most of society hasn't yet woken up to the 1000x reduction in cost and speed yet, is my guess. if it doesn't scare you just a little bit, I dunno what does.
A product manager, design and engineer is now all expected to be one person, not 3. Yay i was only ahead of the curve by only ~10 yrs :p
heard on a podcast peter mccormack spent $8000 in 6 weeks using claude code to cover 3 yrs of work. As a nontechnical user that's not too bad, I presume he was spending orders of magnitude more hiring people to do what he now does on his own. Plus consider the $8000 as "tuition"
For a technical person that is super savvy and knows how to grind the budget down to nothing; I'd bet it'd be do-able in $80 or less in less than half the time, huge leverage
If one is moving 12x faster with one set of agents
and then adds 100 autonomous agents....
that's..........tic tac speed
3 mos of work in 5 days translates to
12 mos of work in 20 days (or ~ 1 mo)
that's 12x faster than the avg speed.
its getting a little insane in here.....
Physical assets are going to be key for sovereign wealth in this decade
GM, my AI brings all the boys to the yard, damn right, better than yours, I'd teach but then I'll have to charge, nah nah na nah nah.... 😂
i'm trying brain.fm this week. not sure if it really works but worth a try
"The point isn't that grants are bad. The point is that comfort can be dangerous when your goal is to build something that changes the world. "
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INSIGHT #2: GOVERNMENT GRANTS MIGHT BE MAKING YOUR STARTUP WEAKER
Korea's government has invested heavily in its startup ecosystem through non-dilutive grants, and a lot of founders in the room had taken them. Ethan wasn't here to shame anyone for that -- but he was willing to name the downside that most people won't.
"I think that kind of dilutes the desperation that some startups should have."
His argument: desperation, when channeled correctly, is rocket fuel. When a startup has enough runway from a government grant to survive mediocrity, some of them do exactly that. They settle. They don't make the hard pivots. They don't push hard enough on distribution. They optimize for survival instead of breakout.
Eric echoed this with a passage from the book,
Same as Ever
, by Morgan Housel: a tree planted in an open field with all the sunshine and space it needs grows quickly -- but its wood is weak and porous. A tree in a dense forest, competing for light and nutrients, grows slowly -- but its wood is dense, hard, and can last a thousand years.
The point isn't that grants are bad. The point is that comfort can be dangerous when your goal is to build something that changes the world. Real startups run on urgency.
I feel like I did 3 months worth of work in the last 5 days.
The winds are a-changing
While I have extra capacity,
Lets see how many releases we can pull off before the end of summer 😂
And special congrats to
@ButtercupRoberts for making her first few pull requests to the hivetalk team. I'm really proud of her! Going from zero to code and merge!
Every week, we're going to do a new
@HiveTalk release.
Gonna try a little experiment here for a few weeks.
@ButtercupRoberts will be running a testing room at the end of every week so feel free to hop in if you want to try the latest features and please give Feedback!!!!!!!
GM, 100 agents on the wall, take one down, pass'm around, 99 agents on the wall....
I feel more sane and calmer when I'm not looking at social media everyday but sometimes I'll just post my thoughts randomly and occasionally from a no-feed client, and come back later to view comments. Does anyone else do this?
GM, running inference like I'm flying a G6, siiick
GM, the future belongs to high agency folks.
GM, there are thinkers and think-nots. She thinks the thinkers are gonna do okay. The think-nots are gonna be trouble
GM, I can build now anything in 30 seconds or less 😂
