Wow I was laughing internally. I couldn’t dare to laugh out loud because this story is too real to me. The moment I noticed that I just had to look back my life. Good read
Koreans also say "tea" (차) to what supposed to be called infusion in English. Barley, brown rice, corn, Solomon's seal, and jack bean are common, but there are many more. I was confused when I was communicating about Korean tea at first in English. I introduced Korean teas, but for them they didn't have tea leaves thus not tea but infusion. If you don't know about brown rice green tea, I recommend it. It is literally a mix of green tea and brown rice. You should be able to find it in Japanese, Korean, or Chinese grocery stores.
I didn’t upgrade to Tahoe after reading a couple of bad reviews. This time around though I may just do the upgrade. Nagging for system upgrade every time I plug my iphone is getting my nerves.
Thanks for answering. A crash happened recently to me and I got myself voluntarily flushed out of the company. Mercenaries is a good way to put it. I guess I will have to keep searching for right people.
Congrats for publishing a new book. When I jumped into a startup, everyone seemed to have different definitions of MVP. So I just had to read your book The lean startup and realized that there is no one definition of MVP because every successful business can be different. The book also made me think a lot about profitability and got me into indie hacking mind. Although I read it just three years ago, it still held and helped me shape my views. Thanks. I will try to grab your new book someday for sure.
Now, here is my question. I personally got disappointed in how most “early” and “small” startups operate. I have short experience to be fair but their sole goal seems to be how to get funds and grants and how to get higher valuation. They didn’t have visions and sustainability in mind. It felt like they are doing gambling rather than running a business. What do you think of this and how would you explain?
I am puzzled by the frontier code graph. GPT 5.5 doesn’t show any improvement with reasoning efforts. This new benchmark by Cognition seemed to be released with Fable 5’s announcement.
I am not trying to cook a theory here but it generally shows how strong Claude Opus family is. I am not saying that Opus is not powerful but it doesn’t align with my experience of GPT 5.5 and Opus 4.7.
I understand that Fable and Mythos are frontier models that can do protein folding better than task-specialized ones. To be honest, for practical point of view, for day-to-day coding assistance, GPT family looks more reasonable.
(But then my company pays for claude max anyway for token maxxing. So who am I to complain)
It’s just funny that I get to know about this sort of Korean policies in HN not from main media (I live in Korea).
I had a few chances to apply for government grants in a startup. There is a lot of blind money for new techs but people managing it are simply not competent enough to understand them. Also, like some comments mentioned, tech infra around their management system is often old and very insecure.
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3 years of experience in start-ups right after PhD. I've followed main waves of ML/AI since 2018. Briefly led a small research team. Had experience traveling and pitching ideas around the globe. I am more into engineering which is the primary reason why I didn't stay in academia. Recent projects cover logical reasoning validation of LLMs and agentic optimization and evals.
Is it just an experimental tool by opencode team? If there is some article about this tool, I would love to read it. It’s not clear to me why I should use this instead of git worktree.
My take is that Mistral is not focusing on generating contents such as code, images, or videos. They focus on multi-lingual models, OCR, voice, and others I believe. Their model intro page manifests that although it always confuses me because it's too colorful and there are too many categories, not to mention model names. I hope their decisions will pay off.
When it comes to MoE, to me, I remember Mixtral model that showed the viability of MoE for the first time. I was impressed by their technical report. To be clear, MoE idea was already out there, if I am not mistaken. If they have pushed Mixtral model family further, who knows they might have achieved the reputation of what the current Qwen family has. A missed opportunity.
I believe that Mistral team is doing the best they can do. I like the directions they push; open models for various tasks, on-prem has a lot of potential. Sure, I use Claude code mostly for coding. But there are so many tasks other than just coding. Even for coding, eventually, I am certain they will catch up and Vibe becomes tolerable soon.
I learned about this plush toy recently. I am often confused with something else I cannot name though. In Korea where I live it’s so common to have key rings that sometimes are these types of plushes. I am not into Labubu but one thing I want to confess is that I like buying special anime related key rings. I restrain myself every time as much as possible. But sometimes it’s just a futile effort. I already own several key rings piled up in my closet.
I can share mine. It was a job interview with one of the fastest growing companies. They were expanding sales positions in APEC region, specifically Korea. I am not really into sales, but I thought okay because it was such a big opportunity to work for this company.
I got three rounds of interviews including technical ones, then I had an interview with my potential team lead. The first thing he asked was about my MBTI personality test, which I hate and didn't pay much attention to learn mine. It seemed every encounter in Korea began with this MBTI test, but common in a job interview? I honestly answered him that I don't know my MBTI and just described my personalities in general. Then he started describing his MBTI and told me that I may not be the best fit with him because this and that.
A few days after, I got an email "... sorry". I don't want to believe that his MBTI question attributed a lot to this decision.