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It was likely done by claude

You miss the major factor in your compensation: pricing pressure due to supply/demand. By removing all the junior engineers, you've fundamentally changed the market forces longer t…

This is CMU so they would be at the bleeding edge just like MIT/Stanford. But I think all the schools are behind today

Zico is Chair of the ML Department at CMU, which arguably has had the largest contribution to foundational ML academia. OpenAI board member is his least interesting credential

The author misses the forest for the trees. He's accurately articulating the current state of tools he's using but isn't acknowledging or extrapolating the next derivative I.e the …

This entire post smells like someone who's salty and trying not to face reality. I might not even disagree entirely with what's being stated here but the framing is just clearly wr…

Anysource.dev is the answer

Data engineering completely automated by a startups technology. This dataset sells for hundreds of thousands a year and can be fully cleansed and prepared from raw data purely with…

My guess is the telemetry data. OAI spends gobs of money on Mercor and Windsurf telemetry gets them similar data. My guess is they saw their Mercor spend hitting close to 1B a year…

Meta tools are best in class when the requirement is scale. Or that the external tools haven't matured yet

OpenAI initially raised 50m in their institutional round. 1b was a non profit donation, so there wasn't an expectation of returns on that one.

This is another inflection style "acquisition." Highly unethical of the founders and screws over all your employees and investors who are left holding the bag. For those asking, c.…

"Low level python" is an amusing statement

Technically the Field's medal is the top honor in mathematics. But who am I to talk.

As an alum, if the students don't love it, they can withdraw. Someone needs to foot the bill for research and education and CMU does not have a large endowment fund

Arguably one of the earliest consumer use cases that found footing was AI girlfriend/boyfriend. Large amounts of revenue spread across many small players are generated here but it'…

I think this is why we're seeing that the type of founders YC usually funds in these industries aren't going through YC and choosing alternative methods of getting started.

Hawaii has a lot of sun. Not sure they can be a model for any of the mainland that doesn't look like their weather.

None of this matters if they can't get the hardware stack to work correctly. The media keeps missing the real lock in Nvidia has: CUDA. It's not the hardware. It's the ability for …

I have seen them do so in the past. But they need to be very targeted similar to surgery. There's some tumor in the company and you need to identify what that is and remove all of …

20% of the company Given how it sounds like Brex is doing, they're likely going to need to cut again. This isn't deep enough to really solve any systemic or structural problems. It…

Index Ventures has the money. But the truth of the matter is that even most US VCs aren't willing to shell out 2B valuations for a company with no revenue.