Readit NewsIt often seems like you are more likely to raise VC by being a fraud than by being a responsible person who wants to do something positive in this world.
I tend to find that I use Gemini for the first pass, then switch to Claude for the actual line-by-line details.
Claude is also far superior at writing specs than Gemini.
I am excited to try out this new model. I actually want to stay brand loyal to antropic because I like the people and the values they express.
https://www.reddit.com/r/startups/comments/a8f6xz/why_didnt_...
I've posted this before but it's a great read. Even if you have millions of shares, the dilution and later investors could still leave you with nothing.
I worked for 2 startups, both failed, but I never got to see the cap table.
I got $0 for my equity. Start ups have SO many ways to screw employees out of their equity.
The most basic is that you have options that you are not allowed to sell during equity rounds. If you accept them then you need to pay the strike price and they count as taxable income even though you got shares instead of money so you just lose a lot of money.
Say what you will about Elon, but at Space X employees are allowed to sell their shares for actual money at regular intervals. Very few start ups that succeed allow their employees to do that.
90% of startups that succeed just want to grind down their employees rather than pay them the equity they earned.
And I'm also sure that you're working on it, but some kind of auto-summarization of facts to reduce the context in order to avoid penalizing long threads would be sweet.
I don't know if your internal users are dogfooding the product that has user limits, so you may not have had this feedback - it makes me irritable/stressed to know that I'm running up close to the limit without having gotten to the bottom of a bug. I don't think stress response in your users is a desirable thing :).
A lot of people just want the ability to pay more in order to get more.
I would gladly pay 10x more to get relatively modest increases in performance. That is how important the intelligence is.
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Anyone who thought Sam Altman wasn’t in it for the money from the start, was being naive. In the extreme. Not only Mr Altman, but most of the people giving the larger donations were hoping for a hit as well. Why is that so incredible to people? How else would you get that kind of money to fund a ludicrously speculative research based endeavor? You don’t even know if it’s possible before the research. What else could they have done?
ChatGPT et. al. is a miraculous boost to my productivity. This morning I needed a function to iterate over some JSON and do stuff with it. Fairly mundane, and I could have written it myself.
Doing so would have been boring, routine, and would have taken me at least an hour. I asked ChatGPT 4o and I got exactly what I wanted in 30 seconds.
I can only hope that these tools enable more people like me to build more cool things. That's how it's affected me: I never would have hired another dev. No job is lost. I'm just exponentially better at mine.
The relevant question is: Why was it necessary to bomb Iran right now?