Vikram Subbiah @tiovikram Twitter profile

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1 month

@enlightenedcoop Yeah, instead their value goes to zero when the fashion community jumps on the next season.

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Alex Albert from Anthropic AI (and also most recognizable recent @uwcse alum) on building AI products to revolutionize the future: "The real revolution didn't come until we reimagined factories from the ground-up" @AnthropicAI @alexalbert__ @aiDotEngineer @swyx

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Signs they won't make it as a founder: > writes posts on why other founders won't make it

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Signs they won’t make it as a founder: > using zoom over g meet > 20/20 vision > followers > mrr > streaming service subscription(s) > healthy relationship > doesn’t know lyrics to headlines > google chrome 2024 > “buildspace” in bio > yc startup school on linkedin > 8 hrs of

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@0interestrates And this is what their servers looked like True story, Google it…

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@leonsilicon Good developers or good AI prompters 👀 ???

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@basti_vkl May I please see the email that prompted this reply?

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4 months

@tfadell I trust the data... Apple runs an Apache Cassandra cluster ~10x the size of Netflix's () Apple is spending $4.75B on H100 accelerators = ~100K H100s at retail (FB bought 150K in 2023) Just shut a $10B project with 1000s of employees moved to Gen AI.

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@pitdesi They seem to be very useful as hackathon prizes when the startup founders who originally bought them are looking to discard them.

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2 months

@chiefaioffice @coatuemgmt However, that is just the equipment. It needs to ultimately drive revenue from the end user. No point of building railroads when nobody is putting regular trains on them. Whether it is a bubble, only time will tell…

AI’s $600B Question

The AI bubble is reaching a tipping point. As we continue to follow the GPUs, navigating what comes next will be essential.

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2 months

@cto_junior Jumping directly into the technical papers is usually a very steep learning curve. Distributed Systems for Fun and Profit is a much more manageable learning curve for a beginner. - someone who jumped directly into the technical papers and felt the pain

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@buildyourcorner Reality: Apple Maps team: Built Apple Maps from the ground up 1 Single Corner Intern: Called the MapBox API and put a side menu atop it

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Product Hunt clearly knows who is the BEST Friend

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@enlightenedcoop Sorry bro, I certainly don't have the brain cells to lose over value of Chanel bags

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@markokraemer @cursor_ai Read the docs Much cheaper instead…

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@rizzy_sol @enlightenedcoop The S&P 500 (the often considered most baseline equity investment) overlaid over the value of Chanel bags. Up ~578% in the same period. Thank god the economy does not grow nearly as slowly as Chanel bag appreciation...

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Vikram Subbiah

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4 months

@deedydas Agreed. There is a dissonance between the skills required to succeed in industry and the skills required to independently generate value. I didn’t matter to companies while I persistently kept trying to polish my technical acumen, until I had a Tesla internship on my resume.

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Mark Zuckerberg on how AI will disrupt industries and how Meta is reimagining its business in the age of AI, while speaking with @adityaag and @rsanghvi at @southpkcommons : "You can point to almost any product experience out there and I think that'll change"

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⚔️ Today's @yacineMTB vs @t3dotgg feud, explained. How to make technical tradeoffs when hosting your own image background removal. cc @webdevcody

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Mark Zuckerberg on the Importance of Going -1 to 0 and How to Start a Company with @adityaag and @rsanghvi at @southpkcommons : "Just go build a lot of stuff and you'll learn different things from it. Try to not get too committed too quickly."

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@0interestrates The Roman Empire has evolved from Tracking Issues with Bronze Ingots to Metal-forged Tokens

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If you need Cursor, your software skills are truly Cursed

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@tiovikram

6 months

86% of young founders want to start an AI pendant company.

Jackson Oswalt

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6 months

Introducing Tone, a $299 AI wearable that acts as your second brain, distilling your lived experiences into a personal AI to give you superpowers. 🧵

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2 months

@cto_junior To reiterate your prior words, All you need is Designing Data-Intensive Applications.

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2 months

@tiovikram True, hence first read DDIA

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4 months

@mezmax Steve Jobs only became "Steve Jobs" after he shipped the Macintosh. Is this not an overestimate for someone who has taken a year and a half and still not shipped the equivalent of a bluetooth microphone.

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@omarwasm This guy. He occasionally visits the US, but he seems quite busy when he does so.

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4 months

@MaxBrodeurUrbas Just means you've got a 🔥🔥🔥 CTO

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4 months

If you think you're having a bad day, there's a VC somewhere who just lit $600K on fire giving a 21-year-old money to buy

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Sam Altman ( @sama ) on the importance of optimism towards startups, tech and AI amidst the AI boom at @ycombinator Startup School: "I think it's almost impossible to be a successful startup founder and not be at least biased towards optimism. You have to be optimistic and right"

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3 years

Okay, this is just being trashy at this point. There needs to be a purpose behind thinking differently other than enjoying the attention that comes with provocative defiance. @uwcse

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1 month

@evanjconrad Having muscles are great, but have you ever tried having GPUs bro

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4 months

@lawrencecchen Try out iPG: It's got the interview questions that seems like it covers most of what you will be asked and a timer as well to simulate the real interview experience.

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1 year

Possibly the setup for tech's greatest April Fools yet🤔

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1 year

Twitter will open source all code used to recommend tweets on March 31st

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4 months

If AirBnB applied to YC in 2024, it would be called AI-rBnB.

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4 months

Nobody can hold a stage and show new tech better than @bchesky 🫡

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4 months

Every company building AI agents has the LLM part figured, but almost none have the 'Perform Actions' part figured. Siri has had the functionality to perform AI agent actions on a vast number of iOS applications for many years now. Apple's LLM ReaLM will change this. #WWDC2024

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4 months

Apple has devolved into a late stage holding company That Siri has no LLM while they are doing this scale of buyback is a complete lack of ambition and no understanding of what is about to happen to them

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5 months

@wetarynitup Would also recommend having a pencil on hand and noting your thoughts in the margins.

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2 years

@SaveYourSons How to negotiate

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6 months

Only you can stop generational trauma 😂🤣

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6 months

A little glimpse into why Taylor ends up sleeping alone…

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4 months

@AviSchiffmann 👀 Whoops...

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@tiovikram

3 months

@CatOrman1 This is what Jensen Huang meant when he said “I wish upon you ample doses of pain and suffering”.

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1 year

@AbhayVenkatesh1 However, to address your main point, the phenomenon of more individuals becoming "newly minted \"AI founders\"" than seasoned operators can be attributed to be a downstream effect of the excess availability of early stage capital. Becoming a founder right now is more lucrative.

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4 months

@OngDevLab vim. The choice of the most productive coders since the 80s.

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@tiovikram

4 months

If only there was a way to turn marble into money...

Monumental Labs

@Monumental_Labs

4 months

We’re drowning in marble! What do we do with it???

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@vikhyatk Hopefully this post will pay for the excess S3 usage.

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2 months

@vikhyatk Should’ve mentioned this when we spoke yesterday. I’m precisely 16 hours away from moving.

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5 months

@shauseth The models... they never want to not learn

Tsarathustra

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6 months

Dario Amodei says one of the first things Ilya Sutskever said to him about neural nets was, "The models, they just want to learn"

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@gayrabbi @kianerfaan Don't hate because you can't...

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@aniiyengar Who is reading a thousand of your posts? "Post something people want" - Paul Graham (paraphrased)

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6 months

@Ishmeet_Singhh The people who say the journey matters are the people who haven’t tasted success - someone who says “the journey matters”

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4 months

@varunramg They have 10x the capital as OpenAI They have 10x the data as Google ... and They just shut a $10B project (Apple Car) and diverted everyone to building Generative AI. If you don't think a storm is coming, #WWDC2024 ...

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@nataliealmosa Exactly why @Marg_Groisman is a great bet to promote AI wearables...

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4 months

@richiemcilroy Reposting this here. Try out iPG (a YC interview simulator two YC alums built in 2012)

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@lawrencecchen Try out iPG: It's got the interview questions that seems like it covers most of what you will be asked and a timer as well to simulate the real interview experience.

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5 months

@JBasedos All they do every day is relax because one of their ancestors never did.

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4 months

@redbullfuturist Congratulations, wishing you all the best for Monday.

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@mayankja1n LITERALLY Astrology for Entrepreneurs.

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2 years

New @Twitter features under @elonmusk are like #ElonMusk #Twitter @TwitterBlue

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6 months

@0xRaduan Actually, @LiteLLM by @krrish_dh . Allows you to track your billing as well, if I'm not mistaken.

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4 months

@garrytan @bchesky The Rhode Island Bodybuilder days have not faded on him

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Mark Zuckerberg on Navigating How to Build a Great Early Team at @southpkcommons with @adityaag and @rsanghvi . "Take people who you want to spend time with. The folks who were there had different views on things, but also had enough of an overlapping foundation of values"

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@MartynStrydom @X @solarislll If this is a good opinion, @MartynStrydom gets credit for posting it If this is a bad opinion, please direct all your blame to me for writing it

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@geepytee Is it easier to get into YC or get a six-pack? Short Answer: I have a six-pack...

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4 months

@redbullfuturist Wonder how long it's going to take him to find out it's just water.

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6 months

Beck 🎈

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6 months

For all the doubters, here you go. Please don’t question me like that. I don’t do anything for clicks.

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3 years

@paulg Is the mentioned someone also an engineer? All engineers seem like geniuses to non-engineers.

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@tiovikram

4 months

@playermahesh @tfadell Tony Fadell said “Apple has ZERO data center capabilities” They’ve built and maintained large scale hardware infrastructure in the past to successfully serve software at scale with high uptime. This experience is residual capability that can be leveraged to serve AI at scale.

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@mrmagan_ @Ishmeet_Singhh @_nightsweekends @_buildspace I raise you... this Let's see how far back @Ishmeet_Singhh 's taste in hip-hop goes.

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2 months

@emendationem @cto_junior Papers like Spanner, build on fundamentals advances made by Leslie Lamport in the 90s such as Lamport Clocks. These papers assume prior familiarity with these concepts. Being able to reason about the motivations from fundamentals requires an understanding of these concepts.

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@fahdananta Building Cursor for mediocre FAANG engineers It’s called Cursed

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@chiefaioffice If they're so "innovative" with their technology, why not also be "innovative" with their brand name. Come up with a different name that doesn't cost 1+ employee. Ultimately nobody buys your product because you have a great name, but rather because you have a great product.

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@vxnuaj Was too tempting to break the streak for. Witposting will be back soon...

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4 months

@therealprady @synclabs_so This is amazing. Hopefully this is as viral as Mark Zuckerberg and Lex Fridman 🤞

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4 months

@shauseth This feels like something I’ve heard of in India (I’ve had this urge and come close after a good couple beers deep). Seen it a lot in Tamil movies. Except doing it in the US would just get 911 called on you.

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@esthercrawford I worked at the university Mediterranean place where drunk college kids showed up at 2AM (every university has one). The first night after I got back at 4AM, my roommate poked me while I was asleep the next morning to see if I was still alive. Grateful for what it taught me.

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@khushkhushkhush Perhaps the problem is not your dislike of advertisements, but rather advertisements are not of quality enough to entertain you. Perhaps that is the problem we should be solving.

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@thomasschulzz Hey Thomas, I moved to Hayes Valley after seeing your tweet, but haven’t met many builders around yet. Is there somewhere more specific you would suggest I look?

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4 months

@redbullfuturist If you've ever been to Hawthorne, standing next to the booster even makes the 3-story office look small.

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@deedydas Disagree. Ammon Bartram (YC S15) advocates the importance of standardisation of the interview, but a question being an even playing ground for all candidates is unrealistic. That’s why it’s more so just a test of whether or not someone does their homework.

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@enlightenedcoop The reality is there haven't been statistically significantly enough female heads of state to make this conclusion. I do believe there is a much higher bar for female leaders since there are so few elected. However, for every Margaret Thatcher, there is also a Liz Truss.

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@ericzhu105 Try me

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@vikhyatk Corrupted by the Vercels...

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@ricburton Ah, yes… I see it. It says “Can’t buy a Waymo” Pardon me for that. Much thanks for indulging me with the conversation though.

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@0interestrates Julius AI -> Constantine AI?

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4 months

@redbullfuturist “Ad Astra”, you mean, and not “As Astra”? I assume autocorrect messed it up.

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4 months

@nrg91720 I've seen it read PDF attachments and I've seen it do translations. Fairly reasonable to assume it should be able to do so. Of course, quality of translations may not be 100% perfect, but perhaps good enough for your use case.

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2 years

@kondavarsha Ability to stomach liquid death → You must be immortal

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@Marg_Groisman @GrowSF My guess is so that the flat land doesn’t immediately turn into a homeless encampment with an ocean view.

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4 months

@malenchi_alex ProductHunt already has them available in SVG 1st Product of the Day: 2nd Product of the Day: 3rd Product of the Day:

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@bindra_dhruv I suppose the audience matters as well. Perhaps much of this content would’ve done very well if posted on Twitter between 2021 and 2022, rather than TikTok Users go to different platforms for different types of content

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@zuhayeer Thank you

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1 year

@Ishmeet_Singhh What about stay up late and still wake up at 5am?

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5 months

@redbullfuturist That’s clearly the Red Bull talking

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4 months

@sridvijay 20/20 interests selected. How many of those are actually interests. I just picked the first 3 (3 minimum), so it’s basically garbage data.

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5 months

You can release an entirely brand-new state-of-the-art LLM and still be beaten out by a YC startup making billing software for lawyers. What a world we live in... 🌎

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@amritwt “Engineering is the closest thing to magic that exists in the world.” - Elon Musk

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5 months

@mrmagan_ Ping, if you want to meet.

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@yxshv_ He is being held at bunpoint

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@CatOrman1 Clearly why he is a workout instructor and not an investment banker...

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6 months

@kondavarsha Maybe not for most people, but Twitter also doesn't need to know about your failed attempts to catfish people.

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4 months

@amritwt Sorry, thought you meant it seemed like so long ago that people were serving web pages with C++ that it almost seems like magic today. But I get what you are hinting at. I guess the “didn’t use a ‘web server’ just read directly from port 8080” isn’t really helping either.

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4 months

@ronawang Making an OS:

Making an OS (x86)

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4 months

@vikhyatk Fingers bleeding from coding MoonDream that much? Take care and wishing you well.

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