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Paul Robert Cary
@prcary
Serial Founder | Video AI | @Columbia_Biz | @lbs | Pianist & Composer | EN, IT, FR, ES, RO | Opinions are mine | RT ≠ Endorsement
London Katılım Şubat 2011
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I have a story to tell...
Do you remember the first time you created an email address?
There’s a good chance it was on @Yahoo.
I recently met with Yahoo CEO @jlanzone and SVP @efeng to talk about the company’s turnaround and how the consumer internet giant is taking its shot at the next wave of growth.
A few stats that put Yahoo’s scale into perspective:
- Yahoo! hit 90% of the internet at peak
- Number 1 finance site
- Number 2 sports site
- 700 million users. 100M every month
And one thing they said really stuck with me:
Last year, Google saw its lowest market share in a decade - something that doesn’t happen by accident.
It signals a massive shift in user behavior, and according to them, we’re only in “phase one” of what’s coming next.
Phase two will look like this...
(Episode in full in the description)
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What are the latest favorite creator tools?
Add them below! Something coming soon!
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@ollieforsyth @nicolasosharp @attio It kinda says that CRM is hard. Nobody's likely to vibe code an Attio competitor in a weekend.
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Most founders build in stealth for a few months, then launch.
But this startup ignored the usual Silicon Valley playbook and stayed in stealth for… 1,000 days.
I recently spoke with @nicolasosharp, founder of @attio, who shared a range of insights on his journey, the state of AI, and what it takes to build in today’s market.
We also covered:
1. Why Europe is having its moment in tech.
2. How distribution really works when deploying AI agents.
3. Why “product-market fit” feels looser today and what it actually means now.
4. The biggest shift in fundraising post-AI.
5. How founders can stay relevant!
Big thanks to Nick for coming on the show!
Watch the full episode (link in the comments).
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@andrewchen We review however we built an ally. And we just open-sourced it. github.com/ijw-fyi/agent-…
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One question I've been asking founders is: do you try to review all the code that the LLMs write or do you just accept it?
I think it's about 50-50 right now but the momentum is towards just accepting the AI-generated code and I think that number will eventually go to 100%
This is one of the most telling indications of how AI-native a team is. It's hard to get super high throughput if you are reviewing every line
Poll: what do you do?
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Paul Robert Cary retweetledi
me: "can you use whatever resources you like, and python, to generate a short 'youtube poop' video and render it using ffmpeg ? can you put more of a personal spin on it? it should express what it's like to be a LLM"
claude opus 4.6:
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@ngranati It becomes far less a question of math people v words people and more a question of financial agency that reduces your current cognitive friction and unbridles the potential of your brain.
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@ngranati ...side of our heads to read our brainwaves then it becomes a question of whether you have enough money to pay for the premium limitlessness.
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Interesting take. On timing, Thiel argues it took a couple of centuries from the French Revolution for the math people to take over the word people.
What will be the timing for the reverse takeover if, as is generally believed, AI will solve US Math Olympiad problems in the next 3–5 years?
Dustin@r0ck3t23
Peter Thiel just told Silicon Valley it’s automating away its own cognitive moat. Nobody there is paying attention. Thiel: “It is striking to me how bad Silicon Valley is at talking about these sorts of things.” The industry is either arguing over 20% improvements in the next transformer model or jumping straight to simulation theory. They’re missing the massive real-world shift happening right in the middle. Thiel: “My intuition would be it’s going to be quite the opposite, where it seems much worse for the math people than the word people.” For decades, Silicon Valley worshipped quantitative intelligence. Math and coding were the ultimate safety nets. Thiel: “Within three to five years, the AI models will be able to solve all the US Math Olympiad problems.” Once a machine instantly solves the hardest math problems on earth, the economic value of being a human calculator doesn’t just decline. It disappears. And the historical irony is brutal. The societal bias toward math over verbal ability started during the French Revolution. Not because math was more valuable. Because verbal ability ran in aristocratic families, and math was elevated as the great equalizer to break nepotism. A 200-year-old political accident became the foundation of Silicon Valley’s entire hiring philosophy. AI is about to snap it back. The people who built the models that can now outperform them mathematically spent their careers optimizing for the wrong skill. The future belongs to the word people. The engineers didn’t see it coming because they were too busy calculating.
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@jhong @ryanorban @ScottWu46 +@saranormous Most people do not understand what obsession is until they binge watch 5 seasons of a show in a weekend and then complain there aren't 10 seasons. The great winning startups have a core of people who binge work out of obsession, every day.
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@ryanorban @ScottWu46 That's why I wrote that with Scott still in the replies :)
My old friend Tony Hsieh at Zappos definitely would have run this experiment. RIP
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People have asked about our culture and recent employee communications. Cognition has an extreme performance culture, and we’re upfront about this in hiring so there are no surprises later. We routinely are at the office through the weekend and do some of our best work late into the night. Many of us literally live where we work. We know that people who joined Windsurf didn’t expect to join Cognition and while we’re proud of how we work, we understand it’s not for everyone.
We gave our team the opportunity to decide. We offered for all employees who joined via acquisition to opt into our culture with full clarity on what entails. We know that we will lose some strong talent in doing this, but we truly believe the level of intensity this moment demands from us is unprecedented. While not everyone is looking for a culture like ours, everyone deserves respect and appreciation for their work. Regardless of their decision, we accelerated and cashed out all four years of equity for everyone from Windsurf, even for the 85% of employees who hadn’t hit their one year cliff. And for those who opt out, we’re providing an additional nine months of pay on top of this.
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@deedydas And it's OK to form a company before you have the perfect name and brand it later.
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Ultimate guide to naming your startup
—Represents what you do
—Evokes positive emotion
—Easy to spell from sound
—<=2 syllables
—Verb-able (end in vowel or y)
—Double letters
—Not weird in other languages
—Futureproof (if you add products)
—Available .com, social handles, SEO
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I thoroughly enjoyed my chat with @uptin and @carlypreilly of @MoniifyBusiness at the @1billionsummit where we talked about video production and where AI is taking the industry. Check out AI71.ai , @GoogleAI's and also @AIatMeta's groundbreaking work in OSS AI.
MONIIFY@MoniifyBusiness
AI entrepreneur and the CEO of It Just Works, Inc. @prcary presents a vision of a future where multi-modal AI handles editing end-to-end, allowing creators to focus on storytelling. Watch the full conversation @carlypreilly and @uptin had with Paul 👉 youtu.be/v4iE4ocqAwI
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Paul Robert Cary retweetledi
AI entrepreneur and the CEO of It Just Works, Inc. @prcary presents a vision of a future where multi-modal AI handles editing end-to-end, allowing creators to focus on storytelling.
Watch the full conversation @carlypreilly and @uptin had with Paul 👉 youtu.be/v4iE4ocqAwI
YouTube
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GitHub Copilot Workspace is *by far* the best AI tool for helping developers write code.
(GitHub Copilot Workspace *IS NOT* the same as GitHub Copilot)
I've tried Devin and a few others. Nothing comes close.
I'm not sure if everyone has access to it, but oh god, this is good!
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@Jason @twitter @X @zstedas Check out spikerz.com - built for this and related use cases by graduates of Israeli cyber warfare teams. Seriously…
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@nathanbenaich @thesephist Keyboards on mobile will remain for fairly blunt edge cases like silent input. I'm looking forward to competent S2T UX where the AI asks me to clarify/disambiguate prior to response generation. Most recent example was a conversation Ihad with the OpenAI app while driving.
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@thesephist 1) On mobile I think it’s likely. On desktop not convinced yet.
2) Hasn’t that already happened?
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Will voice-based conversational interface obsolete keyboards?
Will synthetic AI-generated music obsolete musical instruments?
Instruments evolved to embrace technological advances and become even more expressive. Maybe QWERTY will go, but hardware text input as a whole?
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@MacWBishop @MazzelloJoe who brought one of those autobiographers to life in such a memorable and convincing portrayal.
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Thank you to all Marine veterans for your service.
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@Korihandy @MartinGTobias ARR without one R. Still great job getting $70k on a demo/alpha. 👏
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@MartinGTobias So was I until I learned about something called pre-sales and how to leverage product designs. “Hey X company, here is what I’m building, it reduces X pain and friction, if you’re interested in committing $ upfront I’ll give you X% off for the year when it’s ready in 3mths”
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I often get asked how I define Angel vs pre-seed vs. seed stage. Here is the TLDR with a longer blog post at the end:
Angel:
💸 Pre-revenue
⚙️ Pre- product, ideation maybe wireframe
💰 raising < $0.5 M
📊 valuation <$6M post-money
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@ronnyvotel @DrJimFan @GaryMarcus Only if its regrettable emails would magically disappear the next day.
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@DrJimFan @GaryMarcus Can we all just agree that GPT-4 would fit in perfectly at a Stanford undergrad party?
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Often agree with @drjimfan but this is a dubious take. Scoring well on a bunch of exams (esp given the massive training set size) in no way means that GPT-4 could actually function as a Stanford student.
benchmarks ≠ robust intelligence
Jim Fan@DrJimFan
I don't give a damn about what is or isn't AGI. It doesn't matter. Below is GPT-4's performance on many standardized exams: BAR, LSAT, GRE, AP, etc. The truth is, GPT-4 can apply to Stanford as a student now. AI's reasoning ability is OFF THE CHARTS. Exponential growth is the scariest thing, isn't it!
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Million dollar idea: LLM keyboard.
Every time I type on my phone and autocorrect makes a stupid mistake, it screams LLM. This is *literally* next word prediction.
We should be typing 10x faster. Input methods need serious upgrades. The LLM doesn’t have to be big and can be optimized to run locally to reduce latency and keep privacy. It also needs no prompt engineering or instruction tuning.
Combined with methods like swipe-type, LLM keyboard could in principle render full sentences with an unbroken thumb movement. We’d finally be able to type at the speed of our stream of consciousness!
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