

Shubhankit
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The degree to which you are awed by AI is perfectly correlated with how much you use AI to code.











3 things decide if your product wins or dies. AI can't help with a single one. I've been building & growing products for years & the longer I do this the more I realise, things that make a product win haven't changed. AI made building faster but that was never the hardest part. You need to crack 3 moments to convert someone who doesn't know and care you exist into a customer for life. First, nobody gives a shit about your product but you need to get their attention. Make them drop everything else they are doing and look at you and what you are building. It's freaking hard and just making an awesome product doesn't solve it. You need to create something so wild, funny, interesting that makes people so excited that they have to show it to their friends. That's a creativity problem and AI is unlikely to come up with an idea that makes someone screenshot it and send it to 5 people. AI doesn't do creativity. It does average. At @ThineAI we measure marketing by one question. Would someone share this unprompted? @adri_guha @kavyaonx @Muskkksksk test 10 crazy ideas every week. Most flop. But when one hits it travels further than any ad budget ever could. Second, the aha moment. Cool now you have got someone's attention but what if 95%+ of these folks lose interest and drop off even before the product clicks for them. The next challenge is to identify this aha moment and ruthlessly cut down any steps, product features that does not contribute to and prolongs the journey to the aha moment. Most products never get this right. They show you 14 features before you've understood one. Every extra step loses 10 to 20 percent of people. That's a clarity problem. AI can't figure out what your aha moment is. You either understand your product deeply enough to find it or you don't. At Thine our aha moment is when the product surfaces a real insight that's valuable to a user. Not generic. Not templated. Something that makes you feel like "this thing knows me." Getting a stranger there fast is what is keeping @pratyush_r8 @siddsax @endu_29 @reubendasx and me up at night. Finally, you would want to keep them forever because getting users is pointless if they leave. Your product has to be simple enough for day one users and powerful enough for year one users. Most people think that's a tradeoff. It's not. You build the powerful layer first. Then assemble a simple experience on top. When users outgrow the simple layer you give them access to what's underneath. They never leave. That's a design problem. AI can't architect your product for you. You have to understand the problem space yourself. At @MerlinAIByFoyer, this is P0 for @milindmishra_ and @shubhcodes as we add agentic capabilities for power users while keeping the experience dead simple for someone who's never touched an AI tool. So here's the thing nobody wants to hear. AI made building 10x easier. The 3 things that decide if anyone uses what you built are still just as hard as they've ever been. Marketing is a creativity problem. The aha moment is a clarity problem. Retention is a design problem. AI is 0 for 3. The people who were winning before AI are still winning. The rest of us are just shipping faster to an audience that isn't there yet. What's the one that is keeping you up at night? -brainstormed with @ThineAI

🚨On today’s show: - Golden Sparrow General Partner Rishaad Currimjee (@RishaadVC) - Merlin AI (@MerlinAIByFoyer) & Thine (@ThineAI) Co-founders Pratyush Rai (@pratyush_r8) & Siddhartha Saxena (@siddsax) Catch them live only on The Offline Network at 4PM.


Quantization can make an LLM 4x smaller and 2x faster, with barely any quality loss. But what *is* it? @samwhoo crafted a beautiful interactive essay explaining it from first principles, aimed at coders, not mathematicians. ngrok.com/blog/quantizat…

One common issue with personalization in all LLMs is how distracting memory seems to be for the models. A single question from 2 months ago about some topic can keep coming up as some kind of a deep interest of mine with undue mentions in perpetuity. Some kind of trying too hard.

One common issue with personalization in all LLMs is how distracting memory seems to be for the models. A single question from 2 months ago about some topic can keep coming up as some kind of a deep interest of mine with undue mentions in perpetuity. Some kind of trying too hard.

ARC-AGI-3 scores agents on how close they are to human action efficiency. All ARC-AGI-3 environments were solved by at least 2 human testers out of 10 (most of the time it was 5+). We use the action count of the 2nd best tester (to avoid outlier performance) as our human baseline. Your score on an environment represents "how close you were to matching or exceeding the action count of the 2nd best human tester (out of 10 random people who attempted the task)"


Is AI being designed to fail? Everyone talks about reasoning. But when given a task, the AI isn't reasoning the way you might expect. It looks at your input, finds the closest match it's seen before, and predicts the most likely next action. That process is called vector similarity search. It's genuinely powerful. It's also not the same thing as understanding what you actually meant. Think of a plumber who hears the word "leak" and starts pulling up floorboards before you've finished the sentence. He's not being careless. He's pattern-matching - that's exactly how he was trained. Your AI agent is doing the same thing. Context is the one thing that gets deprioritized when teams are racing to ship. But without it, you don't have an intelligent agent. You have a very fast guesser. Similarity ≠ relevance. How? Find out with the link in the comments ⬇️



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.
