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Founder @ - building benevolent Skynet of Construction

[Anuar @_startuphacker]

@Jason The saddest thing is that people, who are hurt by inflation the most, want more inflation to happen (more government spending)

[Anuar @_startuphacker]

@lennysan What about member of technical staff?

[Anuar @_startuphacker]

Imagine telling someone 5 years ago you would spend $10 bln to train a model that predicts next characters in a sentence

[Jukan @jukan05]

Correction: The $10 billion was reportedly spent on training the entire Claude 5.5 model family, including Opus 5.5.

[arsham @arshamg_]

We sold Ribbon last week for life changing money. Built here in Toronto. I’m not sharing this as a flex. I just want founders/builders to know that you can do it and you can make it from here. You can sell to the world from our city. You can do it. I will help you do it.

[Anuar @_startuphacker]

@larsencc This is the architecture we have. The biggest problem is “sandboxing” collaborative data - isolating db per tenant

[Alex Komoroske @komorama]

Someone I know asked Astra to play Factorio. It wins, but it takes forever and guzzles tokens. If you ask Astra instead to “design a system to win Factorio,” it builds software that runs 1000x faster. Mechanistic software gives you cheap leverage, and LLMs can write mechanistic software on demand.

[Anuar @_startuphacker]

Coding agents seem to be mainly capable of adding or editing existing code and NOT removing it. Complexity and size of the codebase grow much faster now. I have to constantly force agents to “simplify” or “check for redundancy” to remove things

[Anuar @_startuphacker]

Imagine all world knowledge is a giant repo that you can run Claude Code on with tool access to every API in the world! 🤩🤯

[Anuar @_startuphacker]

Most human jobs will be commoditized and see their wages drop, but the most skilful humans will see their wages skyrocket as AI scales outputs exponentially.

[Jon Steinsson @JonSteinsson]

The dominant model people use to think about AI's effect on the labor market is automation. But perhaps commoditization is a better model. Automation implies job apocalypse. Commoditization implies plentiful jobs with low wages. 1/

[Anuar @_startuphacker]

The best way to start with evals on your agent harness is to write deterministic unit tests, not custom metrics. Your coding agent would write the cases and checks on output yourself. This way tests are deterministic and you don't have to maintain golden set or review metrics

[Anuar @_startuphacker]

The most important for me is “Do we even need this” and “Is there a simpler way to do this” 😆

[Chris @_khrus]

The anti-slop ai coding prompt I’ve found the most success with is definitely “deepen modules and simplify interfaces”

It does such a good job with deduplication and centralization of core functionality, and gets the ai implementing much better levels of abstraction

It’s led to tons of consistency improvements, bug fixes, and, most rewardingly, reduced LOC. I run a deepening pass on every PR, and a nightly automation to tackle overdue maintenance

Comes from @JohnOusterhout’s Philosophy of Software Design (highly recommend), which I had read but didn’t fully leverage until @mattpocockuk put me onto it

[Anuar @_startuphacker]

And even if things won’t workout well, you will make it workout - either by trying harder or finding peace with it

[Nicholas Fabiano, MD @NTFabiano]

The biggest cheat code for your brain is telling yourself everything will always work out in your favor.

[Anuar @_startuphacker]

Canada will receive a record number of immigrants next year ~600k permanent residents.

[Anuar @_startuphacker]

@communicable Safety signaling - “we take safety seriously” - by governments around the world

[Anuar @_startuphacker]

Your moat is your agentic loop

[Anuar @_startuphacker]

You would upgrade to god-level founder once you acquire a skill of going through walls under level of pain

[Anuar @_startuphacker]

@unusual_whales Because Reddit’s content gone downhill and LLMs ate all of it

[Anuar @_startuphacker]

Coderabbit's PR reviews have become less useful to us since latest Opus 5.5 release 🧐

[Anuar @_startuphacker]

If you were a great software engineer a year ago, you could be a terrible one today. In this job one has to relearn their profession on a monthly basis.

[Anuar @_startuphacker]

@UncleAlpha007 Gotta hire a few theoretical physicists running the company 🤗