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Scale the Lego pieces more and it’s the same. Bigger projects have more moving parts and require the same thinking.

Is there a reasonable place to run the unquantized version of this for less than Claude or OpenAI?

It seems to be priced the same and if it’s being hosted somewhere vs run locally it’s still a worse model, the only advantage would be it is not Anthropic or OpenAI.

I don’t think it does but if the person leading the (relatively small ~10 person) engineering team is dismissive and not championing it then it ends up in this weird place where people are unsure if they can/should use it.

This is cool, if Codex or Gemini CLI is supported it would be good to have a section in the readme indicating shortcomings etc (may have missed)

I probably write overly detailed starting prompts but it means I get pretty aligned results. It does take longer but I try to think through the implementation first before the planning starts.

All codex conversations need to be caveat with the model because it varies significantly. Codex requires very little tweaking but you do need to select the highest thinking model if you’re writing code and recommend the highest thinking NON-code model for planning. That’s really it, it takes task time up to 5-20m but it’s usually great.

Then I ask Opus to take a pass and clean up to match codebase specs and it’s usually sufficient. Most of what I do now is detailed briefs for Codex, which is…fine.

It’s been a week, two? The value of the post likely is greater than the value of the migration at this point.

The real test in any system is scaling usage across many different use cases and users.

But you did your job, it’s driving clicks and views, pushing the narrative that you don’t need x vertical, you just need cursor.

What software do you think shouldn’t be rebuilt and replaced with cursor?

Because if it’s all cursor, at some point you have eaten all your customers.

fair but how many engineers join cursor to maintain their weekend built jank CMS that was put together as part of a marketing stunt

just quietly move that back to a CMS so you can get back to building more interesting things, nobody actually wants to maintain a CMS

yep and thankfully Lee will always be at cursor and definitely not switch companies in the future

the chance of the software that does one thing well being maintained by the dedicated company is higher than the chance of Lee not switching jobs once the once vesting cliff has been reached again

Lee is a marketer (not in title but in truth) for Cursor. He wrote a post to market their new CMS/WYSIWYG feature.

We spend ~$120/month on our CMS which hosts hundreds of people across different spaces.

Nobody manages it, it just works.

That’s why people build software so you don’t need someone like Lee to burn a weekend to build an extremely brittle proprietary system that may or may not actually work for the 3 people that use it.

Engineers love to build software, marketers working for gen ai companies love to point to a sector and say “just use us instead!”, just shuffling monthly spend bills around.

But after you hand roll your brittle thing that never gets updates but for some reason uses NextJS and it’s exploited by the nth bug and the marketer that built it is on to the next company suddenly the cheap managed service starts looking pretty good.

Anyway, it’s just marketing from both sides, embarrassing how easily people get one-shot by ads like this.

love these, wonder what avenues still exist for the image archives

I imagine they exist in an AWS or GCP rack somewhere, too bad

We need more indexes

Email for developers will always trickle down to a commodity, wrappers will get left behind, acquired, or relegated to a small niche.

Do they pull their own index like brave or are they using Bing/Google in the background?

This is now (more) dated. Copilots as an interface are dated. The current initiative is full agents with human in the loop at the very start, occasionally the middle and the end.

Huds are just good UI, something copilots can natively exist as part of in the form of contextual insights and alerts.

We’re moving on to agency where it’s everything else vs an entirely different entity taking the action of flying the plane from take off to landing.

I don’t understand this one at all. Say you need to update a somewhat unique implementation of a component across 5 files. In pseudocode, it might take you 30 seconds to type out whatever needs to be done. It would take maybe 3-4 minutes to do it.

I set that up to run then do something different. I come back in a couple minutes, scan the diffs which match expectations and move on to the next task.

That’s not everything but those menial tasks where you know what needs to be done and what the final shape should look like are great for AI. Pass it off while you work on more interesting problems.

more common than ever before, my 4 closest batchmates are each at 1.5 - 4m ARR and still only taken a seed. i think all but one are cfp as well so unclear what raising more gets them. And all teams under ~15

many YC companies have hit the Series A benchmark and just skipped it, a change from the past

1m, 2m ARR don’t have the same impact in fundraising so later Series A are bound to happen and are not a great indicator imo of how well a company is doing

throwaway but several from my batch (including us) are cash flow positive, higher ARR than these Series A companies and not on the fundraising treadmill

that cohort of YC companies is not represented in data anywhere because from what I’ve seen it is a bit of an anomaly vs previous YC batches

On that last note, very weird that it’s now nuked from HN. Guess I’m glad I posted from a throwaway