nichochar

my read is that PG is one of the lucky people who was very successful before kids, so he could just put YC in self-driving mode by handing off to the next generation and his life's work still feels meaningful.

I think it's very different if you have not achieved your life's work yet.

Healthy things. For me its riding a bike, which is magical because i) its solo activity so my brain meditates ii) its healthy but no shocks on my knees and body iii) its technology free, no notifications on a bike

these people have ai too. AI increases competition amongst the ambitious, so it doesn't solve the problem

i really like your framing, this encapsulates the problem very consisely:

> Time is finite. Desire / drive are not. Solve for X

(original author)

this is true for me, wouldn't be remotely possible without my wife.

yep all of this resonates

Surprisingly pragmatic and info packed article..

Kudos to databricks, I also find it interesting that such different companies (Stripe, Ramp, Databricks) are all building the exact same internal tools.

I think building companies is going to look more generic in the future because intelligence is an API now.

yep, that's what i qualify as "not an advantage".

It's totally fine if thats what your company is like, but the labs have an unfair advantage.

This was often true when writing code manually to be fair.

You could get to "something that works" rather fast but it took a long time to 1) evaluate other options (maybe before, maybe after), 2) refine it, 3) test it and build confidence around it.

I think your point stands but no one really knows where. The next year or so is going to be everyone trying to figure that out (this is also why we hear a lot of "we need to reinvent github")