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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. …

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 h…

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)…

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.…

I'd love some options to let me use this for my office. Different icon, "guest wifi" instead of "house rules", etc.

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.co…

I believe this is a sunk cost fallacy. The present value of the shares not based on the OP's previous foregone financial opportunities.

Founder/CEO here. I read every email to jobs@glowforge.com personally.

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 las…

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" w…

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…

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 pri…