Simon Kahan

CTO/co-founder @ NymbleAI. Thinking out loud about AI, product, systems, and company-building.

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Sometimes you don't know how much someone means to you until they're gone. Rip Fable

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@makerpretender @jaiyagill We can put this on our name tags

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@makerpretender @stephenmruiz @WorkOS It's worth finding out

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Still think it’s insane that we can describe a thing in natural language and increasingly get back software, analysis, images, agents, workflows, etc.

Easy to get desensitized, but every few days I have a moment that reminds me how genuinely wild it is to be living through this

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A good AI demo feels like magic.

A good AI product feels boringly reliable.

The gap between those two is where most of the actual work lives.

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One thing I’ve learned building AI products:

The hard part is rarely getting an LLM to produce something impressive once.

The hard part is making the system reliable when the inputs are messy, incomplete, duplicated, or contradictory

That’s where the actual product work starts