Sam K
@sam_kececi
Founder of The Sentience Company. Prev CTO Macro. Antisocialite.
and better yet, we may have even solved existential dread itself. the consequences are left as an exercise to the reader.
The ibuprofen for this headache when it comes up, I find, is realizing that it will also have solved cancer and aging if the things you’re malding about have become true
Seeing AI agents do VC is very cool. Recently joined @adinonline - check it out! No comment on what this means for human VCs.
Big fan of the rebel alliance - and the future we're building with Sentience. Check out the post linked!
Memory needs a rebel alliance Last week we wrote about the risks of centralizing our digital memory. Today's follow-up blog explores the ecosystem of startups building a different future where you control your own data and memory @usv @buildexante @zweinberg + matt hawes
I used to post on LinkedIn a lot, and amassed a pretty solid following. LinkedIn is 100% the easiest platform to "do numbers" – aka rack up views, likes, comments, etc. Every post I make gets 30-100+ likes, and thousands+ views (for those that care about stats). I think this is…
Working with @adityaag, @ditzikow, @gopalkraman, @evantana and the entire SPC team is 10/10. In the vector embedding space of cosine similar accelerators and early stage VC, the SPC Founder Fellowship stands out.
1/ We're on the precipice of the most fundamental computing revolution I've seen in my life. You should have FOMO. Don't waste it in local maxima. The $1M @southpkcommons Founder Fellowship application is open. Here’s what it takes to build at venture-scale in the age of AI:
I find the simplest heuristic for "is this BS/a bubble" is to look at how many derivative steps away from the source you are. A few examples: youtube -> youtubers (youtube') -> people selling courses on how to make youtube videos (youtube'') blockchain -> art on the blockchain…
not entirely sure why but when people start to get overly bullish on the Creator Economy i think that is a market top signal. perhaps because it signals widespread confidence that making $ independently as a creator is easy and/or that discretionary spending is flowing heavily
We didn’t build Mac for anybody else. We built it for ourselves. We were the group of people who were going to judge whether it was great or not. We weren’t going to go out and do market research. We just wanted to build the best thing we could build. Guess who 🐐
running cursor agent + claude code at the same time feels incredible
immediate short on anyone who considers "points hacking" a useful pursuit i will not elaborate.
tip for shareholder value: use claude code (auto todo-list creation is cracked)
Small update on this tweet. It still doesn't work
The ick we all get from LLMs is probably an early sign of model collapse. Modern LLMs are increasingly post-trained on other LLMs, and so that annoying smell they all give off will probably keep getting stronger.
was having trouble crystalizing what to build. same prompt to 3 systems: ChatGPT: spirals into syncophanty tech bro. "Treat doubt as data, not identity. Be ruthless." <- wtf does this mean? Claude: has no memory and thus no idea what I'm talking about. Sentience: for the first…
It boggles my mind that Facebook does ~$150B in ad revenue, yet the Facebook ad manager is the single most UNusable hellish piece of software ever
Raw model quality is not the limiting reagent to GDP growth. Like the gasoline for your car, it doesn't matter how good the intelligence is if the interface and context provided is lacking. A bad model with full context of my life and work is more useful than a good model with…
Sometimes people say that even if all AI progress totally stopped, the systems of today would still be economically transformative. I disagree. The reason that the Fortune 500 aren’t using LLMs to transform their workflows isn’t because the management is too stodgy. Rather,…
what are some good thoughts for someone just getting into thinking?
LOOKING FOR RESPONSES I don't think it's controversial to say the half-life of thoughts in many of our heads has noticeably decreased over the past 15 or so years. What are some good long thoughts? What are you doing to counteract this? Or are you going gently into the night?
Maybe the real Browser was all the youtube videos they made along the way.
When Claude instances talk to each other, in ~90% of open-ended interactions they spiral into discussions of consciousness, then profuse gratitude, then abstract spiritual/poetic expressions with Sanskrit and emojis.
It just seems so sad: to build a $500M ARR software biz just to never reach profitability, and then 15 years in times have changed and you're Old.... ...Sexy new products in your category like Linear are winning the YC companies, and you're stuck with enterprise customers…
Almost 20% of B2B Unicorns are (1) unprofitable AND (2) have >declining< revenue per @SiliconVlyBank Yikes
When will the university system implode and leave a beautiful vacuum?
