Jimmy Cerone
@jrcii
Software Dev who loves to write, read, and hang with doggos.
Jimmy Cerone
“Reviews UPDATED JANUARY 2020” are exploiting the fact that customers suffix queries with the year. What those people are trying to command is freshness, not a title match.
Daniel • A New Google | Daniel Gross
.2022-10-15 This is fascinating and I never thought about it
Wait, how long did it take them to get their first 500 customers? Two and a half years?
Yes. In fact, after ending 2006 with just 3 (three!) customers, they ended the next year with only 48 (source). That’s less than one a week on average. For a year.
Jason Cohen • A Smart Bear » It's a Torturous Chaos Until It Isn't
That is not a growth juggernaut. In fact, that sounds downright bad. Like, maybe you should shut the company down because it’s obviously not working. Or at least, there should be an existential struggle about whether to continue.
Jason Cohen • A Smart Bear » It's a Torturous Chaos Until It Isn't
I still forgot that success is slooooow
Great artists don’t study art history to figure out what art to create.
Great founders don’t analyze the market to figure out what product to build.
Navaltwitter.comAnthropic has started building out team collaboration tools. One big question for the next couple of years might be whether the general LLMs become useful for specific, vertical tasks faster than the vertical tools get LLM features.
Benedict Evans • Benedict's Newsletter: No. 547
Multiplayer AI sounds genuinely exciting. Waveform (social startup) was doing this before shutting down recently.
The advice to avoid here is to “give it your all” as a rule. Only give your all to what really matters
A sense of dread as I see this. We are slowly seeing the end of the open web.
- AI search powered experiences take away clicks from high quality publishers in aggregate +
- Crawlbots from AI companies not playing by the rules
leading to
- High quality publishers are looking to... See more
Vivek Raghunathanx.comScary to imagine this world and even scarier to see it happening right in front of us.
I wanted to share this with you because I know a lot of aspiring software devs worry about whether they have enough passion to succeed as a developer. Is programming really for you if you don’t wake up on Saturday morning excited to learn about TypeScript or hack on a side project?
Josh Comeau • “I Don’t Get Excited About It”
At this point, I think that following your passion is nearing anti-life advice…