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When you become an engineer in Canada, you take an oath
To never cause harm/suffering/etc to humans as a result of your work
This applies equally, if not more, to business
Both can be used for good (to remove suffering) or evil (to add it)
Do good work. Don't be evil
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Before the PC, we used floppy disks
When we created the internet, and thus the browser, everything changed. The only remnant from the prior era? Going to "File > Save" and maybe you see a floppy disk
All this to say, we have no idea what the "One True UI" looks like
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BTW, the "Autonomous SRE" vision *only* works if you build primitives that specifically work for agents
Instead of trying to cripple the ambitions of a fuzzy agent
You create parallel universes where the agent can ambitiously make mistakes without impact
The future is where agents become the SRE team of your company (already is at many places). Agents keep the your site up, can investigate when it is slow, and fix it
If your sites run on Railway, your agents can get e2e tracing out of it now!
For absolutely free as well! (And even free users get 3 days of logs)
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Now: "Hey Railway my database is slow can you fix it?"
Soon: Infrastructure that just get faster/optimized by default
It's a bad day to be a slow (or broken) request 🔍
Tracing is now in preview. You or your agent can follow any request end to end, pinpoint what's slow or failing, and fix it
Opt in, then set it up from the Traces tab
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"It's lonely at the top". They always say this but they never say why
It's because, at a certain point, every decision is just pure tradeoffs which ends up disappointing someone
As a result, you asymptotically approach 100% of your day making tradeoffs that disappoint *someone*
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You are a struggling second tier competitor that is more unethical and lying just because you have no decency or sense of proper behavior and shows your desperation. Straight out lying about if Chris being fired I thought would be below even you.
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Khosla is an investor in both Cognition and Factory. khoslaventures.com/category/enter…
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Right now is such an interesting time
You have to have the foresight and patience to build something that’s both hard AND inevitable
Real “Skate to where the puck is going” moment
There's a kind of cruel cycle that plays out:
1. Labs start RL'ing towards a future product that requires xyz skill
2. People realize "wow models are getting great at xyz, i'm gonna make an xyz-wrapper startup"
3. Lab releases their 1st party xyz-wrapper-killer
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Jake retweeted
i think the toughest thing to understand is that it literally doesn't matter if your software is open source, closed source anymore - if it's closed source, people can and will RE: its internals, if it's a part of a broader suite, ppl will make it a plugin in their suite, if it's a model that people can blackbox fuzz and the model isnt huge and didn't have incredibly proprietary data, you are going to get copied on the tech
so every core product launch probably needs to be treated as an extreme countdown race, before the incumbent with the distribution eats you
brutal times to be playing, and extremely valuable/rare to find a corner of the stack that may be defensible and will stay defensible
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