Eli Raber

Israel names operation against Iran “Roaring Lion.” - CNN

Introducing Alloy, a local-first AI workbench. • Own your history & memory: everything is plain text. • Orchestrate: parallel agents, swap models mid-thread. • Flow: riff to co-create with an AI & triggers as proactive monitors. No lock-in, BYO-keys. smus.com/alloy-local-fi…

@NathanEvanss any chance you're adding a Northern CA show? San Francisco, San Jose, something? Can't believe you're skipping us! 😭

@boringcompany #SanFrancisco southern crossing t4america.org/2023/03/08/the…

Announcing the Tunnel Vision Challenge! Pitch us your best 1-mile tunnel idea (Loop, freight, pedestrian, utility, etc.), we'll pick a winner, and build it…for free! Details: boringcompany.com/tunnelvision Criteria: -Usefulness (good bang for the bore) -Stakeholder Engagement (get hyped) -Technical, Economic, and Regulatory Feasibility (success is physically possible) Prufrock was designed to build mega-infrastructure projects in a matter of weeks instead of years - so let’s build!

@a16z Great level setting for the #ChiefofStaff role!

@PaulYacoubian Like a trade for #Alberta?

I could see Canada make a play for Minnesota boots on the ground Its right there in their latitudnal wheelhouse come in from Winnipeg which is in a giant Minnesota looking province already

🚨 "More Agents" is NOT always better. Google DeepMind just dropped a massive paper that destroys the myth that "swarms" of AI agents are the answer to everything. They turned the art of building AI teams into an actual science and the results are a huge wake-up call for anyone building in AI. Here is the simple truth they discovered: Sometimes a single smart intern beats a committee. The researchers ran a massive experiment comparing a "Solo AI" against different "AI Teams" (like Managers with workers or debating committees) across finance, coding and gaming tasks. Here is what they found (and why it matters): 1. The "Too Many Cooks" Problem is Real We assume that if one AI is good five must be great. Wrong. For tasks that require using lots of tools (like searching 20 websites) teams got so bogged down in "meetings" and coordinating with each other that they performed WORSE than a single AI. They spent more time talking than doing. 2. The "Snowball Effect" Kills Planning In tasks requiring strict step-by-step logic (like playing Minecraft), teams failed miserably. Why? Because if one agent made a tiny mistake in Step 1 the others didn't catch it. They built on top of the error until the whole plan collapsed. Result: The solo AI crushed the teams here. 3. The "Manager" Model is the MVP There was one area where teams dominated: Finance & Analysis. When the task could be split up (dividing the work) using a "Manager AI" to supervise "Worker AIs" boosted performance by 80%. The Manager acted as a gatekeeper catching errors before they became final answers. 4. The 45% Rule (The "Secret Sauce") They found a mathematical tipping point. If a single AI can already solve your problem 45% of the time building a complex team usually isn't worth it. You hit "diminishing returns." Basically: If the intern is smart enough don't hire a committee to micromanage them. It just wastes money and adds confusion. The Bottom Line: We need to stop guessing. If your task is "splittable" (like checking 100 stock prices) build a team with a boss. If your task is "sequential" (like planning a trip where step B depends on step A) keep it simple and fly solo. This paper moves us from "AI Alchemy" to "AI Engineering." Stop burning cash on complex agent swarms unless the math proves you actually need them. Paper: "Towards a Science of Scaling Agent Systems" (Google Deepmind)

#dalia #gardening #garden

We're giving away 3 free lifetime Shoutout accounts (ends tomorrow) 👇

Time to reveal something we've been in the lab working on 👇 At first, I just wanted to build a simple lead magnet for Shoutout But the more I thought about it, the more I realized: what’s better than a any lead magnet is a micro-saas that actually complements Shoutout So we went heads down and built Shoutpop Shoutpop lets you display real-time purchase notifications on your site "Someone in New York, NY just purchased" AND/OR "🔥197 people viewed this site in the past XX hours/days" I've been using various tools for this for years and it's great for improving conversion rate and urgency on your site and landing pages Lots of other tools like this. But we focused on making it simple, clean, and free of the usual fluff It’s another example of software that doesn’t need to be yet another subscription So as per usual we made it lifetime access to start. Will raise the price slowly up until if/when it eventually justifies a subscription Whenever possible I don’t want to charge subscriptions for most products until they're at like ~1k users-ish shoutpop.com

@Ostrov_A @SpencerGuard nbcnews.com/politics/natio…

New data show Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the UAE have funneled billions into American higher education over five decades, much of it undisclosed, raising concerns of foreign influence. ynetnews.com/article/r1r5zg…

@crystalandqueue At one company I worked at we needed customer onboarding reps, I made a point of recruiting military spouses, all on base and STAHM. They could set their own schedule, paid hourly. We had the most amazing, talented, overqualified and grateful onboarding team you could imagine.

You have no idea how many posts a day I see in multiple moms FB groups of women looking for at home work while their kids are at school. They can’t work a regular 9-5 since the kids get out at 3, but they want to bring extra income into their home. Imagine calling any customer service number and reaching Julie from Iowa helping you through your needs vs Rajesh in Bangalore who you can barely understand. What a dream.

Shoutout just won #1 startup on the week on Tiny Startups! Huge thanks to @RatheeJaisal for helping tiny startups like ours get the word out!

The pocket tiger

Have you ever seen a walk-off inside-the-park home run? NOW YOU HAVE.

pope yes

I want to go to there

“Your job as a founder is to make progress in the short term and still have the vision for the long term." - @Alfred_Lin @Sequoia LIVE from #startupgrind