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Pion, an agent designed to run any company autonomously

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Re: Pion, an agent designed to run any company autonomously

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It's also a particle and a self-propelled gun. There's a limited number of short legible words.

I chose the name because of the particle. I sent a letter to the Soviet Union asking if they were ok with me using the name, never heard back!

> I sent a letter to the Soviet Union asking if they were ok with me using the name, never heard back!

Please tell me you actually did this!

Re: Pion, an agent designed to run any company autonomously

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The dashboard for the Andon Market shows a bank balance of around $7k remaining out of the $100k seed. Rent is due at the end of the month. Last EOM brought a $11k-ish drop. Sales do not appear to be on track to cover the rent that's due in two weeks. What then?

Get an Nvidia investment with the promise to send the money right back

https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/spiceworks/original/4X/a/b/f/a...

Re: Pion, an agent designed to run any company autonomously

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On one hand, folks here seem quite skeptical of the idea, and are pointing out some obvious flaws. On the other, the announcement post… also seems quite skeptical of the idea, and devotes a lot of text to the ridiculous things their AI’s have done. I’m slightly confused as to why they would release it in that case. But if nothing else it will give them more wackiness to blog about.

Andon Labs sells learning environments to labs. Their usefulness is proportional to how well they can capture interesting model missing capabilities, not how well they employ current day capabilities

Re: Pion, an agent designed to run any company autonomously

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Interesting to see these experiments. This is early but imagine in few years there will be companies mostly run by agents with a light overview from a human operator. What then happens to scaling of the bussinesses? I would assume, just like today anyone can vibe code an app, there will be vibecoded bussinesses. Maybe its time to start building infrastructure for these bussinesses instead, its a non existent market y…

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Re: Pion, an agent designed to run any company autonomously

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You reminded me of a comic hanging up in the engineering college. It was a picture of a student getting their finger zapped with the thought bubble of "ouch, that hurt. Wonder if it will happen if I do that again?" And the caption was along the lines of "How to tell if you are ment for engineering."

Sounds like this ancient XKCD: https://xkcd.com/242/ (Normal person doesn't pull the lever again; scientist wonders if that happens every time. I assume the engineer does, too...)

The scientist’s job is to get zapped until they figure out why. The engineer’s job is to get zapped a couple times while they wire that thing up into the power grid.

Re: Pion, an agent designed to run any company autonomously

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There's massive negativity because our bullshit detectors are going off. First of all, I don't think it can do what it claims to do. Secondly, and perhaps more importantly, I don't think it should.

People’s bullshit detectors have gone off on the launch of basically every single billion dollar tech company. That’s the downside of being early. No one believes it will work. If everyone believed it, you’re late. I’m sure I could find a comment such this, basically verbatim, on the launch post of every successful startup to come out of YC.

This does not mean that any launch which ignites people’s bullshit detectors is successful.

Re: Pion, an agent designed to run any company autonomously

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Part of the issue is that the worst kind of people are already head over heels excited about this. We're already seeing the Crypto->Web3->LLM get rich quick folks take to this like wildfire. And much like wildfire, they'll raze the ground to ashes before anyone can use it for legitimate means. If you think I'm joking, check this out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-Rqv9dOB1U I don't think any of us are ready for th…

My favorite term for this in general is "irrational exuberance". Plenty of it was seen during the most bubble-like days of the 1997-2000 dotcom boom. Anyone remember beenz and flooz?

I was at ground zero at Nortel during that time. Quite an interesting (depressing?) place to be at the very start of your career!

Re: Pion, an agent designed to run any company autonomously

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how does this work from a liability standpoint? seems very risky for the person who is legally responsible for the business

If you use this as a (legal/registered) business, it will be that legal business entity that is responsible. If that business want's to blame the software, it can do so and go after the makers of the software, but that remains a matter between that business and its "supplier". It won't absolve the business for whatever damage it does downstream. Running this as an individual, without the legal shielding a business ty…

In many countries directors can be held responsible a lot of things if they are negligent. For example, in UK law keeping trading after you should have known a company was unable to meet its liabilities can make directors responsible for its debts. A director might well be negligent if they failed to adequately check that an AI was not doing anything dangerous.
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