Andy Konwinski(@andykonwinski):i'm pretty sure @a1zhang and I are research soulmates. His work on RLM was right up my alley (i was delighted that he cited my extremely loosely goosey RLLM blog post). And now this work on speculative tool calling... my first paper accepted to a conference was about speculative task execution - co-authored with @matei_zaharia who is alex's academic grandpa, which coincidentally also makes alex my academic grand-nephew - guess research interests run in the family tree

2026.08.25 05:43

i'm pretty sure @a1zhang and I are research soulmates. His work on RLM was right up my alley (i was delighted that he cited my extremely loosely goosey RLLM blog post). And now this work on speculative tool calling... my first paper accepted to a conference was about speculative task execution - co-authored with @matei_zaharia who is alex's academic grandpa, which coincidentally also makes alex my academic grand-nephew - guess research interests run in the family tree

alex zhang@a1zhang

2026.08.24 17:20

Introducing Speculative Programmatic Tool Calling (sPTC)! A general class of technique for speculating on tool calls during code generation in a harness and queuing them early to overlap with token generation + REPL execution time. Blog: