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True. That's why IT Services companies have such massive practices dedicated to DevOps. Its a great annuity business for them.

Wouldn't you agree though that from YC Head to being the driving force of OpenAI was largely due to his own merit.

In fact, he started spending less time at YC and more time at OpenAI. At that time, OpenAI had no clear path to becoming the unicorn it is today, and YC was definitely better from a career standpoint. Instead, he went all-in on OpenAI, and the results are there for everyone to see.

This post is relevant for commoditised industries (e.g. insurance) where you aren't selling on value but on cost.

I don't really care.

I had to come up with a proposal to build a new R&D centre recently. To provide context on what our company does, I wrote a web scraper to scrape our own website (faster than going to IT) using Replit Agent and then fed that into O1 as context to come up with the proposal.

In less than an hour.

There is no going back.

You're actually positioned to have an amazing career.

Everyone needs to know how to either build or sell to be successful. In a world where the ability to the former is rapidly being commoditised, you will still need to sell. And human relationships matter more than ever.

Yes. Most SaaS tools are just CRUD operations on databases. But no-one talks about databases as a magical tool anymore - even thought thats what they were in the 1990s with Oracle vs. Sybase vs. Informix vs. Ingres.

Yes. I just found out that my favourite teacher from school passed away today.

I've been meaning to visit her for the past five years, but never got around to it - and now never will.

In the long run with AI - email outbound is dead as the marginal cost of creating personalised content decreases to the cost of LLM tokens.

The future is back to cold calling with a real-life human on the phone - until voice-to-voice LLMs commoditise that as well.

Then salespeople and founders with strong networks will thrive. You'll see a comeback to F2F meetings and dinners as people crave real connections.

This is the perfect 101 for a YC founder looking to begin outbound sales.

Would have liked a more detailed expansion on how to use AI to personalise content to drive results. I'm sure there's a lot of black magic out there with practitioners not revealing to maintain an alpha on the rest of us mortals.

In most b-school group projects, the work is fairly easy enough such that the headache of kicking someone is out is probably greater than just doing the work amongst the remaining members.

I particularly love the following quotes from "Chaos Monkeys." This is "The Social Network" level of commentary:

The harsh reality is this: to have influence in the world, you need to be willing and able to reward your friends and punish your enemies.

But in the passive-aggressive popularity contest that is Silicon Valley, someone actually going to bat for you—really going to bat, like telling important people to go fuck themselves—that’s rarer and more short-lived than a snowflake in a bonfire.

The article itself is fantastic. However, this is a great example of what makes catnip for HN -

1) Use scientific terms (e.g. vector fields, waves resonance) 2) Cite tech influencers (e.g. Sholto Douglas, Tyler Cowen) 3) Make the subject an abstract novel field that most developers or tech folk don't really pay attention and use #1 and #2 to make it relevant

Correct.

IMO most engineers completely forget or don't appreciate the importance of optics, especially when working with non-technical founders or management.

I guess Steve Ballmer deserves to be richer than Bill Gates today because he held onto his MSFT stock while Gates sold the majority of his :)

Also, the Acquired podcast also makes the strong argument that Ballmer lay a lot of the foundation of what powered MSFT’s growth under Nadella e.g. Azure.

As someone who runs an IT services company, I can tell you how uncommon it is to find engineers who can both code really well, but also interact and sell to customers.

I always wondered why you needed BD / "business folk", but its rare to find the ability to schmooze with customers and hustle along with deep technical talent in the same individual.

So really surprising (and cool) to see how Palantir was able to do this with their FDEs!

This is the first article on Palantir I've found that's refreshing in its candour and actually exposes why its a such a success.

Also, great learnings for everyone building AI driven services companies.

This reminds me of the boom and bust oil cycle as outlined in The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power by Daniel Yergin.

Expect to see the same story repeating across many large enterprises that dive deep into LLMs without fully understanding exactly what they want out of it.

Conspiracy theory - The reason why All In hosts and David Sacks is so negative on remote work is because he owns a ton of commercial real estate in SF :)

Fantastic launch :)

Highly recommend reading Everest Inc.

I literally don't know anyone who uses Threads.

Would be cool to use a Replit Bounty next time!

IMO people take Narayan Murthy's comments out of context frequently.

This has very Pokemon Gameboy 2000's vibes.

We have officially launched Replit India, Replit's first international launch!

As part of this, we have set up our first international server cluster in Mumbai. What this means for our India developers is faster Repl load times, more responsive code completion, and less latency!