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How long to plan a 2-week trip?

@harsh_vardhhan It's also a gateway to learn Spanish/Italian; these 3 can come together easily.

This is why learning French language Is practically useless other than Canada (Quebec) and France It’s spoken largely in really low per capita income nations

@Atomicfreeze I'd come if I were there

Damn either engagement on here is 0 or no one wants to run

A lot of the $20/mo software is bought for 1 feature. People replicate the one feature they want in 2 hrs and then move on. I have a notion-like interface connected directly to my data... without needing an API connection and gaining productivity. The subs cost replacement is just a side benefit. At the company scale that buys seats, I would estimate that 1/3 of the seats paid per month have touched the software more than once, but they need to keep paying just to access the documents. That's the other side of the incentive; a large number of seats-sold software paired with low use isn't a good model for customers. And suddenly, you have a 3k-5k-per-month bill for 2-3 heavy users (the bill should be $200 if billed for actual usage). 5k per month is a lot of incentives and real savings, even with the maintenance accounted for.

Spending 3 days vibe coding a replacement for $20/mo software is not the flex y’all think it is

@DavidGQuaid @LarsLofgren @gaganghotra_ @edwardeachday We won't like this, but there might be a conflict with the scaling AI projects and scaling compute for search processing. In an ideal world, Google would be realistic about where the $ is coming from, but in the current environment, "let's do X later" might be the default.

@FPMarcil You called it - I kind of "said" this yesterday with @LarsLofgren @gaganghotra_ @edwardeachday yesterday

People dont want to believe in Authority in Google anymore. "Content Quality" lol reddit.com/r/SEO/comments…

@TheManxomeFoe90 @tomfgoodwin Jobs that compete for something (mission) vs. jobs that mostly do tasks. I think @tomfgoodwin is talking about the first kind.

@tomfgoodwin Why? A year ago, I couldn’t overcome consistency issues. The current models make roughly an equal number of mistakes as my actual operators. I do the exact same QC process but my turn time got cut in half.

The thinking that because LLM's can do tasks, not jobs, that the solution is AGENTS, because agents can do many tasks, is very flawed. It's sort of magical thinking, blockchain fixes this, DAO's will sort this, it will be resolved by Web3, it's just not how the world works

There's a fundamental "questions" problem when so many answers are available and on the same pedestal.

@UltraLinx I have no idea how they can call this "smarter" the UX around the designs is better

But it still all looks like typical AI slop 😬

@nick_eubanks Preach

The people most excited about AI replacing SEO strategy have never actually had to defend a strategy to a client. AI is a tool. Judgment is the product.

After 20+ years in SEO — buying agencies, selling agencies, building Traffic Think Tank, scaling Semrush’s owned media to 8 figures — here’s what I know about AI SEO that most won’t say:

@anothercohen Turns out the demand is still FAR FAR FAR bigger than the supply, even with agentic coding.

Turns out you still have to understand the slop

@jeffreyhuber *when you misuse them / dynamite the trust relationship - sure

email as a channel is done completely cooked by AI SDR the value of all marketing channels trends towards zero

@Clara_Gold Yes

The easiest job in tech is Head of Growth at a consumer company with PMF. I did it at Rappi and thought I was a genius. Everything you try works. Tweak onboarding → conversion jumps. Unlock referrals → growth explodes. Turn on paid → infinite scale. And if something fails… it was an “experiment.” But that’s a fallacy. It’s like losing weight on GLP-1 and thinking you mastered discipline. Because when you become a founder, you realize the only hard growth problem is building a product people actually want. I’m a growth person, but I have infinitely more admiration for 0→1 product people than 1→100 growth people.

If your point of view on a problem is wrong, all the solutions, as efficiently produced as they can be, will not solve the problem. Be curious about your point of view.

@toddsaunders Great to hear, kudos

I have more bad news for the "people in the trades won't use Claude Code" mafia. You are so wrong.. but maybe you were right a year ago! This morning I had calls with 3 different people in the trades building bespoke software with Claude Code. And I know the mafia will say "but it can't scale." Does it matter? It is saving their companies time, money and resources. They are uniquely and absurdly qualified to build these tools because they have each spent decades solving these problems by hand. I don't care how much you know about code or how good of an engineer you are. You could never build what they are building. You don't have the domain expertise. But now they have yours.

@realLiamGill Cultural failure, policies didn't chase them, the lack of a culture that builds things did.

🇨🇦 Engineers behind AI were educated in Ontario OpenAI: Co-Founder Ilya Sutskever (UofT) xAI: Co-founders Elon Musk (Queen's), Zhang Guodong (UofT) and Zihang Dai (UofT) In 10 years we'll all agree failing to attract them to build in Ontario is our biggest policy failure ever.

@GMDanTO Comparing the normalized to the real is strange; the normalized in the 90s was much higher. Still 2+ years of getting worse ahead (and maybe more if AI...) if we don't react.

I started following the economy closely in the late 1980s. This environment is exactly like that one. The worst job market i've seen since then.

@brockpierson Yep. I think I was 10 or 11. But I was too busy with King's Quest IV, so I didn't play much until I was 13.

Are you old enough to have played Prince of Persia when it was new?

@MatthewBerman Hey, go on a trip with family, stay off the devices. You don't have to post.

This wasn’t meant as sarcasm. It’s actually affecting my life.

@tec_safwan One way trip to a bad core update result, congrats

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@tokifyi @reuvengorsht Bad marketing narrative

in case you’re wondering what this looks like for canada 🇨🇦, @reuvengorsht just built one the higher you’re paid, the more exposed you are reuven-rgb.github.io/canadian-ai-jo…