about your email ("which candidates in my inbox have experience with Kotlin?") and act on your behalf ("Draft responses asking them to schedule a time with me").

We want the best and are willing to pay for it. We like generalists with strong CS fundamentals, app development experience, scrappiness, speed, and grit. We're well-funded and backed by Union Square Ventures and Lightspeed Venture Partners.

Come help us build the future. Email if interested: joinourteam@shortwave.com

I tried +create_ascii_art@shortwave.ai, sent the word "Elephant" in the body, and got back:

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That's ascii art, but... questionably an elephant

Shortwave | Sr. Software Engineer | Onsite in San Francisco | $150k-$225k base + generous equity

I previously cofounded Firebase (YC S11) and sold it to Google, and most of our team is ex-Google / ex-Firebase.

Shortwave (https://www.shortwave.com/) is building an AI-powered email client. We're bringing the power of LLMs & a modern messaging UX to 4.5 billion email users.

Imagine an AI virtual assistant with perfect knowledge of every message, attachment, receipt, newsletter, etc you've ever sent or received. Your AI assistant can answer questions about your email ("which candidates in my inbox have experience with Kotlin?") and act on your behalf ("Draft responses asking them to schedule a time with me").

We want the best and are willing to pay for it. We like generalists with strong CS fundamentals, app development experience, and grit. We're well-funded and backed by Union Square Ventures and Lightspeed Venture Partners.

Come help us build the future. Email if interested: joinourteam@shortwave.com

They can try to keep up :)

We have two major advantages: 1. We can use best-in-class AI tech, from any vendor (ie. OpenAI) -- whereas Google is only going to use their internal tech 2. We can take lots of UX risk when designing the perfect UI for an AI email client. Gmail has to be much more cautious given it's such a core, old, massive product.

Thank you!

Shortwave | Sr. Software Engineer | Onsite in San Francisco | $150k-$225k base + generous equity

I previously cofounded Firebase (YC S11) and sold it to Google, and most of our team is ex-Google / ex-Firebase.

Shortwave (https://www.shortwave.com/) is building an AI-powered email client. We're bringing the power of LLMs & a modern messaging UX to 4.5 billion email users.

Imagine an AI virtual assistant with perfect knowledge of every message, attachment, receipt, newsletter, etc you've ever sent or received, and with the ability to act on your behalf ("Draft email responses to the job candidates in my inbox asking them to schedule a time with me" "delete all recruiter spam" "snooze emails that don't seem urgent").

We're well-funded and backed by Union Square Ventures and Lightspeed Venture Partners. We want the best and are willing to pay for it. We like generalists with strong CS fundamentals, app development experience, and grit.

Come help us build the future. Email if interested: joinourteam@shortwave.com

Shortwave | Sr. Software Engineer | Onsite in San Francisco | $150k-$225k base + generous equity

I previously cofounded Firebase (YC S11) and sold it to Google, and most of our team is ex-Google / ex-Firebase.

Shortwave is building AI-powered email, combining the power of LLMs with a modern messaging UX & productivity features. Yesterday, we launched AI Smart Summaries (https://www.shortwave.com/blog/ai-email-summaries/), which use LLMs to give you the tl;dr of long emails with one click.

We aim to be the de-facto standard for email productivity at tech companies. We're well-funded and backed by Union Square Ventures and Lightspeed Venture Partners.

We're looking for a smart, ambitious senior software engineer to join us in-person in our SF office. We want the best and are willing to pay for it. We like generalists with strong CS fundamentals and are especially interested in candidates with excellent frontend skills. Email me if interested: andrew@shortwave.com

Shortwave | Sr. Software Engineer | Onsite in San Francisco | $150k-$225k base + generous equity

I previously cofounded Firebase (YC S11) and sold it to Google, and most of our team is ex-Google / ex-Firebase.

Our new startup Shortwave (https://www.shortwave.com/) is building a next-gen intelligent email client. We're bringing the power of LLMs to bear on everyday email workflows and combining that with modern messaging UX & productivity practices. We are aiming to be the de-facto standard for email productivity at tech companies. We're well-funded and backed by Union Square Ventures and Lightspeed Venture Partners.

We're looking for a smart, ambitious senior software engineer to join us in-person in our SF office. We want the best and are willing to pay for it. We like generalists with strong CS fundamentals and are especially interested in candidates with excellent frontend skills.

Email me if interested: andrew@shortwave.com

Shortwave | Sr. Software Engineer | Onsite in San Francisco | $150k-$225k base + generous equity

I previously cofounded Firebase (YC S11) and sold it to Google, and most of our team is ex-Google / ex-Firebase.

Our new startup Shortwave (https://www.shortwave.com/) is building a next-gen intelligent email client. We're bringing the power of LLMs to bear on everyday email workflows and combining that with modern messaging UX & productivity practices. We are aiming to be the de-facto standard for email productivity at tech companies. We're well-funded and backed by Union Square Ventures and Lightspeed Venture Partners.

We're looking for a smart, ambitious senior software engineer to join us in-person in our SF office. We want the best and are willing to pay for it. We like generalists with strong CS fundamentals and are especially interested in candidates with excellent frontend skills.

Email me if interested: andrew@shortwave.com

Shortwave | Sr. Software Engineer | Onsite in San Francisco | $150k-$225k base + generous equity

I previously cofounded Firebase (YC S11) and sold it to Google, and most of our team is ex-Google / ex-Firebase.

My new startup Shortwave is building a next-gen professional email client using modern tech & UX. We're borrowing concepts and features from messaging apps and productivity tools and are aiming to be the de-facto standard for productivity at tech companies.

We're well-funded and backed by Union Square Ventures and Lightspeed Venture Partners. We launched in February, and The Verge called Shortwave "The Google Inbox successor I've been waiting for": https://www.theverge.com/22990303/shortwave-email-google-gma...

We're looking for a smart, ambitious senior software engineer to join us in-person in our SF office. We want the best and are willing to pay for it. We're especially interested in people with a combination of strong CS fundamentals and frontend experience. Our clients do a lot of heavy lifting.

Email me if interested: andrew@shortwave.com

Shortwave | Lead Designer & Sr. Software Engineers | Onsite in San Francisco | $150k-$225k base + generous equity

I previously cofounded Firebase (YC S11) and sold it to Google, and most of our team is ex-Google / ex-Firebase.

My new startup Shortwave is building an email client for professionals designed for stress-free productivity. We're borrowing concepts and features from modern modern messaging apps and productivity tools to help people handle and respond to emails faster.

We're well-funded and backed by Union Square Ventures and Lightspeed Venture Partners. We launched in February, and The Verge called Shortwave "The Google Inbox successor I've been waiting for": https://www.theverge.com/22990303/shortwave-email-google-gma...

We're looking for a smart, ambitious lead designer to help us build a world-class productivity product and a top-tier brand. We're also looking for experienced software engineers: https://angel.co/company/shortwave-com

Roles are in-person at our office in San Francisco. Email me if interested: andrew@shortwave.com