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People shaking their fist at this on hacker news is weird.

Yes there is growing wealth inequality in the world. Because we invented a way to turn capital in to more capital without humans.

Bezos is just the first of many. He also has on average made other people richer than he has pocketed, he doesn't own more than 50% of Amazon, his investors (shareholders, pension funds, the US government) have all done incredibly well out of his vision and enterprise.

I love Prime, I love AWS, I love that I can get rare books over night at a great price. Should he be wealth capped? Should he innovate less as he get's more? Not as long as the primary way he makes money is through computers, that would just be self defeating. As someone who lives in Europe, the tech sector is America's growth engine and has defined the gap between the two economies, we'd love a Jeff Bezos.

Glitch is building the AI agent for Advertising

Glitch creates Ad Campaigns 10x faster than a human that perform 5 times better. Even if the human uses AI.

We need Engineers who want to tackle hard problems like treating the real world as context for LLMs, understanding markets in a few seconds, and dealing with the complex ML algorithms that underlie digital advertising.

We are a team of 16 and a mix of Startup Hustlers and ex-Google Ads Engineers. We've raised Seed and are doubling our customer base every 6 weeks.

We love Agentic Coders and want people who are building not for today but for what the next model can do. You wont build the app you will build the systems that build the app.

Bonus points if you think Agents can solve design and frontend UI.

Email me @ kingsley @ glitchads.ai

This is AMAZING.

We are definitely on an exponential in term of capabilities of humanoid robots. We are probably only years away from having a robot in the house, in construction of robots. Automating anything that a human can do is best done in a human sized robot.

But.

None of these are actually useful right now. I don't want something with the arm strength of a forklift taking care of my parents or kids. The demand for humanoid robots right now is like lift a fridge from a delivery truck to a house (aka more mobile forklift) or walk through toxic sewage to pull crates out. Super useful but basically just mobile cranes, which is a small market. China seems to be making the mistake of pushing a tech demo as a consumer product (we've all been on those projects...) which can make people hate the tech.

Build something people want, don't mandate what they want. We're like 3-4 generations from amazing, useful robots. I'll be scared when these things are minding a bunch of dogs on stage.

There's lots of suicide attacks in poorer African countries.

But the west by and large won the war on terror, it broke up all the state sponsored terrorist camps, and built a vast surveillance network capable of spotting people trying to build these devices. Israel was the flashpoint and they built walls and put cameras and AI everywhere and just flat out ignore human rights. It's just really hard to radicalise someone to that extent and not have them show up. Isis was also behind a lot of the attacks and they don't exist anymore. Afghanistan and Pakistan also don't shelter terrorists anymore because they might have kicked the US out but they don't want them back again.

Most of this is terrible from a civil liberties / human rights / sovereignty point of view, but if you wanted to stop suicide bombings it worked.

Google makes over a billion of its ad Revenue from search. Intent works.

But I think Open AI is not a slam dunk for Ads. Gemini and AI mode will compete for the same budget, and Google's Ad machine is polished.

I think eventually you will buy Ads for Open AI in Google's marketing platforms, just like most people buy bing ads in Google.

Glitch | Product Engineer | Ireland & Remote (EMEA preferred) | glitchads.ai

Glitch is building the AI agent for Advertising

Glitch let's Businesses create Ad Campaigns in 5 minutes (Down from 5 days) that perform 5 times better than traditional agencies. Our AI makes high performing ads available to everyone.

We need Engineers who want to tackle hard problems like treating the real world as context for LLMs, understanding markets in a few seconds, and dealing with the complex ML algorithms that underlie digital advertising.

We are a team of 8 and a mix of Startup Hustlers and ex-Google Ads Engineers. We've raised Seed and are doubling our customer base every quarter.

We love python, react, tailwind, OpenAI, Google Cloud, and Claude Code. The ideal candidate is running 10-15 instances of Claude Code at once.

Email me @ kingsley @ glitchads.ai

Sep 1: generate requirements, generate design, generate task list

Step 2: run the tasks in claude code in parallel...

Microsoft can afford to make a less profitable product for search than Google because if Google competes it’s a net win for Microsoft.

AI has many other profitable uses for Microsoft but specifically using it to compete with Google Search seems like a poison pill.

It’s far more 5D chess than that.

Search costs nothing to run relative to ad revenue. Microsoft makes each query require 100x the cpu usage because users expect an LLM answer for results.

Microsoft’s share of search goes from 1% to 5%. Their cost go up but their sale of ads increases and they get valuable IP.

Google loses 5% share of market but its costs go up 100x.

Google can no longer finance its other bets like Cloud so effectively.

Microsoft meanwhile has a more compelling cloud offering.

Google starts to lose more ground on Cloud.

Amazon (not an AI company) lose ground to both.

Classic Art of War, if your opponent is strong, attack somewhere they are weak.

It absolutely is. Googlers here will know that there was an internal version of ChatGPT that got canned because of halucinations.

People pay for holes not drills.

Strangely enough if you asked Europeans if they wanted high American Salaries they would also say yes.

The question is loaded and I guess 21% can think it through (or their company already gives them better).

I've done two large search projects in the last year. One with Postgres search and one with elastic search. The elastic search version was trivial to configure, and was embarrassingly superior to the point where I wish I had never considered Postgres.

Disruption typically happens where it's not only more efficient but cheaper too. The number of people you displace is going to be a fraction of what you make.

If you do end up making as much as the original industry it's because you are doing MORE than the original industry in which case you now have to question if the original industry didn't deserve to be destroyed.

Everything that can be software, will be software, what needs to happen is that the number of things that are software needs to outnumber the things that exist now. Software will create work for people to do as long as it keeps pushing what we can do as people. People need to adapt to a world with software at the heart, everything else is very dangerous.

What: A better way to find github repos relevant to your interests. Works by compiling all the starred repos of contributors and . Currently in early alpha at https://github.com/KingsleyKelly/GitStar.

Why? I went from having about 10 starred repos to 300, and found loads of useful libraries and tools along the way.

Ebola is actually too aggressive. It tends to kill and incapacitate people so quickly that they don't have time to spread it to others.

Google+ has it's users, but to me it always seemed like the ultimate example of building something no one actually wanted.

People are saying this is pedantry, but there's a good point being made here. Coding passion is a deep cold analytic burn that is nothing like what people assume it to be. It typically is a reflection of the interest you have in the project not the product. Most developers can hate what they work on and do incredible work if they love what they are doing minute to minute.

No I won't be a passionate evangelist about spreadsheets, but I could get happily lost in the codebase for Google Docs. People code for 48 hours when lost in the happy delirium of discovering some new problem, that's passion. However it might have nothing to do with their personal investment for the finished product. In fact they likely really enjoy the challenge of fixing something broken more than seeing it run once fixed.

Putting passion on a job spec is really quite unreasonable, but it seems easier than saying single minded to a fault and willing to sacrifice personal health to do a bit more hacking.

I feel like teens are the stick used to beat Facebook because they've never really been the ones who fanatically used it.

This study seems to constantly come out saying teens are using x messenger app. Facebook isn't a messaging system like Snapchat or WhatsApp. It's a repo for social contacts and experiences, which is why it has a symbiotic relationship with messaging apps (people sent texts while Facebook was only on the web! Facebook is losing ground to texts!).

Of the four Twitter and Instagram are the competitors but both lack the walled garden that Facebook offers. Facebook for all it's privacy concerns makes these look like a safe-house.

Instagram treads the role of messaging app and social network best, and is owned by Facebook and is deeply integrated. That doesn't seem like a dead and buried social network.

Cities that don't care for their homeless tend not to have a homeless problem.

SF actually has relatively great care for homeless people compared to the majority of the US. Therefore a lot more homeless end up there.

The homeless problem is striking because it's almost entirely artificial. If SF didn't care for it's homeless, and didn't rent control areas to allow affordable housing it would probably be like midtown manhattan. That's boring to a lot of residents and unfortunate for the homeless, but where's the tax money coming from to allow the status quo to continue?

No one seems to be debating the value of social programs, but what's the advantage of the tenderloin? It's been a decaying mess for generations when it could be a profitable, vibrant part of the city which would be beneficial for wealthy and poor alike.

Javascript having a higher approval rating than coffeescript is actually pretty interesting.

Nothing like a phobia or anything, but it did give me a feeling that there were bugs all over my screen.

It's a cool animation though and a nice reference to the first book, personally I'd probably add a small toggle for the bugs.

I really liked this book the first time around and I'm glad to see it's (possibly) getting a second edition.

But I had to remove the background to finish the page, it really creeped me out.

The definition I've found most useful is geeks are obsessed with creating something and nerds are obsessed with consuming something.

I think these MScs are bullshit and I did one.

However equally bullshit is the idea that you can't write software without a Bachelors in CS. As far as I'm concerned my MSc is a halfway house. It gets you passed HR and let's you talk to people who know these MSc aren't worth anything but only really care if you can make things.

As an outsider it looks like Yahoo is saying it will back big crazy engineering projects if they have potential. To me Yahoo went from being the last place I'd ever want to end up to being an exciting company. It's an amazing turnaround.

These talks are amazing and his app looks fantastic. While it's easy to be creative in code, it's still easy to lose a huge amount of what we were aiming for while coding. It's exciting to see someone like Bret Victor working on problems like this so explicitly.

American journalists aren't legally protected from revealing their sources at all and there's journalists in jail right now for just this reason.

I don't eat McDonalds and I wear my safety belt. Other people having guns is not something I can control though, hence the justified need to control who can be given them. I don't worry about my freedom to gun people down, it's not a freedom I really want.

Europe is just PHP as far as the eye can see. I think Berlin is the only major city that bucks the trend.