30 korrents from this recording
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0:02:14 · watch on youtube.com↗
Their wordsAnd I check if there’s demand and if people actually sign up and not just sign up, but if people actually pay money. They need to take out their credit cards, pay me money, and then I can see if the idea is validated.
0:03:22 · watch on youtube.com↗
Their wordsThey could have shipped ChatGPT for example, I heard, in 2019. And they never shipped it because they were so stuck in bureaucracy. But they had everything. They had the data, they had the tech, they had the engineers and they didn’t do it.
0:18:37 · watch on youtube.com↗
Their wordsI think the hard part is figuring out what you shouldn’t add, what you shouldn’t build, because you don’t have time.
0:23:53 · watch on youtube.com↗
Their wordsI don’t think that makes you happy. I think constraints probably make you happy. And that’s a big lesson I learned then.
0:39:44 · watch on youtube.com↗
Their wordsMan, but this is the problem with AI startups, because they all act like it’s perfect, like this is groundbreaking, but it’s not perfect. It’s really bad half the time.
0:41:06 · watch on youtube.com↗
Their wordsPeople are getting sick of frameworks. All the JavaScript frameworks are so… What do you call it, like wieldy. It takes so much work to just maintain this code, and then it updates to a new version, you need to change everything. PHP just stays the same and works.
0:43:33 · watch on youtube.com↗
Their wordsSo, there’s obviously a monetary incentive here. We want to get a lot of developers to use this technology, and then we need to charge them money, because they’re going to use it in startups, and then the startups can pay for the bills.
0:46:50 · watch on youtube.com↗
Their wordsAnd for society, if we want to save time, we should probably use the technology that’s simple, that’s pragmatic, that works, that’s not overly complicated, it doesn’t make your life like a living hell.
1:03:35 · watch on youtube.com↗
Our reading
You should never choose your own photos, because nobody knows what they actually look like.
Their wordsSo, you need to ask other people to choose your photos. You shouldn’t choose them yourself, because you don’t know how you look.
1:04:58 · watch on youtube.com↗
Their wordsIt’s all about training data, and it’s with everything in AI, how good your training data is, in many ways, more important than how many steps you train for, like how many months, or whatever, with these GPUs.
1:21:54 · watch on youtube.com↗
Their wordsI feel the same with VR. It’s really cool. Apple Vision Pro is very cool. It doesn’t really solve something for me yet. And that’s the tech looking for a solution, but one day will.
1:27:29 · watch on youtube.com↗
Their wordsThe tech stack it’s not the most important of a business when you’re starting out a business. The important thing is that you validate that there’s a market, that there’s a product that people want to pay for.
1:40:42 · watch on youtube.com↗
Their wordsif you make people pay for it, you lose 99% of the user base and you lose the crowdsource data. So it’s not fun anymore. It stops being accurate.
1:59:16 · watch on youtube.com↗
Their wordsSo I only look, okay, what’s the next problem to solve? And then the next problem. And at the end you have a whole app or website or thing. But I think most people look way too far ahead.
2:00:20 · watch on youtube.com↗
Their wordsThis hater has a point because it’s dumb to completely ignore your haters.
2:03:00 · watch on youtube.com↗
Their wordsIt’s not about followers anymore. It’s about they test your content on a small subset, like 300 people. If they like, it’ll get tested to a thousand people and on and on. So if the thing is good, it will rise anyway. It doesn’t matter if you have half a million followers or a thousand followers or more.
2:03:57 · watch on youtube.com↗
Their wordsYou need to make at least $30 or more on a user to make it worth it for you. You need to make money.
2:05:04 · watch on youtube.com↗
Their wordsA lot of them will say yes, 25% discount, 50% discount. Because you think the price on the website is the price of the API or something. It’s not.
2:10:32 · watch on youtube.com↗
Their wordsI have GPT-4o and it’s really, really, really, really good. It understands humor. You could say something bad, but it’s like a joke and it’s not offensive so much so it shouldn’t be deleted. It understands that.
2:14:42 · watch on youtube.com↗
Their wordsAnd for me, it’s so obvious to make this automatic, why would you have somebody organize this? It makes more sense to automate it, and this with most of my things
2:25:57 · watch on youtube.com↗
Their wordsSo, in my case, they’re all automated, so I might as well wait three years and I get the same money as when I sell and then I can still sell the same company.
2:27:31 · watch on youtube.com↗
Our reading
Retirement is bad for you; the right thing is to keep working on cool stuff until you die.
Their wordsSo, I think it’s good to keep working until you die. Just keep working on cool stuff and you shouldn’t retire. I think retirement is bad probably.
2:28:07 · watch on youtube.com↗
Their wordsYou have a meeting with three people and then you get these compromise results, which is very European. I don’t know if they call it polder model where you put people in the room and you only let them out when they agree on the compromise in politics. And I think it breeds averageness.
2:31:15 · watch on youtube.com↗
Their wordsMan, most people in general jobs are not so good at their job, even doctors and stuff.
2:37:08 · watch on youtube.com↗
Their wordsSo, nowadays, I just deploy to production and man, I’m going to be canceled for this. But it works very well for me.
2:42:20 · watch on youtube.com↗
Our reading
Shipping the thing is what changes the law; staying scared of the legal framework changes nothing.
Their wordsSo, just by shipping it, you change society, you change the legal framework. By not shipping, being scared of the legal framework all the time, you’re not changing things.
3:00:50 · watch on youtube.com↗
Their wordsMan, I’m suspicious of more. Do you really need all the stuff? It might slow me down actually.
3:33:01 · watch on youtube.com↗
Their wordsYou need a space to congregate, man. And I found history on this. So 400 years ago in the coffee houses of Europe, the scientific revolution, the enlightenment happened.
3:38:06 · watch on youtube.com↗
Their wordsSo actually, regulation is very good for big companies because they can follow it. I can’t follow it, right? If I want to start an AI startup in Europe now, I cannot because there’s an AI regulation that makes it very complicated for me.
3:41:32 · watch on youtube.com↗
Their wordsMan, I would listen to nobody. Just do what you think is good and follow your heart.