Reid Hoffman

Reid Hoffman

Co-Founder, Manas AI & Inflection AI

About

My current priority is investing in and building with AI to benefit humanity. Recently, I've co-founded Inflection.AI and ManasAI.co. I am active in all facets of the consumer internet and software industries. My focus spans product development, innovation, business strategy, and finance. My expertise also extends to general management, operations, business development, talent management, and marketing. I have founding and investing experience with seed-stage to massive scale companies such as LinkedIn, OpenAI, PayPal, Airbnb, Facebook/Meta, Mozilla, and Zynga, as well as world-scale companies like Microsoft.

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Morning summary from Vibesmonitor including pull requests with a bug fix

Every morning, Claude Code checks all 7+ of my projects in Vibesmonitor over MCP.

Traffic and engagement overview plus recommendations for next steps. All depending on your scheduled prompt.

Mine also has instructions ff there was an error in the last 24 hours (in the backend or on a client device in the frontend). It finds the cause in the repo and opens a PR with the fix.

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2d ago

Safety classifier in the same LLM call as the reply, or a separate call?

I m designing a content-safety check for an app that generates personal feedback text, and I m stuck on one tradeoff.

Option A: one call. The model returns JSON with the label as the first key, then the generated text. This saves a round trip and one failure point. The cost is that the classification and the generation share one prompt, so a long or adversarial user message could hurt both at once.

Option B: a separate call. It s cleaner, and you can run it on a smaller, stricter prompt. The cost is added latency and a second thing that can time out.

Whichever I pick, these rules seem right to me:

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