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Put AI in your product name, make billion dollars. Put Karpathy in your blog article, get hired by Anthropic as Principal engineer. Milk money as long as fad last. No one is thinking about customer needs, everyone is trying to wash hands in the wave as it last.

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Just like NFTs, just like the blockchain before that, in some ways kind of like the Web 2.0 craze (though we at least built some things then and the tight financing at the time kept a lid on it).

This LLM stuff at least has some real possibilities and value, and is very fun tech to learn about and play with.

I long ago accepted that there’s money to be made, as long as it’s not unethical, then get involved. Can build cool things that do have value, while enjoying the VC/PE money sloshing around

Hey man, if it works it works. There's a reason everyone is creating AI tools. We're all buying them. I'm still waiting for someone to make a world-class cli harness that can replace Claude Code but solves the memory and design problem. Web design is still a nightmare with LLMs.

Cline. Works as a CLI and VSCode plugin.

Could you elaborate on the web design point? I find them excellent at it personally and it’s where I most often get value out of them

thanks for saying this. one more reason people are hating on SaaS so much is that the UI is dry and for many, unusable. on the other hand, the cool AI agents have UI which is fun but again, unusable.

fun and usable can co-exist and we are trying the best to prove that. also, we have an amazing designer who never worked at big tech and has no accolades, but man got taste.

alright sir/ma'am/neither. we built an AI-native CRM backed by HubSpot founder Dharmesh Shah last year before this, had revenue, iterated to focus on context graph infra which looked like the right moat to focus on, did enterprise PoCs, and all of that distilled into this personal project i built on the side to help my own work. turned out to be right interface for making context infra usable.

not interested in a job at Anthropic as Principal Engineer (i used to be a HubSpot Product Manager with a healthy income, much better than what i am making now, or for the next few years).

took multiple bets and did iterations because we talked to customers and kept evolving while our old competition is still building an AI CRM "in stealth".

been around enough to know waves don't matter but there is still value behind those waves worth extracting away.

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