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Fireside chat at Sequoia Ascent 2026 from a ~week ago. Some highlights: The first theme I tried to push on is that LLMs are about a lot more than just speeding up what existed before (e.g. coding). Three examples of new horizons: 1. menugen: an app that can be fully engulfed by LLMs, with no classical code needed: input an image, output an image and an LLM can natively do the thing. 2. install .md skills instead of install .sh scripts. Why create a complex Software 1.0 bash script for e.g. installing a piece of software if you can write the installation out in words and say "just show this to your LLM". The LLM is an advanced interpreter of English and can intelligently target installation to your setup, debug everything inline, etc. 3. LLM knowledge bases as an example of something that was *impossible* with classical code because it's computation over unstructured data (knowledge) from arbitrary sources and in arbitrary formats, including simply text articles etc. I pushed on these because in every new paradigm change, the obvious things are always in the realm of speeding up or somehow improving what existed, but here we have examples of functionality that either suddenly perhaps shouldn't even exist (1,2), or was fundamentally not possible before (3). The second (ongoing) theme is trying to explain the pattern of jaggedness in LLMs. How it can be true that a single artifact will simultaneously 1) coherently refactor a 100,000-line code base *and* 2) tell you to walk to the car wash to wash your car. I previously wrote about the source of this as having to do with verifiability of a domain, here I expand on this as having to also do with economics because revenue/TAM dictates what the frontier labs choose to package into training data distributions during RL. You're either in the data distribution (on the rails of the RL circuits) and flying or you're off-roading in the jungle with a machete, in relative terms. Still not 100% satisfied with this, but it's an ongoing struggle to build an accurate model of LLM capabilities if you wish to practically take advantage of their power while avoiding their pitfalls, which brings me to... Last theme is the agent-native economy. The decomposition of products and services into sensors, actuators and logic (split up across all of 1.0/2.0/3.0 computing paradigms), how we can make information maximally legible to LLMs, some words on the quickly emerging agentic engineering and its skill set, related hiring practices, etc., possibly even hints/dreams of fully neural computing handling the vast majority of computation with some help from (classical) CPU coprocessors.

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Spawning agents for execution is fun.

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It was a struggle for me to get here, but I am the happiest I have ever been. I wanted to share my story — the whole story. @PlayersTribune theplayerstribune.com/valtteri-botta…

Kalau aku mula balik buat startup, aku takkan mula dgn pergi pitch utk geran gomen. Aku akan focus pada menjual dan marketing services/product aku nak jual. Proses utk minta, dapat dan disburse tu akan sebabkan kau optimise for other things, away from quality revenue.

6 months ago, I moved to San Francisco. It’s the best place in the world to build, and one of the worst places to stay human. My unfiltered take: 1. SF is both overhyped and underrated The overhyped part: there are a lot of people with incredible resumes who are deeply unimpressive in real life. They were at the right company, at the right time, in the right market, and got carried by the wave. They made money, got comfortable, and now spend their time “exploring opportunities” over coffee, wasting your time. The underrated part: the top 1% here is insane. But almost impossible to get. Hiring in SF feels like being a guy on a dating app: everyone you want is out of your league, and everyone in your league wants someone out of theirs. The best people have unmatchable packages, endless options, and are optimizing for maximum impact: labs, frontier companies, or startups raising $100M pre-seed rounds. If you raised $10M from Tier 1 investors, you’re not hot shit here. You’re a B-player. It’s humbling. 2. There are fewer mission-driven people than I expected Especially on the application layer. A lot of people are in “secure the bag before it’s too late” mode. And honestly, it gives me the ick. The real religious builders I’ve met are often in labs, hardware, biotech, deeptech, defense — places where the work is hard enough that you can’t fake obsession. 3. The status game favors builders This is what SF does better than anywhere else. It rewards obsession. It rewards weirdness. It rewards people who make building their entire personality. Europe punishes that. SF gives it status. If you’ve felt like an outsider your whole life because you care too much, work too much, think too radically, or refuse to be chill about things that matter, this city will make you feel less insane. 4. The market liquidity is absurd Even if you don’t build a billion-dollar company, if you manage to build a strong product with a great team, someone smart might still acquire you for $ 100M. Yeah I know, it’s not your dream outcome as a founder, but on the days you feel desperate, it helps to keep going. 5. SF does not care about the meaning crisis that’s coming Anyone paying attention here can feel that something massive is happening with AI. But I’m shocked by how little people talk about the meaning crisis coming next. Everyone wants to talk about AI liberating humanity. Almost no one wants to talk about what happens when work — the thing that gives most people identity, structure, dignity, status, and purpose — starts disappearing. The vacuum will not be peaceful. People are underestimating the chaos that comes from humans suddenly having no idea why they matter. And I really feel like no one cares. 6. Personally, I’ve never been more unhappy I moved to SF and entered the matrix. I’ve always been intense. I’ve always worked crazy hours. But here, I lost the last parts of myself that were not about building. I don’t go to events. Most networking events feel like theater for people pretending to be important. The only events worth going to are small, curated dinners with people who are actually alive. I’ve made 0 real friends. I don’t do well with transactionality. I don’t do well with people constantly performing greatness. I don’t do well with rooms where everyone is optimizing and no one is being honest. So yes, SF is lonely, transactional, delusional, addictive, inspiring, boring, extraordinary, and completely insane. But it is still the only place to be right now if you’re a founder trying to build the next wave of humanity. And for now, that’s enough.

Tahukah anda? 🌍 Dunia kini berdepan ketidaktentuan bekalan tenaga global yang boleh memberi kesan kepada barangan berasaskan minyak dan gas. 🛢️ Bahan ini penting dalam kehidupan seharian termasuk pembungkusan makanan, barangan pengguna, sektor kesihatan serta logistik.

Habislah krisis dah reda, usaha biodiesel jadi hangat hangat tahi ayam je 🥲🥲🥲 Sebenarnya, tak bermakna orang dah tak sembang sangat isu krisis tenaga di Threads, semuanya dah selesai. Semalam saya kongsikan bahawa harga minyak mentah masih melebihi 100 USD setong. Pemulihan bekalan minyak mentah pula dijangka mengambil masa 3 hingga 12 bulan. Kalau perang selesai hari ini sekali pun, kerosakan infrastruktur minyak dan gas akan mengambil masa lebih lama untuk dipulihkan. Saya masih push untuk langkah mitigasi segera. Sebab itu untuk mempercepatkan pelaksanaan biodiesel di stesen-stesen minyak seluruh negara, semalam saya umumkan yang Kerajaan setuju untuk tubuhkan Jawatankuasa Peringkat Tertinggi Biobahan Api. Ini bagi memastikan kita terus fokus terhadap langkah mitigasi segera dengan memanjangkan bekalan tenaga dan mengurangkan kebergantungan kepada import. Insya Allah, saya akan terus konsisten untuk push pelaksanaan biodiesel.

BREAKING: Brent crude oil hits $115, the highest since 2022.

No one is bound to change human behaviour.

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many years ago - affiliate ni just boleh for registered company ie yang buat website gadjet etc. Strict filter dia ie : Kalau nak affliliate gajet only website and content gajet, travel etc pun sama. Namun begitulah, bila zaman berubah dan polisi pun tak seiring, kalau nak revert balik pun confirm public mengamuk sebab 'punca' pendapatan tu kena kacau. At the first place sepatutnya ada polisi jadi affiliate where the platform tu bina affiliate program dia berdasarkan polisi tersebut.

Ritu gi interview, dpt panel dari akademia perangai palat kuat insecure. Soalan tak relevant dia gi tanya aku (brp byk paper dah publish) padahal aku dari industri. Pastu persoalkan cmne aku dari tech bole masuk big 4. Panel interview pun cam bodoh. Aku ban terus MBOT.

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Mengimpikan pendapatan bertambah tanpa ada perubahan efficiency kerja ni jarang translate to menjadi realiti. Kalau 3 jadi satu, 8 jadi 2½. Ada 5.30 minit untuk settlekan future backlogs atau belajar lagi benda yg boleh improve skill or even take a side gigs. All can leads to extra income

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