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Sid Probstein

Startup Founder + Leader | 10x CTO | AI, Search + Retrieval

Location Boston Joined Joined on  Email address sid@swirl.today Personal website https://www.probstein.com github website twitter website

Education

MIT, Northeastern University

Work

Founder @ Conjure.work | Founder/CEO @ SWIRL

The decision was not in a doc. It was in a Claude Code session on my cofounder's laptop
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The decision was not in a doc. It was in a Claude Code session on my cofounder's laptop

#ai #productivity #tooling #opensource
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Build Your Own Private LLM: A 2026 Reference Architecture for the Enterprise
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Build Your Own Private LLM: A 2026 Reference Architecture for the Enterprise

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Why Backstage search returns `team` when you search for `tech` and what we did about it
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Why Backstage search returns `team` when you search for `tech` and what we did about it

#backstage #platformengineering #nlp #opensource
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Get Every Email to Your Domain in One Gmail Inbox, Free, with Cloudflare
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Get Every Email to Your Domain in One Gmail Inbox, Free, with Cloudflare

#dns #website #free
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Enterprise source integration as configuration: inside SWIRL's SearchProviders
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Enterprise source integration as configuration: inside SWIRL's SearchProviders

#nocode #metasearch #microsoftgraph
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Replaced Salesforce and HubSpot with Postgres, a Spreadsheet, and an AI Agent
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Replaced Salesforce and HubSpot with Postgres, a Spreadsheet, and an AI Agent

#postgres #ai #crm #productivity
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Taught Claude Code to Install, Configure, and Debug SWIRL Enterprise Search Engine
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Taught Claude Code to Install, Configure, and Debug SWIRL Enterprise Search Engine

#claude #mcp #rag #opensource
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Turning Slackbot into an Enterprise Research Agent with MCP
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Turning Slackbot into an Enterprise Research Agent with MCP

#mcp #ai #rag #slack
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SWIRL 5 is GA: knowledge authority for enterprise AI
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SWIRL 5 is GA: knowledge authority for enterprise AI

#ai #llm #rag
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How many tokens does your RAG stack actually send to the LLM?
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How many tokens does your RAG stack actually send to the LLM?

#rag #llm #ai #python
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Links + Snippets Not Enough for RAG
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Links + Snippets Not Enough for RAG

#rag #ai #llm
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Making RAG admit when it's guessing: source-grounded hallucination checks
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Making RAG admit when it's guessing: source-grounded hallucination checks

#ai #rag #llm
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SWIRL Community 4.5 Update
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SWIRL Community 4.5 Update

#ai #rag #nlp #opensource
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The knowledge-authority layer: what your agents can't get from the outside
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The knowledge-authority layer: what your agents can't get from the outside

#ai #rag #llm #mcp
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Moving Docker images between repos with crane (after imagetools wasted my afternoon)
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Moving Docker images between repos with crane (after imagetools wasted my afternoon)

#docker #resources
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Running PyTorch fork-safe in Celery on macOS
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Running PyTorch fork-safe in Celery on macOS

#python #celery
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The AI agent stack that’s quietly taking over enterprise workflows
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The AI agent stack that’s quietly taking over enterprise workflows

#showdev #ai #architecture
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It was already indexed!
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It was already indexed!

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Swirl 2.5 released
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Swirl 2.5 released

#search #python #django
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I wrote a metasearch engine called Swirl
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I wrote a metasearch engine called Swirl

#search #cloudcomputing #llm #ai
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