bickell

The new meta in AI startups isn't token maxxing but Waterloo intern maxxing. There's no moat in swe skills anymore sure but there's so much alpha in recruiting high IQ, low morality hardos who will do basically anything for a (fake) return offer. Want to hack your competitor? Shit they'll do it on their own personal AI account, it traces right back to them. Infra costs just getting too expensive? My previous intern put 3 months of AWS bills on his dad's credit card. Want to run a fraudulent UGC campaign? They'll take the fall for it when X calls you out. Everyone knows the music is about to end, especially them, and you can see the look of desperation in their eyes. They know this opportunity is the basically the last chopper out of Nam so they will hack competitors, commit fraud, 996^2, bring you coffee every morning, whatever. They are soldiers for your B2B AI SaaS startup empire. The fire they have grinding for that return offer inspires me. That's why you just replace them with a new one when you can see the fire start to dim. I think this meta will end soon enough, though. I'll miss this era of my career so much.

I asked claude to explain and it just sent me this

five stages of being in sales 1. i'm the man 2. it's all fucked 3. we're so back 4. we might go bankrupt 5. fuck it we ball

left ear: anthropic S1 narrated (0.5x speed) right ear: the bible (chinese)

If you Moneyball your startup idea, you end up selling data If you follow your emotional startup idea, you end up building a personal assistant If you build something that people want, you end up forward deploying AI into car dealerships in middle America

🚨 #BREAKING: OpenAI warns employees that spies could be trying to seduce them; women may not be with them for their personalities. 📍Silicon Valley, CA “If she’s a 6 or above in San Francisco she’s a spy” warned one commentator.

Introducing Decision-Bench, a new industry standard for measuring model capabilities in making ROI-positive decisions on messy enterprise data. Every enterprise has slowed AI investments due to no ROI; AIs still fail at complex decisions, and pricing second order effects.

all 6 direct reports when the VP of Sales says "hey look i just asked the AI thing to create the report that takes you 2 weeks and it did it in like a minute"

Time to get yakked out on Celsius and Zyn so I can obsessively align shapes on a PowerPoint slide like a Scandinavian autistic boy. It ain’t much, but it’s honest work.

Found it. I promise it's worth the read. This is what sorority presidents used to do to their members to police their members, and should be replicated in all 50 states (1/2):