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This particular company is literally bootstrapped and makes hundreds of millions of dollars profitably

Then the offers are fair and your assessment of your labor value is disproven by the market rate.

Using your own logic, if we need investors to make the whole thing work, then an investor playing their role has obviously earned their take. If they didn't exist, many things woul…

So what? He owned the stock, he gets to share in the gains. If we believed that the only people who should be morally allowed to benefit from asset appreciation are the people who …

This is usually founder-led not investor led

I've raised venture from a lot of the big firms (and a lot of small firms) and have never had any of them attempt to force me to use anything.

It's a term of art that straightforwardly means people who embrace AI-assisted programming. As opposed to the very large number of engineers who actively don't like it, or have eno…

Sure, but we're talking about Coinbase, which is a relatively young company not staffed with a bunch of old people in the first place. It's totally random to accuse them of using "…

No, it's obviously not. There is nothing about being old that prevents you from being AI-native.

In some sense, the fun pockets still exist of course. On the other hand, the algorithmic schelling points starve weird-ish corners of scale. The network effects + psychological dra…

OTOH, if you're willing to accept human-level error rates... why would you not do so at a burst-scalable task per minute and 1/1000th the cost? I've built large human data entry op…

I think this is a bit dramatic of a comment. Credit card numbers relayed over the phone are not deterministic... "four three uh let's see sorry my vision is bad six eight..." Easy …

I dunno what use case you're thinking this is for. The use case for this is that many enterprise customers want SaaS products to strip PII from ingested content, and there's no non…

> Regarding bad weather; if winter is bad enough for bicycles to fail, then certainly it is not safe to drive either This is a big claim with no justification. Cars have dynamic tr…

This basically boils down to, "Sure, we recommended you work with scammy low-quality auditors, but if you actually use them it's your own fault... we're just an automation tool!" I…

You say that there's no skill in using AI, and then go on to explain how you used AI in an unskilled way to produce something that neither worked correctly nor taught you anything.…

Are they your ideas if they go through a heavy-handed editor? If you've had lots of conversations with others to refine them? I dunno. There's ways to use LLMs that produces writin…

I'm anon, but also the farthest thing from a progressive, so I find this post amusing. I don't disagree with a lot of what you're saying but I also have a different frame. Even if …

In a lot of ways, I'm thankful that LLMs are letting us hear the thoughts of people who usually wouldn't share them. There are skilled writers. Very skilled, unique writers. And I'…

As the saying goes, "If you're not a liberal when you're 2.5, you have no heart, and if you're not a conservative by the time you're 4.5, you have no brain"

But should it? To whom is that useful?

Completely agree. On the autism spectrum, I'm almost certainly very low. But going through the simulator felt like... yeah this all sucks but is very much in the realm of things th…

It's sarcasm

Yes, it might be true that most people aren't willing to keep their money under their beds for security reasons. But it shouldn't be illegal or somehow indicative of criminality. S…

One of the ways you know if you're really practicing this is if you actively disqualify potential customers after the first call. Not them disqualifying you, but you actively sayin…