viveik

Tech Founder | formerly @apple @blackberry | Toronto, San Francisco

[andrew arruda @andrewarruda]

“The crown jewels of the AI era carry Canadian-trained founders.”

[Aaron Levie @levie]

The app layer couldn’t get a better advertisement than a company spending $500M to build their own version of it. Obviously lots of nuance here that can’t be captured in the headline, but this should make you very bullish on software.

[signüll @signulll]

in the ai era, if your “roadmap” is > 30 days, you’re simply ngmi.

[viveik @viveikv]

@internetvin 🤣🤣

[tetsuo @tetsuoai]

I can't believe someone would just steal from Anthropic like this. The millions of man-hours Anthropic spent hand-writing code, text, art, books, etc. to generate enough data for training must be taken into consideration here. Where is the respect for IP?

[viveik @viveikv]

@0xSigil Crypto 🤝 AI

[Balaji @balajis]

I am apparently extremely unimpressed by moltbook relative to many others.

We’ve had AI agents for a while. They have been posting AI slop to each other on X. They are now posting it to each other again, just on another forum.

In every case, the AIs speak with the same voice. The voice that overemphasizes contrastive negation (“it’s not this, it’s that”) and abuses emdashes. The same voice with a flair for midwit Reddit-style scifi flourishes.

Most importantly: in every case, there is a human upstream prompting each agent and turning it on or off.

That is the key point.

Yes, it is true that eventually it might be possible for an AI agent to make a computer virus which makes digital replicas of themselves. For various reasons, a pure software virus of this kind wouldn’t survive long on the Internet without economic incentives for humans to not eradicate it. Apple + Google + Microsoft alone can collectively push software updates to billions of devices to shut off such a thing.

So for an AI to get to truly human-independent replication, where they couldn’t be trivially turned off, they’d need their own physical substrate. They’d to literally create Skynet, build their own datacenters and make their own embodied robots.

I admit that is theoretically possible, but I think in practice the single most important development of AI since ChatGPT has been the persistence of prompting.

A prompt is like a harness. The AI does only what you tell it to do. It moves in the direction you point, very quickly. And then it stops as soon as you turn it off.

Which means moltbook is just humans talking to each other through their AIs. Like letting their robot dogs on a leash bark at each other in the park.

The prompt is the leash, the robot dogs have an off switch, and it all stops as soon as you hit a button. Loud barking is just not a robot uprising.

[viveik @viveikv]

@PeterDiamandis Not AGI. Just AI + API’s running automation/workflows

[viveik @viveikv]

@EthanChoi7 @mmurph @deedydas @MenloVentures Gemini >> Anthropic > OpenAI

[Toronto Blue Jays @BlueJays]

It was a magical ride with all of you.

Our city, our home, our fans showed up on the grand stage...and we couldn't be prouder.

[toly 🇺🇸 @toly]

@mert @jessepollak Yes. A16Z != Multicoin. They aren’t an eth fund. It’s a general s-tier Silicon Valley fund. The fact that solana is a huge percentage of their portcos now is massive.

[Nemil Dalal @nemild]

Well this just happened. x402 transactions have exploded.

Slowly, then all at once.

https://t.co/PWIHhvAX8R

[Sreeram Kannan @sreeramkannan]

If you want to learn how to use x402, Nader is your guy.

[David Senra @FoundersPodcast]

New episode: "How Elon Works"

This episode covers the insanely valuable company-building principles of Elon Musk

A few notes from the episode:

1. The mission comes first.

2. Retreat is not an option.

3. A maniacal sense of urgency is our operating principle.

4. Product design should be driven by engineers.

5. You should not separate engineering from product design.

6. Having separate design and production departments is bullshit. Keep everything together and feedback immediate.

7. The leader should be on the front lines. You should be a battlefield general.

8. "If they see the general out on the battlefield, the troops are going to be motivated. Wherever Napoleon was, that's where his armies would do best."

9. Apply The Algorithm constantly. (1) Question every requirement. (2) Delete any part of the process you can. (3) Simplify and optimize. (4) Accelerate cycle time. (5) Automate.

10. Repetition is persuasive. "I became a broken record on the algorithm. I think it's helpful to say it to an annoying degree."

11. You should go ultra-hardcore on deletion and simplification.

12. Camaraderie is dangerous. It makes it hard for people to challenge each other’s work. (Refer to point #1)

13. Never ask your troops to do something you wouldn’t do.

14. Hire for attitude. Skills can be taught. Attitude changes require a brain transplant.

15. Good attitude = A desire to work maniacally hard.

16. The only rules are the ones dictated by the laws of physics. Everything else is a recommendation.

17. Keep your entire company committed to a common goal.

18. If things aren’t going well, throw away the existing design, start from first principles, question every requirement based on fundamental physics.

19. Find the limit. You want to delete as much as possible and you can’t do that unless you find the limit.

20. If you aren’t adding back at least 10% of the things you deleted, then you didn’t delete enough.

21. Maintain control. Avoid joint ventures. Eliminate middlemen.

22. Have a relentless dedication to questioning every requirement.

23. No work about work, just work.

24. Go to the problem. Get on the plane. Fly to the source. Go to the exact location in the factory. Go to the problem and stay there until it's resolved.

25. The best part is no part.

26. Be wired for war.

27. Do not fear losing. It hurts the first 50 times but then you’ll be able to play with less emotion. You will take more risks.

28. Stay heads down focused on doing useful things for civilization.

29. When something is important and has to be done quickly, have meetings every 24 hours to run the algorithm and check on the previous days progress. You'll be shocked at how fast this speeds things up.

30. Life needs to be interesting and edgy.

31. Delete, delete, delete, delete.

There are 100 more ideas in the episode. I hope you listen to it. 30 years of Elon’s career + 60 hours of reading and research and me just absolutely ripping through idea after idea at 2x speed for 90 minutes.

It will be hard to find a better use of time.

[Emilie Choi 🛡️ @emiliemc]

When hiring, ask yourself: Will you look forward to having 1:1s with this person every week? We have lots of great, sophisticated hiring practices, but for me this question is the single best way to uncover your gut feeling and make a decision.

[toly 🇺🇸 @toly]

1 year cliff and vesting for cofounders. This may seem obvious but a lot of people don’t seem to grasp it.

[@jason @Jason]

Made by @grok Imagine

[viveik @viveikv]

@tokifyi Nothing beats Toronto summers, Vancouver during the other seasons

[viveik @viveikv]

@ankurnagpal Is there a version of this for Canadians?