Nice - my AI startup school talk is now up! Chapters:
0:00 Imo fair to say that software is changing quite fundamentally again. LLMs are a new kind of computer, and you program them *in English*. Hence I think they are well deserving of a major version upgrade in terms of software.
6:06 LLMs have properties of utilities, of fabs, and of operating systems => New LLM OS, fabbed by labs, and distributed like utilities (for now). Many historical analogies apply - imo we are computing circa ~1960s.
14:39 LLM psychology: LLMs = "people spirits", stochastic simulations of people, where the simulator is an autoregressive Transformer. Since they are trained on human data, they have a kind of emergent psychology, and are simultaneously superhuman in some ways, but also fallible in many others. Given this, how do we productively work with them hand in hand?
Switching gears to opportunities...
18:16 LLMs are "people spirits" => can build partially autonomous products.
29:05 LLMs are programmed in English => make software highly accessible! (yes, vibe coding)
33:36 LLMs are new primary consumer/manipulator of digital information (adding to GUIs/humans and APIs/programs) => Build for agents!
Thank you again for the invite @ycombinator and congrats again on an awesome events! I'll post some links/references in the reply.
@ky__zo I’m all for more female indie makers / devs. I’m coming from a design background into dev so I’d be nice to meet more people on a similar journey.
Made a little chatbot this week with @OpenAI, and @pinecone for the RAG approach.
Was for a discovery project, but really I just wanted to test out @cursor_ai properly to see if I could keep up with the 8 year olds.
Can confirm I will not keep up with the next generation.
@thekevingeary @SureTriggers @zapier@adampreiser 💯- was just in there today checking up on a client sites workflow. It’s nice when things are just done well.
@jonathan_wilke@cursor_ai@supastarter I saw this post, clicked on it then lost it. Only remembered that it mentioned cursor and had the word start. Took me a while and much searching but found it again and have just signed up. It was effective keywording!
@StefanManku The main thing is not to store it (or jars, or drink bottles) with the lids on. Any tiny bit of moisture that hasn’t dried can form mould quickly.
@derrickreimer Project tracking and dashboards. Far more than I’d like but for big teams from multiple departments, a google sheet is often lowest barrier to entry.
@DeniTechh Whatever’s fastest and most familiar. For me I’d use WordPress with an easy builder as it’s free for me as I have existing servers and licenses so can get something up in a few hours.