Leon

spending time and money to replace cloud

[Leon @lenika44]

I’m genuinely proud of what we’ve experienced and accomplished at LILY over the past few months.

To the team: thank you. Your dedication has been incredible, and it already feels like we’re aiming far beyond the stars.

Our alpha has been live for a little while now, and the response has been surreal. Invitations to the US, late night calls, and conversations we never imagined having. It’s been an unforgettable ride.

Now we’re moving toward our stable beta, and soon everyone will be able to sign up.

I’m grateful to be part of this journey, and even more excited for what’s ahead.

“People who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.” - Steve Jobs

Here’s to what’s next.

[Leon @lenika44]

@YashHustle_22 That’s the dream of every company

[Franz @Der_Deubner]

Unpopular opinion: 'Buy European' shouldn't be a slogan for defence procurement. It should be the law. Every euro spent on a foreign primes when a European alternative exists is a euro spent renting our own sovereignty.

[Leon @lenika44]

@Der_Deubner @Wiedekraut22 🗿

[Leon @lenika44]

Watching Southern and Central Europe cook this summer, it’s hard not to think that investing in air conditioning five years ago would’ve been one of the most scalable bets you could’ve made.

[Leon @lenika44]

@bscholl @ycombinator Yooo that thing will be loud as hell

[Leon @lenika44]

@snowmaker @garrytan You mean the Fable that was online a few weeks ago? That version absolutely deserved the hype. The one that’s live now is nerfed to hell and keeps falling back to Opus 4.8

[Leon @lenika44]

Nah, you don’t want to start a startup. You find something and become obsessed with it, and then your disillusioned ass wants to solve it at scale.

No great startup is created with the intention of starting one before there’s an obsession. That’s why very few people can prepare themselves for that path.

[Leon @lenika44]

@TheRohanVarma @ycombinator But if you’re building a product that’s extremely deep tech, shouldn’t it be more tech centric?

[Dara @dara_venture]

I can't tell the difference between the next great founder and a lunatic. Neither can anyone else.

[Leon @lenika44]

@JakubHojsan I miss the days when people believed in their vision more than they believed in valuations, funding rounds, and investors

[Leon @lenika44]

@Ferbin08 True

[Leon @lenika44]

One of the worst forms of engagement bait on X is people posting, “Pitch your startup in 3 words.”

They’re just farming replies. They don’t care what you’re building.

[Leon @lenika44]

@coryalthoff Hyperscaler

[Leon @lenika44]

@roudyhermez Beyond the product itself, people follow the journey.

There is something special about building in public and letting others be part of the ride.

[Leon @lenika44]

@Der_Deubner The easiest way to raise money is to solve problems nobody actually has as long as you attach it to something that already exists.

Trying something genuinely new is what scares investors.

[Leon @lenika44]

Everyone assumes transformers are the endgame.

I think Hyperdimensional Computing and Neuro Symbolic AI are being massively underestimated.

The moment we get practical fault tolerant quantum computers, HDC will become a serious competitor.

People laughed at transformers too.

QeHDC is an interesting glimpse of where this could go:
https://t.co/FfJIEDSj2m

[Leon @lenika44]

At this point, everyone on X keeps asking stuff like “What’s your favorite LLM?”, “Which domain provider do you use?”, or “What tool is best?” Not because they actually care, the replies are just free engagement bait.

I’m calling this Asklighting.

It’s like gaslighting, except instead of manipulating you, they ask painfully dumb questions just to farm your comments.

[Leon @lenika44]

@Palak3312 Ragebait

[Leon @lenika44]

@araseb_ Because everyone in Big Tech thought they were going to change the world there, but instead you’ll push 2k lines of code in a year