stephenpontes

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by stephenpontes 3mo ago
It's interesting to see Anthropic branching out into different areas now. First artifacts and now taking market share from companies like devin. AI enables quick shipping, but the traditional moat of development no longer applies.
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by stephenpontes 5mo ago
Didn't quite nail the labeling of each piece correctly for a small form factor PC build: https://flipbook.page/n/12267bbfdeb043c3aa477337950b2b71 - M2 is labeled as GPU - GPU is labeled as M.2 and RAM? - RAM is la
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by stephenpontes 6mo ago
I'd seen this bubble up through various feeds over the past week and didn't think to do any due diligence on the claims myself. It was particularly rampant on LinkedIn as evidence of turning the corner on validating LLMs and layof
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The back story behind Medvi, the first "$1.8B" dollar "AI Company"(garymarcus.substack.com)
5 points by stephenpontes 6mo ago|1 comments
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by stephenpontes 8mo ago
Agree. I feel like most of the people sounding the alarm have been in the software-focused job hunting market for 6+ months. Those who downplay it are either business owners themselves or have been employed for 2+ years. I think a lot of so
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Brex and the Pros and Cons of Hubristic Fundraising(saastr.com)
3 points by stephenpontes 8mo ago|0 comments
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by stephenpontes 1y ago
I’ve seen this play out at multiple startups. The people holding things together often don’t fit neatly into the KPIs or eng chart levels. They’re mentoring juniors, redesigning workflows, updating documentation, and bridging gaps between d
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by stephenpontes 1y ago
I remember first hearing about protein folding with the Folding @Home project ( https://foldingathome.org ) back when I had a spare media server and energy was cheap (free) in my college dorm. I'm not knowledgable on this, bu
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by stephenpontes 1y ago
I grew up loving magic. I watched David Copperfield on a grainy old tv, and vividly remember rewatching taped performances of "The World's Greatest Magic" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World%27s_Grea
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by stephenpontes 1y ago
I had almost this exact interview experience recently with a popular AI startup. The exercise was to build a search UI over a static array of dictionary terms. It was a frontend role so I wired it up with filter and startsWith and spent mor
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by stephenpontes 1y ago
This immediately reminded me of the teamLab Planets [1] experience in Tokyo, Japan. Specifically "Flowers and People, Cannot Be Controlled but Live Together" [2] - the entire soundtrack for the experience was incredible, and this
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by stephenpontes 2y ago
DIY Perks also attempted to make artificial sunlight at home, also focusing on things like Rayleigh scattering! This was a great watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bqBsHSwPgw EDIT: After reading the article, I see the