Anthropic following the well trodden path of trying to present their product as an entrepreneur’s dream.
Similar to Shopify and all the make money online dropshipping slop they produce.
The founder's playbook: Building an AI-native startup
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#102Reads like a Shopify ad. Just use their tool and you will be able to achieve financial independence.
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#103Honestly at this point I’m not even sure a non-local startup is a smart move anymore
Like what do we really still need?
Most riches nowadays are created by entertainment or scams :/
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#104There is still so much old school thinking and process in this. Go through this process that has been the same for the last decade+ but now you just don't need a team of people to do it. You can just use Claude instead! Really, we are in a paradigm shift, not in a "do the same thing but with less people" shift.
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#105Feels like a category error. It's a slide deck telling people what a product can do (that's a normal thing to release for a company), but the thing it tries to sell you on is building your own business based on their tool. Which makes no sense the way they sell it, because "founding a business" is no standard process that could be formalized in a way like that, nor does it make sense for society to have people foundi…
> "founding a business" is no standard process that could be formalized
Does experience founding a business make you better at founding another, unrelated business? I would say it does to some extent.
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#106I’m pretty sure the one place people will never believe AI can be applied is “being a founder”. There’s just too much invested, in terms of beliefs and money into the idea that founders are special and therefore deserve seven-eight figures off of the capital pumped into their unprofitable products. You’ll see it here in comments. People will defend A”I” applied to software engineering wherever (not) possible, but bui…
Exactly, I always find it ridiculous how the suits, any layer of mid-managment to executives, are so eager on AI 'outsourcing' everything, but they themselves think the 'outsourcing' (if it really works) would stop just before their position.
I agree with you and adding on to it,
Anecdotally, Someone I know said that their manager just asks them if they have drank water or not and motivate them, and the company wants them to make on their personal time what they are building with AI and showcase it.
So they were joking that they were building a replacement of their manager using Claude, and although they were joking, but only partially.
If anything, the managers, rationally speaking might be the one to be outsourced.
Of course, though recently I have come to realize that world isn't completely rational but I have found that on the long term, it still rewards for rational behaviour (sometimes) so I think that these managers on Linkedin should feel a bit scared... (as they are probably just prompting AI to write the linkedin-texts)
What if they are already scared and this is their way of coping with it? Nobody wants their job to be redundant and I wouldn't say that tech is completely scott free but rationally I find that tech has this taste/authenticity factor and there are too many factors but I must admit that these AI companies are succeeding in trying to force the narrative about jobs being completely redundant combined with job market, to make the labour vs capital divide even larger.
I feel as if this is why people want to be on that side of the battle and this Linkedin-Ai-founder-syndrome is a symptom not the cause.
We engineers are trying to optimize from the tech side through let's say AI to building lots of tools that we otherwise couldn't have had made due to lack of time but we had many ideas from any issues we face at tinkering/work etc..
and the managers not having to do any of it, lack the ideas in that aspect but they succeed in trying to project something even if the reality of that thing doesn't exist. So they are trying to do that.
I don't know, I don't believe much in the divide of engineer vs manager but the fight is larger than it but we are infighting...
We are all just fighting to get to the other side of the line of a broken system but oh well, so it is and I am unsure in what capacity can we fix it but I still hope deep down that things will improve for better because I guess hope is what makes us human.
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#107Feels like a category error. It's a slide deck telling people what a product can do (that's a normal thing to release for a company), but the thing it tries to sell you on is building your own business based on their tool. Which makes no sense the way they sell it, because "founding a business" is no standard process that could be formalized in a way like that, nor does it make sense for society to have people foundi…
> "founding a business" is no standard process that could be formalized Does experience founding a business make you better at founding another, unrelated business? I would say it does to some extent.
It often doesn’t. A common mistake of a successful founder is thinking they can repeat it. Those who can are exceedingly rare.
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#108>As an AI-native startup founder, your responsibility is to know what's in your codebase, understand any potential exposure vectors, and not ship obvious vulnerabilities to real users who are trusting you with their data. This is fairly funny coming from the company whose employees report merging in hundreds of PRs per engineer per day, and accidentally leaked their own source code through a security misconfiguration…
100 PRs a day? I am sure this is hyperbole but otherwise you have a quote for me?
100 feels low given I just saw dependabot do 8 in one hour. No AI required!
It matters a lot what size the PRs are, and this varies wildly from place to place. I spoke to someone who instituted a “no PRs over 500 lines” rule. I would refuse to even read something that big unless it was just a find and replace or boilerplate.
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#109If this is true why am I hearing so much from “AI startups” about how they have big plans to hire?
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#110Link to PDF https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/6889473510b50328dbb70ae6/...
Huh, I had to search this website-files.com website and it seems to be of webflow.
Was the PDF created by webflow? a bit ironic.
Maybe Anthropic should read their own founder's playbook to create a replacement to this tool.
(Yes, I know that when involving cdn's, there's much more to the infrastructure as well but isn't that what anthropic is promising in the founder's playbook that you can be a founder which solves problems [from my understanding],
My point is that there's probably much more to it than what might've been suggested which isn't a neutral source in the first place)