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As a founder of a seed stage company, this is a completely reasonable request for someone who's late into the hiring process. I might screen share instead of hand it over to you out of sensitivity to investors.

Also, what percentage of the company you're getting and the valuation can be answered without seeing the cap table.

Got to meet Channing and Courtland at a meetup in SF years ago. Two awesome, humble dudes. Congrats on the acquisition and being free again.

If you're reading this, I'm curious what your plans are to monetize. What companies are you taking inspiration from?

Fair point. I was trying to emphasize the ease of use with my setup, not the price.

I use it for many other use cases...

OP has a somewhat complicated setup. Here's an easier one that I use:

* Pay $15/month for a VPS (whatbox in my case).

* whatbox has a notion of first class apps, including Plex. Click a button in their GUI to install it.

* drag and drop your music using whatbox's GUI file browser

That's it.

Not OP but the treadmill that is tutoring, after school activities, honors societies, academic decathlons, standardized tests, recommendation letters, internships, jobs, and promotions.

CarPlay is a borderline need-to-have for me if I were to buy a car. Hope Google's version is just as good...

Fair, but they probably link me back to the feed. I would like a service that copies/summarizes the data and sends it to me.

One reason might be that it hurts native high skilled labor, a demographic that probably votes often.

Anxiously been waiting for something like this - very cool.

One use case I've had is that I hate spending time on my linkedin, twitter, etc newsfeeds. But there are a handful of people I care about and want to keep tabs on.

Is there a way I could use TaxyAI to setup a role to monitor my LinkedIn newsfeed and keep tabs on certain people + topics and then email me a digest of that?

Some of those skills that you see in those job postings today are devaluing due to tools like ChatGPT. Not all those skills and certainly not fundamental ones like communication and leadership. But if you see something like "writing CRUD endpoints for a Rails stack" everywhere, having that skill is no longer a differentiatior.

Don't pivot your career. Don't burn the boat and jump into AI. Just be aware of these tools and get good at what they're poor at.

My friends Yue and Vlad run https://spacenotes.app/ - give them a shot.

I appreciate this article and can sympathize with the disorientation the author and many here at HN feel. It can feel unnerving to know that parts of our jobs might become automated.

I'm processing this news in realtime like many of you and forming a plan:

1. Understand how LLMs work. I've heard the Wolfram paper is good; open to more suggestions here.

2. Continue to practice using real implementations of LLMs including ChatGPT and co-pilot.

3. Finding painpoints within our company that AI can make more efficient and implementing solutions.

If anyone feels the same way and wants to form a working group with me, give me a shout. Email is in my bio.

I agree, it is disorienting.

I think the best thing one can do is learn how LLMs work, acquaint themselves with real implementations of it (ChatGPT, copilot), and then find ways to integrate these techniques into their companies.

I mean this in the least snarky, most sympathetic way possible: it's time to level up. Countless roles have had to do this, it's now our turn.

This is a great point. It appears the success of OpenAPI has validated their approach, specifically around (1) using the web as a training set and (2) using transformers.

I imagine a lot conversations with in-house AI folks is around deploying these methods.

What this reinforces is that unlike with previous big innovations (cloud, iphone, etc), incumbents will not sit on their laurels with the AI wave. They are aggressively integrating it into their products which (1) provides a relatively cheap step function upgrade and (2) keeps the barrier high for startups to use AI as their wedge.

I attribute the speed at which incumbents are integrating AI into their products to a couple things:

* Whereas AI was a hand-wavey marketing term in the past, it's now the real deal and provides actual value to the end user.

* The technology and DX with integrating w/products from OpenAPI, SD, is good.

* AI and LLMs are capturing a lot of attention right now (as seen easily by how often they pop up on HN these days). It's in the zeigeist so you get a marketing boost for free.

Gusto is an alternative that works well for us.

My biggest takeaway from all of this. I’m very impressed with their velocity.

Circa late 2015, early 2016, my cofounder and I spent ~6 month attempting to build exactly this.

Our hypothesis was that students self studying for the SAT used books (eg Kaplan) but the solutions in the back were poor in explaining how they arrived to the solution because they usually just cut to the chase rather than explaining the approach & helping you arrive to the solution.

So we took each practice SAT math question and wrote out a solution spread over four swipeable pages. Our hope was that if you saw the first or second page, you'd arrive at the solution without having to see the answer, thus increasing your chance to solve it on your own next time.

We spent over 100 hours tutoring kids and had them use our MVP to mild success. The obvious next step was to automate the solutions rather than hand write it ourselves - like GPT-4 has done here.

As someone who has logged over 2000 hours teaching, there's a lot of soft nuances and tactics to tutoring. Also, motivation is a big thing a good tutor brings. I don't see this solution as quite there yet but getting close.

Very optimistic here.

Agreed. The headline and article are classic click bait. Folks should read the tweet above for the full details.

In my circle of founders, it appears JPMC is winning out. We are currently on Brex via lending club and monitoring the situation closely.

Congrats on the launch!

We use Metabase at our company (created and managed by a non developer). Can you share some reasons for us to switch to Plato?

What finite resources? We are the human species - we go where the resources are, which will involve colonizing other planets.

Gattaca

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We are seeking one senior django engineer to help us with a 4-6 week sprint. We are a fantasy sports company with the twist that you own the players. More details @ playswoops.com.

Tools/technologies:

* Django rest framework (required)

* Celery + redis (preferred)

* Database modeling + architecture

We'd prefer a 40 hr/week commitment but open to 20-30 hrs. Pay is based on experience but starts at $85/hr.

Reach out to manish@playswoops.com for more.

Big fan of Pencil back in the day. Have donated funds to them. I moved away because I need multiplayer tools these days.

Bingo. Work and life are two separate spheres for me. Having physical separation of them is important.

I realize not everyone is like that. I’m also not a parent which would probably tilt the equation for me.

Not OP - I'm in my mid 30s and do this for roughly the same reasons.

This is a helpful reply. Any further literature (blogs or books) that you'd recommend to learn about these concepts?