A startup is a mission. A mission in a jungle, where you will constantly encounter new dangers. Your job as a founder is to try to anticipate most dangers, move the team safely to the next camp site, and if you’re face to face w/ a wild beast, either fight it or escape it. That's never easy, but it is doable. A good outcome is when you reach base camp. Then you can decide if you want to climb the mountain too (likely to be snow leopards on that trail…). #Startups #Mission #RobertKall
@girdley I met dudes like this at least 10 times in Miami. And know at least 5 of them were indicted (not always convicted)... Thought it was a local thing. I guess it is widespread?
Spending a lot of time discussing and testing new UX paradigms. It’s clear that the chat interface is very useful, but companies like Anthropic have released tools like “Claude Artifacts” that let you generate code for interactive widgets on the fly. I think that’s fly… #AI #CodeGen #AgenticAI #CienAI #RobertKall 🪰
I love to get a historical perspective on things. Here is my take on the change that is happening right now and how it relates to past periods. And while the robot does the work in the next phase, remember that there is a lot of work to be done to tell the robots what to do in front of us. And that work is infinite (i.e., as we get better at telling robots what to do, we will think of more things to tell them). I am noticing this right now as I do a lot of “vibe-coding”. A feature that would have been impossible or just super long to implement is done in 2 hours, but it takes effort to define how it should work. #AI #FutureofWork #RobertKall #CienAI
No developer has ever inherited a system that is “perfectly designed”. And sometimes, inexperienced ones recommend the “Complete Rewrite” option. That has always been a recipe for disaster in the past, but now with Claude Code and CODEX, it may seem more appealing. Don’t do it! Instead, opt for splitting out the old system into X number of sub-components with the exact same functionality and legacy code base. Then use AI coding to rewrite them one (or two) at a time. You will limit the “blast area,” and you can move to a more modern stack and architecture, while keeping your users happy. #completerewrite #claudepilled #robertkall #cienai
No. It is 100% correct. Tons of ppl mask their lack of understanding in complicated language.
They are unable to answer these 3 simple questions related to a phenomenon:
1. What's been going on?
2. What's going to happen?
3. What would happen if...?
If you can answer them in a way a 12-year-old can comprehend, you probably understand them fairly well, too.
My only quibble was w/ the 5-year-old example. I love my small children, but we're not having those types of convos...