Alex Albert from Anthropic AI (and also most recognizable recent
@uwcse
alum) on building AI products to revolutionize the future:
"The real revolution didn't come until we reimagined factories from the ground-up"
@AnthropicAI
@alexalbert__
@aiDotEngineer
@swyx
@tfadell
I trust the data...
Apple runs an Apache Cassandra cluster ~10x the size of Netflix's ()
Apple is spending $4.75B on H100 accelerators = ~100K H100s at retail (FB bought 150K in 2023)
Just shut a $10B project with 1000s of employees moved to Gen AI.
@chiefaioffice
@coatuemgmt
However, that is just the equipment. It needs to ultimately drive revenue from the end user.
No point of building railroads when nobody is putting regular trains on them.
Whether it is a bubble, only time will tell…
@cto_junior
Jumping directly into the technical papers is usually a very steep learning curve.
Distributed Systems for Fun and Profit is a much more manageable learning curve for a beginner.
- someone who jumped directly into the technical papers and felt the pain
@buildyourcorner
Reality:
Apple Maps team: Built Apple Maps from the ground up
1 Single Corner Intern: Called the MapBox API and put a side menu atop it
@rizzy_sol
@enlightenedcoop
The S&P 500 (the often considered most baseline equity investment) overlaid over the value of Chanel bags.
Up ~578% in the same period.
Thank god the economy does not grow nearly as slowly as Chanel bag appreciation...
Mark Zuckerberg on how AI will disrupt industries and how Meta is reimagining its business in the age of AI, while speaking with
@adityaag
and
@rsanghvi
at
@southpkcommons
:
"You can point to almost any product experience out there and I think that'll change"
@deedydas
Agreed. There is a dissonance between the skills required to succeed in industry and the skills required to independently generate value.
I didn’t matter to companies while I persistently kept trying to polish my technical acumen, until I had a Tesla internship on my resume.
Mark Zuckerberg on the Importance of Going -1 to 0 and How to Start a Company with
@adityaag
and
@rsanghvi
at
@southpkcommons
:
"Just go build a lot of stuff and you'll learn different things from it. Try to not get too committed too quickly."
Okay, this is just being trashy at this point. There needs to be a purpose behind thinking differently other than enjoying the attention that comes with provocative defiance.
@uwcse
@mezmax
Steve Jobs only became "Steve Jobs" after he shipped the Macintosh.
Is this not an overestimate for someone who has taken a year and a half and still not shipped the equivalent of a bluetooth microphone.
Sam Altman (
@sama
) on the importance of optimism towards startups, tech and AI amidst the AI boom at
@ycombinator
Startup School:
"I think it's almost impossible to be a successful startup founder and not be at least biased towards optimism. You have to be optimistic and right"
@lawrencecchen
Try out iPG:
It's got the interview questions that seems like it covers most of what you will be asked and a timer as well to simulate the real interview experience.
Every company building AI agents has the LLM part figured, but almost none have the 'Perform Actions' part figured.
Siri has had the functionality to perform AI agent actions on a vast number of iOS applications for many years now.
Apple's LLM ReaLM will change this.
#WWDC2024
Apple has devolved into a late stage holding company
That Siri has no LLM while they are doing this scale of buyback is a complete lack of ambition and no understanding of what is about to happen to them
@AbhayVenkatesh1
However, to address your main point, the phenomenon of more individuals becoming "newly minted \"AI founders\"" than seasoned operators can be attributed to be a downstream effect of the excess availability of early stage capital.
Becoming a founder right now is more lucrative.
@esthercrawford
I worked at the university Mediterranean place where drunk college kids showed up at 2AM (every university has one).
The first night after I got back at 4AM, my roommate poked me while I was asleep the next morning to see if I was still alive.
Grateful for what it taught me.
@khushkhushkhush
Perhaps the problem is not your dislike of advertisements, but rather advertisements are not of quality enough to entertain you.
Perhaps that is the problem we should be solving.
@deedydas
Disagree.
Ammon Bartram (YC S15) advocates the importance of standardisation of the interview, but a question being an even playing ground for all candidates is unrealistic.
That’s why it’s more so just a test of whether or not someone does their homework.
@emendationem
@cto_junior
Papers like Spanner, build on fundamentals advances made by Leslie Lamport in the 90s such as Lamport Clocks. These papers assume prior familiarity with these concepts.
Being able to reason about the motivations from fundamentals requires an understanding of these concepts.
Mark Zuckerberg on Navigating How to Build a Great Early Team at
@southpkcommons
with
@adityaag
and
@rsanghvi
.
"Take people who you want to spend time with. The folks who were there had different views on things, but also had enough of an overlapping foundation of values"
@chiefaioffice
If they're so "innovative" with their technology, why not also be "innovative" with their brand name. Come up with a different name that doesn't cost 1+ employee.
Ultimately nobody buys your product because you have a great name, but rather because you have a great product.
@enlightenedcoop
The reality is there haven't been statistically significantly enough female heads of state to make this conclusion.
I do believe there is a much higher bar for female leaders since there are so few elected.
However, for every Margaret Thatcher, there is also a Liz Truss.
@thomasschulzz
Hey Thomas,
I moved to Hayes Valley after seeing your tweet, but haven’t met many builders around yet. Is there somewhere more specific you would suggest I look?
@varunramg
They have 10x the capital as OpenAI
They have 10x the data as Google
... and They just shut a $10B project (Apple Car) and diverted everyone to building Generative AI.
If you don't think a storm is coming,
#WWDC2024
...
@shauseth
This feels like something I’ve heard of in India (I’ve had this urge and come close after a good couple beers deep).
Seen it a lot in Tamil movies.
Except doing it in the US would just get 911 called on you.
@playermahesh
@tfadell
Tony Fadell said “Apple has ZERO data center capabilities”
They’ve built and maintained large scale hardware infrastructure in the past to successfully serve software at scale with high uptime.
This experience is residual capability that can be leveraged to serve AI at scale.
@lawrencecchen
Try out iPG:
It's got the interview questions that seems like it covers most of what you will be asked and a timer as well to simulate the real interview experience.
You can release an entirely brand-new state-of-the-art LLM and still be beaten out by a YC startup making billing software for lawyers.
What a world we live in... 🌎
@bindra_dhruv
I suppose the audience matters as well.
Perhaps much of this content would’ve done very well if posted on Twitter between 2021 and 2022, rather than TikTok
Users go to different platforms for different types of content
@AbhayVenkatesh1
I would argue there are too many investors relative to founders right now.
The number of people with a ~$5M net worth wanting to write $100K seed stage cheques in the hopes of making it big is too many.
@DeveloperHarris
In How to Get And Evaluate Good Startup Ideas, Jared Fridman says one of the indications that an idea is good is that a lot of people are doing it. Example: Dropbox.
It helps because they've just validated the existence of the market for you.
People complaining about the tinted monocolour icons this WWDC?
Everything would have been a white on a blue tile icon if Windows phone had had it's way.
@AbhayVenkatesh1
But who is to live and who is to die? Anyone's guess is as good as another's when there is no defensibility to making the same API calls and prompt engineering tactics.
In a matter of survival, a businessman need not be an innovator, but an innovator needs to be a businessman.
@IThinkWong
What is your best advice for increasing match requests?
I'm technical (software) and the companies I've worked at straight out of university are very well-known and coveted, but I feel like I send more invites than I receive.
Also, do you have a YC badge on your profile?
Hey
@DucatiUSA
,
I think your apparel page is down. Perhaps your summer intern forgot to set the correct content type?
It should be
Content-Type: text/html
@cto_junior
Designing Data-Intensive Applications builds on knowledge from industry accrued building applications for scale (2005 - ).
Distributed Systems for Fun and Profit teaches fundamentals from the 90s, when the lessons from the former did not exist yet.
Former is not a prerequisite.
@safwaankay
YC’s 10 Questions to discuss with a potential co-founder is pretty good (I’ve personally tested the advice).
Was also recommended Dan Shapiro’s “Equity Split” (the guy who recommended it hated YC’s equal split advice though).