JoelCodes

It’s hard to tell if we’re just hitting another AI trend phase or if we’ve just hit an infliction point in the rate in which ideas can be materialized into content, leaving imagination as the only limiting factor for creation.

Also so many stories like this Guy sells his $50K/mo business to a VC funded unicorn Gets offered $10M for it, e.g. 16x multiple on revenue! Too good to be true right? Well it is, cause it's just an acquihire Celebrates it as a massive $10M acquisition "Look guys I made it! I'm rich now!" His startup is shutdown, and he gets paid a salary to work at the new company, with a vesting agreement that he has to stay on for 5 years to get the $10M, but the $10M is in stock valued at the arbitrary price when he got acquihired Meanwhile that $10M stock gets diluted, the price may drop due to the market changing, and actually it might just end up worthless after paying tax on calling the options to buy the stock in the first place And now you have a soul-sucking job at a unicorn instead of building a cool product And you're still poor 5 years of the best years in your life wasted for quite low odds % on a pay out

Told directly that they personally weren’t capable of owning the market……goes on to build a 15 billion dollar company.

The new ChatGPT Mac app is amazing. I got a fully working Breakout game code using a shortcut to pull up the app with GPT-4o and a simple screenshot of my screen. So many use cases and faster workflows.

Pretty wild. This is the equivalent of being able to pass 9 Harry Potter books as context to ChatGPT

@samuelodan @levelsio It’s sarcasm 😆

@JoelCodes @levelsio Because they can go down sometimes?

Oh no, all my AI apps breaking now

🤯 This is insane Simulon can add any 3D model to your real footage video in a matter of minutes. It's so real that I almost can touch it!

@andrewchen Using this old post to ask you questions since I can’t DM. Just finished your book Cold Start, and wow that’s was one of the best reads I’ve had in a while. Any other recommendations on books with a similar structure of concepts and case studies for SaaS ?

When I first joined a16z -- it's been 6 years, can you believe it!? -- the entire firm showed up every day in Menlo Park. The world's changed, and now the firm has offices in Silicon Valley, SF, LA, London, and NYC. Let's talk Los Angeles. I've been working to beef up a16z's approach to the LA ecosystem since moving ~2 years ago. Some of the ways we're building our LA presence: - we're running our SPEEDRUN accelerator starting July 29th, where we'll be bringing ~30-40 new energetic startups to town! We're investing $750k each at the intersection of TECH x GAMES and collab'ing with folks from entertainment/gaming/tech to make it a great experience. (Apply here: sr.a16z.com) - the team's grown! we have ~50 employees of a16z based in LA now (!!!) including senior members of our leadership team who have homes here - so has our portfolio in LA. We have two dozen investments across many sectors - fintech, commerce, consumer, gaming, web3, etc. - LA Tech Week was kicked off in 2022 and it's just gotten bigger and better. The next one will be in October 2024 (alongside SF, and earlier in Jun, NYC), and will feature 100s of events and 10,000s of people visiting the city - several of us have been investing in emerging fund managers in the LA region, who co-invest alongside us (and often before us) in great startups. We've supported a half dozen GPs -- some solo GPs, some in small teams -- with the goal of bringing the investing ecosystem together - finally, we are opening up our flagship LA office which will be in downtown Santa Monica, in the next few months. Am very excited about this and to see all my colleagues more often Lots of great activity and energy in LA! I find myself back in SF on a monthly basis -- nothing can beat the amazing startup energy of the Bay Area -- but a lot is happening here which has been great.

This is the most helpful visualization by far

Long walks + ChatGPT voice undefeated for brainstorming

If you’ve thought of some ways to automate some parts of your business with AI and want to know how feasible it is to implement, reach out to me 👍

It’s crazy how we’ve gone from ChatGPT to full blown multi AI agents coordination in a year’s time.

@ericbahn I actually built carhelpai.com almost a year ago following the same thought. Works pretty well! It’s using 3.5 turbo need to test with better models still

Life Pro Tip: Find a PDF of your car manual and use it to create your own custom GPT. Now you can just ask regular questions to your car about how to operate and maintain it well!

NEWS 🚨: The Event Horizon Telescope has captured the first image of our supermassive black hole, Sagittarius A, in polarized light

One of my favorite conclusion’s from a study, I think about this often.

@tibo_maker Sign me up

The "basic" TikTok Hunter that I built this weekend You can: ✅ search TikTok videos ✅ repurpose them ✅ re-write with AI ✅ generate a brand-new video ✅ publish on TikTok Trying to make it easy to grow a TikTok account x10 faster 💬 Drop a comment if you want to try

A different perspective by Hugo Suissas - thread 🧵 1. Special Light

MIT University just released free online courses. No payment required. Here are 10 courses you don't want to miss in 2024:

@DanielNyirfa @downthecrop That’s true but why not have the AI analysis overlayed with the 3D scan? That might enable an experienced specialist to make a faster assessment or provide some guidance on where they should be looking.

@downthecrop That's very true. But at the same time in order to know AI analysis is 100% correct you'll need experienced human input.

An actual interesting and exciting Vision Pro app!

@AmandaMGoetz @ausvano

Do we think this will increase human connection or decrease? Genuine question.