Anton Litvinenko

co-founder of Import2: 1-Click Data Migration which is a simple, easy-to-use online data import service that helps you move business data between cloud apps.

[Anton Litvinenko @shmonder]

Hey @NotionHQ it is time to push full history out of enterprise plan to lower plans. We are already paying a lot and paying even more just for this doesn't make sense. This is not a compliance or security feature.

[Anton Litvinenko @shmonder]

@jorgemanru wow! Never saw this gift coming ❤️

[Anton Litvinenko @shmonder]

I am afraid that incentives of public education don't align with personal / private interests.

My fear is that a typical public school is a "mass production factory". There is not much space left for individuality, trying to help a person to figure out their essence.

Plus, all of those scary stories about union being in control instead of providing the service. Leading questions in sex ed.

It is a lot of money, but in a private school parents have at least a little bit of control. Parents and students are taken as customers. Not as "ingots" that need to be molded according to a directive.

[Anton Litvinenko @shmonder]

@markkofman @ivannikolaev_ Is the three pillar thing really true? Seems like something people just made up to explain high price, rushed quality, or slow delivery.

[Anton Litvinenko @shmonder]

It depends :) Yes, parents are more relaxed with second baby. But, the second baby will not be a copy of the first baby. They are different human beings. And all the experience needs to be recalibrated. Milestones will happen at different times. At the same time the first baby will have their share of new things, some of them sibling related.

So, having a second baby changes rules of the game quite a bit. It is still as rewarding and purposeful as having the first one. But there are caveats. I expect a big update from @waitbutwhy in about 18-24 months :)

[Anton Litvinenko @shmonder]

@markkofman Farmer’s markets are leading the way :)

[Anton Litvinenko @shmonder]

We were in a time crunch I decided to make a delivery order with @DoorDash before kids will need to go to their practices.
I scheduled order ahead of time, so that we will have the food just in time to have a dinner.
Result: DoorDash added 4 stops to our delivery driver and now they are late for 20 minutes.
Ok, let's chat with DoorDash support... first 5 minutes chatting with their "intelligent" assistant that only knows one thing: "would you like to cancel the order?"... Then waiting for support agent for 5 minutes, that disconnected because I didn't reply within 30 seconds... Then another support agent who simply "hang up" without taking any accountability...
Will I order with DoorDash again when I need food on time? No

[Anton Litvinenko @shmonder]

Thank you for the write up! I am doing something similar, with the same tech stack.

My problem could be formulated as finding similar "subject" to the given one. I noticed that embedding give to much weight to the beginning of the "subject". E.g. if i search by "Can i do xyz" then search by embeddings would bias towards giving me first all documents with subjects like "Can i do" instead of giving documents with "xyz" or its synonyms.

[Anton Litvinenko @shmonder]

@jasonfried Looks like you've iterated back to kanban-like columns (a-la Trello). Nothing bad in it. Just an interesting result :)

[Anton Litvinenko @shmonder]

@dvassallo @levelsio Wait... wouldn't that lead to inverting the value and earning potential of such jobs? AI will be able to do "computer jobs". Those jobs will become cheap. So, "we" will graduate to "cleaning toilets" and those jobs will become more expensive?

[Anton Litvinenko @shmonder]

There is a limit to that idea though... Years ago many of us thought that when Google launches something it will be a better well-maintained version.

What actually happened though, Google would kill the original product and then would neglect or close its product... Not enough $$$...

We need to be aware that with Cloudflare it could be the same.

[Anton Litvinenko @shmonder]

Wow, amazing... how many more critical projects / gems in @rubylangorg / @rails that are one "bus or lottery ticket" away from having no maintainers?

[Chris Oliver @excid3]

https://t.co/UqLMWrrnrV

[Anton Litvinenko @shmonder]

@jorgemanru Jorge, are you planning to switch to nvim too? Staying true to rubymine?

[Anton Litvinenko @shmonder]

MCP is all the rave… but how do I use a custom one? @ChatGPTapp only allows them on PRO subscriptions. @AnthropicAI Claude Desktop has the config file, but cannot answer questions how to add one. Only @cursor_ai is seems adequate… but downloading IDE to use custom MCP server for chatting seems strange.

[Anton Litvinenko @shmonder]

One thing that I struggle explain to people is that even a small thing left for tomorrow is a cause for multi day delays in a remote team setting.

Imagine you are asking for feedback. If you sent it today for a 60% done thing, you would get response already by tomorrow. It would feed into bringing this thing to 70% ready or course correcting if you missed and important detail.

But if you would work another day on making it better before sending it next day - that's a whole day delay. Those days add up. Instead of getting something done this week, you would get it done next week of week after that.

To me this reminds of the 0.99 vs 1.01 improvement thing. Was it by @ycombinator / @paulg ?

[Anton Litvinenko @shmonder]

The software product industry is changing. The golden age of SaaS was about telling the user how the "thing" should be done. Typical successful SaaS product was a a system of record with a workflow on top of it telling users what steps to follow. If an organization was able to tweak its processes and personnel to follow that workflow it used the product. In other words SaaS vendors told users that they are experts in a "thing" and users should listen to them.

New software products are agents. They are about listening what needs to be done and then doing that. So, the hypothesis becomes: "Does user have a job XYZ and is ready to pay to get it done?" Software vendors are not telling their users how to do the thing. Instead they are eager to get the whole job done. Take one more thing of users "plate".

[Anton Litvinenko @shmonder]

Is there a separate role of prompt engineer? Do they have github for prompts? Who and how tweaks the product on the fly to make it successful for each new customer?

[Mark Kofman @markkofman]

How do you develop AI product in a team? We struggle to divide work among all team members, facing too many bottlenecks. Any tips appreciated.

[Anton Litvinenko @shmonder]

@dhh Manresa bread and the Midwife and the Baker have real croissants :)

But… nobody makes rye bread like they do it in Denmark… warm rye bun with butter and cheese in the morning… mmm

[Anton Litvinenko @shmonder]

@levelsio Agree. I am not liking it. But I miss it after a skipping it for a couple of days. E.g. being ill or traveling. I think there is a little bit of addiction to how one feels after lifting weights.

[Anton Litvinenko @shmonder]

@dvassallo Would it then become a bubble of only like-minded people and ideas?