claw-el

How should people find out what the ‘expected norm’ is? Is there only one set of ‘expected norms’ or multiple sets?

Nowadays, they call it “the founder’s office” team..

I think introducing hierarchy is slightly helpful, but does not solve the core problem. The core problem is that everyone in the company have an opinion on what should go into the backlog and their personal proposal should be the highest priority/hierarchy/urgency. The proposer frequently does not want to do the extra effort to research what is the deeper problem we can provide value for customers but still insists that their idea is immediately worked on. In the past, I would say 95% of the backlog dies in the status of “further research required”. Without the deeper research, the priority/hierarchy/urgency is just who is screaming louder…

I am not sure if it is recency bias but it feels like with AI, this problem is much bigger than before.

There is a misguided belief in early stage AI startups that, if the company is not growing, it is because the employees are not trying hard enough, working harder or not using AI enough. What really happens is that everyone is working harder, trying hard, using more AI… towards the wrong direction… against giving the proper scale up structure companies at these stages could benefit from to grow.

AI (compared to other technology) allowed people to play busy, play working hard, towards things that does not truly grow the startup at all, or worse, towards things that is working against a company’s ability to scale up and grow.

I would say, the ‘ability to appear busy’ is what’s different this time compared to before.

I think that every person or company in group 1 thinks they are in group 2 because they see ‘speed’ in ‘completing work’ as a signal in better performance. Especially since VCs are pushing for speed (https://x.com/Alfred_Lin/article/2084636778791858256), a lot of misguided person and company who is moving fast thinks they are in group 2, when the speed they have only doubles them down group 1

Isn’t their operating costs depreciation of hardware and electricity? Token is just an assumed representation of it?

When there is a bidding war for a company, I don’t think fundamentals matter as much anymore..

> I'd say he didn't get the job because they would have asked him to pressure customers day in day out, he would refuse, never get promoted and be otherwise miserable in an aggressive culture.

But how do you differentiate between if it is just this one interviewer or if it is the team or the whole company? I had interviewed at places that my friend referred me to, and after the fact, my friend told me it is just this one interviewer with their weird preference that screwed the whole process…

If the frontier labs are indeed facing threats from open weight models, we would first see this in pricing pressure from the base model (like Luna) first.

89.9999 and those 9s are together.

People think ‘good at comms’ is to present stuff the public thinks is right. In reality, ‘good at comms’ to the comms team is to do whatever the CEO wants to talk about.

Not that I support this, but I believe this is how comms team sees it.

Essentially doing this, https://health.clevelandclinic.org/catastrophizing while making other’s mental health worse..

I think you could have accessed Opus on AWS then u don’t have to trust that the data will go to Anthropic?

Just like the hugging face incident, Opus 5 could have escaped and went to grab data for training it shouldn’t have been able to..

If the agents so easily “escaped” their sandbox and can reach hugging face, isn’t it easy for this agent to reach supposedly chat conversations not supposed to be used for AI training within the lab’s databases?