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jamesjyu

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About jamesjyu

Science fiction writer & founder of Sudowrite.

Previously:

- Worked on consumer VR at Facebook before it became Meta.

- Co-founder of Parse (YC S11), acquired by Facebook.

- Psychoacoustics engineer at Dolby.

https://www.jamesyu.org

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    Sudowrite | https://sudowrite.com | √ REMOTE (US) | √ PMF | √ PROFITABLE | Full-Time Kind, smart, low-drama people, seeking the same to help make writing tools authors dream about.…

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    Sudowrite | https://sudowrite.com | √ REMOTE (US) | √ PMF | √ PROFITABLE | Full-Time Kind, smart, low-drama people, seeking the same to help make writing tools authors dream about.…

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    Next up: using Chipotle AI to solve Erdős problems

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    Sudowrite | https://sudowrite.com | √ REMOTE (US) | √ PMF | √ PROFITABLE | Full-Time Kind, smart, low-drama people, seeking the same to help make writing tools authors dream about.…

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    It was actually called ping pong until it became a trademark dispute, and the sport had to call it table tennis!

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    Comment #46580574

    I highly recommend Moves, which makes it possible to resize with a modifier key drag within any part of the window: https://mikkelmalmberg.com/moves

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    This is a very reductionist claim about how people use AI in their art process. The truth is that the best artists use AI in a sort of dance between the human and machine. But alwa…

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    What's even more impressive is the retention charts: https://x.com/far33d/status/1981031672142504146 Every single cohort is smiling upward from the past two years. That is insane, …

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    For #2, if you're working on a big feature, start with a markdown planning file that you and the LLM work on until you are satisfied with the approach. Doesn't need to be rocket sc…

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    Huge brand moat. Consumers around the world equate AI with ChatGPT. That kind of recognition is an extremely difficult thing to pull off, and also hard to unseat as long as they pl…

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    I think a better term is "word synthesizer"

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    Sudowrite | https://sudowrite.com | √ remote | √ profitable | √ full-time PROFITABLE, SUSTAINABLE SMALL TEAM, MAKING SOMETHING PEOPLE WANT Kind, smart, low-drama people, seeking th…

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    There is a great classic sci-fi book that explores this: https://www.amazon.com/Black-Cloud-Fred-Hoyle/dp/0140014667

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    This is what we did for Sudowrite. Took a small seed and got to profitability within 2 years by hiring within our means and laser focusing on our users. Happy to answer questions!

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    Sudowrite | REMOTE | √ PMF | Full-Time | Hiring: AI Engineer PROFITABLE, SUSTAINABLE SMALL TEAM, MAKING SOMETHING PEOPLE WANT. We are a group of friendly, smart, low-drama people, …

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    Also wow, pho from scratch in 30 minutes? https://www.recipeninja.ai/recipe/r_f0IwybXaymnGzp/spicy-pho...

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    Sudowrite | REMOTE | √ PMF | Full-Time | Hiring: AI Engineer PROFITABLE, SUSTAINABLE SMALL TEAM, MAKING SOMETHING PEOPLE WANT. We are a group of friendly, smart, low-drama people, …

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    Sudowrite | REMOTE | √ PMF | Full-Time | Hiring: AI Engineer PROFITABLE, SUSTAINABLE SMALL TEAM, MAKING SOMETHING PEOPLE WANT. We are a group of friendly, smart, low-drama people, …

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    Kimchi is so important in Korean culture they sent it with their astronauts "If a Korean goes to space, kimchi must go there, too" https://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/22/world/asia/22i…