FinnLobsien

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by FinnLobsien 2mo ago
Not a surprise with John Ternus taking the reigns as CEO in a week, who was previously SVP of hardware engineering. I can't hate a direction where Apple becomes more about building great computers rather than trying to force more and m
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by FinnLobsien 2mo ago
I agree that a lot of entrepreneurship is misguided. And I totally agree that research, charity work, or other stuff can have many of the same benefits. What I think is important (and why I think entrepreneurship is directionally good) is o
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by FinnLobsien 2mo ago
I think that undermines a lot of benefits of entrepreneurship - the learning of many different skills, network, etc. and also just the adventure of starting a company. It’s like saying most people will never be professional athletes so we s
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by FinnLobsien 2mo ago
I guess this is a question of what you believe code and software engineering writ large is for . If you believe that good engineering practice matters (in the sense that your software is maintainable, efficient, etc.), then this is horrifi
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by FinnLobsien 2mo ago
The problem is that even this has a chilling effect on innovation: 1.It will dissuade some people from starting in the first place because it's one more hurdle. Even if in practice people don't comply, the existence of that comple
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by FinnLobsien 2mo ago
I feel like harnesses will become massively important for enterprise AI agents. Right now every tool is shipping some kind of AI agent, but I can’t help but feel that AI agents in large companies will eventually be some kind of internal app
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by FinnLobsien 2mo ago
I think constraints essentially force you to reevaluate the thing from base principles because you add a condition that’s incompatible with the default way of doing things. I think this is also why hackathons work: You can’t afford the bike
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Stripe to Buy OpenRouter for $7B(bloomberg.com)
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Punkt. MC03 Sovereign Smartphone Made in Europe(punkt.ch)
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How to Make Something Great(ryolu.notion.site)
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Adventure Capital: The Game(adventure-capital-puce.vercel.app)
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by FinnLobsien 2mo ago
I think there are two things at work here: -An expectation that because a scientist is incredibly good at one thing, they must be good at another, entirely different type of thing. This seems to uniquely apply to scientists. We don't j
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by FinnLobsien 2mo ago
Yeah exactly, I think the massive volume increase in content requires more aggressively filtering what you pay attention to. My tolerance for bad content has gone to nothing because the second I realize I can prompt the same article into ex
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by FinnLobsien 2mo ago
I think there's a difference here between low-effort AI slop and something made with the help of AI. I always wonder how many AI images and articles we consume without realizing they were made by AI just because a human actually spent
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by FinnLobsien 2mo ago
I think this is extremely true when it comes to prompting, but not only in this way. I would add that this also applies to an LLM's output on deep enough topics. Anyone can point at a public GitHub repo and have an LLM write the docume
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by FinnLobsien 2mo ago
But then what's the point of the proof? I guess it's cool that it's possible, but given enough tokens, you could take someone who's never written a line of code and have them prompt AI to turn their vibe-coded meal prep
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by FinnLobsien 2mo ago
I don’t see a world in which this doesn’t just annihilate the current market for books. If I can write a query into Amazon for a book on topic X, I can write that query into ChatGPT or whatever and cut out the middleman. Some of this may wo
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by FinnLobsien 2mo ago
I guess this is a general problem where things that show you take initiative get converted into “thing to put on your resume”, and if that’s the primary motivation, you’ll do the bare minimum to check the box to put it on your resume. Same
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by FinnLobsien 2mo ago
I think much of this comes down to wanting to be a type of person vs. wanting to do the actual thing. It’s easy to be consumed by “I’m the wealthy San Francisco founder guy” and doing everything that lifestyle requires, including things tha
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The Process Is the Point(seekingtrust.substack.com)
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by FinnLobsien 2mo ago
I think this is intuitively true, and I've noticed this even as someone who doesn’t have an engineering background. In my LLM coding experience, I’ve had this happen numerous times, for instance when building a card game. The LLM does
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How the Startup Mentality Failed Kids in San Francisco(wired.com)
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Agent Proxy: Secure Credential Brokering for Agents(infisical.com)
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by FinnLobsien 2mo ago
I totally agree with this when it comes to skill acquisition and deep expertise, which I care about more with skills than whatever rewards I might get for that expertise. It's just important not to conflate this deep expertise with the
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I Crunched the Numbers Behind FIFA's Plan to Sell Shares in the World Cup(sportsandcrime.com)
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Should you still use Python-dotenv in 2026?(infisical.com)
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by FinnLobsien 2mo ago
It's not if you use it correctly. If you say "Find me good brands for X", then yes you'll get bad stuff. I said something like: "Identify [category]-making cluster regions in Europe (where I am), research the manufa
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by FinnLobsien 2mo ago
Yeah it's quite interesting how most of the decline of great brands came as a result of ownership changes, not complacency on part of the owner/founder. I've actually found AI a great resource for finding brands that offer gr
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by FinnLobsien 2mo ago
I wonder if there’s an inverse of this: brands that actually got better over time because they don’t have massive brand history to fall back on, or simply because they actually care.
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The process it the point: on workslop and asymmetric workfare(seekingtrust.substack.com)
3 points by FinnLobsien 3mo ago|0 comments

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