NickNaraghi

> Across his various startups, Peter has seen two kinds of work:

> 1. the "IQ 180" work. some mad scientist genius type comes up with some crazy solution you've never thought of.

> 2. the "token spewer" work. being ultra responsive, pushing the ball forward across dozens of different fronts.

Interesting comp to pg's Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule https://www.paulgraham.com/makersschedule.html

I'm curious about not only which of these roles models will fill, but also how they will empower us to be in the mode we prefer.

I feel that more people would understand Anthropic's worldview if they read more of the public source material. Sure it is a cult, but it they have been relatively transparent with their views: https://darioamodei.com/essay/machines-of-loving-grace#basic...

> Let’s say every company gets about three innovation tokens. You can spend these however you want, but the supply is fixed for a long while.

This is one of my favorite blog posts, and it can basically be encapsulated in the idea of "innovation tokens." It is one of the most useful concepts I have had as a PM / eng leader in my career. It helps actually make the the right tradeoffs, and helps even more in explaining those tradeoffs to colleague of all levels. Highly recommend.

> You built AGI on Mar 15, 2033. Ada built superintelligence on Aug 12, 2033.

Pretty fun. A little one-dimensional but a good insight into how a VC thinks about RSI. My second attempt was almost exactly the same outcome as the first, despite a different capital allocation.

These used to be 50 cents a piece at my high school library. What a joy it was to have a tiny simple way to transport essays (and pixel art and other fun things) to and from school and amongst all the school computers.

Seems like an artifact of the subagent pattern which is explicitly included in recent models.

I think one day it will relatively plateau and then these approaches will be meaningful improvements in performance. But yes, pointless for now.

I would put Reply and Report on the same line as the poster anon username, to condense even more

This is awesome! Feedback would be to increase the visual density of the posts / replies (taking from HN or Reddit) because right now there's a lot of space between each line.

Unfortunately it is a necessary compromise, because free speech is essential to a working civilization.

I think your reasoning is actually more complex than the person you are responding to, unfortunately. (As someone who as published broadly used open source software)

Really cool. What do the buttons on the right sidebar do?

Wild how much empathy I have for the LLM now. It will definitely affect how I use AI.

These are particularly interesting because they isolate the one part of time that is completely made up: the week. Days, months, years have natural markers - but weeks and particularly days of the week are a totally arbitrary coordination function.

You had two weeks to build up a queue of everything you wanted to do with it!

Gonna have to see the agent trace on that one.

Almost every correct answer is a longer string than the other multiple choice options.

Super interesting. How does regulation affect IPO prospects of OAI and ANTH? What’s the timing of each?

On the meta, it’s wonderful to see so much disagreement in perspective on the top comments in this thread. Brave new world.

This is brilliant. I've been really excited about Jack Dorsey's "From Hierarchy to Intelligence"[0] and I think what you've got here is a pretty important piece of the puzzle.

[0] block.xyz/inside/from-hierarchy-to-intelligence

If you wanted to go in the other direction, you could achieve more productivity with faster mouse skills. The competitive FPS genre has spawned a bunch of aim training tools[0] to improve muscle memory.

[0] https://www.3daimtrainer.com/

This would be an interesting approach if the course supplied a custom Harness (perhaps in place of a textbook) and this was part of the instruction set inside of it. As a standalone thing you ask students to import into their agent, seems unlikely to work.

Worth checking out the heart of what people were doing with DAOs

Unfortunately this is a skill issue. The information is in the machine, you just need to figure out how to get it out. Most people are very far behind on this.

Doesn’t sound like you’ve been there

Yes! Anthropic team calls this “regenerate, don’t fix.”

The person who builds an agentic IDE or GitHub alternative that natively does the process you describe will be a multibillionare.

It's a funny thing to write, like an article in an old newspaper that aged quickly. I suspect that this will be wildly out of date within 2-3 years.

Note that these are 2023 numbers, not 2025.

As someone who has worked on multiple marketplace startups, I highly highly recommend this resource: https://www.nfx.com/post/network-effects-bible