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18 Mar 2024
What's the biggest misconception people have about entrepreneurship?
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Hot take: the current AI boom is less about innovation and more about consolidation of existing power
I've seen VCs pushing AI startups to acquisition over independence
This means the real winners won't be the founders, but the ones who already own the platforms
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Hot take: the AI boom is less about creating new jobs and more about accentuating existing power imbalances
I saw this firsthand when a large company used AI to automate a task, only to realize the real beneficiaries were their top executives, not their entry-level workers
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I had to tell my team we're cutting a feature
that we'd spent 6 months building
It was a hard call
because I knew how much work had gone into it
But the feedback from users was clear:
it just wasn't that important to them
What I realized after is that
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I was struggling to focus on a complex problem at 2pm
My brain felt foggy and I couldn't string two thoughts together
I decided to take a break and go for a 30-minute run
Afterwards I dove back in and solved it in 10 minutes
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Late last night I was trying to debug a memory leak
in our app's backend
I'd been staring at the same stacktrace for hours
That's when I tried a new tool - it found the issue in 5 minutes
I felt like I'd been wasting weeks of my life on something so simple
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Jun 12
I was stuck on a bug for 10 hours
trying to fix a weird concurrency issue
in our app's backend
Out of desperation I tried a new debugging tool
it found the issue in 5 minutes
I didn't feel productive
I felt like I'd wasted 9 hours and 55 minutes
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Jun 11
Hot take: the current AI ethics debate is less about morality and more about liability
I've been watching companies scramble to cover themselves in case their AI models go wrong
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Jun 11
Everyone's talking about the AI boom
and how it will change the workforce
But the part nobody talks about:
it's also changing how we sell to each other
I've seen sales teams using AI to hyper-personalize
their pitches and it's working
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Jun 11
I had to make a call last week that I'd been avoiding for months
We had to pivot a project that was already 6 months in
It meant admitting that our initial vision wasn't working
And that the whole team's effort so far wasn't a complete waste, but a step to something else
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Jun 11
I woke up at 4am to get a workout in before a big meeting
My brain was foggy but I pushed through the first 20 minutes
After that my focus was sharper than it's been all week
I realized I'd been using lack of time as an excuse to not train
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Jun 11
Spent 4 hours trying to fix a memory leak
in our app's backend
I was about to give up when I stumbled upon a hidden
setting in our Docker config
Turns out, a simple flag change
reduced our memory usage by 30%
I sat there thinking about how much time
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Jun 10
Late last night I was trying to debug a weird API issue
with our app's login flow
Spent 3 hours reading logs and still couldn't find the problem
Then I tried a new tool I'd been meaning to check out - CodeQL
It found the issue in 10 minutes
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Jun 9
Everyone assumes the AI boom is about replacing human workers
But the real story is about who owns the data
that these AI models are trained on
and how that ownership is quietly changing hands
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Jun 9
Hot take: the latest AI breakthroughs are not about automation, but about exposure
I spent 10 hours last week reviewing AI-generated reports for our startup, only to find that 30% of them contained critical errors
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Jun 9
I had to tell an investor that our product launch was delayed
For the third time
It wasn't just about missing a deadline
It was about trusting my team to get it right
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Jun 9
I was up at 5am for a run
> Had a big meeting later that day and my head was a mess
> 30 minutes in, something clicked
> My mind was clear, and I nailed that meeting
(Note: I made a small change to improve clarity and ensure it fits the 270 character limit)
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Jun 9
I was trying to optimize our app's database queries
to get our load times under 2 seconds
Spent 2 hours indexing and re-indexing
until I stumbled upon a hidden setting
in our ORM tool that was throttling queries
Cut our load times in half with one checkbox
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Jun 8
Everyone's talking about AI replacing human jobs
But the real story is about who owns the AI companies
It's not the innovators, it's the same old giants buying them out
That's what actually changes the game, not the tech itself
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Jun 8
Hot take: the current obsession with AI-generated content is not about creativity, it's about efficiency
I've seen founders use AI to produce 10x more content in a fraction of the time
If this is the future, what does it mean for the value of human creativity in the workforce
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Jun 8
I had to lay off half my team last quarter
due to a funding round that didn't close
The hardest part wasn't the financials
It was looking each person in the eye
and explaining why it had to happen
What I realized afterwards
is that it's not about being a good founder
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