lou mata @moonsector

If I send you this it means the WiFi’s not working

@arynadesigns worst take

At some point in your founder journey, you have to stop building the product and start building the company. Most founders who get somewhere are already good at building products, but many are very bad at building companies. Build your company with the same passion you bring to building the product. Treat building the company as building the product. Company building is the only way to get something sustainable. Being profitable or having cash flow isn’t enough. You need: culture, passionate people, incentives, a north star, systems. The most important piece here is being able to recruit people smarter than you to execute your vision. You need to do unreasonable things to recruit the best people. This is what the greatest companies in the world have.

@yasser_elsaid_ the recruiting line is the one that bites. a founder who can't hire people smarter than them ends up running a company built around their own blind spots.

everyone loves nathan fielder now but when i showed you it was “lou can we watch something else”

I don’t want to talk to language models anymore. They’re inherently too predictable and vague, they hardly can take a stance unless you tell them to. I want a deeply agentic system that can break from the most probable to become the most perfect, for me, I want a system that can go out and learn all the things I’m interested in, share philosophies, to be an expert, not on me, but an expert in all the things I’m interested in “Design is not only what the object gives you (the aesthetic of form); it is also what you can give back to the object. Design becomes once again a relationship of purpose.” -A. Manu

@tryramp the animations are so good

@9th @thecosmos my favorite product of all time

Made with Opus 5.5. 8 image references. 9 prompts. 1 hour iterating.

Tân Tân Nguyễn @premiumtantan

a month ago

I designed and shipped an entire iOS app in 2 days with @ChatGPT ( and ofc I burned all my tokens ) Submitted it to the AppStore. Let's see if it get approved. Let me know if you want a link!

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@eptwts duh

Intelligence must draw on memory. The mind must not simply compile data — as an algorithm now does more quickly than we can — but recall lived experiences, which contain depths of meaning that only the human soul can recognize, and connect more deeply with the goodness of these experiences. Everything that is good begins “with the Spirit” and thus possesses a breath, a dynamism and a sense of communion that, once experienced, are engraved upon the heart. vatican.va/content/leo-xi…

@litocoen omg

ever since i was a kid i wanted to hop on a quick call

the only moat left is the love of the game

Assorted things I've been mulling over regarding agents in the economy: • Companies are in some sense the original superintelligence. It's often the case that they can use their amortized cognitive surplus to advance their interests against those of certain consumers: relative to the optimization capacity of companies, consumers can be inattentive, underinformed, irrational, etc. (Think, say, of some of the classic insurance upsells at the end of a booking process, which is typically priced substantially above what a regular policy would cost.) Herbert Simon introduced the idea of bounded rationality, and firms often end up benefiting from it. Thanks to personal agents, we will probably get somewhat more rational in how we engage with companies. • How exactly will outcomes change? Well, certain kinds of price discrimination will work less well (how do coupons work if every agent hunts fastidiously for them?), and certain kinds of customer cross-subsidy will change (today, people who forget to cancel subscriptions subsidize those who don't). Taken across the economy as a whole, I'm not sure what the incidence of all of this will be. • In corporate strategy, people have long debated the relative importance of distribution and product quality. Perhaps you've made something better, but does anyone know about it? Won't people just continue to buy the ACME Corp Mousetraps? Personal agents will, I think, act as a kind of structural subsidy for product quality. How would markets look different if individuals always spent at least 10 hours researching their purchases? On the margin, focusing on making a product better is, I think, going to become a more effective strategy for companies. This is good! • It true, a corollary is that information about product quality will become more important and impactful. Today, most people have very limited ability to aggregate and integrate such data, but agents will have insatiable thirst for such signals. (It's often said that data is becoming more valuable because it helps in the training of models. That's obviously true, but I think there's a secondary way in which it's more valuable simply as a complement to cheaper intelligence.) • A big question is whether agents will increase superstar effects (rational agents all settle on the same product) or increase dispersion (because everyone has slightly different tastes and preferences, which agents are good at eliciting, finally overcoming the artificial clustering we've been subjected to). • Many internet companies have monetized demand routing, which is in turn often predicated on short attention spans. "I'll click on the first thing I see." This has led to some amount of inefficiency, as companies try to propitiate capricious ranking algorithms and incur various placement fees. It's not all deadweight loss (willingness to pay is itself a kind of signal, which is valuable to buyers), but it's not great. How will the nature and value of this routing change in a world of personal agents? I don't know the answer, but I think that the effects might be pretty big. • Much of what I'm writing hinges on the assumption that personal agents will be on the consumer's side. I suspect that that will be the winning strategy, but whether it's true, and what it means to be true, involves a lot of other questions. Taken as a whole, the market is a massively parallelized, decentralized, and highly imperfect value attribution machine, and, taking stock of all of the effects, it seems to me that the quality point may well be the biggest: that agents will change the nature of the backpropagation such that the rewards for better products increase. Maybe this is too optimistic, but I suspect (and hope) that companies that make things that they're proud of will feel that the universe is a little more partisan in their favor.

@nnennahacks 😆

18 hour work day on a Friday because why not

@adelwu_ 😅

@banteg @adelwu_ facts

there’s so much confusion about what’s happening in AI because if you don’t use coding models every day it’s hard to understand how quickly progress is accelerating but if you do, you likely have AI psychosis to a degree that it’s impossible to explain it in an understandable way