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@getlatent
Founder @ AI Desk - Customer Support Agents (Financials)
Flattening of prestige, lesser gatekeeping
Interesting but plausible assertion: The business model of elite universities — acting as costly gatekeepers to a kingdom of guaranteed high earnings — is poised to collapse. When the ROI of a $300,000 law or medical degree evaporates, the institutions built on credential…
Turn on @Cloudflare proxy in front of @vercel to save on function invocations
Coding agent has been good for basic scaffolding work, optimization work on stable codes, test coverage and doc updates. Useful for the first 80% of a new feature, and for the last 20% with precision demands, you have to work on it yourself. docs.github.com/en/copilot/how…
Your competition too is suddenly made more productive
A quick summary of what you can and can’t replace with AI today: - Outbound SDRs: you can replace most SDRs with AI today, possibly 100% … but you still need humans managing it. IF you truly go deep, train a platform, and orchestrate it >daily<. But this requires a human and…
AI Agents as leverage across skill levels Thoughts: The benefits of AI depend on the user's skills, how they use it, and how they apply it to the right tasks The bar is raised higher for hiring, selling services, and selling products due to AI's capabilities, you are expected…
Another round of aggressive price-cutting strategies from chinese companies, this time in the AI IDE market by ByteDance via Trae Not complaining, net positive for end users always trae.ai
Just saying what AI Desk does is everything Intercom promises, but actually intelligent and affordable
Today we’re launching the Fin Million Dollar Guarantee. We’ve been making big claims about our industry-best performance, but we know such claims are cheap. So it’s time to put our money where our mouths are. If we don’t deliver on these claims, we’ll pay you $1M. First, some…
Software 3.0 will rewrite portions of 1.0 traditional programming and 2.0 neural network-based systems (shift from specialized to generalized ML models) @karpathy

Really good and clear
Nice - my AI startup school talk is now up! Chapters: 0:00 Imo fair to say that software is changing quite fundamentally again. LLMs are a new kind of computer, and you program them *in English*. Hence I think they are well deserving of a major version upgrade in terms of…
Branding and perceived quality are increasingly important in the new world of SaaS. While Chatleh.com was a valuable domain, we needed to project a more global image and avoid appearing to appeal solely to SEA markets. aidesk.us
this boring business owner tells you exactly how to sell AI to small businesses they don’t care about using “AI” in their biz. All they care about is: > saving money > making things faster & smoother. use accordingly.
Absolutely. We ensure if you have not earned the right to advise an entrepreneur you dont operate independently giving advice.
@vkhosla famously wouldn't let someone become a GP unless they had built a company and "earned the right to give advice"
Wisdom of the month: "develop professional judgment independent of past influences"
User memory is currently a moat for AI chats But maybe soon enough, we will have exportable, shareable chat memory that can be used between AI chats Bring your own memory (BYOM)