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Keep realigning until it feels right
Much like how Googling is an art, so is ChatGPT-ing
Counterintuitive points about startups
Harry Styles, Tiny Desk Concert
Five years ago, I couldn’t gauge where I’m at now. You just move forward, pursue opportunities, and eventually become someone else. A new chapter reveals itself. Life is wild. The only advice I would give is to chase momentum and stay in motion.
Much like how Googling is an art, so is ChatGPT-ing. This article explores how creating and understanding natural language is actually quite difficult for computers and requires a lot of work.
From the user’s side, it’s hard to decide what to ask while providing the right amount of context. Prompting seems a lot like programming.
Key Points 👇 :
Less prompting, more clicking. If you’re not actively engineering LLM apps, you should very rarely be inputing natural language that is then acted upon by an LLM.
From the user’s side, it’s hard to decide what to ask while providing the right amount of context.
Computers, like the ones we use every day, are not naturally good at understanding and using natural language.
Therefore, in most cases, a “prompt box” should never be shoved in a user’s face. So how should apps integrate LLMs? Short answer: buttons.
Making computers understand natural language is challenging, and scientists and engineers are working hard to teach computers this skill.
Counterintuitive points about startups from Paul Graham’s Essays about start-ups:
If you follow your instincts they’ll lead you astray
“Tell founders things they would ignore”
Trust your instincts about people
What you need to succeed in startups is not expertise in startups
What you need is expertise in your own users!
Make something ppl want and tell them about it
Starting a startup is where gaming the system stops working
There will be a bunch of custom stuff in the beginning,
Don’t design this right now. Rules and standardization will kill you. You’ll grow gradually and find out how it should be streamlined. Don’t skip this step.
JUST GROW. Keep your head down and GROW
Don’t plan ahead. Because what you make won’t be a product of evolution it’ll be a product of planning.
Focus on growing 10% a week. Next week! Focus all on next week! Growth hound. Grind it out and get the numbers week after week.
Find the perfect shape of the business by just flowing like water flowing down a valley and finding the path of least resistance.
Don’t do anything unless it’s the thing you need to get growth.
Such a good concert. I must say that I became a fan of Harry Styles thanks to this video.
Time stamps:
0:15 Cherry
5:10 Watermelon Sugar
10:35 To Be So Lonely
15:20 Adore You
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