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Aravind Srinivas, CEO of Perplexity, explains why his 30-person team wins by doing fewer things better:
"The best strategy for startups is to focus on very few things, like literally even one thing, because there's not much time."
Perplexity is taking on Google. And they're doing it with a team most mid-sized tech companies would consider understaffed.
But for @AravSrinivas, the small team isn't a problem to solve. It's a discipline to protect.
"When you have fewer people, you can only do fewer things. So therefore, you spend a lot of time thinking about what to do and once you've decided, you just do it."
The constraint forces clarity. And clarity is what most startups lack.
He points to the core tension every early-stage founder struggles with: move fast, but ship quality. Do more, but stay lean.
"As a startup, you're supposed to move fast and as a startup, you have very few shots at failure. You're also supposed to ship high quality things so that the user trusts you. So physically impossible for you to do many things."
And at Perplexity, what gives is the volume of ideas they pursue, not the quality of the ones they do.
Even obvious opportunities don't get an automatic green light.
"Don't immediately say yes to every single obvious idea that you can do. Try to really think about what the user wants and how does it work in the context of our mission. And once we've strategized it, we would just focus on execution."
Strategy first. Execution second. In that order, every time.
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Andrej Karpathy: "the industry just has to reconfigure in so many ways, like the customer is not the human anymore, it's agents who are acting on behalf of humans. And this refactoring will be probably substantial in the space."
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@paulbettner Yes. It's much slower with max settings hasn't done nearly as much in the particular field I'm working on (which is set theory with various extensions).
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@phelgo This is in the works, but it's many months away, as it's relies on us completing a bunch of Verse/VSON work.
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Google CEO @sundarpichai says the U.S. "must take the lead" on artificial intelligence "and develop it boldly and responsibly so every American benefits.”
"I’m optimistic, not because I believe in technology, but because I believe in people, and the sheer power of American ingenuity,” he says.
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@amorriscode Yes, thanks @trq212 🙂
you guys are awesome man - keep up the great work 🫡
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Incredibly grateful for Thariq. It’s really easy to forget there are actual humans on the other side of these accounts. He gets the worst of it.
Every human at Anthropic deeply cares about what we’re doing. We are tirelessly working toward what’s best for humanity.
Thanks for your patience.
Thariq@trq212
unblocked (you and others) it honestly just sucks to be getting tagged like this when you're literally working on a Saturday trying to debug things for users- I've done so many calls this week trying to understand peoples usage the post itself wasnt bad but it leads to a lot of people piling on and feels personal but feedback taken, blocks are too broad given my role
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unblocked (you and others)
it honestly just sucks to be getting tagged like this when you're literally working on a Saturday trying to debug things for users- I've done so many calls this week trying to understand peoples usage
the post itself wasnt bad but it leads to a lot of people piling on and feels personal
but feedback taken, blocks are too broad given my role
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People keep saying stuff like this but lots of people just cant use claude that well either. Its still a skill set not a magic "i win" button, at least for now
bubble boi@bubbleboi
Software engineering jobs probably go down to an average salary of 70k dollars a year as any retard with a Claude subscription could do the job while hardware engineers & adjacent jobs capture most of that value.
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most developers believe that O(n) is always quicker than O(n²). they often end up scratching their heads when their supposedly 'optimized' hashmap performs worse than a simple array using binary search.
the reality is that cache misses can have a much bigger impact than just algorithmic complexity.
how you organize memory is actually more significant than trying to impress with fancy algorithms.
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A computer can do anything provided you learn to tell it how.
Very recently, this has become vastly easier to do.
Chalk up another victory for Carmack’s Law:
Tim Sweeney@TimSweeneyEpic
Doing comp sci research with Opus 4.6 Extended (here, in the context of an upcoming Verse programming language theory paper) is really a Flowers for Algernon moment. It's a superpower, like having a team of graduate students that can answer questions on demand on any topic.
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Doing comp sci research with Opus 4.6 Extended (here, in the context of an upcoming Verse programming language theory paper) is really a Flowers for Algernon moment. It's a superpower, like having a team of graduate students that can answer questions on demand on any topic.
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12 hrs of focused work yesterday. Surprised by the level of cognitive and mood lift.
Context switching 300x/day creates a noise floor of attention reside and chronic nervous system arousal. Microdosing cortisol.
Extended focus resensitizes, making the world interesting again
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some of these companies won't survive post AI world, but saying software is dead, saas is dead, or similar is just wishful thinking about a cyberpunk world where anthropic and openai own the application layer, the pie is too big for just two players
unless they create AGI ofc
shirish@shiri_shh
bro was right. Atlassian down 75%. HubSpot down 69%. Figma down 86%. Almost all of them down 30–70% from their 52-week highs. AI is literally eating software alive and repricing every company in real time. SaaS is cooked fr 😭
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THIS GUY IS RUNNING CLAUDE CODE ON A NINTENDO 3DS
imagine vibe coding a startup from a handheld console that came out in 2011
he built a native SSH terminal for it from scratch in C.
GPU-rendered, custom VT100 parser with full truecolor.
even added a Nerd Font bitmap atlas so it looks exactly like his desktop terminal
the 3DS connects to his Mac over SSH and runs Claude Code straight from it
you can now play pokemon while you vibe code all on the same system
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