Francois Venter

Innovation via Negativa practitioner.

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[Francois Venter @Frankvmp]

@HighyieldHarry Don't tell that to the ones who hit that metric in 3 to 6 months after launching.

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@coltonsbuilding People aren’t AI Agents, don’t place the same expectations on people as you would an AI.

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@michaelmiraflor "The tools don't tell the creators what to create, they are a means to an end decided by the creator".
Technology will keep improving in ways that no one can't fully anticipate but the deliberate and intentional thinking about how they should be applied is crucial.

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@ShaneMac

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@BernardJansen Big AI…?

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@michaelmiraflor The process of deciding what needs to be on a slide and why and how things should and shouldn't be communicated is the biggest challenge of creating slides (and things in general) AI can help, but it shouldn't be the one driving the thinking process... even if its easier to do so

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@StratScorpion Don’t forget the staff in the shops playing IRL Mario Kart to make sure the order if fulfilled before the timer runs out, or the pvp battle when you’re both reaching for the same item on the shelf.

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@yongfook The interface is more important than just the UI, after testing a mcp first product with regular users made it become very clear that an interface is where users contextualise and judge what something does and wether or not it’s something their AI needs to use as well or not.

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@emollick AI swarms penetrating infrastructure to… research trivial topics.
Somehow this is better and more depressing at the same time.

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@BernardJansen The Purpose P right?

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@emollick @ecosia can help bridge this gap a bit

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@Marie_Haynes Do it, but remember the idea is 10% it’s the execution where the real hard work is.

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@a16z @torishiv @RadiantNuclear Wait until you find out how many South Africa looses.

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[Francois Venter @Frankvmp]

I have been on a side quest for a while now.

TLDR: My side quest did not make me anti-AI, but it made me more careful about where the excitement belongs, and

And a lot more skeptical of anyone who jumps to AI as the solution…something I’m very guilty of doing too.

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@emmettshine Who’s going to be making the banner ads and other raster based creative assets?

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Kids have been cancelled, AI are the news kids and kids are the new pets…

[Daniel @growing_daniel]

This is awesome. We don’t need kids anymore because of AI.

[Matt Griswold @griswold]

@garrytan "Make something LLMs impersonating people want."

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@seetickets The email code to Pokémon x NHM Pop-up doesn't have any available tickets on any of the available date & time slots. Please can you help me book tickets before all the slots are full.

[Francois Venter @Frankvmp]

@TheBetterPath_ Ah yesss magic the secret ingredient in strategy, I’ll keep the my chicken bones close in my next strategy workshop