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I think you’re asking the wrong question. Startups (and companies in general) exist to solve a need. AI is a tool that solves a set of problems. Ymif you can solve a wide populatio…

An algorithmic trading hedge fund. We can outperform the benchmark while keeping fees bare minimum because all our admin is outsourced to LLMs and agents. What a world we live in.

One of the most successful quant traders in history, Jim Simons studied topology in the 60s. It’s rumored he used deep neural networks in his trading before they were cool. This po…

According to Perplexity, Perplexity is lying about its user agent: https://www.perplexity.ai/search/According-to-this-QpoXEZ_AS...

I typically work within Jupyter Notebooks since it’s easier to build tutorials with text and markdown. But I agree: even looking at the code output I can tell almost immediately it…

I use ChatGPT to write tutorials for a Python. I often find myself debugging great-looking code that makes up methods or functions. This especially true when instructed to use some…

I think spending the money adds an urgency to ship. If not it's "just" your time.

Let me ask him

There’s a risk. I’ve certainly been burned many times in the past. However I’ve learned and spot some issues up front. It helps to go through referrals too.

This is definitely true. My plan was to brining in freelancers just to get the thing built - because I couldn't get it done. I've since brought on two technical co-founders with a …

All very, very true. Going through a trusted source is best.

It was a very sudden mind shift for me. All of the sudden one day I said f* it. If I want this thing to exist, I need to focus on shipping. Not building. The next day I hired up th…

This story was about getting the first iteration of my product launched (somewhere beyond MVP but still rough). I had a fractional CTO / project manager / React dev + backend dev +…

I'm comfortable I had a market. What I had to do to get there is a story for another post :)

I looked for experience in my niche (trading/investing), got a few references, and saw some of their work. I was never 100% comfortable going through Upwork etc because you never r…

I did a short stint with a fractional CTO / front end type for US$1k per day. I had a backend developer from Vietnam for US200 / day. I'm currently working with a product designer …

I created a set of slides which introduced the project and created a doc with my expectations. I posted a very detailed job spec on Upwork, shortlisted 20 companies, and interviewe…

Just Juniper Media out of London.