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Matt Jaynes

@nanobeep

Ruthlessly Simple Systems, Built from First Principles

Katılım Mart 2007
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Alfred Lin@Alfred_Lin·
A CEO from one of our portfolio companies shared this with their team. I’m re-sharing it with their permission, because it resonated and reflects what all founders and CEOs should be communicating. -- We are living through a period of compounding change. And in moments like this, the biggest risk is no longer making the wrong decision. It is moving too slowly while the world moves around you. There are two paths. We can play defense: - Protect what we have - Optimize what works - Wait for clarity It feels safe. It isn’t. Or we can play offense: - Learn faster than the environment changes - Use new tools to solve old problems in better ways - And create entirely new strategies and businesses That’s where the opportunity is. Challenge yourself to do things faster and better than you have ever attempted. Stay uncomfortable. Stay on the front foot.
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Aaron Levie
Aaron Levie@levie·
We dramatically underestimate how much change management it is going to take to automate most knowledge worker tasks. Between data being in legacy environments or systems or without good APIs, context missing for doing the task, teams that are less technical, and other factors, there’s still a lot of work to drive real AI transformation in an enterprise. This is actually great news if you’re building right now because the opportunity is to build the software bridges to make this easier, or to build new services firms to help with this change management. Opportunity is all around for those looking.
Jason Shuman@JasonrShuman

Silicon Valley thinks AI agents are a $20/mo self-serve subscription. Main Street is paying local agencies $10,000 just to turn them on. Everyone assumes AI will be bought primarily online like Slack or Zoom. I think they are wrong. Some of the biggest winners in the AI boom won't be the software vendors. It will be the humans installing it. Here is the reality of SMBs right now: • 54% lack internal AI expertise. • 41% have data quality too poor for AI to even work. • 41% already prefer buying AI through a local IT provider. You cannot "1-click install" a genius AI into a messy CRM or a 15-year-old server. It will just execute the wrong tasks at the speed of light. The AI software will be cheap and a lot will absolutely be bought online. Making it actually work for a messy, real-world business will be expensive. Very bullish on the "Do It For Me" economy being back.

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Aaron Levie
Aaron Levie@levie·
Jevons paradox is happening in real time. Companies, especially outside of tech, are realizing that they can now afford to take on software projects that they wouldn’t have been able to tackle before because now AI lets them do so. We’re going to start to use software for all new things in the economy because it’s incrementally cheaper to produce. Marketing teams at big companies will have engineers helping to automate workflows. Engineers in life sciences and healthcare will automate research. Small businesses will hire engineers for the first to build better digital experiences. And as long as AI agents still require a human who understands what to prompt, how to review when an agent goes off the rails, how it guide back, how to maintain the system that was built, how to fix the ongoing bugs, and more, we will still have humans managing these agents. This is why all the advice you get of not going into engineering is wrong. The world is going to increasingly be made up of software, and the people that understand it best will be in a strong economic position. This will happen in other roles as well where output goes up and demand increases.
Lenny Rachitsky@lennysan

Engineering job openings are at the highest levels we’ve seen in over 3 years There are over 67,000 (!!!) eng openings at tech companies globally right now, with 26,000 just in the U.S. We don’t know if there would have been more open roles if not for AI or if AI is actually leading to more open roles, but since the start of this year, the increase in open eng roles is accelerating even more.

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vitrupo@vitrupo·
Eric Schmidt says the 10x advantage is no longer execution. It is defining what counts as success. A programmer writes a spec and an evaluation function, runs it at 7pm, and wakes up to what was invented overnight. The advantage now belongs to whoever can specify the problem precisely. The rest will be automated.
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Toran Bruce Richards@SigGravitas·
Businesses using the most AI are significantly outpacing those who are using the least. And it is revealed in the comments that these are not AI companies themselves, just everyday businesses.
Eric Glyman@eglyman

Since 2023, the top quartile of AI spenders on @tryramp have more than doubled their revenue. Bottom quartile? Flat A roofing company in Texas. A window installer in Utah. A construction firm in Florida that grew 65% The gap is accelerating and most companies don't feel it yet

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Matt Jaynes@nanobeep·
Productivity -> More products and services at lower cost -> Higher demand (source: Econ 101) While edge-case doom scenarios exist, the default is massive expansion and lifting a huge percentage of the population to a higher standard of living. As much as I love the film Metropolis (1927), it's the exact same doom-and-gloom message we hear today (loss of humanity, machines eat the humans, etc). Yet 99 years later we are massively wealthier on nearly all levels.
Brett Adcock@adcock_brett

this is fully autonomous...the robot is reasoning from camera pixels and computing torque to control it's 30+ motors

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Matt Jaynes@nanobeep·
@Osint613 Case in point: Go spend a week in Albania, 80% Muslim and pro-American as F.
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Matt Jaynes@nanobeep·
@Osint613 Simplistic goofiness, we have great Muslim friends and allies who support the mission. Look at UAE. Yes, keep out any folks who are not a clear positive, but a blanket religion ban is simply unAmerican. Separation of Church and State is a foundation principle for a reason.
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Open Source Intel
Open Source Intel@Osint613·
Republican gubernatorial candidate Paul Renner announced he would promote a federal ban on Muslim immigration to the United States that is "permanent and comprehensive" if elected Florida governor. "We have to be realistic and honest; the long-term compatibility of Islam in this country does not exist. We cannot have long term compatibility with the American Constitution and with the American way of life."
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François Chollet@fchollet·
People struggle to differentiate fluid intelligence from knowledge because, given enough preparation, memorized templates become a solid substitute for on-the-fly adaptation
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Mitchell Hashimoto
Mitchell Hashimoto@mitchellh·
Funny, but when someone recognizes me in public, I can guess with really high accuracy what they recognize me for based on their perceived age. Young people: "you're the Ghostty guy", older people: "Terraform guy". I get stopped in public more often these days for Ghostty.
Selena 🏳️‍⚧️@mrpancakes39

@mitchellh You made terraform?????? I thought you're the Ghostty dude... I'm happy that I'm young

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Micah Springut
Micah Springut@mspringut·
In another life I’m writing a dissertation on the side doors of New York.
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Anton Zhiyanov
Anton Zhiyanov@ohmypy·
Could Go be a better C? I think so! Meet Solod — a strict subset of Go that translates to C, without hidden memory allocations and with source-level interop. antonz.org/solod
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Matt Jaynes@nanobeep·
@CiovaccoCapital Arriving late to a BYOB party with a perfectly worded memo: "We are ready to contribute appropriate beers and welcome the commitment of those who are engaging in preparatory planning of bringing beer."
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Chris Ciovacco
Chris Ciovacco@CiovaccoCapital·
Joint statement from the U.K., France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Japan & Canada on the Strait of Hormuz: "We express our readiness to contribute to appropriate efforts to ensure safe passage through the Strait. We welcome the commitment of nations who are engaging in preparatory planning." gov.uk/government/new…
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Michael A. Arouet
Michael A. Arouet@MichaelAArouet·
Germany switching off its perfectly fine nuclear power plants, but keeping coal power plants instead to fight climate change in one picture. Enjoy your air quality.
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Maarten Boudry
Maarten Boudry@mboudry·
If Europe had expanded nuclear energy rather than stupidly phasing it out (looking at you, Germany), it could have closed down all coal plants by now, slashed gas imports, and cut emissions by an additional ~21%. Why didn't it do so? Ideology, that's why. Anti-nuclear greens have caused MORE harm to the climate than climate denialists. Analysis by @RogerPielkeJr. rogerpielkejr.substack.com/p/how-europe-u…
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Alan Williams
Alan Williams@alanwill·
Remember back when you could last an entire week without rebooting your laptop? 🤯I now reboot about once a quarter or whenever Apple releases a point release and even those are optional. My machine feels like those Solaris boxes with an uptime of years 😜
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Peter Steinberger 🦞
Peter Steinberger 🦞@steipete·
@notsunsakis @bcherny don't call it vibe coding - that's associated with yolo i smash head on keyboard, not thinking, engineering, building, testing, debugging, iterating. agentic engineering, or just...coding. We move faster, but it's still hard.
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