Alec Velikanov Profile
Alec Velikanov

@alecvxyz

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high dimensional interest embeddings

New York, NY
Joined June 2011
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@alecvxyz
Alec Velikanov
1 year
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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Alec Velikanov
25 days
gotta use @orabrowser no chromium in sight
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aditya
26 days
"AGENTIC BROWSERS ARE GONNA KILL CHROME"
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Alec Velikanov
25 days
slack outage?? in the middle of a super busy monday of course
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Alec Velikanov
25 days
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
@TheEthanDing
ethan ding šŸ“Š
25 days
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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Alec Velikanov
28 days
it always starts with organic and ends with paid huh
@hazan0608
Lucas Hazan
28 days
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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Alec Velikanov
28 days
BREAKING: @NewFormAI hires Zach Gryphon, award-winning mobile app media buying and measurement expert as Head of Media.
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Trae
2 months
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 store’s branding - proven to add 25%-30% to your store’s monthly revenue basically does everything an email agency can
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Alec Velikanov
3 months
my favorite ff-backed ugc agency @IconAdmaker is hiring! please apply they need the help
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Alec Velikanov
3 months
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
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Ashpreet Bedi
3 months
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). Here’s why: 1. The "LLM API in a while loop" is your underlying agentic
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Alec Velikanov
3 months
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 else’s framework hell (which is fine btw). Here’s why: 1. The shiny ā€œframework
@ashpreetbedi
Ashpreet Bedi
3 months
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). Here’s why: 1. The "LLM API in a while loop" is your underlying agentic
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Alec Velikanov
4 months
Hinge likes in sf be like ā€œyou turned my h20 into a b200 šŸ˜³ā€
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Alec Velikanov
4 months
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)
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Alec Velikanov
4 months
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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Alec Velikanov
4 months
thanks @theo for the prompt idea, check his video out from yesterday for how Horizon does with this prompt
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Alec Velikanov
4 months
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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Alec Velikanov
4 months
šŸ‘€
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Alec Velikanov
5 months
bro spent 15 minutes playing with claude code
@HamzaAlsamraee
Hamza Alsamraee
5 months
coding is overrated learn math and physics
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Alec Velikanov
5 months
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/
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Alec Velikanov
5 months
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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@NicitaAlex
Alex Nicita
6 months
Tasteful software is crafted with extraordinary attention to detail.
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