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voncheese
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voncheese
5mo ago
To put the 14% into some context, per Google, Coinbase headcount has had the following headcount each year + 2021 | 3,730 employees + 2022 | 4,706 employees + 2023 | 3,416 employees + 2024 | 3,772 employees + 2025 | 4,951 employees + 2026 |
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voncheese
5mo ago
To expand on this a little more, the absence of accountability contributes to the loss of learning. Mistakes and errors will always happen, whether they are sourced by humans or machines. But something (the human or the machine) has to be
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voncheese
6mo ago
Oh man is right! The making stuff up is going to make this problem even bigger. There will be people that correct those hallucinations, in that scenario it’s “only” the applicants time that is wasted. There will be other people that don’t c
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voncheese
6mo ago
It's also about stickiness (which results in revenue and growth for the topline). If OpenAI (or any AI vendor) had one single "personality" for their AI, its hard to reach all users, they enable these "personalities&quo
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voncheese
6mo ago
Agree that priorities aren't exclusive and there may be teams/individuals that aren't able to contribute if they stay in their current teams/roles Where it becomes questionable though is when enough progress isn't b
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voncheese
6mo ago
Not directly related to the valuation question you asked, but for Google there's a lot of value in getting as much Anthropic workload to run on their hardware as possible. The value comes from getting the insights and learnings of run
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voncheese
6mo ago
Yeah and with long development, lead and change horizons that come with hardware, that's a super hard thing to do. Software is easier given the shorter cycles. Caveat is, the shorter cycles also benefit competitors.
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voncheese
6mo ago
Thank you for sharing the link, it's a good read. Also want to second your point about the need for having good people leading large organizations like Apple. Especially so as things are changing so fast in technology, with a widening
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6mo ago
>UI/UX development is often the most expensive part of software engineering. I disagree with this as a blanket statement. At least in the tech world (i.e. tech companies that build technology products), UI/UX is often less exp