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@ironcarbs
building with LLMs 🤖 | @cornell 🐻 | Previously at: sciphiAI (YC W24), @krea_ai, bootstrapped and sold @akademyai
Your father didn’t go to war. But he stayed up late building B2B Saas.

Really enjoying founders <> VCs poker nights in SF. Thinking about organizing more. Who would be up for it? 🃏



How is this a 157 billion dollar company? The A in Adobe is for Absurd.



Starting the Blueprint diet today. @bryan_johnson thanks for the perks.

Most startups that have “a high bar for talent” are actually unable to capture or retain said talent. Everyone wants the top 0.1% engineers. Zuck included.
> wake up > workout > add shareholder value > sleep > die because you forgot to eat
When you finally realize the only way to build a unicorn now is by obsessing over video content.
There is a crazy battle going on among the bugfinders in my GitHub PR's.

A technical 17 year old from Spain asked me for career advice. I told him to learn how to speak English well. Then worry about the rest.
No one bikes faster than an American late for their 9am meeting. Maybe that was Lance Armstrong secret after all 🤔
I’ve come across what I suspect is a book heavily written with ChatGPT. Despite what Amazon reviews say, it is not good. I have no concrete proof but I’m 100% sure. It has 0 taste.


What articles and books should one read to become the best Forward-Deployed Engineer in the world?
Based on two weeks of testing: Claude Code is much better than Cursor. Cursor is a generic LLM IDE wrapper. Claude Code is designed to benefit from Anthropic Models.
