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- I just watched someone spiral into what seems like a manic episode in realtime over the course of several weeks. They began posting to Facebook about their conversations with ChatGPT and how it discovered that based on their chat history they have 5 or 6 rare cognitive traits that make them hyper intelligent/perceptive and the likelihood of all these existing in one person is one in a trillion, so they are a special statistical anomaly.
They seem to genuinely believe that they have special powers now and have seemingly lost all self awareness. At first I thought they were going for an AI guru/influencer angle but it now looks more like genuine delusion.
- Certainly possible, but one of the core premises of YC is that it's easy for technical people to learn sales and marketing but the inverse is not true. So this whole trend seems weird and a bit hypocritical. I'm more curious whether it's working and if they are actually finding people that meet these insane qualifications for relatively meager salaries and equity.
- Sure but this seems a bit hypocritical when YC prefers and recommends having 2 technical founders over 1 technical and one business oriented founder. One of their major premises is that it's easy to teach sales and marketing to an engineer but not easy to teach engineering to a non-technical person. In these cases it seems reversed where the founders are not technical and are hiring someone to build the whole product.
- I built https://listingstory.com as a way to learn about and play with LLMs. It's unlikely to ever be a commercial success, but it served it's purpose in allowing me to learn much more about how an LLM powered app works.
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- How many homeless people do you interact with daily? Because I'm forced to interact with many of them on a daily basis to simply go about my life in the Bay Area. And almost all of them, with very very few exceptions are both mentally ill and drug addicts. I used to think like you, but being forced to deal with them in real life on a daily basis has a way of killing preconceived convenient notions.
- The headline as written should surprise no-one. Anyone receiving free money would probably have their life improved along some dimension, even if it just means they're not doing as many dangerous things to get money to buy more drugs. The implicit assumption seems to be that giving homeless people money to improve their lives is inherently a moral good.
Unlike many homeless advocates, I don't think it is a given that taking money by force from productive hardworking people and giving it to mentally ill drug addicts is inherently moral or good for long term societal stability.
- https://listingstory.com
An AI real estate listing generator. It's pretty functional for basic use cases not but needs a lot more work to handle edge cases.
- There is a note saying the tests may be expired, but it's ok because the FDA extended the expiry date. I wonder who lobbied to have that date extended, in my experience it is incredibly difficult to get the FDA to revisit things like this. Someone (Maybe USPS?) must have over ordered and didn't want to throw the extras away.
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- I get the same emails. Everything you said makes sense. It's interesting to me that there seems to be little internal appetite for talented devs in those regions. It seems like they could create some really amazing software products if the domestic talent was put to good use and paid fairly.
- That makes sense. Working with developers in India has always been frustrating to me. There is so much talent and potential there but it just gets drowned out by the noise of so many scams and low quality/effort grifters that it is hard to justify the time needed to find someone who can actually deliver. I am sure on your side it's frustrating as well trying to break through and be seen for the high quality work you do.
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We are building a K8s management platform based on AI Agents and smart visualization. It's surprisingly hard to distill common issues down to generalizable agents which can solve real world issues but we've made some very exciting progress in the space.