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The beauty of venture capital is that VCs don't really know either but they allow themselves to be presuaded by the founders.

Its a beautiful thing.

It would be hilarious if they don't know how to fix it because this was built by "running loops calling Claude" and they haven't the faintest idea of the present underlying architecture.

:)

Yep - its an interesting angle to look at it.

Or rather OpenSource might have just saved the world!

This is more an example of code distribution rather than intelligence.

If Claude had NOT been trained on compiler code, it would NOT have been able to build a compiler.

Definitely signals the end of software IP or at least in its present form.

SaaS dying is mostly nonsense.

Which is easier to vibecode - AI agent or Salesforce?

The fragmentation in the AI agent space will be markedly larger than at the base CRM layer.

Abd the AI agent is replaceable in under a minute but your data in Salesforce isn’t.

This is nonsense to get you to work more for the same pay.

Its good to do this to get an idea of what it means to work on a higher level but it WILL NOT get you promoted.

Promotion is about leverage. What can you supply that no one else can and thats crucial for your bosses-boss's success?

Stop thinking execution - its exactly the opposite of that.

Can you recruit people from other organizations, can you create a new product, work with every part fo the comapny, evangelize the company externally, attract capital ...

With an LLM it takes 15 minutes. With libraries and books and youtube and research probably 4 hours.

Thats a meaningful difference to get upto speed.

If you're an engineer you get a hell of a lot of agency in 15 minutes.

A lot providers will mark up prices for things that actually don't matter. You ca definitely figure that out quickly and tell them its not needed.

And hten others will give you a cheaper alternative at a higher price - this is really fucked but I"ve seen it a lot.

Essentially service providers (most) are screwing you on price is terrible ways. LLMs can get you 20% off at the VERY least.

IF you aren't in a hurry you can cut a lot more down and even do most of the things on your own with a LLM.

The LLMs help you understand how the pricing works.

Eg: when my shower didn't work I was able to figure out all steps - and also do most of them before getting stuck at one particular point because I couldn't physically pull the unit out of the socket.

I was able to negotiate down $150 for that one.

In another instance with gas pipes I was able to find laborers who were good but just didn't have a branded van yet.

In this case LLMs help me understand that the laborer was damn good at his job and how to cut the cost of the job by breaking into different pieces.

The whole process is very tactical - you will lose quite a few negotiations before figuring it out. Also its not useful to just abstract all the jobs as you've done in your post. You've somehow got to the EMH except for service providers - its just not true.

The way different types of compnaies force you to pay more is very different. Lockpickers are very different from plumbers for example. Also each service provider have their own way of doing things and breaking points.

Also every geography is different. Service providers seem to charge the most with elderly house owners and peopel with nice houses in nice areas. So you can definitely use LLMs in those situations to find areas to put ads to attract better prices.

the best part of all this is how you can apply these negotiation skills to your job search or any other situation. definitely a long game like finance or health.

First thing that I thought off when LLMs came out - literally been in my head for 2 years.

A lot of price gouging is based on you not knowing the details or the process. With LLMs you can know both.

For most anything from kitchen renovations to A/C installation to Car servicing - you can now get an exacat idea on details and process. And you can negotiate on both.

You can also know how much "work" contractors have at this time which gives you more leverage.

For anything above $1000 in spend, learn about it from your LLM first. My usual questions:

1. What are all the steps involved? Break the steps down by cost. 2. What is the demand for this service in my area around this time of the year? 3. using the above details, how can I negotiate a lower price or find a place which will have this at a discount ?

I use an app but I also have an excel sheet where I track everything very carefully every week or so.

Trust my excel sheet much much more.

Honestly for everyone I know this is how they do it. There is one guy who built his own app and his is perfect because he has solved for his specific bank accounts.

He knows every $ coming in and going out - its pretty impressive.

Untrue - there isn't a personal finance solution that doesn't have mistakes. Not one. I've literally tried them all. Its mostly because the syncing with accounts is very very brittle and a lot of things like stock plans etc aren't supported well so your daily view will always be somewhat off.

There are insights to derive from the data - like how much do you really spend. But again its really hard to get there because the numbers are always off and most people don't actually want to know.

You are severely underestimating the average person's agency with their money.

I felt the same when I went to Amstwerdam from SF

From the title I thought he meant VCs.

Could you elaborate on what you mean?

That 80% of medical issues could be categorized as "standard medicine" with some personalization to the person?

residency you obviously see a lot of real life complicated cases but aren't the majority of the cases something a non resident could guide if not diagnose ?

I've seen that LLMs hallucinate in very subtle ways when guidng you through a course of treatment.

Once when having to administer eyedrops to a parent, and I saw redness and was being conservative, it told me the wrong drop to stop. The doctor saw my parent the next day so it was all fixed but did lead to me freaking out.

Doctors behave very differently from how we normal humans behave. They go through testing that not many of us would be able to sit through let alone pass. And they are taught a multitude of subjects that are so far away from the subjects everyone else learns that we have no way to truly communicate to them.

And this massive chasm is the problem, not that the LLM is the wrong tool.

Thinking probabilistically (mainly basyesia) and understanding the initial first two years of medschool will help you use an LLM much more effectively for your health.

With LLMs the ability to create your own experience whilst using services as "databases" is really possible.

My crazy though is that this is where the internet will go.

One of the big problems with SaaS is that the apps are tuned to increase company profit - not user agency.

All that will flip. Agents are the first barrage in that direction but the movement is only just starting.

One barrier is configuration (code at scale) - ie a way to communicate exactly what you want.

Once we have that we compile from our needs (configuration) to an app thats exactly what we want backed by our accounts on amazon, uber, google, openai as databases and processing.

This is also why starting your own thing will give you better experience at being a VP than working at a 9-5.

(But it’s also harder than being a VP.)

And if you’re going back to 9-5 after an unsuccessful startup stint, look for VP or GM like roles. Anything else won’t have enough degrees of freedom to keep you happy

This is an interesting.

AI leads to more useless dives down into the internets.

Practical knowledge is the at most important.

Weirdly you’ll get a lot of useful experience as you analyze yourself through 80 years.

From a knowledge standpoint an LLM can give you pointers at any point.

Theres no way it will "fall short".

You just have to improve your prompt. In the worst case scenario you can say "please list out all the different research angles I should proceed from here and which of these might most likely yield a useful result for me"

You just aren’t delving deep enough.

For every problem that stops you, ask the LLM. With enough context it’ll give you at least a mediocre way to get around your problem.

It’s still a lot of hard work. But the only person that can stop yourself is you. (Which it looks like you’ve done.)

List the reasons you’ve stopped below and I’ll give you prompts to get around them.

Yes. LLMs are the perfect learning assistant.

You can now do literally anything. Literally.

Going to take a while for everyone to figure this out but they will given time.

Do NOT work only your contract hours. It might seem like the logical choice but it rarely is because of following reasons :

1. You cannot build strong skills working just contract hours. 2. You cannot market your achievements by working only 40 hours. And in turn this makes you dispensable and more disposable. 3. You can't control your work which is probably the most important element of all this. 4. you can't search for great positions with the new skills you achieved if you only work 40 hours ...

Work in such a way that you get recognition for the hours worked.

Do important projects, not crappy side projects and MARKET THE HELL out of your work. Everyone should know what you are doing.

Every day at a job is a campaign to increase your salary massively - either at the job or somewhere else. (Btw, this is how most people in NYC think thought they may not admit it.)

You have to do impressive things and then use 3x your time marketing them to everyone else in the company. Everything else - money and promotions will follow. (Process won't be pretty - but you won't be floundering nearly as much as others who don't take this advice.)

Google and read the "Gervais Principle" by my friend Vekat.

You're welcome and I'm sorry! :)

At a corporate job, starting projects will catapult you more than finishing them. Especially long multi year projects.

My mentor mentioned this to me and it took me a LONG time to understand it.

Starting an AI project for example will:

1. position you as the AI thought leader just becuase you were first to the idea

2. associate AI used anywhere with you

3. bring you up in any conversation about AI

It's really weird but this how all those useless executives operate. Start projects and leave :) . Highly recommend reading "Stealing the Corner Offfice" https://a.co/d/5dTRSNQ if you don't plan to do a startup.

Place your monitor in front of or next to a window so you can look out of a window so your eyes can refocus and you can look out into the world.

Do NOT place your computer in front of a wall - this literally makes me feel depressed.

I’d say what actually made his ventures fail is his Google shares.

Having a fallback scenario doesn’t allow for the complete focus and ruthlessness to succeed at company building.

Weirdly I know the SVP Eng at that Virgin charter company.

The great thing about this article is that they talk about startups dying before they even really start …

I think this is the common case that’s never talked about.

Beautiful

You can only job hop once in 2 years.

All that other time watching TV and commenting on YC can be used to learn to run a business.

Also the skills you'll learn by starting a very tiny biz - marketing, sales, resilience, communication, people-skills and delivery - will help you sell yourself at present and future job opportunities.

Also not everyone is in tech or wants to be in tech. /smh

Dude just try.

Stop talking yourself out of everything!