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[Akshay from Startup Spells 🪄 @StartupSpells]

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[Akshay from Startup Spells 🪄 @StartupSpells]

@zswaff @synthwavedd bcz most people don't have taste.

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@charliermarsh @jarredsumner Atwood's Law :)

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@hishboy @steipete If they charge you money, then they can't do both money + ads.

Or even more enshittification lol.

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Its literally in the name.

Hardware = Hard

Software = Soft

[dax @thdxr]

aws made the industry soft. we're used to them handling all the hard problems and everyone can be a pure product company with 85% margins

ai infra is not mature enough for this but everyone is pretending like they can offload the actual work to someone else

it's why there's 27 model router products. even most inference companies do the bare minimum on compute someone else set up

and it all feels successful because there's so much money around it's hard to justify doing the hard thing when the easy thing is profitable

but the gap between what openai, anthropic, deepseek, moonshot and everyone else is huge

and it's easy to forget that someone actually has to do the work to close it

[Akshay from Startup Spells 🪄 @StartupSpells]

@arpit_bhayani I missed kev

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@poteto @bot I haven't watched this one but your other one was phenomenal!!!

Super pumped to watch this one tho. Insane stuff really, will defo steal some of the stuff but would've loved to see some examples lmao if u do side-projects loolz.

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@chevonphillip @0xSero DSH

[Akshay from Startup Spells 🪄 @StartupSpells]

@zachtratar You don't use Astra for everything. It's that simple.

Most tasks don't need a genius. You only need to call your expert friend when you need expert advice. Basic advice comes from normal friends.

[Akshay from Startup Spells 🪄 @StartupSpells]

@MRRydon its not astra. big model smell is real.

it is however a good coding workhorse if you give it specific enough task.

dont fall for clickbait.

[Akshay from Startup Spells 🪄 @StartupSpells]

@CompleteSkeptic I love how you spot actual real-world use-cases fast. This one's one of them.

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@CompleteSkeptic This looks so cool. Now need to find use-cases.

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@robotaxi Robotaxi to me:

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@aykev @ibuildthings @tobi That's true & all but if its your startup, you can run however you want to. There are no rules.

Having listened to enough startup advice, all advice cancels out eventually.

And Shopify is worth multiple billions with insane MOAT.

[Akshay from Startup Spells 🪄 @StartupSpells]

@spiral_archtct @simonhamp @ErfanEbrahimnia Oh if they were so easy, why do ChatGPT & Claude Desktop are in Electron?

I remember ChatGPT even changed from Tauri to Electron or am I misremembering. They do have their CLI in Rust.

They have unlimited tokens + 5k+ employees each.

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@BenjDicken Ball boy.

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@poteto He was early:

https://t.co/1wlz0Fsfqy

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

The hottest new programming language is English

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@marclou really well made

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@sama 🍿

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@ns123abc prophecy came true

[Akshay from Startup Spells 🪄 @StartupSpells]

@thdxr wait till you hear about my ai-powered todo app.

it does your todos for you.