An analyst's job is basically a Perplexity Labs prompt right now

There’s a particular breed of bay area kids whose parents work in tech that get raised from the age of 10 to be perfect corporate slaves who treat everything as superficial, transactional stepping stones

🔥 YC breaks down how top AI startups prompt LLMs: 6+ page prompts, XML tags, meta-prompts, evals as core IP. Meta-prompting + role assignment are key for reliable, agent-like behaviors. ⚙️ Key Learning → Top AI startups use "manager-style" hyper-specific prompts—6+ pages

Very impressed with Veo 3 and all the things people are finding on r/aivideo etc. Makes a big difference qualitatively when you add audio. There are a few macro aspects to video generation that may not be fully appreciated: 1. Video is the highest bandwidth input to brain. Not

Try the thing you don’t think you’re quite ready for.

"I was Vibe Coding with Replit a few weeks ago. I mean the power of what you're going to be able to create on the web; we haven't given that power to developers in 25 years" — Sundar Pichai

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Inventing: Humans + Rest: LLMs, sgtm

OpenAI just eliminated the AI note-taking veritcal. Goodbye Granola et al: youtube.com/watch?v=9lSRVi…

Repeated failure will toughen your spirit and show you with absolute clarity how things must be done. In fact, it is a curse to have everything go right on your first attempt. You will fail to question the element of luck, making you think that you have the golden touch. When

Failure is the process by which you find the team and learn the lessons that you will succeed with.

Something I told 16 yo: In the near term, AI will increase variation in the returns for work. For example, mediocre programmers are now finding it hard even to get hired, but great programmers are making more than ever.

its clear man. people lose because they’re just casual. casual with time. casual with energy. casual with the things they claim they want. but anything worth having demands obsession. obsession bends the world to you. be obsessed. gm.

the difference between discipline & obsession:

You’re still early. Learn programming. Study crypto. Understand everything about LLMs. Keep learning. Become obsessed with something. The right information will change your life.

The very desire to find shortcuts makes you eminently unsuited for any kind of mastery. There is no possible reversal to this process.

zero to one work is soul exposing. you’re making something out of nothing, then dragging it into reality by force of will while everything around you & sometimes even yourself telling you it’s dumb, or pointless.

One thing a lot of interesting people have in common is they made unconventional long term bets that ended up working out.

It will complete the migration. London → Dubai Tokyo → Singapore New York → Miami The new capitals of capital.

AI doesn’t do it end-to-end. It does it middle-to-middle. The new bottlenecks are prompting and verifying.