the stakes are so low when building a business that is hilarious to me that people find it "painful" and think that it requires a high "pain tolerance"

if firing a low performer or shutting down a company is in the top 10 worst days of your life, you've lived an incredibly comfortable life.

if you don't know a single person making the median income in the city you live in, you're banned from having an opinion on policy

no step function change in LLM capability has come since claude 3.5 sonnet 200B of capex later and the models are still just “pretty good”

i realize this post is probably in jest but one of the superpowers of remaining private is the fact that you don't have a fiduciary responsibility to become a shitcoin treasury company on the side for the meme valuation multiplier

alright dead internet is no longer a theory, welcome to slop city

it's funny to me that people think leftist positions are on their way out - this is only the beginning of the beginning

gave myself 2 years but I knew I wasn't going back after about a month

nothing to see here, fairly easy 10X from here. nvda to 40T

too late

every time i'm about to throw my macbook out of a window because its because of docker

38M in 20 minutes, wow. that's a trillion in ARR cc a16z Sequoia Capital

anyone have a consulting shop that specializes in setting up Cognition 's devin for complex bullshit "enterprise" 78 microservices, ephemeral environment, can't run anything locally dev envs?

in every success story there's a chapter where the person has all of the necessary pre-requisites of success without success itself at that point they have confidence without success, but from the outside it looks like delusion the people who believe in you during this phase

some startups are finding that even though they're able to build faster the metrics of the business are not improving it used to be a convenient scapegoat to reference engineers as a bottleneck, now people are having to confront that they were building something nobody wants