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oversubscribed in steez

inject it into my veins 🐐

A less discussed, but perhaps more destabilizing effect of AI, is that within large companies mass audits of outputs are now viable. You used to go to a manager and you’d get a vibe check. Now a deep research agent could reasonably tell you which quartile you’re in

the way to build shareholder value is to build a workplace that brings out the best in people. companies that focus excessively on might-be shareholders at the expense of their teams will bleed talent at the moment in time when talent matters the most. it’s unfashionable to talk about culture, and near uncouth to bring up the “work environment”. while surely the cold-brew-on-tap office perks of the 2010s were useless, and stock comp may be frittered away in uneconomic ways, the returns to building camaraderie and a winning locker room have never been higher than they are today. the best CEOs are building their companies both for their customers and for their teams. the shareholders will take care of themselves.

‘Grinding can get you to some solid local maxima but only joy can get you to global maxima’

Not knowing how to code giving you an advantage is absolute nonsense. The more you understand, the better your prompts, the better the feedback you give, the better product you ship. What will change is that the intricacies of syntax, compilers, module systems, the finer details of type systems, won’t matter as much to everyone. But you should absolutely understand how the pieces fit together. From syscall to pixels. Learn how data flows, because you’ll be able to secure your systems. Learn about performance, because you’ll be able to push your agent further. Learn about APIs, because they determine how to integrate systems. Learn about how systems fail, because you’ll be able to make reliable programs.

in enterprise sales, a deal is truly qualified if you are texting and able to call without calendar event …

Prediction: many email providers will limit who you can contact to people you verifiably know as spam prevention mechanism

New bar for product market fit: when somebody wants to use your product so bad they’re willing to invoke the Defense Production Act of 1950 to keep using it

In short run, many coming "we are doing layoffs due to AI" PR will be correcting for sins of 2020 era of over hiring versus anything to do w AI Many larger tech companies could slim down 50% w/o any AI changes Most AI productivity impact is still around bend

One of these app building cos needs to take the ‘clone a company overnight’ tagline

Well deserved by kunal and kurush.. incredible to watch their progress in such a short period of time. Congrats guys 🫡

Killer Apple Watch app: hit ‘record’ to subtly start transcribing a live conversation you’re in The number of offline conversations I have that I can’t capture is quite large. Somehow, there isn’t a daily wearable recording device that easily interfaces w iOS ecosystem yet

There is an instinct among early stage investors to talk their book like all the big tech incumbents are about to be slayed by an army of $1m ARR startups. Founders, you are smart enough to know this isn’t true. Slaying an incumbent requires, time, skill, luck, and often a new technology. Don’t believe the marketing hype - this shit is hard.

Twitter's Eng org used to be TWO THOUSAND engineers. Now it's ~25 engineers and a few designers and PMs. I knew the cuts were big but this is blowing my mind.

There is a new post-AI aesthetic emerging ‘Slop’ is the next generations dubstep

don’t understand how Bilt’s growth isnt completely over with this Wells Fargo subsidy gone and all their rewards mid-tier at best Audience using them seems to predominantly be the points maxxing type that will absolutely cancel/switch

Whether someone resonates with this suicidal penguin meme has become an extremely accurate indicator of if they should work at a startup

if this penguin doesn't penetrate your psyche so deeply that you are compelled to finally drop everything & chase your dreams. then you're doomed forever bro.

If someone says ‘context’ in the broadest, most ambiguous way possible one more time..

having a gf is insane because it is literally unlimited chat with no rate limits