Talk about the app where users are and about how you coded it on your blog or LinkedIn. Users don't know or care how you built it and devs won't become users anyway.
Shameless plug for my own AI pair programmed app. About 500 MAU. Not one of them complained.
Works with Cursor, too (using Opus). Anything these tools or wrappers do, you're better off prompting for directly to an agent who has the repo open. That way you can work across documents of all kinds, code and otherwise, truly empowering. And, unlike other tools, there are no "configurations" to get in your way. You decide how your parts work together.
We've also lifted the veil on the myth that we were a unstoppable military power. We look silly saying, day after day, that the war is over, they're powerless, etc while the same channel shows that's not true.
The folks least impressed right now are China and Russia, who must surely see a new system of regional powers operating in their own spheres, not a single global power which is apparently a historical fiction.
The excellent book, Clash of Civilizations predicted this move to regional powers versus the 50's simple East/West divide, along with many other current events we see now. It was written 30 years ago.
The US is relatively weak without its allies. NATO was the real superpower in the west. The current regime got too big for their britches and tried to go it alone.
Stock prices are reflection of what speculators expect to happen. So the depleted munitions thanks to Ukraine and the drive to get some independence from an unreliable Trump regime makes this unsurprising.
It depends whether you believe the paper strength or actual strength. On paper the Russian army was the second most powerful in the world. In practice it's the second most powerful in Ukraine. On paper the US army is the most powerful in the world. In practice they've been brought to a standstill by a third-rate power in the middle east. Before that in Vietnam, Iraq, and by something that's barely a country, Afghanistan. Some years ago I saw a Vietnamese film about the American War in which an NVA officer told his men "kill them and keep killing them until they stop coming". It doesn't matter how many expensive toys you have if the other side is determined to outlast you.
And don't forget who makes up NATO. Would you want to go up against someone like the Finns? Ask any US troops who have trained with them.
"How many Oreshniks do the Finns have?" To modernise Stalin.
I know this is hard for you to comprehend, but Russia is absolutely wrecking The Ukraine and by extension the NATO vassal states in Europe. It's hard for you to comprehend because your propaganda machines are incredibly effective, and your statements and questions show that you're incapable of looking at the other side and the other side is reality.
> The excellent book, Clash of Civilizations predicted this move to regional powers versus the 50's simple East/West divide, along with many other current events we see now. It was written 30 years ago.
Did it get many predictions wrong? That's also pretty important, no?
Bejing doesn't care for results of op, they care for the big picture. Trump is splitting the West in half, which is great for China.
Also every piece of isolationist politics is good for them, because they try to invade Taiwan and the more isolationist the US becomes, the less resistant will there be when they actually try.
For Russia, it's just great the US attacked Iran, because the world needs Oil and now Russian oil is back on the table. The amount of weapons that the US is willed to deliver to the Ukrain on the other hand goes down as well as the political will to continue the support of the defense against Russian imperialism and grab for power.
Everything that weakens NATO in any way is great for Russia, so they are quite happy with Trump threatening the alliance.
I don't think China leadership thinks it needs to invade Taiwan. Competing against an hyper-specialized country is hard, but if they manage to produce chips 90% as good as Taiwan, the later is in for a wild economic ride, which will probably end up as Taiwan as an autonomous Chinese region without firing any guns.
exactly, it's very naive some folks fall for this China invading Taiwan narrative, just look what happened with Hong Kong, it had size of like 30% of Chinese economy (when they took over), which is why they agreed with autonomy, now it's down to like what - 3%? basically irelevant ordinary develoepd CN city, same will happen with Taiwan, people will vote with their wallets in the end especially if the other option is support from US gerontocracy ruled by crazies
people thinking China needs to invade Taiwan are very short-sighted thinking in western 5 year election cycles, which don't work in China, China has all the time in the world to wait unlike these western marketing products for 1-2 terms they call politicians (and I don't write it as some China admiration, just stating the facts their political system works different way whether you like it or not, but I would for sure prefer EU making deals with China instead of US also regarding security, they are more reliable not abusive partner)
Never thought about it, but i see where it is coming from. Even after my own trip to China i still thought China would invade Taiwan sooner or later, because the idea is deeply ingrained in my mind. It is only recently that i thought about it a bit, and even a successful invasion would be at least as bad for China as Tibet invasion was. So maybe their leadership grows complacent and dumb, which may happen, or Taiwan will just rejoin China naturally during a global economic crisis.
I thought the same thing. School kids would be interested if there were a space drone they could see and control from the classroom. This is definitely possible and far cheaper than Artemis. If we wanted kids to embrace STEM, you could have these available to every classroom year round.
Right? Some of us used to read hex digits off printed paper dumps to debug mainframe memory (like me), but we can be excited about AI and embrace it, too.
From my perspective, knowing how it gets down to machine code makes it more useful and easier to control, but that doesn't mean I want to stop writing English now that we can.
Alex Karp needs to read Richard Dawkins. Neurodivergence is a chromosomal aberration that shows up in the phenotype. It takes evolutionary time scales to affect chromosomes through evolution. Launching a new tech isn't going to do it.
Dawkins also writes in The Selfish Gene that memes, a word he coined, are faster than DNA evolution because we can transmit "better" ideas (through language and art) that lead to better behavior. This kind of memetic transition is what AI is bringing. We're seeing it already. The communication around AI causes fights among friends (pro gen AI vs against, esp in the arts) and layoffs from VC-led companies, as well as spawning all kinds of new business ideas as the article mentions.
Karp is likely aware of all this. You are right about genetics vs memetics difference but the point here is that genetic differences can affect us at memetic level.
People with certain genetic aberrations have ideas that might win the memetic lottery
That's a good observation. Dawkins might characterize that as a generic advantage that's only expressed in a particular environment. That is often a trigger for a successful change in the downstream DNA.
I can think of at least 5 prominent and very wealthy "leaders" who show signs of neurodivergence, including the negative aspect of decreased empathy. Their power and money magnifies those ill effects as well. Perhaps through neglect rather than ill will these people effect the death of many conspecific individuals.
If that succeeds in preventing those (large) populations from competing for resources with the elite rulers or, more likely, alleviates the need to care for them though programs like UBI, then it's an advantage of that "selfish gene." All of these outcomes map nicely to Dawkins's writing.
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