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Much respect to Neeva for being in the arena. Couple thoughts:

* Outside of the HN crowd, I don't think the average consumer thinks of privacy as a differentiator.

* I don't know if competing on general search is the way in. I think you need a wedge, and these new companies competing on a certain vertical (like search tools for developers). I see promise here, with specialized LLMs in the backend.

* The biggest search engine in the world comes as the default option on the most popular browser and the most popular phone operating system. Even if your results are 10x better, that's a huge hurdle to overcome.

I was talking to a student at UC Berkeley the other day. He said ChatGPT use is very prevalent and professors don't know how to deal with it right now.

This is the glaring omission in this piece.

Googles know _so much_ about me. Is it not reasonable to assume powerful llm + personal data = personal tuned LLM?

Sad to see, I remember being hooked to their early work. I’ll occasionally watch Vice News which is still good. On the ground, on or near the front lines of a conflict zone, has always been there sweet spot.

Former congressional intern and WH intern (and later WH staff) here - it's possible to get those internships without a recommendation from someone worth listening to. I would go so far as to say it's mildly common.

I'm on the fundraising circuit right now, hence my use of that wording. Domain specific knowledge + connections is better put.

I think this is the big bet a lot of startups are taking. Aggregate demand quickly with GPT4 and then migrate off to another LLM. The assumption here is those other LLMs can be specialized to perform better than a general purpose one.

A pattern I see across all of these plays is some kind of unfair advantage with distribution. Jasper, from what I know, was started by founders ran a content company and had a pre-existing set of customers. Looks like atleast one of the founders of Harvey knows the legal world and secured some pilots that way.

For a brief moment, it looked like they were bringing in a new demographic that wasn't active on twitter. So I could've seen a moat there. Agreed on pure tech - never saw it a pure moat in itself.

Admittedly I was coming in with the same perspective as OP so I wasn’t aware you could smoothly play triple A titles via streaming. No catch, no hang ups?

I was wondering this too. Does this also affect whether they can do business there?

I don't, but suppose on a pure hourly basis they're paid the same. I think that's still unfair, given the amount of value a CS lecturer delivers over an admin.

Great observation. I'm trying to figure out why that is. Couple guesses:

* Less buying options

* No online shopping so the FOMO of a better deal is not there

* The staff actually knew what they were talking about and less salesy than they are today

This is true to this day. Ask me how I know, as a Lenovo laptop buyer for the past decade...

Can you ask them why they pay their teachers so little? I would think a CS lecturer is more valuable than your run of the mill admin.

I've taught HS kids for ~4 years so not quite the same demographic as yours. That said - and I know folks object to doing this - you have to play disciplinarian _and_ teacher. Set a firm culture around no phone usage and kick anyone out who uses one.

Kudos to you for going back to your alma mater and teaching. That's something I want to do, too.

Which is fantastic for knowledge work. A lot our work as engineers, heck even me writing this sentence, is constructing text together based on patterns I've seen. I view tools like ChatGPT as having observed a huge number of patterns and inferring based on that.

Would I treat it like a thought partner to trust and verify? Yeah. As a monk that I'm seeking life insights on? Probably not.

I asked this in my appointment a couple weeks ago. Was told insurance won’t cover it unless you are diabetic. I’m based in the US.

I believe they are 200$ without insurance and you have to buy refills every two weeks.

Does it work in X?

User since the Hoary Hedgehog days. Congrats Canonical on the new release.

Slight tangent - is 22.04 in a good place as a daily driver? I know it's an LTS release. Mostly recalling concerns around wayland and zoom playing well together. Running a thinkpad t15 gen 2 if that helps.

Respect for being in the arena and working on a useful problem. Sorry about the decision.

Can I try to spin this moment in a different way: you have a fantastic story to tell as you pivot go head first into AI.

You’ve built amazing, relevant skills in an adjacent space. You’ve shipped, which is more than what most people do.

Rest, refuel, and put together that narrative. It’s an interesting time right now and I think there’s a solid route to raising some kind of initial funding for round 2.

OP is pointing out relative differences and more importantly, culture. The very concept of the "American Dream" is proof positive of that.

I don't think it's any different from the French being proud of their work life balance.

I chuckled and cheered at the same time. It is who I am; it is who we are. "The chief business of America is business." - Coolidge

Loved your phrasing here around “ground reality”. I do the same partly because I miss coding but mostly because I don’t want the code base to get away from me.

Many here share that journey. For me, it was printing out the Gentoo "hard mode" installation guide where you compiled _everything_ from scratch, including the kernel.

Didn't make it but it taught me the terminal and some foundational concepts in an OS. Set me down the path of linux (ubuntu - bit easier to install) and hacking.

Makes sense. Do you think there's space for an indie shop to make a successful RTS? Successful being, say, $1M in sales?

Just finished a match. GLA demolition vs China nuke general.

I've seen that video - looked really nice. Disappointed as well.

As a die hard command and conquer fan (I play exactly one game these days, C&C generals), me as well. I have a recurring dream of creating a successor to C&C.

What obstacles do you see to the RTS genre? Any reason why the big dogs (EA, etc) have not gone back into the genre?

Good point, true.

My parents bought a LG TV recently. The UI is just horrific. Which PM thought the real time cursor was a good idea?

As much as you can, get an AppleTV and leave it on.