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k_kelly commented on How Much Money Jeff Bezos Made Since You Started Reading This Page   bezoscalculator.com/... · Posted by u/TigerUniversity
k_kelly · 11 days ago
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.

k_kelly commented on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2026)    · Posted by u/whoishiring
k_kelly · 14 days ago
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

k_kelly commented on Martial arts robots at 2026 Spring Festival Gala [video]   youtube.com/watch?v=mUmlv... · Posted by u/lisper
k_kelly · a month ago
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.

k_kelly commented on Heathrow scraps liquid container limit   bbc.com/news/articles/c1e... · Posted by u/robotsliketea
jfengel · 2 months ago
Why are they rare?

There used to be suicide bombings in the news all the time. Hijackings were the reason they instituted the metal detectors at airports.

Improved security seems unlikely as a reason, given how many tests they fail. Was it just a fad? Did they decide it wasn't getting them what they wanted at a high personal cost? Did they find something more effective?

k_kelly · 2 months ago
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.

k_kelly commented on OpenAI needs to raise at least $207B by 2030   ft.com/content/23e54a28-6... · Posted by u/akira_067
gtirloni · 4 months ago
> Meta has 3.5 billion users and projected ~$200b revenue in 2025.

Meta has WhatsApp, Instagram, and Facebook to account for that.

OpenAI has ChatGPT (not a social platform).

It seems to me you're comparing apples and oranges here.

k_kelly · 4 months ago
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.

k_kelly commented on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2025)    · Posted by u/whoishiring
k_kelly · 4 months ago
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

k_kelly commented on Kiro: A new agentic IDE   kiro.dev/blog/introducing... · Posted by u/QuinnyPig
k_kelly · 8 months ago
Sep 1: generate requirements, generate design, generate task list

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

k_kelly commented on Mourning Google   tbray.org/ongoing/When/20... · Posted by u/cdme
sgu999 · 2 years ago
Is your point that MS is diversified enough to absorb the losses of eating up Google's share in search even with the now higher costs?
k_kelly · 2 years ago
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.

k_kelly commented on Mourning Google   tbray.org/ongoing/When/20... · Posted by u/cdme
VBprogrammer · 2 years ago
I have to say, I'm not convinced by all of the AI hype, but it makes a bloody good search engine for a lot of the things I want to search (things where I am in a reasonable position to evaluate the truthfulness of an answer). It's only a matter of time before someone realises that and ruins it in the aim of making money.
k_kelly · 2 years ago
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.

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