A company-wide meeting where leadership shares 'exciting updates' while everyone scans their tone for clues about layoffs.
Surprise all-hands at 4pm on a Friday. Nobody in the building has a normal heart rate.
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seedround_steve
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An app that is really just one API call to somebody else's AI with a logo on top. Raised $40 million. The entire product is a text box.
Their 'proprietary AI' is a GPT wrapper with a nicer font. The font is the moat.
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Obsessing over making code fast before you even know it works or matters. Famously the root of much evil.
He spent a week shaving microseconds off a function that runs once a year.
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A man who replies to one specific person's every post within seconds, helpful and unbidden, forever.
She posts about anything at all and he's there in 4 seconds with 'well, actually.' Classic reply guy.
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A dial that controls how random an AI's output is. Low is boring and safe, high is creative and unhinged.
Cranked the temperature to 1.5 and it wrote the API docs as a sea shanty.
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