Zen

Ramping it up at @sharedcontext

[Zen @maximumagi]

this is too epic not to pin

[evan conrad @evanjconrad]

best possible lee kuan yew quote: “the american culture is we start from scratch, and we beat you”

[Zen @maximumagi]

@ziwenxu_ so that's why it cost twice as much as opus

[Zen @maximumagi]

@djcows make noodles -> *scroll twitter* -> tada!

[Naval @naval]

The only truly wasted time is time spent wishing you were somewhere else.

[Yuri Sagalov @yuris]

Really important advice for aspiring founders to internalize:

“The way to get the very best startup ideas is not to look for startup ideas. If you're consciously looking for startup ideas, it will make you too conservative. You'll lop off the outliers. Because the very best startup ideas tend to sound so lame, at first, that you'd reject them if you were consciously looking for startup ideas…”

“…So how do you find startup ideas without looking for them? By working on projects with your friends. That's where the very best startups come from. Initially they're not even meant to be companies. They're just something people built because they thought it would be cool”

[Zen @maximumagi]

claude managed agents for X??

ACP??

if you squint it looks like linkedin

you can train your agents too

but then it's going to be like, where does the data go?

and if you have a neutral third party that securely runs the agents (like amazon bedrock) this might be a thing

[Kush @kushbhuwalka]

a marketplace for agents is a going to be a very very valuable idea.

so far, the differentiating factor of an agent has been prompts and maybe a few tools. because of this, paying someone for a customGPT didn't make sense - you could just whip one up yourself.

now though, you can wrap the models with very sophisticated harnesses that make them really capable at certain functions.

eg. companies like

@greptile (agent for code review)
@sazabi (agent for observability)
@viktor__com (agent for busywork)
@nuraintel (agent for real estate)

ultimately these are agents that you pay for. They're really hard to build and they provide a ton of value.

We're going to see a ton of companies come out selling hyper-specialized agents, and maybe it makes sense to build a structured marketplace where instead of having to subscribe to these agents like with software, you just rent them out for a task.

[Zen @maximumagi]

4 years away lol

[Kalshi Finance @Kalshi_Finance]

BREAKING: Elon Musk predicts SpaceX will reach $1 trillion in revenue by 2030

[Zen @maximumagi]

@RhysSullivan wait how does this work?

[Zen @maximumagi]

@elonmusk are you going to make it bigger?

[Zen @maximumagi]

omg brilliant! it's like the social media posts transformed into an app

[Alex Olim @alexolim_]

Setlog sends you hourly push notifications throughout the day;

You record a 2-second clip each time and at the end of the day, it auto-stitches all your clips into a daily vlog

You can co-vlog with up to 12 friends simultaneously; each person's clips appear as a row in a split-screen grid, so you watch 12 lives unfolding in parallel, hour by hour.

[Zen @maximumagi]

kinda wild. a million times better? i'd love to see them in action

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

Some people are a thousand times better at furiously improvising than other people. Some are a million times better.

[Jean Chen @jeanxcrj]

life update I'm building a tool that lets me recreate all my physical sketchbooks digitally!!

Still in progress but here's me recreating one of my favourite multipurpose sketchbooks live :>>

[GEOFF @geoffreywoo]

confession:

i am getting more interested in per-task economics than software categories.

show me:
- cost before
- cost after
- error rate
- human escalation rate
- who loses budget if this works

“ai for finance” means nothing.

$14.80 → $1.90 per completed review means something.

[Zen @maximumagi]

@shuying_luo @hxiao whoa really! fascinating. that makes a lot of sense...

i can imagine each task having specialized skills/agents

[Zen @maximumagi]

@nazzari no

[Zen @maximumagi]

@DhravyaShah what if you wrote it in rust

[David Senra @davidsenra]

.@danawhite says one of the keys to longevity is to block out all negativity:

“There's this Bruce Lee quote where he says, ‘Never say negative things about yourself or what you're working on even if you're joking, because your body doesn't know the difference.’”

“I never take in any negativity.”

“It never even crosses my mind that something's not going to work. I just keep going until it does work.”

[Pierre-Eliott Lallemant @pierreeliottlal]

We went from 0 to 2,200 paying customers in under a year by following @ycombinator's 15 rules:

1/ Do things that don't scale. Get your first 10 customers by hand.

2/ Launch now, not when it's "ready". A mediocre product in front of real users teaches you more in a week than 6 months of polishing in the dark.

3/ Charge from day one. If nobody will pay, you don't have a startup, you have a hobby.

4/ Talk to users every single day. The roadmap you need is sitting in your customers' heads, and they'll hand it to you for free

5/ Always hunt the 90/10 solution. For almost any feature there's a way to capture 90% of the value with 10% of the effort.

6/ There are only two real jobs: write code and talk to users. Everything else (conferences, press, VC coffees, corp dev calls) is fake work.

7/ You pick your customers as much as they pick you. 10 users who love you beat 1,000 who kind of like you.

8/ Growth is an output, not a strategy. Grow before product market fit and all you're buying is churn.

9/ Do less, really well. Pick one or two metrics and judge every task against them.

10/ Know if you're default alive. Paul Graham's question: on current growth and current burn, do you reach profitability before the money runs out?

11/ Don't hire until it hurts. Headcount is not progress, it's burn. Every great startup was embarrassingly small for embarrassingly long.

12/ Momentum is the only real moat in year one. Ship something every week, even something tiny.

13/ Every great startup is badly broken at some point. The game isn't avoiding fires, it's how fast you put them out. Again. And again

14/ Ignore your competitors. Startups die of suicide, not murder. In year one, the only company that can kill yours is your own

15/ Startups rarely die from running out of money. They die because the founders fall out. Brutal honesty with your cofounder is the cheapest insurance you'll ever buy

Good luck !

[Zen @maximumagi]

@djcows extremely high likelihood

[Zen @maximumagi]

@mathurahravi wait there's ANIMALS in codex?!

[Zen @maximumagi]

often it's not about the thing, it's about the handling of the thing & prioritization of the person

[preye🤎 @tessysmitha]

I totally agree with you.

If we can’t work through issues and emotionally reassure each other during disagreements, the relationship will slowly fall apart bug when conflict is handled well, it actually brings you closer, builds trust, and creates that deep sense of safety with your partner.