theli0nheart

You cherry-picked text from my about page on my personal website, then vaguely suggested for readers to "dig into the author's credibility and credentials", and now you're trying to act as if you're not engaging in ad hominem.

Like I suggested earlier in this thread: please engage with my points if you have a well-reasoned critique, which, as it seems, you do not.

Agreed. Thank you :)

Because you are insulting her. You conveniently cut out the part of my bio where I explain she's the reason I'm working on this business.

Now, your turn: how is the startup I'm building relevant to the conversation?

Hi, OP here.

I sat with this for a bit, and I was going to ignore this, but my wife's honor is on the line, so I just can't.

Frankly, whatever attempt at ad hominem here is uncalled for, and not befitting for HN.

My wife built a product over two years ago and hit a massive need after over a year of crawling over broken glass. I had recently left my previous startup and was going to take a break. But she needed my help. There was one week where ChatGPT's custom GPTs had terrible uptime, so she asked me to built an actual web app. And that's how I was recruited.

I was skeptical at first, given I don't believe in astrology, but I believe in the results. Not a week goes by that a user doesn't reach out to us to let us know that Star Path has had a massively positive impact on their life. Star Path has saved marriages, helped users gain the confidence to start the career they've always wanted, and more.

I also studied applied math and economics at Yale (where I met my wife, actually!), and have been investing and building software for 20 years, as both a founder and engineer.

Anyways, I'd love to keep the conversation and debate focused on the points I made, and not whatever preconceptions you might have re: astrology. Thanks.

Hi, OP here. :)

I reinvested all proceeds into long-term zero coupon U.S. treasuries.

You're pretty lucky. Most people I know who've gotten to this point have had to think about it a lot.

They were never offering actual US models. We tested them extensively and it was clear whatever they were passing as Anthropic were simply mediocre distillations based on Kimi.

I think we have different definitions of “proficient”. :)

Being proficient in a language is really less about memorizing words than it is pronunciation and grammar. Memorization itself is pretty easy.

They may have good margins, but a few things are still true:

1. Much of those profits have to be immediately reinvested into model training runs to avoid being lapped by competitions.

2. Unit costs are irrelevant when the labs don't price per unit, and instead charge, for instance, $200 / month for $10k worth of tokens.

This isn't a steady state. Whatever the current situation is, I doubt it's sustainable.

I just tested the provider that the OP mentioned extensively yesterday, and the models they're selling are definitely not from Anthropic. The voice "sounds" like Sonnet or Opus at first glance, but the intelligence is definitely not there.

I use Cursor every day.