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The beauty of venture capital is that VCs don't really know either but they allow themselves to be presuaded by the founders.

Its a beautiful thing.

It would be hilarious if they don't know how to fix it because this was built by "running loops calling Claude" and they haven't the faintest idea of the present underlying architecture.

:)

Yep - its an interesting angle to look at it.

Or rather OpenSource might have just saved the world!

This is more an example of code distribution rather than intelligence.

If Claude had NOT been trained on compiler code, it would NOT have been able to build a compiler.

Definitely signals the end of software IP or at least in its present form.

SaaS dying is mostly nonsense.

Which is easier to vibecode - AI agent or Salesforce?

The fragmentation in the AI agent space will be markedly larger than at the base CRM layer.

Abd the AI agent is replaceable in under a minute but your data in Salesforce isn’t.

This is nonsense to get you to work more for the same pay.

Its good to do this to get an idea of what it means to work on a higher level but it WILL NOT get you promoted.

Promotion is about leverage. What can you supply that no one else can and thats crucial for your bosses-boss's success?

Stop thinking execution - its exactly the opposite of that.

Can you recruit people from other organizations, can you create a new product, work with every part fo the comapny, evangelize the company externally, attract capital ...

With an LLM it takes 15 minutes. With libraries and books and youtube and research probably 4 hours.

Thats a meaningful difference to get upto speed.

If you're an engineer you get a hell of a lot of agency in 15 minutes.

A lot providers will mark up prices for things that actually don't matter. You ca definitely figure that out quickly and tell them its not needed.

And hten others will give you a cheaper alternative at a higher price - this is really fucked but I"ve seen it a lot.

Essentially service providers (most) are screwing you on price is terrible ways. LLMs can get you 20% off at the VERY least.

IF you aren't in a hurry you can cut a lot more down and even do most of the things on your own with a LLM.

The LLMs help you understand how the pricing works.

Eg: when my shower didn't work I was able to figure out all steps - and also do most of them before getting stuck at one particular point because I couldn't physically pull the unit out of the socket.

I was able to negotiate down $150 for that one.

In another instance with gas pipes I was able to find laborers who were good but just didn't have a branded van yet.

In this case LLMs help me understand that the laborer was damn good at his job and how to cut the cost of the job by breaking into different pieces.

The whole process is very tactical - you will lose quite a few negotiations before figuring it out. Also its not useful to just abstract all the jobs as you've done in your post. You've somehow got to the EMH except for service providers - its just not true.

The way different types of compnaies force you to pay more is very different. Lockpickers are very different from plumbers for example. Also each service provider have their own way of doing things and breaking points.

Also every geography is different. Service providers seem to charge the most with elderly house owners and peopel with nice houses in nice areas. So you can definitely use LLMs in those situations to find areas to put ads to attract better prices.

the best part of all this is how you can apply these negotiation skills to your job search or any other situation. definitely a long game like finance or health.

First thing that I thought off when LLMs came out - literally been in my head for 2 years.

A lot of price gouging is based on you not knowing the details or the process. With LLMs you can know both.

For most anything from kitchen renovations to A/C installation to Car servicing - you can now get an exacat idea on details and process. And you can negotiate on both.

You can also know how much "work" contractors have at this time which gives you more leverage.

For anything above $1000 in spend, learn about it from your LLM first. My usual questions:

1. What are all the steps involved? Break the steps down by cost. 2. What is the demand for this service in my area around this time of the year? 3. using the above details, how can I negotiate a lower price or find a place which will have this at a discount ?

I use an app but I also have an excel sheet where I track everything very carefully every week or so.

Trust my excel sheet much much more.

Honestly for everyone I know this is how they do it. There is one guy who built his own app and his is perfect because he has solved for his specific bank accounts.

He knows every $ coming in and going out - its pretty impressive.

Untrue - there isn't a personal finance solution that doesn't have mistakes. Not one. I've literally tried them all. Its mostly because the syncing with accounts is very very brittle and a lot of things like stock plans etc aren't supported well so your daily view will always be somewhat off.

There are insights to derive from the data - like how much do you really spend. But again its really hard to get there because the numbers are always off and most people don't actually want to know.

You are severely underestimating the average person's agency with their money.

I felt the same when I went to Amstwerdam from SF

From the title I thought he meant VCs.

Could you elaborate on what you mean?

That 80% of medical issues could be categorized as "standard medicine" with some personalization to the person?

residency you obviously see a lot of real life complicated cases but aren't the majority of the cases something a non resident could guide if not diagnose ?

I've seen that LLMs hallucinate in very subtle ways when guidng you through a course of treatment.

Once when having to administer eyedrops to a parent, and I saw redness and was being conservative, it told me the wrong drop to stop. The doctor saw my parent the next day so it was all fixed but did lead to me freaking out.

Doctors behave very differently from how we normal humans behave. They go through testing that not many of us would be able to sit through let alone pass. And they are taught a multitude of subjects that are so far away from the subjects everyone else learns that we have no way to truly communicate to them.

And this massive chasm is the problem, not that the LLM is the wrong tool.

Thinking probabilistically (mainly basyesia) and understanding the initial first two years of medschool will help you use an LLM much more effectively for your health.