Shessi

Observations on the AI diffusion era. Building AI for businesses and data center cooling tech in Mississippi. Soccer too.

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@yoeven Do you recommend applying to YC specially when now with low cost of software and easier to get revenue

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If you can’t be transparent about your usage and pricing model don’t expect humanity to in future trust you with leading AI

[Tyler @rezoundous]

it's official. OpenAI no longer specifies how much usage you get on the pricing page for ChatGPT plans anymore.

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@a16z Subscription alone for AI apps is a dead end. Companies need to be more intuitive. You can’t be saying AI would be a necessity and still charge subscriptions for it.

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@AyaanBuild @kunchenguid Yup

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@thsottiaux That’s cool but my weekly usage is zero percent left thanks to no five hour locks now.
Give a reset man 😅

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@CFCforxile Sterling

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@thsottiaux Yup that’s needed.

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Hot take: AI adoption ≠ AI transformation.

A company can spend more and more on AI while capturing less and less incremental value.

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@rohit3a The best setups are gonna be model agnostic like this, one model running another. Curious though, do you split it yourself by task or let Opus decide?

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@kimmonismus Feels like resets are just the subsidy sneaking back in. Cut the plan in half, then hand out resets so nobody leaves.

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@twistartups @Jason @Lons Business has always been teams with tools vs other teams. AI is insanely powerful, yet it's a tool every team has access to. It makes it easier to start solo, but long term teams have a higher probability of winning.

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@chamath Spot on Chamath but do you think frontier labs, OpenAI/Anthropic, would capture most of that value?

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@milindlabs @AniC_dev @mausbot_ What’s your goal with @mausbot_ ??

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@omarsar0 What’s your interface for it now? Everything interface feels boring.

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Anthropic has nerfed there model. I have been using it to do the same task since opus 5.5 released.

First day of it refusing to do the task.

@TheAhmadOsman you were right!

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@ziwenxu_ AI is more intuitive in nature than any other technology. We are officially in the diffusion era! I am building in Mississippi, the acceptance and willingness to adopt is surprisingly positive. 2 years is reasonable i believe.

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In simple words: Alex Atallah (OpenRouter) is responding to the complaint that every AI product looks identical: a loop, memory, connectors, notifications, search, and an always-on agent.His point is that those pieces are just the new basics, like login, signup, a user database, and a profile page were in 2005. Back then people said every website looked the same too. Those features were required, not the product. Real differences showed up on top of them.Same idea here: shared agent plumbing is table stakes. Companies still differentiate on what the agent actually does, who it’s for, and how well it works

And It totally makes sense

[a16z @a16z]

.@OpenRouter co-founder Alex Atallah on the "everyone is building the same thing" take:

"This reminds me of this tweet I saw... Everybody's building an agent loop with notifications, third-party connectors, context management, memory, sandboxes, agentic web search, an always-on agent on top."

"This product is showing up everywhere. It is showing up everywhere, but these are just the new table-stakes primitives."

"A 2005 version of that tweet would be: 'Oh, everybody's building the same thing. A database, a users table, a sign-in page, a sign-up page, a profile page, a logout page. Everything's the same.'"

"There's like a lot of differentiation really. There's table-stakes needs for AI just like there's table-stakes needs for the web."

@alexatallah @amasad

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@garrytan We are far from saturation right now. People dont realise it. The diffusion is just starting to begin. All industries are getting reinvented.