dazzeloid

very cool. do you think of this primarily for engineering work or more generally collaborating with AI?

mid-level output, clearly had more capability than his output suggested from his ideas and some particularly strong contributions

trust. he was not forthcoming when confronted with the "this other company says you are full-time and just went to their offsite - is that true?"

funny thing was he had other places on his linkedin under "active employment" but we never really dug into it (until we learned he was full-time there) because he just seemed like the kind of person who wouldn't keep his LinkedIn up to date.

He was a solid middle of the pack contributor on net, but it was clear he was way stronger than his net output just from interactions with him (he had great products ideas, clear technical understanding of many areas, etc).

he's a really talented engineer, crushed our interviews. the funny thing was that he actually had multiple companies on his linkedin at the same time, including ours. we just thought they must have been internships or something and he never updated them (he felt a bit chaotic). but then it turned out he was working at all of them simultaneously.

worked for us for almost a year and did a solid job (we also let him go when we discovered the multiple jobs)

Cosign, Spenser and I are aligned on this :)

<3 thank you!

I both think this comment is spot on (acquisition theater / cope-core is very real) and what I said was true :)

Obviously, the better financial outcome is to grow huge independently and go public, etc, but there are a lot of good outcomes that are not that.

Command AI co-founder here. What I'll add to Spenser's nice comment is that there was this strange tension when we were deciding to do this between: (1) Feeling like the only right outcome for a growing startup with runway is to keep going and try to build a massive independent company, (2) Realizing that we can probably grow faster as part of Amplitude (obv with less upside capture)

Obviously if your growth is so epic and you're a top 1% company, the choice is obvious. But there are a lot of companies that are doing well outside of that group that I don't think allow themselves to consider the acquisition route. We were like that until Amplitude reached out and we got good counsel to seriously consider their offer.

I'm going to be following very closely how Arc approaches monetization. Don't think they've talked much about this yet. Right now they are towing the line between art project and business extremely well so far, but I wonder how this will work at scale once they're through the honeymoon early adoption phase.

Love the concept of prompt velocity. Although it doesn't capture the initial quality of the prompt or whether the changes are effective.