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by vanuatu 3mo ago
Do you need to do tier 1 and 2 work before tier 3? If they are structurally different, and there’s a way to train people directly into tier 3, then it doesn’t seem unreasonable to automate t1 and t2 as from my experience the vast majority o
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by vanuatu 4mo ago
I joined a new company 6 months ago. I interviewed at 16 companies and got 5 offers from a mix of ai cos / big tech / trading firms Background is SWE at an AI co that's in the news sometimes It felt about the same in terms of
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by vanuatu 4mo ago
you can get 1% as a founding eng at seed, and its not uncommon for a 5 at 50 seed dilution is also dependent on the opex, founder negotiating power, and growth of the company. There are startups raising monster rounds at <5% dilution a r
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by vanuatu 4mo ago
For now! Even if not, there's pricing pressure between chat, gemini, and claude. The products seem to be comparable for laypeople which is why OpenAI has been investing a ton in their memory feature to try to lock in users
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by vanuatu 4mo ago
It's unclear to me how this will play out because LLMs don't have the same network / platform effects as the other examples (Uber / Facebook), nor is there one dominant LLM that is overwhelmingly better than the competit
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by vanuatu 4mo ago
not very often which is why its zero signal in rare occasions it might go the other way around, like someone who has so much experience they dont need a pretty resume because their work speaks for itself New grads are the biggest offenders
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by vanuatu 4mo ago
as someone who has done 100+ first round interviews for SWE, including new grad zero signal: resume & cover letter. applicants will mass-apply with ai-tuned resumes that happen to perfectly match our listing medium signal: top 15 school
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by vanuatu 4mo ago
+1, referred candidates at my company perform way better in interviews and on the job compared to cold applicants
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by vanuatu 4mo ago
I'm very optimistic. I think most diseases being cured, extended lifespans, physical abundance, and zero poverty are within reach in our lifespan, due to technology. I think humans will be about the same in terms of happiness, due to h
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by vanuatu 4mo ago
the article takes this into account with EV obviously vol is not the end all be all but one of your main advantages as a startup employee is access to the insider info and being able to walk away
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by vanuatu 4mo ago
its not imagined, its already happening at scale in f500, the companies they work with to do this are going vertical
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by vanuatu 4mo ago
the govt helped lift many, many millions out of poverty since opening to the rest of the world?
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by vanuatu 4mo ago
its pretty easy to point your terminal agent to your giant pr and ask it to break it up into small prs if youre being asked to rubberstamp prs thats a management skill issue
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by vanuatu 4mo ago
but we trust the stat that 16 pct of americans have a positive view?
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by vanuatu 4mo ago
an article on one person? cmon it seems like Chinese people have much more faith in their govt than Western countries, and subsequently trust them more in distributing the benefits of AI (in aggregate ofc)
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by vanuatu 4mo ago
Yeah, a shortage implies that the price of labor rises a lot Not unimaginable, given that the bottlenecks seem to be concentrating on high-level direction, relational work, and expert verification
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by vanuatu 4mo ago
It's interesting that many developing and Asian countries have a more positive view of AI: https://www.politico.com/news/2026/06/15/people-around-the-w... How much of this is due to AI vs. the gover
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by vanuatu 4mo ago
The frontier companies are building agents to automate work end to end (i.e. with decision power) The tech takes a while to diffuse like any other but I think call centers don't have a great outlook
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by vanuatu 4mo ago
While I agree that AI is more salient, I feel like there was a ton of press about the "Algorithm" especially around social media and content, which is essentially "ML"
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by vanuatu 4mo ago
can you blame them? nondeterministic products have resulted in some of the most successful businesses of All Time (tiktok, reels, google search, product recommendations)
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by vanuatu 4mo ago
Computer use
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by vanuatu 4mo ago
unironically if those engineers were considered to be 'bloat' its better to have them label data because they are smarter and vetted basically a soft layoff
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by vanuatu 4mo ago
"It’s literally the gulag" - okay this was a funny comment its unclear to me why they need their model to be the best at coding (maybe to build an internal technical moat?)
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by vanuatu 4mo ago
its fantasy scale ai's value prop was catching people like this
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by vanuatu 4mo ago
dont think the value of btc comes from its utility anymore stables are much better for transactions anyway
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by vanuatu 4mo ago
its for the distribution, talent, proprietary data. spacex has the compute, and elon wants to win in AI.
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by vanuatu 4mo ago
tech forward f500 is possible (but.. even anthropic used fin) most f500s are going to outsource. i think sierra is already at 40% of the f50? and each of those deals they have to compete against teams of inhouse engineers and convince execs
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by vanuatu 4mo ago
hmm not sure if that would hold up in court. i was thinking of this case: https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20240222-air-canada-chatb... a vendor being the front door of a customer's brand inherently takes o
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by vanuatu 4mo ago
yes, it counts as unresolved
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by vanuatu 4mo ago
personal info maybe will be public soon with earnings calls? We’ll see!

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