Kimsia
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Kimsia
Sometimes getting the right positioning for your startup is more challenging than getting to the product itself.
“Often it’s not that you don’t know who the customer is, it’s that you’re not picking — you haven’t committed to one hypothesis over the other. That’s what creates the confusion about what the product is, what the feature set looks like,
... See moreIn 2024, something shifted: AI-native apps started taking off. And we realized that our architecture was uniquely well-suited to power them. We leaned into agent-focused development, and within a few months, over 80% of databases were being created by AI agents rather than humans.
Neon and Databricks - Neon
age-of-agents and agentic
Strategy is about making choices, trade-offs. It’s about deliberately choosing to be different. —Michael Porter
Greg Mckeown • Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
my newly articulated framework for deciding how to price work has 5 dimensions:
how much FUN will it be? (obvious)
how NICE are the people i’ll work with? (also obvious)
how EASY is the work to deliver? (= i’ve done it before and know what to... See more
Vaughn Tansubstack.com
LLMOps Database
Amazing resource published by ZenML.
It's a collection of 300+ real-world LLM implementation case studies!
It includes production-grade architectures, detailed implementations, and practical solutions.
Too many shiny... See more
elvissubstack.comHow to become expert at thing:
1 iteratively take on concrete projects and accomplish them depth wise, learning “on demand” (ie don’t learn bottom up breadth wise)
2 teach/summarize everything you learn in your own words
3 only compare yourself to younger you, never to others
Andrej Karpathyx.com
The fidelity of the system increases as extensions are added, or early versions are replaced by more complete versions of these parts of the software. In some cases, the parts may be low-fidelity versions or prototypes of the final functionality; in other cases, they may be surrogates that consume and produce data at the appropriate rates but do... See more
Paul Clements • Software Architecture in Practice, 4th Edition
enabling incremental development