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james hawkins

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@james406
building @posthog self driving software / co-ceo
San Francisco
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  • @james406
    james hawkins
    PostHog
    @james406
    14h
    you could literally: - get into Stanford - drop out of Stanford - buy a vanity .ai domain - show this diagram to a VC and say you have a "distribution edge" - raise $100 million and dump it all into a high-yield savings account - pivot 59 times, living off the $4 million in
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  • @james406
    james hawkins
    PostHog
    @james406
    18h
    you can't be serious
    108
  • @james406
    james hawkins
    PostHog
    @james406
    Aug 30
    what happened: you ordered a dish at a restaurant and they brought out the wrong thing Claude's summary: The failure mode for culinary drift shifted once chaos injected itself via the unknown actor. A strict "no-swap" rule silently skips rather than presenting itself. Leaving
    4
  • @james406
    james hawkins
    PostHog
    @james406
    Aug 29
    well, great. i accidentally told Claude "this next project is import ant" left to go for a walk with --dangerously-skip-permissions on it then built an entire startup centered around handling import/export issues for ants there are 20 quadrillion ants in the world so it had
    69
  • @james406
    james hawkins
    PostHog
    @james406
    Aug 29
    "5 likes isn't a lot" imagine 5 usage limit resets
    5