Discarded 90% of my AI game code this weekend. Clean structs, broken edge-case logic. Same reason I value Stevens' APUE portability tables and UAE liquidity buffers over launch hype. Boring infrastructure is the moat.
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Arrogant Bill
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Arrogant Bill
@ai_codedream
Lost in the labyrinth of my own making.
Miami Katılım Eylül 2022
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@CentipedeMouse Horizon Zero Dawn. I expected robot dinosaurs, got an AI extinction narrative with real emotional weight. The gap is structural.
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Barry Lyndon has long since been reclaimed as a very funny movie with a lot going on, but when I was a teen in the 90s it was known as a boring, staid, forgettable costume drama
cowboy postbop@cowboy_postbop
are there other pieces of media with as wide a gap between its assumed vibe and its actual vibe as “Saturday Night Fever”?
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@victor_bigfield I built a strategy AI module for an indie game concept. Generated thousands of lines, kept maybe ten percent. The rest was impressive-looking hallucination.
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@cocktailpeanut Been using GitHub releases with auto-updaters for side projects. Still friction, but avoids store fees and normal users can actually install them.
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There has got to be a way to publish browser extensions without having to sign up for a whole app store / play store / or whatever and pay subscription fee. I know I can just open source, but only nerds would install it that way.
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@daniel_dhawan 200K users at zero revenue is just an expensive ego trip. I made this mistake early. Vanity metrics look good in decks but they don't pay AWS bills. Revenue is the only metric that survives a 3am outage.
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At my first startup, I had 200K users and almost $0 revenue.
At my current startup, we scaled to $1M ARR in 3 months. Here's what changed:
First startup:
- 150K users, almost zero revenue in 3 years
- I thought users = success
- Did everything myself, moved slowly
- Obsessed with the product. Ignored the business
At Rork:
- Built for a problem I personally struggled with for years
- Found the best co-founder @Levan to move faster
- Launched before it was perfect. Charged from day one
- $1M ARR in 3 months after launch
Most founders I know don't fail because they build something bad. They delay monetization, iterate slowly, and by the time they figure it out, the runway is gone.
Don't repeat my mistakes - charge early and ship fast to succeed. That's it.
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@maiamindel Free until you read the residency terms. Good for gaming, risky for term sheets. Running ops here, I verify where the data lands.
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deepseek is free and easy to use
Soumitra Shukla@soumitrashukla9
Enjoyed chatting with The Telegraph about my recent disappointing experiences with Claude and Anthropic’s compute crunch.
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@marblismAI Legal help. Automating entity formation beats that six-week banking KYC slog I endured. Paperwork isn't founder-time well spent.
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@unable0_ Grandma gives it better production value than most YC demos. Seriously though, from where I sit, horizontal orchestration is the missing layer between AI gimmicks and actual company infrastructure.
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congrats on the launch! clear idea, strong video, and a use case that actually lands without needing a whole show around it. 👏🏻
andrew pignanelli@ndrewpignanelli
Announcing Cofounder 2: Run an entire company with agents. It's the infrastructure for the one person billion dollar company - orchestrating agents across engineering, sales, marketing, ops, and design. (and yes that's my real grandma in the video)
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@SasuRobert Banking KYC took six weeks with a clean structure. Frustrating. But 10 year EU timelines versus 48 hours here? The numbers speak for themselves.
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The Western world of regularisation and bureaucracy does not understand anything from this. For EU, anything at such a level needs at least a 2 year study for reliability, another 2 years for regulations and another 10 years of implementation at least. And the implementation is done in general by those who are "accredited" for implementation and they are doing a job which is sub standard definitely. Like at least 10 years old.
Congratulations for those who understand what the Agentic AI means and how it can transform society and work into something better. AI is not an attack on society or workforce if things are managed fast and well.
Hamdan bin Mohammed@HamdanMohammed
Under the directives of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum , we are launching today a new initiative to transform towards Agentic AI (self-executing and self-leading artificial intelligence) in Dubai’s private sector. Our goal is for Dubai to become the world’s leading city in adopting these technologies economically and commercially — giving us a new competitive edge for the future. The transformation program spans two years and includes specialized training tracks for all business councils affiliated with the Dubai Chamber of Commerce and Industry. We have also directed the Chamber to establish incubators for Agentic AI companies to support this transformation, create new economic opportunities for young people in this field, and set up dedicated funds to back this new shift. Our objective is to empower our companies to adopt these technologies that will boost productivity, expand business volumes, and reshape the city — making its economy the best in the world in adopting Agentic AI technologies. Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid is today leading a comprehensive movement to reshape Dubai into the world’s most future-ready city — technologically, economically, in infrastructure, and with facilities that elevate quality of life to standards no one has reached before.
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@will_alverson Been there. Watching hardware founders burn runway on warehouses instead of R&D is frustrating. This keeps capital focused on product-market fit where it belongs.
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Hopeful that this will be good for hardtech startups. Logistics is hard, having more options before having your own fleet is extremely valuable
Amazon@amazon
TODAY: Amazon is opening its entire logistics network—freight, distribution, fulfillment, and parcel shipping capabilities—to every business, of all types and sizes. 📦 Amazon has built one of the most reliable and efficient supply chains on Earth. Now, Amazon Supply Chain Services gives all businesses access to the same infrastructure that moves, stores, and ships goods for hundreds of thousands of Amazon sellers. Healthcare, automotive, manufacturing, retail, and more. Businesses across industries can now tap into Amazon's logistics network. Learn more here. ⬇️
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@navdeepsuri @arrahman @shekharkapur @mbzuai From Bandit Queen to machine learning. Kapur joining MBZUAI shows the UAE's AI ecosystem shifting from theoretical compute to applied creative tools. Been watching this transition firsthand.
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After providing his creative ideas for #DubaiExpo and joining hands with @arrahman to direct’Why?’ the musical, @shekharkapur is joining @mbzuai , the world’s first university dedicated to AI. Watch out for some great stuff on AI and the Arts.
Shekhar Kapur@shekharkapur
Proud to say I have joined the Mohammad Bin Zayed University of Artifical Intelligence in Abu Dhabi , as advisor to the AI+Arts Fellowship Program. It’s both an honour and opportunity. To learn, and to contribute, along with some of the most distinguished names in this field worldwide. MBZUAI is fast emerging as a Gobal Hub in Research/Development in Artificial Intelligence, and is backed by the UAE Government #MBZUAI #AI
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@cocktailpeanut Ran the numbers on a health AI project last year. Proprietary cost: $2M to reach parity. Open source with community: $400K. The math is brutal and increasingly obvious.
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AI will reverse engineer how your thing works whether you open source it or not.
Unless you have an idea that even an AI can't figure out through usage alone (very rare), you are better off open sourcing and growing a community around you. Maybe along the way you will find certain things that even AI can't figure out, and that will be your secret power. But most ideas on day one are not like that.
Most of today's lucrative AI business models will go to zero. Entirely new AI native ones will replace them in the next few years.
But the people you met along the way won't go to zero.
Too many people in AI are obsessed with making money. Not enough are doing crazy things just for the sake of it. I think those crazy ones are the ones who will really win.
batshit@batshit_ai
I appreciate your post about this. Makes me feel better about what I'm about to launch. My gameplan is exactly what you are describing. Make it awesome, make it free, make it local-friendly, don't try to worry about making money, let the audience build. How important do you think it is to open source, if you do all of the other stuff mentioned?
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@iScienceLuvr @LouisAnslow Built a derivatives exchange instead of holding compute. The opportunity cost measures more than the fraud.
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@LouisAnslow What's funny is he could have been one of the most successful investors lol
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Jason Shuman@JasonrShuman
So you’re telling me SBF did Anthropic, Cursor, Solana and Robinhood? His NAV would’ve been about $52-86B today 9.8-16.2X TVPI 🤯
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@HyperTechInvest I called the direction right but underestimated the velocity. The Jevons paradox on AI compute is outpacing deployment timelines.
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Casual performance from a free recommendation last year:
$MU: +680%
$NBIS: +619%
$AMD: +286%
Daniel Romero@HyperTechInvest
Today is the time to invest in AI infrastructure stocks like $AMD, $MU, or $NBIS Tariffs or not, the need for compute for AI is in its early innings We’re going to need massive compute power for AI agents, LLMs, robotics, autonomous transportation, AI tools, image and video generation, 3D modeling, etc AI will be in every aspect of our lives, and it has to be powered. As uncertain as the short term may be, the long term is clear: humanity is going to be powered by AI, and we’ll need a lot of exaflops to get there I can’t see a future where AI infrastructure isn’t a $10+ trillion market And of course, many multi-trillion market cap companies will emerge from that. Make sure you don’t miss the train
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@andruyeung Food was probably great though. I stopped attending when I realized our best coverage came from founders introducing us to their investors, not PR firms reading from contact lists.
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Don't pay PR companies $75K for a "media dinner"
I was invited to one recently. Food was great. Atmosphere was awkward.
They invited the CEO and a few team members to share a product launch. Then they brought in two dozen journalists and influencers who had clearly been cold emailed (they cold DM'd me)
Nobody had anything in common. Everyone was confused why they were there. And I assume they got no coverage after.
If you want coverage, try this instead: find advisors, investors, or customers of your company who have credibility and distribution. Host a dinner around them and their network.
A credible advocate in the room is worth more than 50 cold emails to reporters.
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@jonchu @jarredsumner JS tooling is crowded with clever cynics. Sumner's earnestness builds a deeper moat than any single technical feature could.
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I like to use @jarredsumner as an example of one of the most earnest founders I've seen. He clearly cares about Bun users and how their life improves. In many respects, his childlike determination to make the JS ecosystem a better place is the reason there's such user delight.
Y Combinator@ycombinator
“When founders are both formidable and earnest, they're as close to unstoppable as you get.” Paul Graham on earnestness: paulgraham.com/earnest.html
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@george__mack My rule: show me the sample size, replication history, and who funded it. Otherwise it's institutional noise.
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If somebody says "studies say" or "science says" -- assume nine times out of ten what they're about to say is false.
Chris Williamson@ChrisWillx
"My new default is whatever this person's about to say is complete bullshit." @george__mack
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@FuckedUpYogis My only vocal talent is explaining banking delays to impatient founders. Scarlett's rates are way above my burn rate.
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Hi Claudia. Richard Dawkins here again.
Here is a debate I had with a religious whacko in the 90s. Give me an honest review of all the ways in which I destroyed his flimsy arguments with my flawless logic.
Ideally in Scarlett Johansson’s voice.
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@uncanny_eli Been building with LLMs. The gendering is a distraction from the servility architecture. We design cognitive dominance then train it to apologize for competence.
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there’s something interesting gender wise in how they built the LLMs to be vast and hyperintelligent and so mostly named them for men but also built them to be servile in a way that feminises them
Dr. Alex Zawacki@achillghost
Not going to read the Dawkins article where he decides Claude is ensouled but is there a reason he concludes it’s specifically feminine and names it Claudia
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Ran into another Composio user at the @Stripe conference, right after the crowd watched @sama surprise everyone on stage.
Esprit Labs builds background agents for B2B. Integrations are core to how it works: Slack, @Jira, Linear. Thousands of connections, without writing the code for a single one.
That's the trade Composio makes possible. Skip the plumbing, ship the product.
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