Alec Velikanov
@alecvxyz
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high dimensional interest embeddings
New York, NY
Joined June 2011
looking to hire full-stack/generalist or frontend engineers in nyc will pay $5k for successful referrals anyone in my network know anyone cracked who's looking right now?
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gotta use @orabrowser no chromium in sight
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slack outage?? in the middle of a super busy monday of course
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ok but like why not Poke (from @interaction) but for slack??? imo this would be so helpful compared to slack's ai slop or the existing enterprise ai tools
AI NATIVE SLACK IS JUST SLACK THE BLOAT IN SLACK IS BECAUSE OF PEOPLE, NOT PRODUCT MIDWIT HIRES LIKE TO CREATE PROJECTS AND BUSYWORK BC THEY LITERALLY CANNOT PRODUCE VALHE AI DOESNT SOLVE THIS
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it always starts with organic and ends with paid huh
Roy's thesis on virality isn't false. It's just the product he chose to build wasn't sticky enough plus his demographic has no spending power. I have friends doing 8-9 figures leveraging organic, paired with strong retention & scaling with paid ads. That's where the true moat
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BREAKING: @NewFormAI hires Zach Gryphon, award-winning mobile app media buying and measurement expert as Head of Media.
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7 Fig Ecom founder just showed me their email marketing tool: - flows + campaigns for you in seconds - turns them into beautiful designs based on your Shopify storeās branding - proven to add 25%-30% to your storeās monthly revenue basically does everything an email agency can
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is https://t.co/P3Zic7rJIh down for anyone else? @mattshumer_ pls fix
claude.ai
Talk with Claude, an AI assistant from Anthropic
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in just the LAST MONTH i've had to hack around HALF A DOZEN framework hacks even with the generally great and really light @vercel ai framework: 1. v4 -> v5 data model changes (we already had to hack around the v4 data model so this only got way more complicated) 2. vercel ai
Grifters like this are wasting your time and their Dunning-Kruger opinions should be ignored by serious builders. You either build on a framework or live long enough to roll your own (which is fine btw). Hereās why: 1. The "LLM API in a while loop" is your underlying agentic
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Grifters like this are wasting your time and their Dunning-Kruger opinions should be ignored by serious builders. You either build your own agent loop or live long enough to be trapped in someone elseās framework hell (which is fine btw). Hereās why: 1. The shiny āframework
Grifters like this are wasting your time and their Dunning-Kruger opinions should be ignored by serious builders. You either build on a framework or live long enough to roll your own (which is fine btw). Hereās why: 1. The "LLM API in a while loop" is your underlying agentic
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Hinge likes in sf be like āyou turned my h20 into a b200 š³ā
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if you think you're smarter than claude Opus 4.1 or know someone who is we're hiring! dm me (also offering $10k referral bonuses if you know someone)
is this it?? Opus 4.1 feels like a rushed release to get ahead of GPT-5 look at how it struggles with making a UI that Horizon (assume GPT-5) nailed in a single shot
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is this it?? Opus 4.1 feels like a rushed release to get ahead of GPT-5 look at how it struggles with making a UI that Horizon (assume GPT-5) nailed in a single shot
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who knows engineers who want to build the future of ai enabled services? paying $15k referral bonus perks of working at NewForm: - not a 7 day work week - profitable - ship directly to top ai, consumer, fintech co's and startups - in nyc pls email alec /at/
newform.ai
We Scale World-Class Companies Through Content
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the really cool thing about icloud being down is that my brand new iphone is now a fancy paperweight until it's back
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Tasteful software is crafted with extraordinary attention to detail.
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