- I'll bet $100 they're seeing an opportunity to dethrone Google as the entrance point to the web and this is a big part of it.
It feels like OpenAI's mission has changed from "We want to do do AGI" to
"it'll be easier to do AGI with a lot of money, so let's make a lot of money first" to
"we have a shot at becoming bigger than Google and stealing their revenue. Let's do that and maybe do AGI if that ever works out"
- I strongly doubt that Cursor makes anywhere near 40m profit. All they're revenue is spent on tokens with the LLM vendors. I'd be surprised if they are even running at positive margin and not just subsidizing usage with the VC money.
Unsure of what the end goal is, but I expect everything AI related to be a load-leader right now and then the goal being to figure out how to drive down costs or make even more money later.
Maybe that's what Sequioa thinks too...
- The company I work at is at a sufficient size that we publish changes internally to other teams.
We have the concept of Release Announcements that are a quick attention grabber headline, followed on by Tasting Notes that explain in detail what changed and additional release notes.
That way the people who just want to understand the primary changes and those who want the details are happy.
- I don't understand what's wrong with this.
The handle is typically loaded so that it weighs a lot more than the blade, which means they're likely fall out of the basket if they're blade down.
Also: blade down, you can't tell which ones are the knives unless you only do knives blade down (but forks and spoons handle down), which seems even more insanity to me..!!
- Yup.
I personally wrote that I had experience in a programming language I didn't, back for an interview in 2010. I got called out on it too..!
My wife has run a couple of marathons and her friend called her up to hear about her experience, because she was putting it on her resume for a job. She got it (probably not because of her running experience).
- From my experience working remotely for 2 years, this can be accomplished by starting a thread with a descript title and posting the body (with the context) inside the thread. Just like reading across a bunch of article headlines on HN.
For ongoing discussions about a topic, start a channel and perhaps prefix it "temp-" to indicate that it's a temporary channel.
- I'm not sure if you're aware of this, but this is literally how the market becomes more efficient: by allowing participants with more information and reducing the arbitrage opportunities.
The bookmakers don't set the odds based on their own expectations, they set the odds compared to how the market bets and then add their own margin on top (the "vig"). Just like a stockbroker would.
In sports betting, compared to financial markets, the general reason why people aren't wildly successful is that if they have too much of an edge the bookmakers find some way to limit their succes (limited bet sizes, banning, etc)
- Honestly I hate the process of writing resumes, too, and having to tailor an application creatively to a specific job to even be able get an initial interview is draining and my time would be better suited.
I am hoping for a world where more automation leads to better match making so that the right candidate can more quickly be found for the right role.
If we are at a point where there are 3k applicants for a job because writing the application is easy, that might suck for recruiters having to filter those, but for the company hiring I'd imagine it's a benefit that there is a larger flow of candidates that they can choose from. Now the filtering just needs to get better.
- foundingsales.com is a good resource that contains a lot of the wisdom and advice found in other sales books.
Generally the literature you're looking for depends on what account sizes you have, as others have mentioned. Advice for selling single $10/month accounts is much different from advice for selling 6-figure enterprise deals.
- Life-hack for applicants: stand out with a cover letter.
Life-hack #2: Use ChatGPT to write it in 2 minutes
Alternatively (shameless promotion): Use a special-purpose tool I wrote for it, which uses the GPT API https://aicoverletter.me
- https://aicoverletter.me
Simple GPT3-based app for writing cover letters for job applications.
Spent about 6 hours and think it does what it is supposed to pretty well.
"Taste" is just the degree to which two people value the same things.
When someone is rated as having "good taste" it just means that the person rating them values a lot of the same qualities.
The more I thought about it, the more that applies everywhere: Food, wine, clothes, architecture, software design, etc.