Zaraif13

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Comment · 14 days ago
No doubt, exceptional engineering achievement.

But, I just wish it didn't resemble a Lamborghini so much.

The unreleased roadster (2017) looked amazing. Tesla is capable of incredible totally original design.

Comment · 1 month ago
Not to sound like a YC fanboy here, but I love how pretty much every great business can be traced back to a start which somehow follows what YC talks about today.

I guess the first principles of what makes great Founders and great businesses from back in the gilded age to today have stayed the same.

Comment · 1 month ago
You're proving that even with all the tools at our disposal now, taste really does matter. I love your website!

Even when building with AI, I find it very useful to be picky about the details. Sometimes picky enough to go down to the code.

I feel like people who get the most out of AI tools are the ones who actually use it as a tool, and don't treat AI as the decision maker.

Comment · 1 month ago
I actually think this is pretty awesome. I come from a country where design sense is abhorrent at best, and the design of anything by the government is an order of magnitude worse.

Only time will tell if this proves to be useful, but I think it's smart for the government to provide a great design and experience. It'll help them better serve their users i.e. the American people!

Comment · 1 month ago
Pretty cool! Which models are you running locally? Can users pick/change between models?
Comment · 1 month ago
Why is this a surprise?

No other country outside the US and China really even matter when it comes to AI. Cohere and Mistral are important labs, but in no way do they make Canada or France significant in any way shape or form.

In 2026, Europe is great for a holiday. That's about it.

Comment · 1 month ago
Have you managed to run this locally? If yes, how'd you do it?

I'm keen to run it.

Comment · 1 month ago
What fascinates me is SF. The epicenter of world's future, but when physically there it doesn't quite look "futuristic". I'd say SF is more charming that cyberpunk. The roads, the homes, even my personal favorites Hayes street and Alamo square park don't really feel like the future is here. Let alone slow escalators.

But as soon as I spoke with a few people out there, it hit my me like a truck. It's the concentration of the people who are literally building the future that make SF what it is.

I can't be the only one fascinated by this!

Comment · 1 month ago
In recent times, I've palpably felt the excitement of being able to imagine like I was a kid again. BUT here's the reality I've simultaneously been hit with:

Most people, and I wouldn't be surprised if it was 90%, who've had any interaction with AI are still stuck on chatting with a chatbot. They've got no clue how far you can now go with a few well written markdown files and/or prompts, all in natural language!

So while I mostly agree on your outlook, and think it's super exciting, I've also felt firsthand that building with AI hasn't yet diffused as much I'd hoped it would. It's still concentrated in the hands of people who have an aptitude for building in some way, shape or form.

The question is: How do you get more people, who aren't power users or builders, to start building with AI? Maybe it starts with getting them to see that building to solve their own life's problems makes life more interesting?

Comment · 1 month ago
good question! i was able to build the agents by using Opencode and used a combo of locally hosted models. Specifically Kimi and Deepseek.

but didnt deploy an agent anywhere. instead we wrote all the code, system prompts, harness, etc locally and just shared those files with the customer.

all the customer had to do is deploy what we provided them on their locally hosted models, essentially just had to add inference. and boom, started working on their systems!

Comment · 1 month ago
It's becoming more clear that for big enterprises to really adopt AI, they need to use open models. Especially if they want to own their own intelligence, which they should.

I spent the last 2 days building basic AI agents to automate some mundane supply chain workflows for a large company. Those seemingly boring workflows had bank statements, supplier IDs and other sensitive information.

For me it was all alarm bells, there is no way they can afford to give closed models access to this data. I was compelled to figure out an open model based solution for them, which made me realize that this is probably the only way for enterprises going forward.

Comment · 1 month ago
Yep, it exists. I tried it before, and it still felt as bad because of the smoke you're inhaling. Our lungs are extremely sensitive receptors and are pretty much supposed to interact with absolutely nothing else other than the air we breathe.
Comment · 1 month ago
Literally the worst idea. I quit vaping a while ago. Vaping made me, it gave me dopamine hits even when I got nothing done. Quitting has made me noticeably more focused, alert and let's me push myself harder. That feels great to me.
Comment · 1 month ago
> This marks a key step in our exploration of the RSI path: scaling RL compute on verifiable, complex tasks, so the model can continuously expand its capability frontier through exploration and feedback.

Gotta love a capable open model. BUT, how can they just casually throw in that they're actively exploring RSI as if it's just another technique? Is this not alarming at all?

Comment · 1 month ago
A lot of this sentiment isn't misplaced, I get it. But, the US is still gives the greatest economic opportunity to anyone willing to try. The biggest market, deepest capital pools, unmatched startup ecosystem, etc.

I know economic opportunity isn't everything, but to me as Founder that's still a big appeal :)

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