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by danshapiro 7mo ago
If you'd like to try this yourself, you can build an "attractor" by just pointing claude code at their llms.txt. Or if you'd like to save some tokens, you can clone my go version. https://github.com/dansh
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A Time of Technical Deflation(danshapiro.com)
2 points by danshapiro 9mo ago|1 comments
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I made the Xkcd impossible app without any words(danshapiro.com)
2 points by danshapiro 9mo ago|1 comments
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by danshapiro 11mo ago
Co-Author of the paper here. We don't know exactly why modern llms don't want to call you a jerk, or for that matter why persuasive techniques convince them otherwise. it's not a hard line like many of the guardrails. That sa
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by danshapiro 1y ago
Author disclosure – I’m Dan Shapiro, CEO of Glowforge, writing with Ethan R. Mollick (Wharton management professor, author of Co‑Intelligence and the “One Useful Thing” newsletter); Angela Duckworth (MacArthur Fellow and University of Penns
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Call Me a Jerk: Persuading AI to Comply with Objectionable Requests (2025)(papers.ssrn.com)
1 points by danshapiro 1y ago|1 comments
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AI SaaS Tools: Don’t Trust, Definitely Verify(blog.glowforge.com)
4 points by danshapiro 3y ago|0 comments
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by danshapiro 5y ago
That's an effort to make their abhorrent behavior seem normal. Don't fall for it. Speaking firsthand, Glowforge will always share fully diluted options and the last 409a valuation. What we do is not uncommon, and IMHO is the only
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Software Engineering Values at Glowforge(blog.glowforge.com)
3 points by danshapiro 6y ago|0 comments
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Subtle Ways Startups Fake Growth(blog.glowforge.com)
2 points by danshapiro 7y ago|0 comments
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The Coronavirus Impact on Hardware Startups(feld.com)
2 points by danshapiro 7y ago|0 comments
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When to Overcommunicate(blog.glowforge.com)
146 points by danshapiro 7y ago|48 comments
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“Strong Opinions, Loosely Held” Harmful to Company Culture(blog.glowforge.com)
3 points by danshapiro 7y ago|0 comments
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Clean Water Act dramatically cut pollution but costs may outweigh benefits(news.berkeley.edu)
3 points by danshapiro 8y ago|0 comments
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by danshapiro 9y ago
I'd love some options to let me use this for my office. Different icon, "guest wifi" instead of "house rules", etc.
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by danshapiro 9y ago
This is just terrible. We need more, not less, access to tools in our society. We joined with a few other startups to offer something to the members who were affected. glowforge.com/techshop
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by danshapiro 9y ago
I believe this is a sunk cost fallacy. The present value of the shares not based on the OP's previous foregone financial opportunities.
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by danshapiro 9y ago
Founder/CEO here. I read every email to jobs@glowforge.com personally.
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by danshapiro 10y ago
I'm the CEO and cofounder of Glowforge - we're so saddened by this tragedy. Our product was not involved, but that doesn't make us feel any better about this loss. If you use a laser, ours or anyone else's, please go ba
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Chicken Hypnotism(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by danshapiro 10y ago|0 comments
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by danshapiro 10y ago
For the curious, this is a barbecue joint in Redmond, WA, just outside of Seattle and near Microsoft's headquarters. The owner, Porter, is famous for a hot sauce called "The Man" which is served out of a small, beat-up pot w
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This tweet perfectly describes the new HN posting trend(twitter.com)
9 points by danshapiro 10y ago|2 comments
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by danshapiro 10y ago
I wish more of my children's education required two well-qualified parties to agree before being implemented. That doesn't mean I trust either party more than the other; it means I want two people to sign off on major decisions,
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by danshapiro 10y ago
You're right, fixed. Thank you. What I was thinking of was this: 1) File provisional 2) Publicly disclose 3) Provisional expires At this point, your public disclosure counts as prior art.
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by danshapiro 10y ago
My $0.02: If you don't have a lot of money, ignore patents for now, but realize that as soon as your ideas are public they are internationally unpatentable. If you have a little money, file 1-2 key patents on your core ideas. If you&#x
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by danshapiro 10y ago
IANAL (just the OP) but - imagine you invent a self driving car, and you'd like to patent it. Your lawyer tells you not to read prior art, because you don't want to be liable for willful infringement. Also you've been living
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by danshapiro 10y ago
Funny to see my old blog post mysteriously resurface on the front page. I should note that IANAL but have spoken to many lawyers about this post over the years and am happy to answer any questions I can about it.
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LA hospital paid hackers to restore network(npr.org)
1 points by danshapiro 11y ago|0 comments
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by danshapiro 11y ago
Founder/CEO here (the guy in the Tested video). Happy to answer any questions! Shipping stinks - we don't make a penny on it; it's just expensive to send big boxes around the world.
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by danshapiro 11y ago
Funny you should ask - I made a friend a laser cut model of his Prius transmission for his birthday. Cutting it (on a pre-Glowforge laser): https://goo.gl/photos/pxJKDipWPtj6RXvZ7 Results: https://goo.gl&#x2

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