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lebovic commented on Claude Advanced Tool Use   anthropic.com/engineering... · Posted by u/lebovic
simonw · 20 days ago
I don't think any of the mainstream vendor APIs require MCP for tool use - they all supported functions (generally defined using a chunk of OpenAPI JSON schema) before the MCP spec gained widespread acceptance and continue to do so today.
lebovic · 20 days ago
Yep, the Anthropic API supported tool use well before an MCP-related construct was added to the API (MCP connector in May of this year).

While it's not an API, Anthropic's Agent SDK does require MCP to use custom tools.

lebovic commented on Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Claude Code   anthropic.com/news/claude... · Posted by u/bakugo
bakugo · 10 months ago
It always returns a Not Found error for me. Using the curl command copied directly from the docs:

$ curl https://api.anthropic.com/v1/models --header "x-api-key: $ANTHROPIC_API_KEY" --header "anthropic-version: 2023-06-01"

{"type":"error","error":{"type":"not_found_error","message":"Not found"}}

Edit: Tried creating a different API key and it works with that one. Weird.

lebovic · 10 months ago
If you can reproduce the issue with the other API key, I'd also love to debug this! Feel free to share the curl -vv output (excluding the key) with the Anthropic email address in my profile
lebovic commented on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2024)    · Posted by u/whoishiring
mtekman · 2 years ago
Hah, no worries - if ever you start anything in the UK/EU space, feel free to ping me!
lebovic · 2 years ago
Will do!
lebovic commented on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2024)    · Posted by u/whoishiring
calvinmorrison · 2 years ago
Got recruited as a run of the mill PHP dev at a local medium sized business. Turns out my PI did not get the grant and so I ended up going private
lebovic · 2 years ago
This pattern is common. Anecdotally, I think the majority of people trained in bioinformatics end up working full-time in standard software engineering.

I think this is starting to change. Next-generation sequencers and other imaging devices are causing more wet labs to produce massive amounts of data – which is increasing the number of companies hiring for bioinformatics roles.

lebovic commented on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2024)    · Posted by u/whoishiring
calvinmorrison · 2 years ago
This is super cool! It's nice to see commercialization in the bioinfo space, after dealing with bedraggled servers running in your PI's lab for many years and dealing with insane packages (ever try to install QIIME?). I would have loved this job coming out of college.
lebovic · 2 years ago
Thanks! Ironically, I was hired for my first job in bioinformatics by one of the QIIME authors. Unfortunately, that didn't make it any easier.

I don't think anyone has really figured out commercialization in the space yet – us included. The community is still rooted strongly in academia, so commercializing requires a delicate balance between profitability and openness.

I imagine it's what building dev tools was like a couple decades ago. It's fun to see the field grow and evolve.

lebovic commented on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2024)    · Posted by u/whoishiring
mtekman · 2 years ago
Ah. This would be perfect for me (see my bio), but I'm only UK and EU based. I'd do remote if I could.
lebovic · 2 years ago
Argh, this could be a perfect fit for you. I'm disappointed that we won't be able to make it work for these roles.

Candidly, we haven't figured out how to do international remote work well. Hopefully we will in the future!

lebovic commented on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2024)    · Posted by u/whoishiring
lebovic · 2 years ago
FlowDeploy | Product Engineer, Bioinformatics Engineer| Full-time | REMOTE or ONSITE | https://flowdeploy.com

FlowDeploy builds dev tools for bioinformatics, and we're looking for a product-minded software engineer and a bioinformatics engineer. I think a former or future founder would do well in this role.

Curiosity matters more than domain-specific experience in bioinformatics, although some bioinformatics context is helpful: understanding if what you've built solves a problem requires talking to users and understanding them.

You would be working in a few key areas of our product:

- Improving our integration with bioinformatics pipelining languages like Nextflow and Snakemake.

- Building our core API. This is currently written with Express/Node.js with a Postgres database.

- Building the UI for launching, monitoring, and sharing bioinformatics pipelines and data. This is currently written in React with Typescript.

- Improving our pipeline execution. This is mostly in AWS Batch.

- Improving our data handling. Most raw data is stored in S3, with metadata in a Postgres database.

We're a very small team, and we plan to stay small until we have strong product-market fit. We're funded by Y Combinator, have revenue from the FlowDeploy product, and can keep going for years without raising additional funding.

Interested? Apply through YC's Work at a Startup:

- Product Engineer: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/flowdeploy/jobs/KrwNpl...

- Bioinformatics Engineer: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/flowdeploy/jobs/I9F9sI...

You can reach me directly at "noah" at this domain.

u/lebovic

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Noah Lebovic

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Formerly at Anthropic, co-founder of Toolchest (a YC W22 startup), and a bio startup

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