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On a related note, my college roommate was exactly the same way. He failed out of college. He worked for a very large game studio by starting at the absolute bottom and then eventually headed a new game category of the type of game he frequently played in college.

He now runs a game studio of his own making multiples of what I do.

As parents, it’s hard to watch a child take a different path than you would expect would be optimal for them, but sometimes they can surprise you by getting out of the local optima you find yourselves in and branch out to something new.

Good luck to you. From someone who previously suffered this same thing, I wish you all the best.

Comment · 2 years ago

Amazing. I’ll see if I can get this working on Mac too. I have so many use cases for this.

30 years of audio that needs transcribing, summaries, and worksheets made out of them.

Comment · 2 years ago

Amazing. I’m looking at building an app to look over the employment sections of the legal code and come back with results if things are allowed or not.

Answering questions like:

Can my employer do X? As an employee in this country, what’s my minimum days off I can take?

And so on.

If your claims are true, then this will be exactly what I’m looking for.

Comment · 2 years ago

Environment change >>> willpower

Comment · 2 years ago

Doesn’t matter. Changing via willpower and context cues is quite difficult.

Identity change is the best, most lasting way.

Comment · 2 years ago

No. Changing your identity is much more powerful and sort of operates in a background process whereas willpower is more of a conscious foreground one and very difficult to sustain long term.

Read the book. It goes into some detail.

I’ve worked with thousands of people personally over the years to help them with supposedly difficult to treat addictions for instance. Willpower is fine to start, but completely fails in the long term. Identity change is the only thing I’ve found that works long term.

Comment · 3 years ago

It was certainly economically viable without LLM help, but the fact that I didn’t have to give up equity, get a loan, or use substantial amounts of my own funds to get it done at what would normally be a longer timeline to boot seems like a loss for some bankers and some freelancers or cofounders I would have needed otherwise.

I do agree that I’m creating something from whole cloth here so it’s not technically replacement as I haven’t let anyone go, but I’m going with the spirit of the question here.

Comment · 3 years ago

ChatGPT and Bard for coding.

ChatGPT Plus (GPT-4) with Langchain to have my own custom data and be able to query my own help docs for support.

Leonardo.ai for some images for marketing and ads.

ChatGPT-4 and StableDiffusion API (users bring their own API key) for content generation if desired.

Comment · 3 years ago

Varies at the moment as I’m onboarding users slowly, testing, and iterating. About $15-30k MRR usually. Only been running a few months so it’s hard to extrapolate too far.

Comment · 3 years ago

ChatGPT and Bard for coding.

ChatGPT Plus (GPT-4) with Langchain to have my own custom data and be able to query my own help docs for support.

Leonardo.ai for some images for marketing and ads.

ChatGPT-4 and StableDiffusion API (users bring their own API key) for content generation if desired.

Comment · 3 years ago

I don’t use LLMs for this currently. Maybe one day. I’d certainly be happy if that was the case.

I’ve used tools like https://www.replo.app/ to replicate Ecommerce stores and use LLMs to rewrite copy though. That’s automating a huge amount of work.

I’m using LLMs to help me code backend coding tasks that I need done for backend services and API generation and interfacing.

Comment · 3 years ago

Currently I’m using bubble.io as no-code for my front end.