tobi lutke

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The AI memo has been extremely successful inside of Shopify. People all over the company have build remarkable things in response to it. One of my favorite is Scout, build by a small team outside of R&D!

Scout has indexed hundreds of millions of merchant feedback items. Social

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tobi lutke

@tobi

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Apr 7

I heard this internal... See more

escribiendo en mi diario que lo tengo todo, por si un día de estos se me vuelve a despilotar la vida y tengo que regresar sobre mis propias palabras a recordar que nada es para siempre. así como ahora vuelvo a las de cuando me sentía perdida y no me reconozco, porque todo se cura

Don't think of LLMs as entities but as simulators. For example, when exploring a topic, don't ask:

"What do you think about xyz"?

There is no "you". Next time try:

"What would be a good group of people to explore xyz? What would they say?"

The LLM can channel/simulate many perspectives but it hasn't "thought about" xyz for a while and over time and... See more

As Van Gogh would say, "If I’m worth something later, I’m worth something now. For wheat is wheat, even if people think it is grass in the beginning".

The number one requirement to be a successful entrepreneur is having an unreasonable amount of determination.

Be stubborn on goals, and persistent in finding ways around anything that might stop you getting there.

i've learned that my greatest fear is the loss of my autonomy

says every startup now needs a founding creator. Someone who speaks for the product before it ships.

"The founding engineer is the how... The founding creator is the why."

The US dollar has strengthened relative to its main fiat counterparts since July, as the world finally realizes that the biggest sovereign debt problems are in the UK, euro area (France in particular) and Japan.

Many people talk about current debt and deficit but ignore the bulk of the iceberg is in the massive committed unfunded liabilities of the... See more

Southern Plains natives would kidnap gunsmiths to force them to repair their firearms.

I remember this man that had spent 8 years among the Comanche working for them.