martin_drapeau

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Comment · 1 month ago
Sure but a SaaS vendor already handle security for their own products which are typically dynamic website apps. I agree security is a concern for clients doing it themselves.
Comment · 1 month ago
What relevance will WP have now that AI can build websites? I see more and more vertical SaaS vendors bundling website migration/building/hosting in their offering. I suspect they may steel away many customers from WP, Wix and competitors. What do you think?
Comment · 3 months ago
I find myself more and more reaserching/brainstorming/shopping for DIY electronic projects with/on ChatGPT instead of googling. Wonder how ads will impact that experience.
Comment · 3 months ago
Dune II, Wolfenstein 3D and Commander Keen - all games I used to play. Very nice!
Comment · 3 months ago
The Pricing page shows all plans are sold out.
Comment · 3 months ago
Recently, I've been so eager to get new model releases in Codex. I'm hooked. I hope this accelerates development. Shows how dependant I have become to Codex.
Comment · 4 months ago
I run a SaaS that allows for court bookings. A tennis club has exactly this scenario: club offers 1h, 1.5h and 2h bookings, but 30m start. Since it is a private club and requires a membership, gaming the system is not a real issue. However, they can never be fully booked because of the 30m holes.

They open at 7am so in the mornings bookings are on the hour. Competitive junior athletes start at 2:30pm shifting to half-hour starts in the afternoon. So they mess up their schedule to accomodate them.

The non-optimal solution is to avoid proposing slots that would create 30m holes. For example do not offer 5pm if a booking ends at 4:30pm. We implemented that but it does not solve the fundamental issue. And they don't want to change. Such is life!

Comment · 4 months ago
Wasn't this predicted before sanctions? I recal everyone saying this would happen.
Comment · 4 months ago
What is not demoed are basic AI capabilities I need today to effeciently use my iPhone. Examples: - Siri, send the latest 20VC podcast to my watch. I'm going jogging. - Siri, do not start Apple Music. I do not use that app. Start Podcast. - Spell check and Auto-Correction on iMessage should support French and English. I switch from the 2 all the time. - Etc...

I'm sure you guys have tons of others to list.

Comment · 4 months ago
I'm so happy to have fallen on this. Apple Music launching on my Mac when I put on my AirPods drives me crazy.
Comment · 4 months ago
20VC had an interview with them: https://www.thetwentyminutevc.com/luca-ferrari

I came in thinking they would be like PE and just put products on life support sucking all the recurring they can. But it seems they care and improve the products. I think that has merrit.

Comment · 7 months ago
In my last jobs Jira was used, and despised by all except product managers. It just becomes a mess. In my startup (now 20 people), we use Trello. Outsiders look at us funny. I respond that its the same company after all...
Comment · 8 months ago
In Codex I was suggested to try Codex Spark for a limited time. So for my next session, I gave it a shot. It is much, much faster. However on the task I gave it, it spun around in circles cycling through files and finally abandoned saying it ran out of tokens. Major fail.
Comment · 8 months ago
100%

Currently integrating an AI Assistant with read tools (Retrieval-Augmented Generation or RAG as they say). Many policies we are writing are providing context (what are entities and how they relate). Projecting to when we add write tools, context is everything.

Comment · 9 months ago
They exist to protect the creator/inventor and allows them to get an ROI on their invested time/effort. But honestly today, the abundance of content, especially that can be generated by LLM, completely breaks this. We're overwhelmed with choice. Content has been comodotized. People will need to come to grasp with that and find other ways to get an ROI.

The article does provide a hint: "Operate". One needs to get paid for what LLMs cannot do. A good example is Laravel. They built services like Forge, Cloud, Nightwatch around open source.

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