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allencheng

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    Shortform | REMOTE | Full-stack Engineer | Full-time / Part-time | $120-200k https://www.shortform.com/ Do you feel overwhelmed by the amount of stuff to learn? Do you have hundred…

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    Comment #36599275

    Hey there - email us and we'll send you more info about our upcoming projects. Our bread and butter engineering work is full-stack, but we're starting to look into how specalists c…

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    Comment #36585486

    I encourage you to apply! In our experience most students don't have the time to make a part-time role at 20 hours/week really work, but students near graduation have a better shot…

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    Time - We typically ask 20 hours per week as a minimum. Below this we've found that not enough gets done for the relationship to be worthwhile for either party. Availability - we t…

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    Comment #36573906

    Shortform | REMOTE | Full-stack Engineer | Full-time / Part-time | $100-200k https://www.shortform.com/ Do you feel overwhelmed by the amount of stuff to learn? Do you have hundred…

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    Comment #30879423

    Shortform | REMOTE | Full-stack Engineer | Full-time / Part-time | $100-200k https://www.shortform.com/ Do you feel overwhelmed by the amount of stuff to learn? Do you have hundred…

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    Comment #30610155

    Shortform | REMOTE | Full-stack Engineer | Full-time / Part-time | $100-200k https://www.shortform.com/ Do you feel overwhelmed by the amount of stuff to learn? Do you have hundred…

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    Comment #30166446

    Shortform | REMOTE | Full-stack Engineer | Full-time / Part-time | $100-200k https://www.shortform.com/ Do you feel overwhelmed by the amount of stuff to learn? Do you have hundred…

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    Comment #29784882

    Shortform | REMOTE | Full-stack Engineer | Full-time / Part-time | $100-200k https://www.shortform.com/ Do you feel overwhelmed by the amount of stuff to learn? Do you have hundred…

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    Comment #29405066

    Shortform | REMOTE | Full-stack Engineer | Full-time / Part-time | $100-200k https://www.shortform.com/ Do you feel overwhelmed by the amount of stuff to learn? Do you have hundred…

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    Comment #29077020

    Shortform | REMOTE | Full-stack Engineer | Full-time / Part-time | $100-200k https://www.shortform.com/ Do you feel overwhelmed by the amount of stuff to learn? Do you have hundred…

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    Comment #28721545

    Shortform | REMOTE | Full-stack Engineer | Full-time / Part-time | $100-200k https://www.shortform.com/ Do you feel overwhelmed by the amount of stuff to learn? Do you have hundred…

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    Comment #28380687

    Shortform | REMOTE | Full-stack Engineer | Full-time / Part-time | $100-200k https://www.shortform.com/ Do you feel overwhelmed by the amount of stuff to learn? Do you have hundred…

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    Comment #24016116

    I agree, any morally conscious founder should build in extra safeguards to stifle the bad edge cases and launch only after pretty thorough testing. Even an immoral founder who want…

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    Comment #24015962

    Agree - if it becomes known AI Dungeon 3 makes $500,000 in profit a year, expect plenty of competitors to pop up and conduct a pricing war down to the bottom.

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    Author here. I agree it's early and we'll have to wait until real products hit the ground to see the full extent of its capabilities and limitations. I was a skeptic of the perform…

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    Comment #24013817

    Interesting analogy, though not perfect. The key question is to what % of the user experience the core technology provides. For software, the programming language plays a small %, …

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    Comment #24013709

    I agree, AI Dungeon is a fantastic idea and right now has first mover advantage. Once it's clear it's a viable business, AI Dungeon will spawn a lot of competitors. Outside of GPT-…

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    Comment #24012728

    Agreed - companies can compete by adding on services and focus on verticals. It might be a different type of company than the founder originally envisioned, though. Here's a good t…

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    Author here, I discuss aspects of this in the "Economies of Scale" section - if you're existentially dependent on a supplier, that supplier has leverage to squeeze you hard. The co…

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    Comment #24012376

    I agree prompts make a huge difference in how well GPT-3 performs. The relevant questions are: 1) how easy is it to replicate best practices? If it's simple reformatting and everyo…

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    Comment #24012273

    Author here. I think about it this way - some tools are more like programming languages, and some are like can openers. Programming languages have a high skill ceiling and a big va…

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