nichochar

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The Great Convergence(nicholascharriere.com)
2 points by nichochar 26d ago|0 comments
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by nichochar 29d ago
my read is that PG is one of the lucky people who was very successful before kids, so he could just put YC in self-driving mode by handing off to the next generation and his life's work still feels meaningful. I think it's very di
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by nichochar 29d ago
Healthy things. For me its riding a bike, which is magical because i) its solo activity so my brain meditates ii) its healthy but no shocks on my knees and body iii) its technology free, no notifications on a bike
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by nichochar 29d ago
these people have ai too. AI increases competition amongst the ambitious, so it doesn't solve the problem
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by nichochar 29d ago
i really like your framing, this encapsulates the problem very consisely: > Time is finite. Desire / drive are not. Solve for X
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by nichochar 29d ago
(original author) this is true for me, wouldn't be remotely possible without my wife.
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by nichochar 29d ago
yep all of this resonates
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Being ambitious and being a dad(nicholascharriere.com)
959 points by nichochar 1mo ago|768 comments
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by nichochar 1mo ago
Surprisingly pragmatic and info packed article.. Kudos to databricks, I also find it interesting that such different companies (Stripe, Ramp, Databricks) are all building the exact same internal tools. I think building companies is going to
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by nichochar 2mo ago
yep, that's what i qualify as "not an advantage". It's totally fine if thats what your company is like, but the labs have an unfair advantage.
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The Dogfood Advantage(nicholascharriere.com)
3 points by nichochar 2mo ago|2 comments
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by nichochar 4mo ago
This was often true when writing code manually to be fair. You could get to "something that works" rather fast but it took a long time to 1) evaluate other options (maybe before, maybe after), 2) refine it, 3) test it and build co
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Everyone is building the same thing (a generalist agent)(twitter.com)
2 points by nichochar 6mo ago|0 comments
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The Great Convergence of Technology Companies(nicholascharriere.com)
3 points by nichochar 6mo ago|0 comments
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by nichochar 7mo ago
We ran some tests at mocha (we have a coding agent with our own harness to build web apps, with a lot of tools and medium length tasks (3min to 10min). Our notes: Sonnet 4.6 feels like a fundamentally different model than Sonnet 4.5, it is
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App builder market trends and statistics(getmocha.com)
3 points by nichochar 7mo ago|0 comments
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by nichochar 8mo ago
I think Karpathy[1] summarized why he thinks this is the case quite well (as described he was himself hyping it up a bit much, but there are some foundational reasons why it's a very interesting experiment). [1] https://x.co
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by nichochar 8mo ago
We're building an AI powered app builder. We use elixir, phoenix and of course OBAN. It feels like such a super power. What you're describing is particularly important in the era of long running AI processes. Something as simple a
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by nichochar 8mo ago
Little to no evidence was presented. This is vibe argumenting.
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The engineering behind an AI app builder(getmocha.com)
4 points by nichochar 8mo ago|0 comments
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by nichochar 10mo ago
The effort described in the article is maybe a couple hours of work. I understand the "enjoy doing anyway" part and it resonates, but not using AI is simply less productive.
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by nichochar 11mo ago
i knew simon would be top comment. it's not an empirical law
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by nichochar 1y ago
I'm building an app builder (getmocha.com) and one of my favorite use cases I have seen is "small private social network": some people are building custom, tailored social networks only available to their family, church, comm
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by nichochar 1y ago
Congrats on the launch, spreadsheets are getting lots of AI upgrades these days, exciting! If i were to try this out with some somewhat sensitive company data, what is the security profile of this? Would it potentially leak the data to MCP
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by nichochar 1y ago
Elixir and Phoenix are very underrated. It combines the "opinionated" aspects of ruby and rails and the power of erlang. The BEAM is like no other runtime and is incredibly fun to work with and powerful once you get how to use gen
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by nichochar 1y ago
I literally cannot read this article because of a paywall. The title is deeply ironic.
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by nichochar 1y ago
yes same category
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by nichochar 1y ago
disclaimer: building a competitor ( https://getmocha.com ) Lovable and bolt took a massive shortcut: they outsourced the backend to a third party (supabase). This makes their ceiling to build "useful" software incredibly
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by nichochar 1y ago
Isn't creativity always impressive if done well? Code is a medium, painting is a medium, piano is a medium, and prompting is a medium. This sounds a little bitter.
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by nichochar 1y ago
This was super interesting. Unsurprisingly, I see he didn't have much to say about faceit and esea. I think CSGO anti-cheats are a league above the rest (I'm not sure why, maybe because the scene is more competitive?)

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