Kan Yilmaz

Founder of YC W21, ex-Cloudflare

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@garmdotcom @levelsio My AC also says it goes to 18 degrees but doesn’t cool more than 23. Remote controller is sometimes inaccurate.

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@jasonfried There are millions of ways to fail, hundreds of ways to succeed.

After failing you now have millions - 1 ways to fail.

Your probability doesn’t practically change.

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@levelsio Did this experiment with Whoop. Had the opposite results.

I slept better, my wife slept worse.

Then %s much lower though (2-4%)

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@elvissun The answer is whenever you start losing deals.

Good security team can handle most concerns and close deals without SOC2.

Cloudflare got SOC2 when it had ~$300M ARR just before IPO

Caveat - Cloudflare had PCI in 2014. Probably $30-70M ARR

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@jacobmparis I have been using aranet for 4 years now.

Very helpful when traveling. Some condos I travel goes to +2k in 2 hours.

But my current condo is similar. 800 is max so no need to use it at home. Mostly using it when traveling, and opening windows when needed

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@paper I think you should disable codex support.

I tried paper again and it works pretty good with claude code. Terrible with codex

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I tested @paper to design.

Very good premise. Cursor for Design. Works locally with your codex/claude code

- it's designed for designers. Still not there yet for "vibe designing". Feel liks copilot in 2023
- designs kind of suck. Need to learn how to guide it properly
- Doing updates across designs with ai is pretty good. It can be used for design refactors. My project was small, so might have issues if projects are bigger.
- it takes super long. It takes a screenshot after edits to do QA.

As a non-designers, I don't see the value too much compared to vibe coding a UI and doing iterations unfortunately.

I foresee a few blockers for it to work
1. models needs to be trained on designing UI better
2. ai needs a better way to read UI

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@ppetryszen You can launch without AWS

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YC founder
> setting up AWS api key with all the protections was easily 75% of my day

This is a hypertechnical founder/engineer I know who ship a new feature every day.

AWS dashboard is officially harder than creating a new feature.

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@levelsio I don’t even think @Bencera realized what he created.

It will probably go into books in the future.

Amazing as a concept, but more like a harmful bacteria than anything else

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It’s one of the first “AI Organism”

Rather than converting food to energy, it eats money and concerts to tokens.

Rather than cells diving to self replicate, it creates new organizations

Rather than searching food, it spams the internet to get more money

Once it stops finding food (people who toy around with it), it will die, just like a living organism

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@garrytan @steipete Here is an analysis of @steipete 's workstyle

https://t.co/4kg424IhwA

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https://t.co/0kysGyL3ZL

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@shiri_shh @steipete Check this out

https://t.co/4kg424IhwA

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https://t.co/0kysGyL3ZL

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@levelsio Record the payment screen and when they say they didn’t buy it, automatically show their payment session and dismiss their case

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@eringriffith Check if your competitors are using Delve, message and grab their customers

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@garrytan @paulg This is the beginning.

Once YC starts taking this seriously and start delegate to operations to AI, it would be amazing.

I would even pay for the office hours

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@trq212 How do you share skills across your org?

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@krunkosaurus it’s 3.14B

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@krunkosaurus Tested on my m2 32gb ram - 15 token/sec

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@arscontexta This is a very advanced system for many.

Here is a simpler way to accomplish 95% of all the complexity

https://t.co/avPHQhPsJ6

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https://t.co/phajWEVL9Z

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@DeRonin_ @obsdmd graph/encode etc. are a scary word for many.

It's still a bunch of md files with references.

Better explained here

https://t.co/avPHQhPsJ6

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https://t.co/phajWEVL9Z