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@techguy1360661
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Cupertino, CA Inscrit le Mart 2024
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Back at @HarvardHBS for my reunion.
Old friends. Beautiful campus. Clean air. Running next to the Charles river at 6am.
An environment so dense with talent and ideas - every conversation pushes you to think bigger.
Everything that makes you wonder - why did I leave?
And then you remember.
Because building something that matters in your own country feels different from anything else.
No AQI ranking or beautiful campus can replace that feeling.
India is chaotic. Imperfect. Demanding.
But it’s where @OpenSecretSnack is being built. For every Indian family trying to eat better. And that means more to me than anything else on offer.
On my way back.
To the chaos. To the mission. To home.
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@techguy1360661 to me the best teams are those with great processes and don't rely on any person knowing everything.
in most extremely large companies i've worked in, the person who built the original thing is long gone and context is missing all the time. we still ship.
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Everyone is complaining about how models are non-deterministic. Yet most employees in a company are non deterministic.
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@MetacriticCap I'm sure Jensen pays very well for propaganda err research
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@Nick_Davidov Freedom of speech as long as I like what they say..
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Where do I even put my kids now so this doesn’t happen to them?
Matt Brown@maattttbrown
Stanford grads walk out as Google CEO Sundar Pichai takes the stage as commencement speaker. No mention of AI, unlike other uni speakers getting booed down this year. Story for @sfgate shortly
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@hereisramji Sit this one out dumbo... It won't help raise vc money from Zionist vc
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A bit sad to see students do this. If you want to enlist in Hamas and fight, go right ahead.
Matt Brown@maattttbrown
Stanford grads walk out as Google CEO Sundar Pichai takes the stage as commencement speaker. No mention of AI, unlike other uni speakers getting booed down this year. Story for @sfgate shortly
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@antoniogm This was never really true in practice since there are so much inefficiencies including software sales, support, forward deployed engineers etc etc
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The entire point of the software industry was that the marginal cost was zero: one more install cost you nothing but you still charged for it. That justified the massive R&D investment required to produce said software.
If it's all artisanal software with an audience of one or few (with all marginal surplus flowing to model companies), then a lot more has to change here than the dev workflow.
Catch Vartan@catchvartan
Ha! Yeah, I think it's an interesting case where the production frontier shifts and almost all the value accrues to consumer surplus. So there's tremendous welfare value to AI, but just no economic value: no rents to be captured. However, I'm willing to hear the counter-argument that the apps that did well involved some kind of social coordination mechanism and my personal apps obviously don't do that, so apples and oranges. However, the counter-counter argument is that reviews and app store utilization might be flat for other reasons (maybe attention is saturated), so it doesn't mater how much AI helps with software. Lack of adoption isn't the software's fault.
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I learnt a long time ago that there is a big difference between making a living and making a life. In the times to come, AI will get increasingly better at the skills that we've used to make a living. Our imperative will be to instead make lives. Not artificial lives. Or artificial lives. But our own lives and of those we love. As machines get better at answering, and solving what they are asked, our work is to get better at asking, at making, creating, and deciding which questions are worth a life, and refusing to outsource that.
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@slhamlet @RomeoLupascu @GaryMarcus They produce crap you need a really good model to be worth the time reading the output
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@RomeoLupascu @GaryMarcus I’m assuming code assistants can be run just as well via a local LLM that doesn’t need to boil the ocean
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Vibe Coding, 2025-2026 RIP 🪦
Turns out you do still need skilled software engineers in the loop, just like many of us said all along.
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@uyintans @PeterBerezinBCA Lol they are not...they are the ones making useless dashboards
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@PeterBerezinBCA This is true. But it’s a harder problem for companies than you’d expect, because most of those top users really are getting much more accomplished by it, the ROI is clearly good for them.
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AI spending is massively skewed toward a small share of power users.
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Joining a “rocketship” company usually goes like this:
> you joined one month after they raise a big round
> you think you have finally found your best job ever
> they hire 500 clones of you doing the same job
> you realize things are extremely inefficient here
> you tell yourself you will make the things efficient and become “Head of” the things
> you don’t become “Head of” the things
> they hire “Head of” the things externally
> that guy is the most insufferable jerk you’ve ever seen, fresh out of a divorce, addicted to posting on LinkedIn
> you’ve been here only seven months so it’s too early to go look for a new job
> none of your dreams come true at this company and you tell yourself “ let me finish two years here”
> you throw in the towel at 16 months because you fully hate yourself
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As long as their margins don't turn negative this should be fine
Polymarket@Polymarket
NEW: OpenAI is reportedly considering drastic price cuts as it anticipates a “war” for users with Anthropic.
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@NarasimhaKan Never let facts get in the way of engagement farming
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Opendoor is literally a dying company
doomers really need to stop making up armageddon scenarios based on vibes and 0 critical thinking
Kaz Nejatian@nejatian
I shared this note earlier today with the entire team at Opendoor. Today we began to say goodbye to our colleagues in India as we wind down our India operations. Our customers are in America, and that's where our operational work belongs.
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@fivepointscap @SayNoToTrading They are not the bottleneck anymore
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Pretty crazy that $AVGO and $NVDA are below their October highs
8 months of flat returns during the greatest semiconductor rally of all-time
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Who has the definitive history of how Seattle became crazy far-left despite having Microsoft, Amazon, etc in town?
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remember when people wondered whether Uber would ever be able to be profitable
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Average on Google Search is 4 searches a day btw, the engagement on ChatGPT is off the charts
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@porterstansb @dacilic Lol. Every analysis of admissions shows that if admissions were blind there would be even less white kids at these top Universities.
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My son's elite private high school school held graduation last week.
There were roughly 100 kids in the graduating class. Lots of extremely bright kids. Probably 20 IB diplomas. And maybe a dozen of those kids were Cum Laude Society too, including my son. These kids are incredibly smart and hard working. They had straight A's throughout high school, at an elite school, in the most challenging curriculum and earned the highest SAT scores.
Out of the entire class, there was only one student who was accepted into an Ivy League school. One. But he didn't earn an IB diploma. He wasn't Cum Laude Society. Or on the Head Master's List.
He is a great kid. And I'm happy for him. This isn't, in any way, a criticism of him. But, you already know -- he had something none of the highest achieving kids had.
Something has gone terribly wrong with our society when the very brightest kids are systematically barred from the most elite academic colleges in the country. And especially when the board of the school and its staff see absolutely nothing wrong with this outcome.
In fact they will, undoutably, call me a bigot -- again. But when will they fight for our sons?
They won't. Our sons are the wrong color.
P.S. In the middle of the ceremony, the American flag left of the stage fell over and hit the ground. The school's headmaster picked it up. But he didn't know how to fix the mount. So, he just stood it back up and let it fall over again. Twice. Finally a man who was obviously a former member of the armed services came over and, standing at attention, held the flag upright. Tells you 100% everything you need to know about the headmaster and the culture of that school.
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@tparsi You do realize only a small fraction of military offensive actions have been used on Iran by both the USA and Israel? As with most third world nations like Iran they are to stupid to understand how close they are from ceasing to exist.
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The magnitude of what just happened may take some time to sink in.
This is the first time Iran has struck Israel after Israel struck another country's territory (that is, not Iran).
This means that the battle lines have been moved.
Iran's deterrence had already been restored in the sense that Israel knew that any strike on it would be responded to.
But now, Iran has proven that it will also respond to Israeli strikes on Lebanon.
This is the first time in decades that a regional power has the means, capacity, and willingness to put hard power against Israeli military maneuvers or aggression against a third party.
Read full analysis here: tritaparsi.substack.com/p/the-profound…
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