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@THEDEVRELMARKUS I have some really good skills can send u if you want .

Anyone have a workflow they use for designing websites. I feel like all of mine still give an AI generated look. Post below if you have a recommended tool I should try.

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good morning @TOtechweek 🇨🇦 4 years since I touched Canadian soil. it’s good to be home.

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@CHAOSandMAYHEMx Here 👋🏼😀

Where’s all my Toronto people!? I want to network and meet my fellow Canadians! 🇨🇦

@PashaHasHOPE @akatoshouse @TheMingjie @jrodgers @shong0504 @Angus_Lang_ Lets goo HOPEE 🔥🚀

I was one of the winners at the @akatoshouse arena! For the last 2 weeks, teams have been grinding and being held accountable by @TheMingjie & @jrodgers It was dope. Super grateful to be a part of it

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canadians be like "thank you!" to the bus driver

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@ClaudeDevs Holly sh…

Welcome to the team, Andrej!

Super proud to announce I'm building @hope_ai_edu at @UWVelocity this summer.

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The Toronto startup life is so underrated @SF we’re catching up quick

a lot of it is downstream of the AI doom trends adults are picking up and passing down to kids. enlightening parents is one piece. but kids are on algos too, if HOPE breaks through there as something that feels made for them and on their side rather than another AI they can't connect to, they'd adopt it themselves. that's a totally separate door in, and honestly might be the bigger one since teens reject what feels imposed.

I like these points a lot. From my conversations, I've heard about all of these, but I've heard most about points 1-4. Point 2 is especially interesting because often these are just kids, yet they truly fear that AI is taking their future away from them. The question then naturally becomes what's making them feel this worried about the future? The news? Their teachers? Their parents? Everything?

The most interesting insight I've had talking to parents: Most (13/17) kids HATE ChatGPT & AI.

@PashaHasHOPE Best of luck 🔥

Just applied to YC. Better late than never

A few things I've been thinking about on this: 1. The responses feel fake to them. Even with memory off, the second ChatGPT senses their age from context (the way they write, what they're asking) it switches into parent mode. It starts hedging and lecturing instead of just answering. Teens have insane BS detectors and feel it instantly. 2. The "everything will be replaced by 2030" narrative actually scares them. They haven't even started a career yet, so AI doesn't feel like a tool to them, it feels like the thing erasing their future. 3. Teachers already have a strong negative bias on AI and pass it straight to students. 4.Some of them also think it’ll make them dumber. Honestly I was the same as a kid, I’d do things the hard way on purpose because I thought it’d make me smarter. I remember some research going around on youtube about how relying on AI lowers brain activity, that kind of thing spreads fast in their feeds. Obviously it depends on the kid though, some just want to finish the homework and don’t really care, but the ones who do are usually the academically strong ones or kids whose parents actively push them in that direction. 5. They just hate typing. And writing something out clearly is actually really hard when your attention span is fried from tiktok and shorts all day. To get a good output you have to hold the whole problem in your head and turn it into clean words, which is basically the opposite of what their brain has been trained on. So they type something half-formed, get a mid response, and decide AI is dumb. On top of that, a lot of kids who recently migrated genuinely struggle with English grammar, so the typing barrier is even higher for them. Barely any of them use voice input or something like Wispr Flow, so they never see what the model can actually do. Honestly I think if you can integrate voice into HOPE, something like Wispr Flow, what Codex has, or GPT’s new realtime voice (which has built-in live translation now too), it’d be huge for their UX. The translation piece especially could help the migrant kids a lot. Just removing the typing barrier alone could make AI feel like a completely different product to this age group.

So I'm trying my best to understand why. If anyone has any hypotheses, let me know

@justinhammon_ @lofreeco Got the same one, it’s amazing. I literally prefer typing over voice dictating.

Love my @lofreeco Flow as my daily driver. Long battery life and it’s low profile lets me pack it easily when I’m on the go. The sound is 🤌 Second only to the sound of my Rainy 75 Whats your daily keyboard?

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