Fintech CRO at F2 (YC)💰📈Unicorn builder 🦄 🔨 Winemaker @ Coteau Pavot 🍇 proud dad
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Basile Senesi retweeted
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Okay I love Wispr Flow but we have to talk about how horrible their typing keyboard is. Why is it so bad???!
Basile Senesi retweeted
Silicon Valley keeps building me a husband when what I really want is a wife lol
I don't want an agent that only does one-off, random tasks that are nice but not life-changing: booking flights, making dinner reservations, or buying tickets
I want an AI wife who knows what’s on the family calendar, remembers there’s a birthday party Saturday and we haven’t bought a gift then sends me options, realizes we’re almost out of diapers and buys them, knows which bills are coming up, remembers someone needs a dentist appointment and books it, figures out what the hell we’re eating all week and what we need from the grocery store, and generally keeps track of the 47 things that need to happen before anyone else even realizes they need to happen.
So, who's building me an AI wife that carries the mental load instead of an AI husband that waits for me to give it a chore??
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The original voice note was 0.92x. Follow-up examples and corrections pushed the finished piece above 2x.
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Label the state of AI-assisted work:
1. Source synthesis
2. Working draft
3. External draft
4. Send-ready
The label tells the next person how much work remains and prevents a rough synthesis from masquerading as finished work.
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Teach the system why the finished version is better.
Keep global rules broad, put medium-specific judgment in artifact skills, encode recurring checks in workflows, and let context invoke them automatically whenever possible.
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AI seniority is separate from job title.
People can be strong at context, evidence, workflow design, editing, or visual judgment, and weak at another part of the same task. The useful pairing depends on the work.
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AI can make the producer faster while making the reviewer slower.
When the author skips verification, editing, compression, and formatting, AI has not removed the cost, but has transferred the cost to the reviewer.
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Early AI use feels remarkable because you judge it as the producer: look how much I made, and how quickly.
Experience moves the evaluation to the consumer: what will they understand, and how hard will they have to work?
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Early AI use feels remarkable because you judge it as the producer: look how much I made, and how quickly.
Experience moves the evaluation to the consumer: what will they understand, and how hard will they have to work?
teapawt.org/BasileGSenesi/status/2…
Basile Senesi retweeted
Announcing Signals in Paradigm: your fleet of research agents that never stops working.
Signals keep your data continuously in sync with the real world, so you can stop chasing updates and focus on what actually matters.
Friend said me today I should share what happens in the winery.
So would you be curious about the inside baseball of how we make wine at Coteau Pavot, and how other CA producers do it?
Harvest, sulfur, dry ice, pressing, yeast, oak, etc. What would you want to know first?
I feel this in my bones
We tell young people in our society that end of the rainbow is retirement at 65.
We ought to tell them that "there is going to be this short but beautiful golden window from roughly age 3 to roughly age 12 where your kids are not only easy (comparatively to bottles & diapers), but are going to be these beautiful little creatures and it will pain your heart to be away from them for too long. So, prepare in your 20's, financially and career wise, to build that flexibility into that chapter of your life".
You don't get another shot at living the "golden window". And, for me, leaning hard into that golden window has made everything else in my life feel fairly insignificant in comparison. I have made plenty of mistakes as a father, but what I won't have is the regret of having been distracted and absent from these formative years. In some cases, that has required financial sacrifices (declining a particular career opportunity that would have required relocation), but I personally have zero regrets.
I also hear from some ambitious & successful people with a 4 year old that say "I've lost my ambition, I am so immersed in fatherhood". At least for me, and a number of my friends, it comes back. You can't keep an ambitious person down and if you have the fire, hanging at a playground on too many Tuesday afternoons is going to feel like torture after too long.
My three boys are approaching 13, 11 & 9, and it's much different than 7, 5 & 3. This summer, for example, they slept until 11am and I hard an unencumbered 6am-12pm to work (being on PT helps), then got another great window 7-11pm, but was able to be present in the heart of the day, then weeks when they were at basketball camp, etc. It gets easier, your time frees up again (there's a sadness to that too), but I'm back to working as intensely as I did pre-kids just because my day to day presence requires fewer hours than it did before (also, my wife is just superbly wonderful). And that is the beautiful gift of entrepreneurship (or at least my sort of business), the ability to deliver still a high level of output but work that around your life rather than the opposite.
TLDR, grind before, and grind after. Prepare for the golden window.
