@JacobAShell@serenityposting KAT won the 3 point contest, I think that automatically precludes him from being a shining example of a conventional center
@chairmanwon oh yeah alright, let me tab away from my anime p*rn, ok great. claude write a presidential exec order to totally destroy the libs! nice ok. yep it's me still smart as hell 😏
@xKayoss@Tito_som@kkb_soundsystem Maybe I'm wrong but isn't oh comely considered the best nmh song across both albums and even enhanced by story of how Jeff just sat down and played it all the way through and that was the record version
it's cool you like this, but I find it to be too simple to be useful in real life: a mere 8 by 8 grid, no fog of war, no technology tree, no random map or spawn position, only 2 players, both sides exact same pieces
@planert41 Hey man, posting this respectfully and hoping you don't block but understand if you do. Your options flow posting is some of the best, but haven't seen it in a while. Otoh, all the right-wing/alpha-male posting is not good content and imo kind of rotting your brain unhealthily
> be me
> 17 year old CS major at a non-target school in 2016
> apply to 500 internships, get rejected from 500
> rejected from KP fellows
> miraculously get an offer at twilio
> it's time to cook
> twilio IPOs during internship, no equity b/c intern
> grind internship to get return offer.
> working on 500k RPS authentication system in the critical path
> senior engineers regularly destroying me in code review
> iron sharpens iron
> get return offer
> jobs not finished
> continue grinding at twilio
> make senior swe in 1.5 years (youngest ever)
> make tech lead 1.5 years after that (youngest ever)
> mfw the hedonistic treadmill of promotions isn't hitting
> global pandemic hits
> locked in a room for 3 weeks
> enter introspection arc
> start virtual events startup in early 2020 (rip)
> raise a $2m preseed
> insanely competitive and fast moving market
> now THIS is pod racing
> can't win enough market share
> pivot to prosumer live streaming software
> it's like canva, but for live streaming
> too lazy to build composition engine
> so we run the entire app inside a headless browser and livestream the browser window
> video infra devs look at me like i'm insane
> notbad.jpg
> headless browsers take up basically all my time as CTO
> now mid 2021
> can't find PMF within prosumer live streaming
> probably spending too much time working on the headless browser infra
> pitch an acquisition to our biggest supplier
> our tech would be a great sdk for building live streaming apps
> it works
> now 2022
> working on headless browsers for live streaming at mux, series D video infra company
> meet some of the best engineers ever
> everyone agrees headless browser infra sucks and nobody except me wants to touch it
> realize developer tools companies are my thing
> start a blog about infrastructure and dev tools (hawk hill ventures)
> get rejected from susa fellows, become an a16z scout instead
> invest in a new dev tools start up every month
> study their investor updates, be helpful, learn
> 2023 - chatgpt launches
> immediately using it every day
> build side project that enables airbnb hosts to let AI respond to guest messages
> name it guestguru
> airbnb integration works using a headless browser b/c no messaging APIs
> mfw headless browser enters my life AGAIN
> hits $5k mrr, sell it to one of our customers
> november 2023 - where it all comes together
> see karpathy's LLM OS tweet.
> the goat says that the browser is going to be an important tool for AI
> he doesn't even know how hard browser infrastructure is!
> write about the state of browser infrastructure and what's going to change for my weekly blog post (https://t.co/QpQFyPJmzK)
> same day i write that, i hit a 8 leg parlay and win $2k on football
> must be a sign
> share my blog post with the smartest people i know, expecting them to find some major flaw in the busines
> nobody can find any holes in it
> i can't find any holes in it
> realize that everything i've done up until this point has lead to me being prepared to build a company in this space
> worked with headless browsers at scale almost daily for the last 4 years
> saw infra greatness firsthand at twilio and mux
> spent all my free time studying writing about dev tools
> realize all my story arcs converge on headless browsers
> start browserbase
> mfw everything in my life is secretly a forced tutorial for browserbase