@devagrawal09 @chadfowler this is like your Phoenix architecture
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Reed Harmeyer
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Reed Harmeyer
@ReedHarmeyer
working on composable primitives for JS and React apps
Seattle, WA Katılım Şubat 2023
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@devagrawal09 I can’t wait to never write feature code again
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@paulg Just made this mistake with my last startup and I remember realizing after a huge launch and subsequent churn that even if I perfected that product it wouldn’t have changed the outcome.
The unit economics were just impossible to make work for a startup.
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A startup idea that only works if there are already a significant number of people using it is not a valid startup idea. There has to be some subset of users who need what you're making so desperately that they'll use it even if no one else is.
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@ericries I think the article is right. Even in the startup world how many founders are making decisions based on what VCs like?
It’s like institutional capital is the demand side at this point.
Consumers are somehow the supply side and it feels like it every time prices go up.
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@rorysutherland Great piece besides the harping on the DEI example. The signaling to capital problem has way bigger issues than corporate trainings it’s driving 99% of all business decisions off a cliff.
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Did the customer ever ask for this? open.substack.com/pub/creditwort…
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@threepointone JS purists are gonna hate this one but I think it’s sick
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best part of this (for me, so far) is for scripts you can choose permissions and tools and run it inside a dynamic worker, really lock down what it has access to
something something code mode
sunil pai@threepointone
hmm
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I don’t see why we would expect this to result in good data.
This workforce was selected for being developers who could put up with corporate politics for a paycheck.
There is no reason to think they’d be effective or willing data labelers given these circumstances.
Scale Advantage Research@scaleadvantage
@GergelyOrosz On the data labeling effort, META does not believe that third-party contractor data is of sufficiently high quality and believe this is an important point of differentiation relative to competing labs that largely rely on Mercor, Scale AI, Surge AI, etc. See more here:
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You’ve heard about Harness Engineering but have you heard about Harness Engineer Experience Engineering?
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Reed Harmeyer retweetledi
It is becoming less taboo for VCs to back direct competitors
I propose a defensive pact amongst founders:
"If a Major Investor hedges by investing in my direct competitor, I will hedge by starting a second company"
Comment/retweet to cosign :)
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@threepointone I think that’s true when constrained to a particular paradigm.
Within a paradigm you can only refine something or make tradeoffs and that’s where most effort goes.
But you can just do something completely different that ends up being better like Components vs MVC
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@dara_venture This makes a bunch of assumptions about incentives and rational actors that are hard to defend.
If it takes 10 years to determine a winner but you’re being judged after 2 years then you’re going to optimize for the 2 year mark.
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A negative correlation is almost certainly not the law.
If pitch quality genuinely predicted failure, every VC would just fund the worst pitchers and print money.
They don't, because it doesn't.
Its contrarian selection bias.
The memorable cases are the awkward geniuses because they're surprising.
Adam Shuaib@adamshuaib
One of the worst predictors of founder success we've tracked is how well someone pitches. The correlation between pitch quality and outcome was actually negative. Zuckerberg was so awkward in early investor meetings that VCs left wondering if he could manage anyone. Larry Page refused interviews and earnings calls for years. Jan Koum sold WhatsApp to Facebook for $19B as a Ukrainian immigrant whose English investors had initially struggled to follow. What polished people are good at is the meeting itself; the 1hr ritual of telling a story to strangers. It's a real skill, but it's separate from building a company. People who spent years optimising to be persuasive in a room have, on average, optimised away from the building skills that compound over the seven years of execution that follow. The pitch room is the one environment where smooth talkers have the structural advantage, but people mistake that single environment for general capability. Pay more attention to things like how they behave in the five minutes after the pitch when they think it's over. Or how they treat the most junior person in the room. None of those show up on a slide. The articulate founder will impress your partners. The awkward one will return your fund.
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@jparkjmc Google would just win if they were led by the reincarnation of Steve Jobs
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google (and deepmind) would just win if they had a product leader with the balls to scorch earth the entire bureaucracy stack that is Google Product Management
Nathan Clark@nathanclark_
it’s in gemini, just create it in ai studio. oh, that’s for your personal google one account. for workspace you need gemini business. no, not gemini advanced, that’s ai pro now. unless you need ai ultra. oh agents? you do that in spark actually. no, not gemini api managed agents, that’s different. for coding use jules. unless you mean the agentic ide, that’s antigravity. no, that’s the old antigravity, download the new one. actually gemini cli is being deprecated, use antigravity cli. no the flash model is smarter than the pro model. unless you need pro. if it’s video, use flow. no, flow uses veo. no, nano banana is images. actually that’s in gemini now. unless you’re in search, then it’s ai mode. no, research is notebooklm. anyway it’s all very simple.
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@arian_ghashghai @GergelyOrosz Overhiring -> more corporate politics
Layoffs -> more corporate politics
From what I hear the layoffs have just created a more performative culture.
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they've been overstaffed since they crossed 40k employees (from my experience there), and it makes the employee experience awful as its impossible to get anything done. Even pre-AI
Company does need to be shaved down, I just wish they were transparent that they messed up by overhiring during covid
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Meta laying off 10% of staff when revenue is at an all-time high, revenue growth is a beast (33% YoY!!), profits at an all-time high:
just depressing
These layoffs are not because Meta needs to lay off, but because Zuck wanted to lay off for whatever reason
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@paulg I get the cheating concern. But what reference base says banning the dominant tool of the next economy prepares students for that economy? School should be building AI fluency, judgment, restraint, and proof of real understanding. Not pretending the tool won’t be there.
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The right way to use AI in schools is to have sharply different policies about how much you allow it. Using AI should be encouraged in some situations and absolutely banned in others.
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@staysaasy Consumer is expensive and nobody wants to invest in it
Source: got 400k signups but couldn’t even get a YC interview
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Like don’t yall find it weird that the AI era hasn’t just not produced AI mega consumer apps, it’s not even produced a consumer product as memorable as flappy bird or Wordle.
staysaasy@staysaasy
@SethCronin If it makes people build way faster then the product doesn’t even have to be AI based, it should just benefit from being built faster. Weird we haven’t seen that.
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@jglypt Investors are allergic to details like that. It’s all vibes about numbers so Google picks the numbers that are going up the most and puts those forward
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@ReedHarmeyer yeah i bet but it shouldn't take that much thinking to realise that it's not a great measure
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@internetxstudio My favorite working space in Seattle hands down
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At INTDEV you'll find people to push you to work better. We keep the space open to founders, creatives, and builders from all different worlds.
Somehow it always attracts the right kind of people.
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