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Low drama, amazing support, compliance first: @remote for payroll anywhere in the planet, and everything else your HR team needs (like recruiting from 800 million profiles, or device management, or performance management, or compensation benchmarking)

@ViktorBunin Latest Sony a7. Get f1.4 35mm and a 50mm. GM lens

@Jobvo Brother. Just tell me, gun to your head, which one hahaha. Please!

if you're a parent, buy a really good camera; yes your iphone is the best camera you have on you all the time, but it's SO worth it to have one that's a step above we make picture albums of only the good camera pics and it's a real treasure

@ViktorBunin Just buy one with f1.4/1.8 lens if you can :) I have a collection of leicas which do this amazing but are far into diminishing returns for capital

@Jobvo Same question as the others - which one? I've been thinking about the leica but haven't pulled the trigger.

@saurabhg I use Leicas, which are an irrational purchase ;) (but I love them)

@Jobvo Which camera do you have? I got a mirrorless Canon a few years ago and the pictures are amazing, but I still prefer the iPhone for cinematic videos.

@sixhobbits lol indeed

@Jobvo If you think the model names are confusing try buying access or figuring out pricing for Google AI Vertex Cloud Gemini Banana Jules One Gemma Astra Pro Ultra Agent Platform Imagegen NotebookLM Workspace Enterprise Plus

if this is true, calling it "gemini 3.5 Pro" is a massive marketing miss. I have no idea which gemini we're on and what's the difference between them

Lots of (fair) criticism of this ad, but I like it. It's honest. It says: we actually are considering all of this broadly, not naively.

@lexrodba Ah! Even then… fast/good trade-off is real.

@Jobvo sorry i meant one model per company, not just one model globally!

@lexrodba Competition is good though

@Jobvo i wish they'd do one company, one model, different versions - it'd be easier for us all

@_GeorgeReid_ @remote Sorry George. Sometimes there are more options.

@remote why do you bother having a dropdown menu for this is bank transfer is the only option

My favorite examples of AI changing how companies operate look boring from the outside but are exciting on the inside. Take reports. For decades, this is how it worked everywhere: Someone in finance needs to check payroll variance before a run, or pull headcount, or get a GL export in the exact format their systems need. So they file a request, someone else builds the report, and it comes back in a day or two - often in the wrong format and sometimes with errors. Entire teams staying busy just moving data from one place to another. Today you can just ask @Remote: "Payroll cost by cost center over the last three months." "Which contracts expire in the next 90 days?" and AI builds your report from live data, with the formulas and groupings you'd never remember how to set up yourself. If you'd rather build it by hand or start from a template, you can do that too. The part I love is that making something this complex feel this effortless is brutally hard engineering. "Just ask" only works because the live payroll and people data, the formulas, the permissions, and the secure sharing all hold underneath it, across every country a company operates in. Our team made all of that feel simple, which is the hardest kind of thing to ship, and my favorite. AI in operations, it turns out, looks like nobody waiting for a spreadsheet. To everyone still building these the hard way: this one's for you.

feels good getting two super geniuses (fable and sol) to write a little game for my 5 year old

@tony_zeb nah they're just eager to use a lot of subagents; benchmarks all say they're more efficient

@Jobvo Token inflation with new models

Used 2 Codex usage resets already today.

@fabcoast @marcelolebre @remote All countries except those that are sanctioned.

@marcelolebre @remote Out of curiosity, in how many countries does @Remote operate?

A founder once told me, with complete sincerity: "I wish I was in your shoes. You just had so much luck." I've heard versions of this many times, and I understand where it comes from. From the outside, @Remote looks like it happened quickly. Here's what the inside looked like. I worked 16-hour days for six years, and for most of that time I didn't know what a vacation looked like. I've failed more times within this business than most people try in their whole lives. Products that didn't work, countries that took years longer than they should have, decisions I'd do a lot to take back. The luck is real, by the way. Timing was on our side, and I know companies that worked just as hard and didn't make it. But luck is not a strategy you can choose - so we focus on what we can control and do a lot of it. It's very seductive to want a shortcut because nobody wants to do hard things the hard way. But there's always an upside to doing things right, and the upside compounds while nobody is watching. So when someone says they wish they were in my shoes, I believe them. I just don't think they'd have wanted to be in them in 2020. Although if anyone still wants the shoes, I'm open to offers. Fair warning: they come with a lot of mileage.

lots of new scm options coming out; very exciting you need 3 components to develop software together: a repo, ~CI/CD, and something to track issues all 3 should be handled by agents most of the time, and operate at much higher throughput than what we've done so far issue tracking becomes a place where agents coordinate who works on what, with some human steering CI/CD similar to modern workflows today, with human gating where preferable and code review should massively change - ping pong between agents and humans to do code review feels wasteful. maybe we can have a single artifact "change" that includes the proposal and the implementation and tests; and the discussion on said proposal immediately affects the state, without distinct proposal-implementation-review steps

@friedmandave “Claude please fix this thing that is broken” I think software maintenance is not inherently harder than building it

I'm kind of skeptical about stories like this, because they presuppose that someone on staff will be available to maintain the software over time. That might be true today, might not be true six months or a year from now. Real estate investment firms tend not to be the type of place who can retain staff with the requisite software maintenance skillset.

IYKYK

The day we announced our Series A, a reporter in Portugal rang me up. "Hey, I'd love to ask you a few questions about your fundraising. The first one is: where have you been? No one heard about your company, and all of a sudden you raised all this money. How does this happen?" It took me quite a while to explain that I had been building a business, that I'm not out there doing interviews on TV, and that you build businesses by working on them. It still didn't land. The next questions were more about: does this mean you're now rich? Does this mean you get a part of this money? I found myself explaining business in terms a five-year-old would get. It felt like we were a hundred years in the past. And I wasn't offended, honestly. For a long time, every time I spoke with someone about the company, they would be appalled, as if we were doing something illegal. A company this size, out of Portugal? It just didn't compute. That conversation was several funding rounds ago, and these days @Remote runs payroll for companies all over the world. I've also gotten much better at explaining what we do: I can now do it in terms a four-year-old would get.