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...d Muse, but not Instinct. The swarm of possible upstarts isn't interesting; the vast majority will fail. It's only once a company has made it through the full filter of viability in the market that he starts to take notice.
...ddball individualistic humans can try the crazy idea that is non-consensus. The vast majority won't work, but every so often, one does.
... in a dimension that some customers don't care about, then it's not Better. The vast majority of New ideas won't work for non-obvious reasons. Proven ideas are more likely to work. This is especially useful for onboarding. But when there's a p...
...riments are only possible to do in extremely controlled environments. The vast, vast majority are effectively impossible. What fills the void is narrative. Stories that feel true.
...mail. You're entirely on Google's turf, and they can do whatever they want. The vast majority of cloud services are in this bucket. Local and your turf: a laptop running Linux. You decide when and what updates are installed. Cloud and your tur...
...e. That means that if innovations are emerging at some constant rate, the vast, vast majority will be outside of you. The main goal is to spot insights from successful external things and import them into the project. Open source does that str...
...y a niche of people who are good drivers and/or have a high risk tolerance. The vast majority of the population wouldn't think twice about riding a car, but would never ride a motorcycle. The current state of agentic security is motorcycle sha...
...u're building it is because before it works you don't know if it will work. The vast majority of things that could work, don't work. The more steps, the higher the risk, combinatorially. But once what you have is known to be valuable, then it ...
... hours of human labor to achieve before, we'll charge you 30% of that." But the vast majority of the value comes from the model, so the domain-specific wrapper on top can't charge for that value. If they did, a new entrant will pop up that cha...
...l curved manifold. Imagine all of the random images of a certain size–the vast, vast majority are just radio static, and the meaningful images are a tiny subset. So even if the dataset has 50,000 dimensions, the intrinsic dimension of the doma...
...n an era of AI. Lovable was "anyone can write software now!" but in the end the vast majority of people won't write their own software even in this era.
...be able to watch it. The "Appointment viewing" coveted by the industry. But the vast majority of shows didn't rise to that level, so they had to assume that most viewers had missed at least a handful of episodes. That meant that multi-episode ...
...the design phase, tell the agent to make no assumptions without confirming. The vast majority you'll say "yup" to… but each one you tweak makes the downstream code generation significantly better and prevents tons of wasted effort. This helps ...
...s crystallized outputs. Examples: code, law, scribe notes for medicine. But the vast majority of knowledge work doesn't have this kind of output.
...LLM replacement level." LLMs have already become much better engineers than the vast majority of us. The only way to stay above water is to learn new ways of working that take advantage of those new capabilities. It's like going to a selective...
...his is, after all, how computers and other mechanistic systems work. But in the vast majority of real systems, computation happens at all levels simultaneously, in constant, unextractable conversation with the others.
Means should be as invisible and low friction as possible. The vast majority of people don't want to think about the features of their software... they just want them to work. Software is a means to an end.
... I build software to address that problem?" PMs know a kind of parkour that the vast majority of the population will never know.
... code, is hard. Some people find it intrinsically enjoyable as a hobby, but the vast majority of people won't. Even in a world where the vast majority of software we use is created with AI, the vast majority of people will not be directly crea...
The vast, vast majority of code that exists in the world is junk code. We think about algorithmically interesting code as most code. But that's maybe 1% of code. Most of the...