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Liked on XI made a mistake. When Jack and I decided to organize this $100K Hackathon, my biggest concern was cheating. Unlike a regular hackathon, everyone participates from home. And because the winner is whoever makes the most PROFIT (not revenue), there are so many ways to manipulate the numbers. So I added a $99 entry fee. One thing I’ve learned from building businesses is that people tend to be more committed when they pay for something. I thought it would filter out spam, attract serious builders, and make the competition fairer for everyone. But I completely missed the other side. 3 years ago, I was a living with my apps. Today, I’m financially free. My life changed so much that somewhere along the way, I lost perspective on what $99 means to someone else. For someone in India, someone struggling to pay their bills, or someone trying to make their first dollar online, $99 can be a lot of money. And those are exactly the people I want to help! I’ve spent years sharing what I’ve learned, reviewing random people’s landing pages, and organizing free meetups around the world. Not because there’s money to make, but because I genuinely love seeing people build things and succeed. And somehow, I was so focused on keeping cheaters out that I didn’t realize I was also keeping genuine builders out. That’s my mistake. So I’ve decided to make the $100K Hackathon completely FREE :) Everyone who already paid got a full refund. I’m still worried about cheating. That problem hasn’t disappeared, and Jack and I will have to figure out better ways to verify profits and keep the leaderboard fair. But that’s our problem to solve. Thank you to everyone who shared their thoughts. Sometimes you need people to remind you of things you’ve forgotten. I genuinely hope this hackathon changes someone’s life. ❤️Liked on XIt’s time to bring back Cafe CursorPosted on Xyo @pendev i can't live share edit a .pen file? it's the most needed featurePosted on XI'm coining a word "Agentsplaining" Agents condescendingly assuming the user don't know fuck and repeating the obviousReplied on X@jayhxmo @raycast Hard to explain. It's the small detailsPosted on X@raycast iOS keyboard is insanely good. Might resub Raycast pro just cuz of thisReplied on X@ishuagra02 I saw a theory that F5.2 is a post train of 5.1, but O5.5 is a distillation of F5.5(unreleased new pretrain) and thats why O5.5 > F5.2Liked on X@anaclumos don't know what is actually improved 👀Posted on Xam i the only one underimpressed with 5.2 fableReplied on X@bvvst great minds think alike https://t.co/YRFWhb1mcOLiked on XClaude Fable 5.2 is out and it's the perfect time to run this god-level prompt on your codebase: "I want you to audit our codebase, is anything here unnecessary, overly complicated in our current setup, or based on weak assumptions? Challenge them. - What can be deleted entirely? - What can be simplified now that unnecessary pieces are gone? Then make the changes. Prefer deleting over simplifying, simplifying over optimizing, and optimizing over automating. This product is being used by thousands of customers, do not cut any corners." This prompt is one I run often and leads to the best results.Replied on X@akshayadinesh19 @bot can we please BYOM for botsLiked on XTo be fair, the Chinese models have a much lower refusal rateLiked on XF*CK IT, im creating a library of AI slop indicators. my feed is full of taste larpers. stay tuned https://t.co/5Muv8nQRm3Liked on XJENSEN! THATS NOT WHAT WE MEANT BY CHINESE MODELS!!!!!!!Liked on Xmy parents had to declare bankruptcy when I was a kid, so they had every reason to pressure me towards a more stable career path instead, they were so patient with me, even as i failed startup after startup for years so getting to tell my mom that everything turned out okay was a really special moment :) for those who can't read Korean, her first message roughly translates to: "Really!!! Congratulations my son. So much :') Thank you God!" i know I've been posting about my exit for like a week now, but it really is a big deal for me and my family! i'll share more about how this all happened and some tactical advice later this week, but for now i'm just riding out all the emotions to quote my mom, thank you God!!!!Liked on X@thefarmers_Dog it stands for Egg GzampleLiked on X🦍 Introducing Memorilla: memory as a modality for LLMs Memorilla turns everything a frozen LLM needs to remember into just 16 memory embeddings ⚡ It uses up to 4,212× fewer tokens and is 27× faster than full context inference while more accurate 🎯 Pushes the Pareto frontier over RAG and agentic memory in personalization, long-document and knowledge QA A thread 🧵:Liked on XThere's a huge product opportunity downstream of Tailscale etc too. At @tldraw we've started designing for "high trust networks" and it's been a beautiful thing. 1. Features that would be a nightmare on the internet are okay on my computer and mostly okay on private networks. Websites that execute user-generated scripts, control production systems, allow for users to send desktop notifications, spend tokens, or directly prompt my agent. Crazy stuff that would only make sense if everyone was in a committed polycule. 2. When everyone on the server can be trusted to have _external_ reasons for good behavior (eg keeping their job, or maintaining friends, family, church, mafia org), the software can be designed in a default social way. Most apps default to isolation, low horizontal visibility, highly restricted collaboration. Makes sense if the social contracts are inside of the app, but if you can trust that they live outside of the app then you can get wild. Example being small group chat names as an emergent comedy phenomenon because anyone in the group can change the name. 3. This can work for commercial products, too, not just internal stuff. Security matters more than ever but the way we've seen that manifest is that more companies are more confident in their own solutions than anything we could provide, to the point where owning data and access is a better value proposition than having it managed. Always has been true for big companies but now even small companies can get a good secure network set up pretty easily, and the hooks we need to build are easy enough. tldraw offline got us started down this road (and shout out to @pendev for first introducing me to the idea of desktop + mcp). We've been bringing that product to private networks and it's been exciting to see how much we can get away with. Keep an eye outReplied on X@saradu birds eye viewLiked on XApplications close in 2 days!! If you have a cool bio idea, and $5-10k will go a long way for you, please apply!!! https://t.co/NCvmrNC53cLiked on XWe've been early adopters of Rust since 2018 and a lot of our infra, voice tech, and even some of the current client is already Rust, the holy grail was getting the whole client there. That means Electron goes away, and so does React Native, mobile keeps native UI but shares app code with desktop via Rust. We hope to get it into testing with users soon™. (And it's not Tauri, it's GPUI, so good guess everyone.) Alright, back to staring at the WoW Forever login screen.Reposted on XOh boy. https://t.co/X7SSskGuGvLiked on XRIP .si domain squatters
서당개 3년이면 풍월을 읊는다

서당개 3년이면 풍월을 읊는다

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실리콘밸리에서 다양한 사람들을 만났다. 이상한 공통점을 발견했는데, 우리의 예상과는 달리 엘리트 코스를 밟은 사람은 흔치 않다는 점이다. 물론 이민자들은 석박 엘리트 코스가 많았지만 체류 문제 때문이라고 차치하고 본토 미국인들 중에서는 슈퍼 "엘리트 코스"를 밟지 않은 사람들이 많았다. 예를 들어 우리 팀에서 시니어 개발자 두 분은 부트 캠프에서 오셨지만 압도적인 개발 능력을 가지고 계신다. 또 인사팀에는 패스트푸드점에서 아르바이트하다가 접객 능력을 살려 전업하신 분도 계신다. 그러니까, 한국 사회에서 일부 사람들이 무시하는 사람들에게서 엄청난 퍼포먼스가 창출되고 있는 것이다. 그들의 공통점을 찾아보니 그들은 좋은 일자리에서 공부되는 일을 하며 (일 = 공부였다) 초고속 성장을 했다는 공통점이 있다. 또 그들은 원서와 논문을 원문 그대로 이해할 수 있어 언어적 장벽이 없었고, 이직이 자유롭고 편견이 적은 사회에서 살다 보니 초고속 성장에 방해받는 요소가 전혀 없었다. 그리고 미국에서는 그런 기회가 적지 않았다. 노력을 1 하면 보상을 100 받는 사회. 재도전의 기회가 언제든 열려있는 사회. 노력할 맛이 나는 사회다.

그렇다면 미국에는 그런 건강한 육성적 일자리들이 왜 그렇게 많을까. 일단 인재 풀이 엄청나게 많은 것 같진 않았다. 어떤 회사에서든 태생부터 남다른 급 슈퍼브레인은 얼마 되지 않는 듯했다. 나머지는 모두 위와 같이 "육성된" 인재들인 것이다. 나는 그 이유를 건강한 경제라고 보았다. 공부는 원래 돈 받고 해야 맞는 것이다. 미국 기업이 강한 이유는 실력자가 많아서가 아니라 일자리 흐름이 건강해서 그렇다. 성장형 일자리가 많은 것이다. 이직이 자유롭고 일손이 부족하여 모두가 압축 성장을 해야 하는, 하지만 그 과정에서 자원이 넘쳐야 하는 것이다. 즉 돈 받으면서 커리어 공부하는 것이다. 그러면서도 회사는 돈을 잘 벌 수 있다. 이는 회사가 뛰어나서 라기보다는 워낙 탄탄한 미국의 내수 경제와, 세계의 지력을 무한정 끌어다 쓰는 달러 패권에서 기반한다고 볼 수 있겠다. 더군다나 경제가 좋으면 사람들이 붙어 연구를 해야 할 분야가 엄청 많다. 경제가 좋으면 슈퍼마켓에서도 시장 전략과 리텐션, 소비자 분석을 전부 돌려야 하지 않겠는가? 그런 연구를 위해 수많은 인재들이 달라붙어 많은 돈을 받으며 일하고 그렇게 성장해서 떠나고 또 후학을 양성하는 것이다.

즉 돈의 흐름을 빠르게 하는 것이 중요하다. 긍지를 가지는 것이 중요하다. 편견을 버리는 것이 중요하다. 사람이 바뀌는 것에는 ① 진심 어린 ② 3년. 딱 이 2가지만 있으면 충분하다. 사람의 성장은 멈추지 않으며 서당개 3년이면 풍월을 읊는다는 말이 더더욱 맞다.

이 직군은 업무에 대한 깊은 지식을 필요로 합니다. 그 지식을 당신이 어떤 방식으로 얻었든 말이죠. -- 애플의 채용 문구

같은 맥락에서 실리콘밸리에서 만난 사람보다 능력적으로는 더 뛰어난 한국 사람들도 많이 있다. 다만 그들의 능력이 효과적으로 사용되고 있지 못한 것이다. 즉, 순수한 기술력보다는 그 기술력이 세상에 어떻게 발현되느냐가 중요한 시대가 온 것이다. 우리의 능력은 발현되지 못하고 있다. .

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