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Sergio Madera
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Sergio Madera
@Sir_Hio
Building Microsoft Copilot | Aspiring Founder (cooking)
Katılım Kasım 2016
29 Takip Edilen64 Takipçiler
@HarryStebbings Why would you invest big sums in teams without PMF?
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Series A is the worst place to be investing today.
Company progression from seed is minimal.
Pricing is 4-5x the seed round.
So the price to progress ratio is f******. Paying 150x ARR for little sign of PMF, at best.
Plus, the competition is mega both domestic and US.
Go early or go late.
The reality of venture in 2026.
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Oh, boo-hoo, Elon. A white billionaire born into apartheid privilege can't just waltz back into South Africa and demand we scrap BEE because it doesn't suit your ego? Those "140 laws" exist because your kind spent decades hoarding wealth, land, and power while crushing Black lives. Starlink? Keep it. We'd rather have slow internet than bend over for another entitled colonizer pretending to care about "access" while dodging real equity. Cry more maybe it'll wash away that victim complex.
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Starlink is not allowed to have an Internet provider license in South Africa for the sole reason that I am not Black.
This is not ok.
DogeDesigner@cb_doge
"There are 140 laws in South Africa that basically give strong preference to if you are a black South African and not otherwise. Starlink is not allowed to operate in South Africa, because I’m not black." 一 Elon Musk
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@1Umairshaikh How so? - YC advice is to find a co-founder you have a history of working well with. Maybe you mean "having a friend that you've never worked with" as a co-founder is a bad idea?
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REMINDER:
Having a friend as co-founder in your startup is just waste of time.
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@docmilanfar Also applies to Founders and innovators. The non-conventional thinking makes you hard to manage, but is then what brings you to the top if you use it right
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The stubbornness that makes you hard to manage as a young scientist is the same trait they call “unwavering dedication” when they give you a lifetime achievement award.
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@samswoora Software engineer ending but software fungineer is just beginning
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Software engineer as a career is coming to a close. It may be 5 years or it may be 10 but we can all feel it, the end is beginning.
May we go out in glory, and joy, and celebration for the end of a wonderful industry. We’ll have a lot of fun in these last few years
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@rohanpaul_ai It's the CEO's job to hype/overhype their product. If their product is AI, they are biased towards making the most outlandish claims possible. Don't lose sleep over it
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Jensen Huang told a Cambridge Union
"Intelligence is about to be a commodity"
For a long time, school and hiring treated “smart” as scarce, because fast recall and clean problem solving were hard to scale beyond the best individuals.
AI has flipped that.
Jensen explained “When AI takes over all standardized work, the only value humans have left is to handle the poorly defined work.”
“The poorly defined work is the most valuable of all work.”
- Defined Work (AI Territory)
- Poorly Defined Work (Human Territory)
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@valigo @AjayCodeWiz "Make the graph go right and up and be happy with each other while the users cry and scream" is an accurate description of what 120+ Org did at Amazon for 3 consecutive years 😂
But call it out and suddenly you're not "a team player"
Sigh
Things are better now, thankfully
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@AjayCodeWiz They will make the graph go right and up and will be happy with each other while the users cry and scream. At the end of the day windows is like a rounding error on their yearly financial reports (compared to Azure), so maybe they don't even care.
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Man I'm so tired but Microsoft just can't stop losing.
This will be a colossal failure that they will most likely have to backtrack.
You can't even physically READ one million lines a month, let alone understand them.
And we all know how bad AI is at writing systems level code
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@valigo Internet brownie points count towards your performance review?!
All this time, never knew I could cash in
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There's also a possibility that he's just bullshitting for internet brownie points, or because his performance review is approaching.
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@Miles_Brundage This is also the advantage many startups have, they can go much faster, their engineers unburdened by such operations
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@Miles_Brundage Legacy stacks are extremely difficult to actualize
Google Workspace has to continue to support 100M+ users with 99.9+% availability, all while making the (many) foundational changes required to adopt AI
It's going to take a while
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The bull case for Google is all the talent
The bear case is "Gemini is still not integrated into Google Docs in any meaningful sense, two and a half years after the launch of Bard"
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@ai_for_success Google WAS losing for a good while, but against significant odds they've managed to catch up.
I thought this interview was at least a year old for Sam to say that ... strange to see that it isn't.
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Google didn’t lose because of talent, but because of mindset...
Google lost what???
I have not watched the full interview, but if he actually said this, he is delusional as f.
Jon Hernandez@JonhernandezIA
📁 Sam Altman says Google didn’t lose because of talent, but because of mindset. Adding AI to existing products can’t compete with rebuilding from scratch. AI first is a new era. The shift isn’t integration. It’s total reinvention.
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@ExistentialEnso Hadn't thought about it that way. True, many people hating on AI see themselves as progressive/liberal. Cognitive dissonance.
They're not wrong for feeling what they feel tho. Rejection of new technologies is common; let's be patient until they can come to terms with it
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A lot of people clearly hate AI because they’re culture war brainrotted and see it as right coded and search for any possible post hoc rationalization for their stance.
Ironically, being anti-AI is very conservative. You are trying to uphold tradition and The Way Things Were.
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@MandosAsswets @original_ngv Hahaha that's so specific. Based on a real experience?
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@original_ngv @Sir_Hio Tenacious, yes. Delivering slop 6 times before getting it right? To the point where I teach myself how to create a CDS view because Prakash has taken 4 months? Also yes.
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There is such a huge gap between Indian and foreign CS grads. And this isn't an opinion this is a fact. No wonder our engineers aren't employable.
Went to a local uni here in US. Met seniors working on their final year projects. Some of em where:
> A cpp decompiler from scratch
> A reverse engineering framework like Ghidra
> A new type of DL model binary
> Cli tools to monitor if a cyber security attack is bot driven or AI driven
> Self driving skateboards trained on RL and CV models
> testing new adversarial attacks using AI agents
and so many other projects I can't even explain. While most of the kids in my college can't even put together a simple Java calculator or dockerize an app.
State of UG unemployment was inevitable.
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Codex-driven development is... weird. I want to lock in, but instead I write a detailed instruction, and then fuck off for like 15-30 minutes to let it do its thing. Then I go back, taste it, give feedback, and fuck off again.
Probably still faster than doing it myself?
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@pmitu Could you elaborate on your biggest dislikes about LinkedIn?
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@NXT4EU More like European talent goes to the US to refine and scale their inventions
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America just steals European inventions and scales them across their massive internal market with ease.
That's why you guys reject the EU, because that would be the great equaliser allowing European inventions to grow in Europe- instead of having to do so in America.
Nikita Bier@nikitabier
You are entering the final stages of undevelopment. The brain drain to dynamic economies will soon leave no technical workers on your shores. Tourism will soon be the largest contributor to your economic output. Your entire workforce will soon be educated in manufactured disciplines like social business studies—and their only skill will be regulatory lawfare. Your descendants will look back and wonder how you squandered the opportunity that Europe had.
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@petergyang Applies to most roles, being ambiguous about what you did and accomplished is never helpful
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If you’re applying for a PM job in this day and age, the following are all anti signals:
- Strategic product leader
- “Innovation” expert
- Cross functional gtm expert
- Literally any mention of Agile Or Scrum
Please just start with what you actually shipped and what the impact was.
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@syscalm Dang, 99 is my limit. I pass out from mental exhaustion at that point
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