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Although the tweet is not clear, people who were at that presentation seem to confirm that's exactly what he said. There are a few of those sparse in this thread.

Tech leaders are so bad at making predictions. Some recents examples: self driving cars should have happened around 2021, not there yet. Elon's claimed to launch Tesla robot taxi around 22/23, and we don't see anything like that.

That's said, I do believe that GTP-5 will be out in a year, but re:AGI is a such a bold prediction.

Love it! such a nice way to showcase what you built, really great work Joel!

duplicate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37996958

I finished my job search after 5 months and 1 week. After 179 applications, 22 interviews, 2 offers later, I'd say that it's one of the toughest and miserable job market someone can find into. I job search-ed even during the pandemic, and although it was very difficult, imho this one is order of magnitude worse... The Senior you are the better chance you'll have, but there is no market for JR, and I feel so bad for them because I have a few people that I care about that are in that condition and aren't able to find almost any openings.

Unfortunately even if you feel like your resume is super strong, getting a job now requires to literally excel in every single step of the interview and having the luck of having the team feeling you as a perfect fit for the team. Even a single meh would mean instant rejection. There are literally too many great people in job search and companies aren't certainly in a rush to close their openings.

My perception, and my network seems to confirm this as well, is also that the rate of new opening has slowed down significantly, which means that things are getting harder. I really hope that the market will recover soon for everyone.

out of curiosity did they have the rights to use GOT characters on this demo commercial?

I have done contractor work for American startups (mostly YC) based in Silicon Valley for the last 7 years.

Like many others in this thread, I set up a one man company, and I invoice my client[s] every month to receive the money on a Wise (previously Transferwise) business account in USD, then every year I do take care of paying taxes in my country with the help of my accountant. I'd like to highlight that Wise is likely the best option to receive USD for EU contractors/consultant, during my first year I didn't use it and I lost something around 1.5K USD because of opaque exchange rates and fees... :facepalm:

If they are really pedantic and careful, they might ask you to fill W-8 BEN / W-8BEN-E form, however the majority of my clients didn't.

For job seekers not at all. I just finished my job search after 5 months and 1 week. After 179 applications, 22 interviews, 2 offers later, I'd say that it's one of the toughest and miserable job market someone can find into. I job search-ed even during the pandemic, and although it was difficult, imho this one is order of magnitude worse... The Senior you are the better chance you'll have, but there is no market for JR, and I feel so bad for them because I have a few people that I care about that are in that condition and aren't able to find almost any openings.

For startup funding, if you are in AI it's fine. Otherwise better presenting with very good metrics and not with the pressing needs of raising money.

It's impossible to say when it will recover, but I'll echo the people in this thread that say "not this year".

> I wonder if it's one of these cases where a company believes themselves to be bigger and more important than they really are.

I think that it's quite sure one of those cases. From their messaging it seems like they are committed to solve big hairy problems (that in my minds are things like AGI, nuclear fusion, stopping world's hunger, etc...), but when you look at their product portfolio the expectations they set certainly don't match the reality given that you'll find mobile apps for video and image editing, fitness, etc... BTW with the exception of Evernote (that it's not something they created) I've never heard of any of those apps.

"The company says the step is intended to “boost operational efficiency and to make the most of the Bending Spoons employer brand, which is extremely strong in Europe.”

I do find surprisingly that they said that their brand is strong in Europe. Personally, I discovered Bending Spoons during the pandemic because they gifted the italian government of a Contact Tracing app, that ultimately never worked. I guess that from their point of view it was mainly a marketing initiative. However I don't see their brand as something to be considered strong in Europe in my perspective and by looking at their website the first thing that comes into mind is a glorified sort of software agency.

I think that the investors are mainly betting on the team expertise to train models as good as the one of OpenAI but with an open source approach (the main differentiator), which according to the founders would open up a bigger market opportunity for them.

> So it's effectively a humongously risky bet by EU VCs?

isn't it supposed to be VCs job to bet on risk proposition with the hope of a 100x return?

They anticipated the need for a Series A in Q3 24 in the memo "In that round (Q3 2024), we expect to need to raise 200M, in order to train models exceeding GPT-4 capacities."

> Software is all about teams and if you have one guy who thinks he's god's gift it ultimately hurts the whole team.

I don't see this reading in the comment above. He is just sharing the passion and sense of ownership he put to create a great product. BTW He mentioned that it was a team effort in the thread, so I don't see any problem issue here.

This. What we see is nothing more than what the job market actually reward and incentives. This person is just playing that game to boost his personal brand. You may not like it, but if you don't play this game in the current job market you will have quite hard times.

I did! Back in 2020, I found a job after 6 months of job search thanks to that thread. A very well paid job as a PM for a remote-first startup after PMF.

I didn't hear good things about that game... is it that good in VR?

> I think everyone here can attest to the fact that we tried harder than anyone else.

How? It would be nice if the author would have put some link or resources for the readers. I don't really have any clue about what this person did.

All the argumentations against remote work on this article don't have nothing with remote work, but bad management. I identified two main issues:

1. this founder is trying to mimic office work in remote setting. It doesn't work that way! It really requires to rethink about process, culture, etc... in a very different way;

2. this founder like 90% of startup founders is a bad manager. Lack of alignment, poor coordination, poor feedback management, low trust are all the main symptoms that this person doesn't seem to have the appropriate skill level to manage a team and a remote org.

I think that remote work also requires stronger leadership and people management skills. But many founders don't really care much about those things as they should. Which also tells a lot about what these people value.

mind sharing your experience?

what do you mean with "the estimated cost of approximately $800 per month"?

> There is no definite way of isolating the importance of the .com but it is likely to have played a part. Our domain authority also increased meaningfully.

How is it possible to conclude that "it is likely" given there aren't any evidence to support that?

After reading the article my takeaways are that a) the agency you hired might have helped you with SEO much more than changing the domain and b) the success you had after the migration don't correlate with the domain change, but more with your distribution.

To be honest, I'm not really convinced that purchasing the .com has played a role in your success after reading this.

Bard who? s/

Flagging because it's not open to use, there's still the geo limitation. i.e. the title doesn't reflect the reality.

Most of the companies that are declaring remote work as a failure weren’t able to establish good processes and culture on this new setup. Most of these companies are also control freak with low-trust attitude on their employees. Personally, it’s far from be a failure and being over, and likely one of the best equalizer (democratize opportunities) and productivity booster that happened in the industry. However it’s certainly not easy to adopt and integrate correctly.

+1 to this, I feel like they are in the middle of an existential crisis. They keep shipping out product after product each month now. I think that they are struggling quite a bit to meet investors' growth expectations.

It's hard out there. I was laid off in January, and still I don't see signs of ending this job search soon.

Context for you: I'm a mid-level Growth PM based in Europe who worked mostly in early stage B2B YC startups.

How am I doing? This is my 11th week in job search, 96 applications, 10 interviews (1 still active), and 0 offer.

My insights so far:

- there's definitively no rush from employers to close their openings, and for the first time in a job search (this is my 4th) I got 2 interviews suspended because they decided to prioritize another leadership hire before closing for the role that I was interviewing for;

- most of the mid level openings are masqueraded senior roles;

I feel so bad for people early in their career, for the first time I think I've never encountered an entry level opening... I was trying to also help my wife to get a job in tech (she is very early in her career), but currently it doesn't seem possible.

Luckily we are financially ok, which is the main thing that allowed me to stay positive, in relatively good mood, and don't feel overwhelmed with the daily rejections.

+1 to this, plus how many of those papers are pure bullsh*t? In the last years, I saw lot of crap just for the sake of publishing in AI.

Sure here are a couple:

- Andrej Karpathy: https://twitter.com/karpathy

- David Ha: https://twitter.com/hardmaru

- Yann LeCun: https://twitter.com/ylecun

- Jeremy Howard: https://twitter.com/jeremyphoward

- Riley Goodside: https://twitter.com/goodside

For years I have followed top researchers on Twitter and helped quite a bit to stay up to date on the topic. Today I think it's still quite good for that purpose, although the countless way that Musk is trying to make it worse...

> There are numerous ways to bypass this.

I found your comment really insightful, so I created this other Ask HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34912522) to discover what other ways could be.

> out of touch to claim that you have solutions to problems you know nothing about

That's the hardest part of coming up with a good one. In some case, expecially when applying to early stage startups, a quick research could definitively help you to identify their biggest source of pains. However for people early in their career is far from be something easy.

A Value Qualifier is a proposed solution for a key problem that the company is facing delivered to the hiring managers to showcase applicants’ skills to qualify for the role regardless of background and seniority. Aka your ticket to skip the line. Usually particularly adopted by people who are trying a career switch or have just started their first job search. I learned the term on LinkedIn from Andrew Bowker, despite the brand new terminology the concept isn’t new. (updating the description now with the terminology)