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I find myself more and more reaserching/brainstorming/shopping for DIY electronic projects with/on ChatGPT instead of googling. Wonder how ads will impact that experience.

Dune II, Wolfenstein 3D and Commander Keen - all games I used to play. Very nice!

The Pricing page shows all plans are sold out.

Recently, I've been so eager to get new model releases in Codex. I'm hooked. I hope this accelerates development. Shows how dependant I have become to Codex.

I run a SaaS that allows for court bookings. A tennis club has exactly this scenario: club offers 1h, 1.5h and 2h bookings, but 30m start. Since it is a private club and requires a membership, gaming the system is not a real issue. However, they can never be fully booked because of the 30m holes.

They open at 7am so in the mornings bookings are on the hour. Competitive junior athletes start at 2:30pm shifting to half-hour starts in the afternoon. So they mess up their schedule to accomodate them.

The non-optimal solution is to avoid proposing slots that would create 30m holes. For example do not offer 5pm if a booking ends at 4:30pm. We implemented that but it does not solve the fundamental issue. And they don't want to change. Such is life!

Wasn't this predicted before sanctions? I recal everyone saying this would happen.

What is not demoed are basic AI capabilities I need today to effeciently use my iPhone. Examples: - Siri, send the latest 20VC podcast to my watch. I'm going jogging. - Siri, do not start Apple Music. I do not use that app. Start Podcast. - Spell check and Auto-Correction on iMessage should support French and English. I switch from the 2 all the time. - Etc...

I'm sure you guys have tons of others to list.

I'm so happy to have fallen on this. Apple Music launching on my Mac when I put on my AirPods drives me crazy.

20VC had an interview with them: https://www.thetwentyminutevc.com/luca-ferrari

I came in thinking they would be like PE and just put products on life support sucking all the recurring they can. But it seems they care and improve the products. I think that has merrit.

In my last jobs Jira was used, and despised by all except product managers. It just becomes a mess. In my startup (now 20 people), we use Trello. Outsiders look at us funny. I respond that its the same company after all...

In Codex I was suggested to try Codex Spark for a limited time. So for my next session, I gave it a shot. It is much, much faster. However on the task I gave it, it spun around in circles cycling through files and finally abandoned saying it ran out of tokens. Major fail.

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Currently integrating an AI Assistant with read tools (Retrieval-Augmented Generation or RAG as they say). Many policies we are writing are providing context (what are entities and how they relate). Projecting to when we add write tools, context is everything.

They exist to protect the creator/inventor and allows them to get an ROI on their invested time/effort. But honestly today, the abundance of content, especially that can be generated by LLM, completely breaks this. We're overwhelmed with choice. Content has been comodotized. People will need to come to grasp with that and find other ways to get an ROI.

The article does provide a hint: "Operate". One needs to get paid for what LLMs cannot do. A good example is Laravel. They built services like Forge, Cloud, Nightwatch around open source.

Most analysts seem to forget what actual consumers do. Normal people use ChatGPT. They accidentally use Gemini when they Google something. But I don’t know anyone non-technical who has ditched ChatGPT as their default LLM. For 99% of questions these days, it’s plenty good enough—there’s just no real reason to switch.

OpenAI's strategy is to eventually overtake search. I'd be curious for a chart of their progress over time. Without Google trying to distort the picture with Gemini benchmark results and usage stats which are tainted by sheer numbers from traditional search and their apps.

A company replacing domestic workers by cheaper H1-B workers. As opposed to a company shutting down because foreign competitors took their marketshare. In either case, domestic company is not competitive. Protectionism won't make the domestic company more competitive.

Our support team shares a Gmail inbox. Gemini was not able to write proper responses, as the author exemplified.

We therefore connected Serif, which automatically writes drafts. You don't need to ask - open Gmail and drafts are there. Serif learned from previous support email threads to draft a proper response. And the tone matches!

I truly wonder why Gmail didn't think of that. Seems pretty obvious to me.

I often write in Frenglish (French and English). Apple auto-complete gets so confused and is utterly useless. ChatGPT can easily switch from one language to another. I wish the auto-complete had ChatGPT's power.

Scott Manley has a great video explaining what he thinks happened. https://youtu.be/ISZTTEtHcTg?si=0LZFyiCysBiFZrMz

I see Laravel Cloud as devops as a service.

I run a B2B SaaS on Laravel and this was a dream of mine for many years. Laravel + Vuejs is sufficient to cover 99% of features we need to build and scale our business. I want my devs to build features, not infrastructure.

I'm looking forward to playing with Laravel Cloud and do hope we can migrate our production environment to it one day.

This moment has finally arrived. Been expecting it. Will this translate in a massive decrease in capex expenditure and the demise of NVIDIA? Will this deflate the AI bubble we are living in?

You can always refactor. Sure it takes time and effort but it is possible. And it serves as a good painful experience to invest more on design first, to your point :)

OpenAI's sole focus is serving AI to consumers and businesses. I trust them more to remain backwards compatible over time.

Google changed their AI name multiple times. I've built on them before and they end of lifed the product I was using. Zero confidence Gemini will be there tomorrow.

20 years ago people asked that exact question. E-Commerce emerged. People knew the physical process of buying things would move online. Took some time. Sure, more things emerged but monetizing the Internet still remains about selling you something.

What similar parallel can we think of for AI?

Sure it does. Ask any common mortal about AI and they'll mention ChatGPT - not Claude, Gemini or whatever else. They might not even know OpenAI. But they do know ChatGPT.

Has it become a verb yet? Waiting to peole to replace "I googled how to..." with "I chatgpted how to...".

The fundamental question is how to monetize AI?

I see 2 paths: - Consumers - the Google way: search and advertise to consumers - Businesses - the AWS way: attrack businesses to use your API and lock them in

The first is fickle. Will OpenAI become the door to the Internet? You'll need people to stop using Google Search and rely on ChatGPT for that to happen. Will become a commodity. Short term you can charge a subscription but long term will most likely become a commondity with advertising.

The second is tangible. My company is plugged directly to the OpenAI API. We build on it. Still very early and not so robust. But getting better and cheaper and faster over time. Active development. No reason to switch to something else as long as OpenAI leads the pack.

In 2024, with Microsoft and Google providing built-in anti-virus and anti-malware tools, is there such a place for third-party anti viruses?

Your thread is 9 months old. Do you have a product and a bit of traction? I was in a similar place to you back in 2019. Via side gigs I built a product that served a niche. Eventually, raised 180k with TinySeed (specialized in boostrapping B2B SaaS). Best move ever. Gave me and my cofounder a runway to find product market fit. We're now 8 full time at Activity Messenger and doubling year over year.

Have a listen to the podcast Startups for the rest of us. All about bootstrapping. Get inspired and start building.

I sometimes listen to the All in podcast. The 4 VCs recently blasted Apple saying they don't know why there are so many engineers. And they don't know why an iPhone is so expensive. They last longer now and don't need to upgrade as often. To their eyes an iPhone has become boring.

My reply is Apple supports close to 2 billion devices. They have to work and never crash. They also need to get upgraded for security patches and new features. The fact they find them "boring" is a good thing. Means iPhones have become an intrisic part of their lives.

This article describes one of the many things Apple has to do to make them "boring". Indeed a feat of engineering.

Now, when they replicate that success with Siri, that will be a game changer. Hopefully advances in LLMs will bring that day forward.

Pulling on the thread of executives blaming WFH for poor productivity, it just points to their lack of adaptability and poor management.

WFH is a global trend and something you cannot fight. People will just go elsewhere.

Executives should indeed highlight there is a problem and fix it accordingly by changing how managers operate. Not by trying to wind back time.

It's all about saving time. Musk got a private jet to save time travelling around. Employees WFH to save time too. That's the hack they found to avoid commuting to work. In such they improve the quality of their lives.

Musk, Jasys and Benioff should treat their employees like they do their customers. Adapt to their needs. Asking people to come back to the office is just like selling something a customer no longer wants.

As for Musk saying "it ain't fair for service employees" I reply those are different jobs. Poor excuse.