tkyshat

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[Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz]

The second startup with kickass engineers in two weeks who sent over an eng blog post about a cool thing they built that is... TERRIBLE

Because it is 95% or more AI

A punishment to read. Half the thing not defined when you put in the effort to parse the overcomplicated sentences, filled with filler adjectives, and AI mannerisms slapped on top.

So if someone is determined enough to spend 3-5x as much time reading it as a human-written text would take (thanks to the funky grammar AI likes to do with technical writing), you realize the damn thing is full of holes, and whowever wrote this is making things up.

Because the AI is making things up!! And the dev who was given the writing assignment probably chose the easy route; no one read beyond the first sentence; and then they shipped slop.

[Nikunj Kothari @nikunj]

My hottest take is that brand marketing is going to be THE major differentiator and one of the most prized assets for a company going forward.

And, I’m not talking about launch videos or pouring money primarily for “aesthetics” simply to pump the valuation. You still need retention before attention.

I’m talking about thinking through what a company stands for and understanding the “vibe” of what’s happening in the market. Being relentless on the long term goal while also thinking through how to showcase the company in the short term. And doing it every week.

Especially if you think agents become the primary user for most products, then to get the attention of a rapidly attention deficit audience (aka humans) you’ll need to stand out consistently in how you present the company.

These folks primary have been given tier 2 roles and passed up for CMOs many many times. I think this will finally invert in the next 10 years where you’ll hire these folks as cofounders or at least give them a big seat at the table.

Normally the design centric CEO tends to be this, but those are rare and you’ll need to learn how to hire for this role. Just like a good product marketer, these are exceptionally rare so you have one hold them close!!

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

@teslaownersSV I couldn’t care less. Scam Altman and Greg Stockman are utterly untrustworthy assholes who stole an open source nonprofit.

[tkyshat @tkyshat]

AIが作る文章に人間が適応してないのか、
人間が読みたくなるような文章をAIが作れてないのか。。。

つまらない文章なのは日本語だけだと思ってたけど、言語問わずなんですね。

[Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz]

And it’s not just this PM. Mentioning it because this person USED to be a good writer, was curious, had good ideas… pre-AI. Then something “broke” (from my POV).

There are many many more and for some reason people don’t realize that if you write for humans, AI output is… dull, verbose, uninteresting and shallow. Eg

[Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz]

One reason so many CTOs / VPEs / Head of Engineering folks are having such a hard time + burning out is "founder mode" is in at many startups.

This mode does not mix with engineering leaders used to leading orgs at startups and Big Tech 2010-2025. From @paulg :

[Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz]

I never considered that building a gym booking system or events booking would be all that exciting/challenging: but with agents about to swarm all of these systems (or already are): I revise this take.

Now, any type of booking is a much more difficult kind of problem to solve!

[安斎勇樹 / 『静かな時間の使い方』好評発売中 @YukiAnzai]

人はなぜ無駄な会議をやりたがるのか？──儀礼としてのミーティング論｜安斎勇樹 @YukiAnzai https://t.co/SeHnGLFyB3

[Ant Murphy @ant_murphy]

(sorry rant incoming) Most companies aren't getting an ROI on AI because they're using it to build and automate things that shouldn't exist in the first place.

Me included. I killed 3 agents this weekend because they were costing me more in maintenance/opportunity cost.

But we shouldn't be surprised by this.

Few things actually drive outcomes. Most of what we do is busy work (ouch! hard pill to swallow)

But it's true. It's why the Pareto principle exists: 20% drive 80% of the outcomes.

Instead we get shiny object syndrome and suddenly throw all the fundamentals and first principles out the window and assume AI will fix everything.

Which is how we end up with startups like the one I spoke to the other week who's spending $100k a month in tokens whilst revenue is flat.

Here's the hard truth:

Finding what actually drives value, defining it, working out what levers to pull and then creating absolute focus on them is hard!

AI will only be a force multiplier _IF_ you can direct AI at what is actually driving value.

And that's not founders vibe-coding AI chat bots. Let's be real, that's not the most important thing a CEO and CTO should be doing! (also a true story 😬).

~80% of life-time software costs is maintenance. And even if AI is not costing you time, it's costing you attention and cognitive load. There's always a cost.

So that 5 minute automation is never 5 minutes. It's a quick death by 1,000 cuts and I've lived this firsthand.

Anyways. Rant over.
Thanks for coming to my ted talk.

p.s. If you're interested in learning more about how you go about defining what is actually valuable, where that 20% actually is. I'm doing a live stream on Wednesday on how to do this in practice. Register here: https://t.co/haQIglGOVu

(fyi the live stream was unrelated to this post, but now that I think about it, perhaps subconsciously I've observed this and that's why I felt like I need to talk about it...)

[Eta Atolia @eatolia]

We just launched @TareBioInc (@ycombinator S26)! 🚀

We make personalized or population-level vaccines for any cancer or infection in weeks. We've already cured cancer in mice and will vaccinate our first patient within the year.

For over 200 years, vaccine design has followed these steps: study the insult → try to predict protective antigens. This works for simpler diseases, but has struggled for decades on more complex ones like HIV, TB, Hep C, and nearly every cancer.

TareBio reverses this approach, instead of trying to predict which antigens might work, we read out immune cells already fighting the disease in the body and reverse-engineer antigens that activate them. We leverage the immune system (which has been optimized for this exact problem over millions of years) to do the hard work. The same platform works for any cancer or infection by changing one input: the immune imprint.

About us: I’m Eta, founder and CEO. I built this platform over the last 8 years as part of my MD-PhD at @uclacaltechmstp with funding from @gatesfoundation. Before this, I did my undergrad at @MIT with most of my time dedicated to cancer immunotherapy and infectious disease research at the Koch and HMS. TareBio’s scientific advisory board includes Darrell Irvine, PhD (Vice Chair of Immunology at Scripps, Former MIT Professor of 22 years, world-renowned vaccine engineer) and @ManishButte, MD, PhD (Chief of Immunology at UCLA and expert rare disease clinician).

If any of this resonates, please reach out at [email protected]. And a big thank you to our YC partners @agupta and @finbarr for supporting our vision!

🔗 Read our full YC launch here: https://t.co/dyxDziOd8M

🔗 LinkedIn launch: https://t.co/JKDxs3HcE6

[Brandon K. Hill | CEO of btrax 🇺🇸x🇯🇵/2 @BrandonKHill]

https://t.co/THInpdxGkh

[佐俣アンリ @Anrit]

前線を退いた人は、景色がよく見える。
時間が経てば、当時うまく言葉にできなかったものも整理され、明快な文章になる。すると一見、その人の方が賢く、世界をよく理解しているように見える。
けれど、誰よりも早く何かを始め、その最前線にいるとき、見えているものはいつもおぼろげだ。それが事実なのか、希望なのか、自分自身にもまだ判別できない。当然それを確信めいた言葉で世の中に発信することもできない。

今の自分にも、これから世界がどう変わるのか、そこで何に投資すべきなのか、うまく言葉にできないことがたくさんある。

でも、それでいいのだと思う。
言葉が足りないのではなく、まだ言葉のない場所にいる。
現役で最前線に立つというのは、おそらくそういうことなのだ。
霞のような景色を見ながら泥にまみれて進みたい。

[Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz]

One of the easiest ways to stand out when writing or creating videos or posting:

DONT. USE. AI.

Suddenly you sound distinctively different from 80%+ ppl who do and output the same verbose + nicely formatted stuff that feels all the same (+ most ppl stop paying attention midway)

[tkyshat @tkyshat]

3歳になりました
#pug

[久松剛 | 損をしないIT組織づくり @makaibito]

https://t.co/bO2k0wgnsW

[市谷聡啓 / Toshihiro Ichitani @papanda]

PdMから作り手に戻り、AIで頑張ったら、ぶつかる課題がむしろPdMで必要な仮説検証寄りの姿勢や動きに起因するものばかりだったという話。"プロダクトエンジニア" なるものに何が必要かよく示していますね。

PdMをやめて、"プロダクトビルダー"という働き方に変えました
https://t.co/PqAH9magFc

[ClaudeDevs @ClaudeDevs]

https://t.co/v694m8Eaj6

[Thariq @trq212]

https://t.co/hPiZr1kG7r

[Thariq @trq212]

I've heard a lot of questions about Fable's availability on subscription plans.

While it will come off subscriptions after July 7th, we aim to restore Fable as a standard part of our subscriptions as soon as capacity allows, as we mentioned in our original blog post.

[Claude @claudeai]

Fable 5 is back.

[角田望｜LegalOn Technologies CEO @Tsunoda_LegalOn]

経営者や役員、マネージャーのカレンダーが定例MTGや1 on 1で埋まり出したら危険信号。マネージャーが「ことに向かう」のではなく「人に向かっている」とき、そこには構造的課題が隠されている場合が多い。例えば、
- マネージャーが成果創出をメンバーに依存しており、メンバーとマネージャーの主従が逆転しグリップできなくなっている
- 1 on 1を中心としたピープルマネジメントを回すことをもって仕事をしている気になってしまっている
- 36協定によって限られている1日の稼動時間の多くを定例MTGで消費しており、成果創出のための時間を圧迫している
などの弊害がでる。

しかも、一度設定されてしまったミーティングは、意識的に断捨離しないと残り続けてしまう。
そして新しい定例や1 on 1が増えてゆき、気づいたらカレンダーが定例MTGで埋まってしまっていて、成果を生み出すための時間がほぼ残されていない、ということになる。
こうなってしまうと生産性は著しく低下していく。