Ang Li

Engineering @Snowflake/@Observe_Inc. I’m only trying to make things work.

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Muse feels like a fancier version of iffft. Lots of potential at first glance, but eventually more specialized AI services will win out.

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Can someone build an actually good AI for restaurant recommendations?

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For the next wave of AI apps, form factor will be crucial

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Tin can is the best kids electronic device I have seen for quite a while

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Why still nobody has built a tap-to-pay app, but for tipping. It feels so awkward to either carry cash around or have to ask the doorman for their Venmo account.

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“There is a tech sell-off!” Check portfolio, everything is 4% up. Apparently I am no longer holding tech stock!

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An interesting model for future software: open source projects maintained by agents running with donated tokens.

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Contrarian opinion: services that can successfully arbitrage between different models to get shit done will be worth more than foundational models in the long run.

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@jwatte @thdxr Yeah, the only limitation right now is human’s multitasking capability.

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And it’s obvious I am bored after 5 days on vacation :)

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The obvious next iteration of AI coding tools is software engineering agents whom I can assign JIRA tickets to and can ask me clarifying questions on slack. Who is building one?

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The key thing here seems to be some training feedback loop where I can critique its process and help it learn institutional knowledge.

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If AI is the JIT compiler from human intent to code, then SaaS is essentially the cached artifacts that are half way between the two. Seems still good to have some cache rather than JIT all the time.

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I feel the ability to appreciate FSD is a litmus test. The question is of what.

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@jwatte It also made Santa’s job particularly hard this year. Almost got caught by the woken kids…

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I need more email AI bot that lets me do all my change and cancellation by directly replying to the confirmation email.

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FSD'ed all the way from LA to SF through night time heavy rain condition. Performed flawlessly.

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Now we really need a VFS-based source control system for running multiple agents at the same time.

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AI is the savior for managers who are still developers at heart

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One important criterion of startup hiring is high tolerance of chaos. It is hard to survive if you get burned out easily by unknown, complex, and nondeterministic things. Find the people who embrace this and even thrive in this.