Paul Graham / @paulg · Scour

I got a mass email from a fund that claims they invest in YC startups "during the Alumni priority investment window." In fact there is no such thing as an "Alum...

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RT by @paulg: Whether it’s existing consulting firms, new ones that emerge, FDEs from agent vendors, or new internal agent engineering roles, the amount of work...

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Omega automatics from the 1950s are accurate, cheap, and very pleasing. If you want an old watch that will make you happy, it's hard to think of a safer bet.

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What changed three months ago?

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Solution: New companies.

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Stockholm is remarkably walkable. At one point we were walking somewhere and we needed to check a map. It was such a relief not to have to think about the phone...

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RT by @paulg: I was a TA for intro CS, and watching Claude Code struggle is bringing back memories.

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RT by @paulg: If you can travel faster than light then you can go back in time. Nobody has come back to tell us about it so it seems pretty unlikely.

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Shorter = less room for bogusness to hide.

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RT by @paulg: Replit, turned 10 🎂

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RT by @paulg: chinese models are ~8 months behind and are falling further behind

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RT by @paulg: Big PebbleOS update today! New in v4.9.171:

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RT by @paulg: Narrative violation and great insight from the latest Citadel Securities banger by Frank Flight: "We illustrated back in February that demand for ...

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RT by @paulg: Atlassian’s results surprised Wall Street, but it shouldn’t be a surprise. The simple heuristic for the future of software is that when there are ...

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RT by @paulg: Here's Looking at Euclid by Helen Friel.

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RT by @paulg: Am 22. September verspricht Kasachstans Präsident dem US-Präsidenten eine Wolfram-Mine.

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I was trying to think what's the opposite of this kind of company. Who really respects their customers? And I realized (I swear I didn't set this up) the answer...

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Don't join a company or industry that has contempt for its customers. You can make a lot of money that way, and of course it gives you a feeling of superiority,...

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RT by @paulg: A 7-million parameter model outperforming models a thousand times its size on tasks like ARC Prize. That's what recursive reasoning unlocks.

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This is an instance of the more general principle: If you are graduating university and are about to join a consulting firm, don't do that.

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