Everyone on ๐ says, โWe need salespeople...โ
But what are we selling if we havenโt built a great product yet?
Letโs build value first. We can hire salespeople as we grow.
Build value first. Customers arenโt stupid.
๐จ Security vulnerabilities reported in a SINGLE day:
PHP โ 2 CVEs
Node.js โ 10 CVEs
NGINX โ 5 CVEs
Go โ 1 CVE
GitLab โ 12 CVEs
This will continue until we invent a new way of programming, such as having AI agents write binary code directly instead of using high-level programm.
LlamaIndex became a croissant delivery service for a day. ๐ฅ
With Y Combinator and a16z Speedrun demo days coming up, we made custom boxes for early-stage startups in SF which included Arsicault chocolate almond croissants (yes, the one with the line).
And $$$ in free credits to try us out :)
We drove all over the city and hand-delivered them in person, which meant we got to hang out with a bunch of founders and hear what theyโre building.
If youโre a YC / a16z Speedrun startup and didn't get one yet, let us know! Weโll get back in line at Arsicault
This time is different, Ai can do what ever we can do, but having real bussiness or being part of the competition it's unnecessary to have professional designer and professional engineer just to look real, while DevOp and related platform engineering still Ai didn't reached to.
In 1994, software was dead. People told me programming was for nerds and that I should become a doctor or a lawyer instead.
In 2004, software was dead. People told me that someone from India would take my job for $5/hour.
In 2014, software was dead. People told me that no-code was going to kill every job and doom my career.
In 2024, software was dead with Devin, Windsurf, Copilot, and OpenAI o1.
We kill software every 10 years, and yet the demand for good Software Engineers has never been higher.
Almost 6 years ago I made a VSCode Tinder extension called VSinder where you swiped on pictures of code
Last weekend one of the couples that matched on it got married ๐คฏ
AI is changing the economics of software development. Native development is becoming more attractive when the cost of maintaining separate iOS and Android codebases keeps dropping. React Native still has a strong future, but the trade-offs are definitely changing.
@catalinmpit Hellow man @catalinmpit , we live world where evey body can build website then they came X and talking about soft-engineering, they are just vibe coding, even they have no idea the d|f b|n docker and k8s, they never sow production codebase in a real company.