jchonphoenix

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by jchonphoenix 3d ago
PG hasn't been in the bay for a long time so he doesn't understand what the ecosystem is like anymore. For example "startups make the best stuff" is just wrong these days. I almost always assume the startup's produc
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by jchonphoenix 23d ago
Much of yc advice is correct. But much of it is also dated as you're noticing
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by jchonphoenix 3mo ago
It was likely done by claude
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by jchonphoenix 4mo ago
You miss the major factor in your compensation: pricing pressure due to supply/demand. By removing all the junior engineers, you've fundamentally changed the market forces longer term and most people expect that to negatively impa
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by jchonphoenix 6mo ago
This is CMU so they would be at the bleeding edge just like MIT/Stanford. But I think all the schools are behind today
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by jchonphoenix 9mo ago
Zico is Chair of the ML Department at CMU, which arguably has had the largest contribution to foundational ML academia. OpenAI board member is his least interesting credential
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by jchonphoenix 1y ago
The author misses the forest for the trees. He's accurately articulating the current state of tools he's using but isn't acknowledging or extrapolating the next derivative I.e the rate of improvement of these tools. That bein
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by jchonphoenix 1y ago
This entire post smells like someone who's salty and trying not to face reality. I might not even disagree entirely with what's being stated here but the framing is just clearly wrong
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by jchonphoenix 1y ago
Anysource.dev is the answer
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by jchonphoenix 1y ago
Data engineering completely automated by a startups technology. This dataset sells for hundreds of thousands a year and can be fully cleansed and prepared from raw data purely with AI.
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by jchonphoenix 1y ago
My guess is the telemetry data. OAI spends gobs of money on Mercor and Windsurf telemetry gets them similar data. My guess is they saw their Mercor spend hitting close to 1B a year in the next 5 years if they did nothing to curb it
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by jchonphoenix 2y ago
Meta tools are best in class when the requirement is scale. Or that the external tools haven't matured yet
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by jchonphoenix 2y ago
OpenAI initially raised 50m in their institutional round. 1b was a non profit donation, so there wasn't an expectation of returns on that one.
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by jchonphoenix 2y ago
This is another inflection style "acquisition." Highly unethical of the founders and screws over all your employees and investors who are left holding the bag. For those asking, c.ai has very high cost and looks like a typical con
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by jchonphoenix 2y ago
"Low level python" is an amusing statement
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by jchonphoenix 2y ago
Technically the Field's medal is the top honor in mathematics. But who am I to talk.
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by jchonphoenix 3y ago
As an alum, if the students don't love it, they can withdraw. Someone needs to foot the bill for research and education and CMU does not have a large endowment fund
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by jchonphoenix 3y ago
Arguably one of the earliest consumer use cases that found footing was AI girlfriend/boyfriend. Large amounts of revenue spread across many small players are generated here but it's glossed over due to the category.
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by jchonphoenix 3y ago
I think this is why we're seeing that the type of founders YC usually funds in these industries aren't going through YC and choosing alternative methods of getting started.
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by jchonphoenix 3y ago
Hawaii has a lot of sun. Not sure they can be a model for any of the mainland that doesn't look like their weather.
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by jchonphoenix 3y ago
None of this matters if they can't get the hardware stack to work correctly. The media keeps missing the real lock in Nvidia has: CUDA. It's not the hardware. It's the ability for someone to use it painlessly.
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by jchonphoenix 3y ago
I have seen them do so in the past. But they need to be very targeted similar to surgery. There's some tumor in the company and you need to identify what that is and remove all of it. I've seen it effectively done once.
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by jchonphoenix 3y ago
20% of the company Given how it sounds like Brex is doing, they're likely going to need to cut again. This isn't deep enough to really solve any systemic or structural problems. It will likely work though if the product vision and
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IG Cutting the TPM Role(businessinsider.com)
2 points by jchonphoenix 3y ago|0 comments
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by jchonphoenix 3y ago
Index Ventures has the money. But the truth of the matter is that even most US VCs aren't willing to shell out 2B valuations for a company with no revenue.
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by jchonphoenix 3y ago
The message is arrogant but it seems very direct to me. He directly asks if you know what you're talking about. And assumes you don't, offering a way to help. This is blunt and uncaring, but is in no way passive aggressive. The en
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by jchonphoenix 3y ago
I've been a manager for quite some time. This person shouldn't be in software management. This is just how a lot of software engineers talk. They are factual, direct, and speak their mind from their perspective with no regards to
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by jchonphoenix 3y ago
We were the first investors in for-profit OpenAI. OpenAI is a completely different story and setup than Mistral.
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by jchonphoenix 3y ago
Million dollar salaries paid in PPUs that are no longer worth millions. I'd jump ship too if I were them.
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by jchonphoenix 3y ago
To be fair, I used to run pricing at one of the ibuyers. 95% of realtors have no idea what they're talking about and the other 5% are just as likely to tell you whatever they think will get you to buy vs what they know to be reality

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