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It turns out that the vast majority of coding in practice is pretty simple and automatable. It's way less valuable than people think. It is concave, you don't need tons of data to autom...
...e able to distinguish subtle differences and have informed preferences. But the vast majority of people will think all of the options taste the same. That means if your thing has a subtly better quality than the default option that can only be...
...dination costs. Sometimes crazy is how you break through to the next thing. The vast majority of crazy, fast companies are like sparks flying through the wind, snuffing out before anybody notices. But every so often one falls on a patch of dry...
...you have to figure out a different way to unpack or frame it for them. The vast vast majority of signal that is sent out in the world fails to be absorbed. Because it assumes preexisting knowledge or motivation that doesn't match, or because i...
... particular way, your app could scale to insane heights if necessary. … But the vast majority of webapps that someone might build will never get more than a few dozen users anyway. The tradeoff was to have a persistent, non-trivial tax, which ...
...ig breakthrough. Just that it's necessary for a game-changing breakthrough. The vast majority of failed bands also have creative strife, but then they never have the breakthrough, and they disband, and you never hear about them. It's hard to h...
...rain for no reason. Innovation is variance that turns out to be useful. But the vast majority of variance, or things that attempt to be innovative, turn out to not be viable. Innovate intentionally! Innovation is dangerous, all else equal. If ...
... minds is hard to communicate over, and why sharing a good idea is so hard. The vast majority of human experience is just running around in a cacophony of people shouting to be heard with what they think is a useful insight, above the cacophon...
...viating from the norm. A defection that turns out to work is acclaimed. But the vast majority of the time, they don't work. Sometimes the deviation is accidental. But sometimes it's intentional: a defection. The renegades are where innovative ...
...se to join with it and participate, it gains even more momentum. Of course, the vast majority of these experiments will fail! The standardization momentum thus accumulates after the original innovative act.
...ning Man tickets. In Coachella, the entity producing the event is producing the vast majority of the things that you're paying to see. The event could be great if they do a great job, or bad if they do a bad job. Even if the other participants...
...works!" A large proportion of code in the world is glue code. In the future the vast majority will be glop.
...ividually unexceptional humans do. You swarm all of the possible solutions. The vast majority are crap and kind of fall away, unused. The small subset that are great are all that remain. Humans have a trick the LLMs don't: the world can cache ...
...use to improve the product within conservative differential privacy limits. The vast majority of non-private tools collect many orders of magnitude more data than they need, "just in case", and then do very little with it to actually improve t...
...s generating millions of images every day that have never been seen before. The vast majority have an audience of 1. Like going on a hike in the meadow by yourself. A vastly personal experience, just for you. Your own personal museum just for ...
... machine see it". It can be fully in the open but so noisy and chaotic that the vast majority of things aren't seen by the machine. "This doesn't change anything because all of the data was already public anyway" doesn't necessarily track; bec...
...caches them. Which means that at any time step, if you random sample ideas, the vast majority are useful ones. LLMs then capture all of those useful ideas that someone bothered to write down, embeds them into a crystallized mirror that can be ...
The vast majority of value for companies is created from discretionary effort of the employees. Discretionary effort is not just "an hour more work." It's more connect...
... everyone can see. Everyone can see "There's no way up the mountain!" The vast, vast majority of people who try to make it up the mountain will die. But the lucky few that make it through won't have realized how hard it was when they started! ...
...could have a kind of network effect with more use can't get off the ground. The vast majority of functionality that is specific to a given experience is thin and small… but every origin has to reinvent the world anew in their own pocket univer...