benjaminwootton

Every big business in the world biases towards risk reduction and cost reduction over getting an edge.

I was lucky enough to start my career sat on the next desk across from Kirat. Genius programmer and nice guy! He later went on to found Beacon platform which was the same again, as a cloud hosted service.

You can vibe code a clone of Trello in 30 minutes.

Brilliant framing. If you understand a domain and understand software architecture then you are in an extremely strong position right now.

They need something like this as it's hard and flaky to automate Google apps with AI. However, step 2 drops me to a fairly technical looking page where I have to configure Google Cloud. If they had a one click installer to automate Google Apps it would be an absolute killer use case for AI for me.

A demo of using an LLM/agent to analyse data stored in ClickHouse. This stuff is getting really good!

I’ve been saying the same and the same about data more generally. I don’t want to go and look, I want to be told about what I need to know about.

I wish I knew the difference. I’ve ran or been close to tens of businesses over the last 20 years and we’ve always paid the Google tax, but I’m not sure it’s ever had a positive ROI.

The AdWords platform is extremely complicated nowadays, and try as I might I can’t get any impressions from it. I then went through a period with an AdWords specialist from their team who also couldn’t get any impressions. It’s like they don’t want or need my money.

It’s yet another way for investors to screw early employees whose face doesn’t fit.

The bigger issue is that LLMs haven’t had much training on Q as there’s little publically available code. I recently had to try and hack some together and LLMs couldn’t string simple pieces of code together.

It’s a bizarre language.

There is some truth in this. I fit into a few of these buckets and I don’t think I could ever recommend their enterprise stuff after having my favourite consumer products pulled.

The public markets are hitting all time highs every week. It’s going to be painful if that pops.

This has pretty much ruined TV for me. I watch with a remote control and constantly turn it up and down. It breaks the immersion.

You are correct but with Venmo or PayPal there’s a middleman charging fees who can lock your funds. A decentralised PayPal is appealing.

Try Claude Code. You’ll literally be able to automate 90% of the coding part of your job.

I think there is a third and distinct model which is AI that runs in the background autonomously amd over a long period and pushes things to you.

It can detect situations intelligently, do the filtering, summarisation of what’s happening and possibly a recommendation.

This feels a lot more natural to me, especially in a business context when you want to monitor for 100 situations about thousands of customers.

Yeah, I spent some time researching this crowd and most of the ones I found have the playbook of selling to indie hackers and talking about how successful they are with fake MRR screenshots.

I’ve always dwelled over $5 a month subscriptions for iPhone apps due to subscription fatigue. I find myself signing up for $200 AI subscriptions without a moments hesitation.

I do agree, Claude Code absolutely changed the game. It is outstanding.

I didn't test with ChatGPT yet so this is a fair comment. I'm not sure how good their MCP offering is at this time? It was quite easy to connect MCP and ClickHouse for Claude Desktop, Claude Code and Gemini CLI.

Assuming there’s fixed demand. If companies can get 20% more software for the same price then there is still a lot of automation to do

It's nice. I actually pay for something like this.

The only thing I think I would need to switch is canvas size, ideally where I can select sizes for Twitter, Instagram etc.

Being able to paste an image would be nice too.

Nice work!

Because it looks nice and makes it pop in a social media feed.

How can it take 3-4 months to get an eCommerce site back online? I assume you could redeploy everything from scratch in less time if you have source code and release assets. With backups and failover sites I can’t think of any world where this would happen?

They outsource as much as they can to the cheapest system integrators they can find, primarily TCS.

Isn’t the bigger problem that the US has a population of 340 million, New Zealand has a population of 5 million?

I also don’t feel great after eating out for 3 meals per day. That’s the mean reason we use AirBNB.

Reminds me of his “diary of a CEO” interview where he spends half of it reading out his own inspirational emails to the team.

That’s a good idea. I’m just setting up an AirBNB and need all of the above.