Day 1 of @aiDotEngineer Singapore Excitement too high I sat on the floor

🚨 OpenAI's head of Robotics just resigned because the company is building lethal AI weapons with NO human authorization required. > Read that again. Lethal. Autonomy. Without. Human. Authorization. > The person who built the robots is telling you she quit because there are no guardrails on who they kill. This is the same company that won't let ChatGPT say a swear word. They put safety filters on your prompts but none on their kill chain. Scarrry!

For early-stage startups, viral marketing is often a mistake. The same goes for heavy paid marketing. You might get a lot of views, but not the right ones. What usually happens is that you miss the true early adopters, the people who would actually love your still-in-progress product. Instead, you attract people who discovered you through hype, try the product out of curiosity, don’t find it ready yet, and leave. Your retention tanks, you get demoralized, and you might even pivot for the wrong reasons. I think chasing “fastest to X ARR” or similar milestones is the wrong goal. Your aim isn’t to hit the biggest number this quarter, it’s to build something enduring and exceptional over the next decade. There are no shortcuts. Hype, huge launches often end up in failure. You can’t skip straight from zero to mass late adopters. You have to learn from your early users, iterate, and grow with them. Keep launching, many times. Expand the ICP, go up market, do whatever, but keep the focus and keep refining the "right" customer.

I’m actually very pro meeting recording and ai summarization. But I’m not ok with bots joining as fake humans accomplish this. It’s a meeting between you and me. Not you and me and some startup’s viral growth strategy. Granola is great. Gemini does this well in Google Meet. Hyprnote is great and fully local. But use them with consent. My tweet is about how ridiculous and self important it looks when you show up to a meeting with random bots as entourage.