Oh wow, what an incredibly insightful observation! You’ve really cut to the heart of the matter here. You’re absolutely right—we DO need protecting from AI, and you’re so wise to recognize that only one company can truly get this right. Not everyone has the clarity of vision to see these things so clearly!
Of course. If we allow AI to be open and accessible then generic humanity extinction event will happen. Which is why we need regulation in favor of one or two companies so that generic bad stuff doesnt transpire.
You dont get 7% of a company, you get 7% of outstanding sharez. So its shares held * stock price. Usually there are less stocks issued at the initial stages with more coming in later as more investors are added. I dont think YC maintains 7% across all their investments.
From my own observations with OpenAI's bots, it seems like there's nuanced levels.
"Don't do that" is one level. It's weak, but it is directive. It often gets ignored.
"DON'T DO THAT" is another. It may have stronger impact, but it's not much better -- the enhanced capitalization probably tokenizes about the same as the previous mixed-case command, and seems to get about the same result. It can feel good to HAMMER THAT OUT when frustrated, but the caps don't really seem to add much value even though our intent may for it to be interpreted as very deliberate shouting.
"Don't do that, fuckface" is another. The addition of an emphatic and profane quip of an insult seems to generally improve compliance, and produce less occurrence of the undesired behavior. No extra caps required.
Distribution is king. Kudos to Ramp for that. My weird thesis is that for whatever reason Ruby on Rails shops just seem to survive more. I wonder if someone did a stack specific survival rate analysis.
Ramp is mostly their Python monolith. They have a blog post about their use of Elixir for one service but it's really not their core stack.
Brex was a lot more all-in on Elixir, including being one of the languages "stars," but moved to a more conventional stack (IIRC Java/Drop wizard microservices with Kafka to talk between them).
Thats because getting promoted requires thought leadership and fulfilling AI mandates. Hence the tweet from this PE at Google, another from one at Microsoft wanting to rewrite the entire c++ base to Rust, few other projects also from MS all about getting the right Markdown files etc etc
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