90% of the time, it actually is rocket science
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@snipd_app I got logged out, maybe an update, and I don’t know which email my account is tied to and when I try an email I get locked into a 15 min onboarding flow!!!! I can’t click back to try a different email?! So I can’t find my account and am switching podcast players
3/ Beyond that the domain is usually pretty uncharted. Not only do I think these areas signify interesting boundaries to explore in themselves, but from those boundaries you can also walk back to where the current branch of assumptions started that led to those empirical fillers.
This week in What's Blowing my Mind in AI: using @NotebookLM to research new topics I want to learn about, creating "audio notes" with key questions or areas I want to really understand, then listening to and even participating in the resulting podcast-style audio recording!
Can you run a machine shop on Markdown?
Brad Feld recently wrote about running a company on Markdown files. Compelling but here's what @a16z's American dynamism sector needs: natalyabailey.substack.com/p…
Anyone else go off the deep end into AI and develop weird new hobbies as a side effect?! Waiting for Claude Code to finish implementing changes so now I crochet? Listening to my AI generated NotebookLM podcast so I wake up early to bake banana bread? Everything’s fine…
I'm about 9 months into my journey as a full stack developer/LLM engineer and am wondering... what do you all do when things are compiling/deploying/etc?! Pushups? Online shop?
writing code and programs these days is basically just searching for all the emojis your LLMs put into the code they write and deleting them to hide the evidence
Everyone talks about the perils of starting a company with your spouse, but one benefit: when you're late to date night dinner because you're negotiating a fundraising round together, you won't disappoint anyone!
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Vibe Coding for Dummies 📗
We collected the best tips on X for vibe coding, so you can build cool shit without getting stuck in a loop (bookmark this):
Didn't get into @ycombinator's Spring '25 batch but the rejection letter said we were in the top 10% so that's something! Will try again next cycle, and keep shipping (our diagnostic/reporting tool for aviation maintenance) to customers in the meantime. Blue skies!
Thankful to @tferriss's attempt to bring this one down to earth! tim.blog/2025/01/18/naval-ra… Long-time fan of David Deutsch but felt this was really out of touch, specifically wrt:
Lesson learned: @ChatGPTapp was not "working on my task" in the background. I exceeded the token limit with too long of a list of names so it errored out and gave me polite coworker nonsense about getting back to me later.
How else could I be saving time and producing better work product at my new startup with @ChatGPTapp?! Tell me what you've found helpful! Here are some of my ideas related to customer discovery, marketing, and fundraising: open.substack.com/pub/nataly…
Possibly controversial opinion: the technology approach might be as or even more important than the founders at a deep tech startup open.substack.com/pub/nataly…
R&D is uncertain and doesn't mix well with traditional performance management. Instead, try these measures of performance and progress:
open.substack.com/pub/nataly…
Finally reading @fortelabs Building a Second Brain. Another benefit of Intermediate Packets I'm finding is that I'm more motivated to do some mundane tasks once I frame the work as creating small bits of value I can reuse later