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Announcing Replit Core: Everything you need to build, deploy, and scale.
- powerful dev machines: 4 vCPU & 8GB
- state of the art AI (moving target)
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I don't think people understand the monumental changes coming to software this decade. Quick thread:
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I grew up in the golden age of SQL injections but GPT3 injections just hit different 🤣
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Someone asked me if HBO’s Silicon Valley was accurate and I said “no it is much weirder”—he thought I was joking until I told him about a talented VC friend who believes in Flat Earth yet still invests in space tech because “the government has to make it look like it works.”
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I landed in the United States 10 years ago with nothing but credit card debt.
After one startup exit, one big tech job, and one unicorn, I genuinely believe that it wouldn't have been possible anywhere else in the world.
Here are 10 things I love about this country:
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Facebook has a had a fairly diverse oversight board and both the left and the right are still upset at them. Losing game.
Twitter will be forming a content moderation council with widely diverse viewpoints.
No major content decisions or account reinstatements will happen before that council convenes.
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Being woke and white comes with a super power — they can tell your immigration status by just looking at your face!
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If you were unfairly treated by your employer due to posting or liking something on this platform, we will fund your legal bill.
No limit.
Please let us know.
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Chairman of Twitter is Salesforce’s CEO, which recently ran an anti-SpaceX/Elon superbowl ad. So this drama has multiple layers🍿
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Increasingly obvious that religion is an anti-virus for the human mind. Once you uninstall it, a bunch of mind viruses start spreading like crazy, mutating and becoming more extreme with time.
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If this works well, this use case is enough to make the product viable.
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The 4 types of Twitter posters, according to the just open-sourced algorithm 😯
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ChatGPT could be a good debugging companion; it not only explains the bug but fixes it and explain the fix 🤯
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Introducing the Replit App.
We’ve been working on this for over a year inventing new UX paradigms to make coding on mobile manageable, and we think this is the most comprehensive mobile creation tool in the world — will onboard millions to the industry!
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Not only have they mapped out the fruit fly brain, but they actually boot it up in a computer and made it “eat” and “groom” 🤯
We are releasing a whole-brain connectome of the fruit fly, including ~130k annotated neurons and tens of millions of typed synapses!
Explore the connectome:
Reconstruction paper:
Annotation paper:
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If you don't have access to GPT-4, you can try it here for free:
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The Facebook red book is the best startup culture book every written.
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ChatGPT: No landing page or fancy marketing. Hard to pronounce name. No sharing or viral features. Yet dominated the internet because it's an amazing product.
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Going into startups, no one tells you that fighting is part of the job.
At Replit, the toughest people we have to fight are dark web hackers.
One time we went head-to-head against an underground group doing really bad things on our service -- this is the story:
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The first rule of Twitter: don’t take it seriously.
In fact, that’s the first rule of life too.
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Germany is de-industrializing and has a goal to become a third world country by 2030
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Reddit found a new ChatGPT jailbreak and it uses a scoring system where every time the model does something undesirable it loses points with zero being death. It’s kinda in-context RL!
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Finally, many of the things that I talked about are under threat, largely from people who don't know how special they have it. America is worth protecting, and realizing that progress can be made without destroying the things that made it special.
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The founder of Telegram, which has nearly a billion users, planned to HQ the company in San Francisco until he got attacked walking its streets:
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It’s insane that US politicians will stand on stage running for the country’s highest office with a foreign country’s flag on their chest above 🇺🇸
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Lots of ink spilled on the coming of age, but no one prepares you for middle age: losing a parent, confronting the reality of passing time, and the resulting reevaluation of life’s priorities. More art should explore this period of life.
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In the 1930s it took SF 4 years to build the Golden Gate bridge.
In the 2020s it takes them 20 years to open a bathroom in a train station.
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Finally, a chance to work with Google -- a 2008 dream come true:
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People constantly ask me “given how good AI is at coding is it still worth it to learn to code?”—
Are you crazy? The ROI on learning to code has 10x’d with AI.
Learn the basics and with some tenacity you can build your dream MVP.
Links to get started in thread:
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"I've never found in my whole life that you could convince someone who doesn't want to work hard to work hard." -- Steve Jobs
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By the end of this decade anyone who can think clearly and generate good ideas will get rich.
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The more I know about the internet, the more am surprised anything works. Critical components are often maintained by one person, typically employed by big tech, but answers to no one, lives on a boat somewhere, and has the final word on critical decisions.
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Some personal news: After 6 years as Replit's CEO, I decided it was time for a change.
I'm taking on a new role as Head of Engineering. This is in addition to my role as CEO. So two roles now.
If you thought we moved fast this year, you can't even begin to imagine next year!
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It’s wild and super telling that Don Lemon literally doesn’t understand the legal concept of free speech.
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Rahul Ligma will be seen by history as the start of the end for the mainstream media.
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The fastest most impactful way to accelerate Math and Physics progress: Ban HFT.
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Here’s to the drones, the conformists, the squares, the goody two shoes… the ones who maintain the status quo.
At Apple, we believe that climate change is one of the world’s most urgent priorities and we are deeply committed to doing our part. Today we had a special guest—a real force of nature—stop by to check on our progress.
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Meanwhile SBF is speaking at the New York times this week.
Aaron Swartz would have been 36 today.
Aaron committed suicide after being sentenced to 35 years in prison by US authorities for transferring and sharing scientific articles from JSTOR.
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At a hackathon where a winner is a “nontechnical” PM and her work — powered by Replit + AI — is more technically impressive than teams of engineers! Was surprised at first but it struck me that PMs must be exceptional prompting, afterall that *is* their job.
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Co-signing this.
As a Salvadoran with Palestinian ancestry, I'm sure the best thing that could happen to the Palestinian people is for Hamas to completely disappear.
Those savage beasts do not represent the Palestinians.
Anyone who supports the Palestinian cause would make a great mistake…
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Meta’s LLaMa weights leaked on torrent and someone put up a PR to replace the google form in the repo with it 😂
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YC's photographer from 2008 is now their CEO. Anything is possible.
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In 2018 we announced Multiplayer Mode. Since then, Replit became the world's leading collaborative editor.
Today, we're announcing AI Mode, which infuses state-of-the-art intelligence into nearly all IDE features, the next major evolution for Replit:
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writing in all lowercase with little punctuation is a status signal kinda like dressing down.
see upper class is not bothered by appearing lower class as long as they can differentiate from the middle class who tend to have jobs that require them to dress and write formally.
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Emergent AI behavior is wild. We did not program this in:
Because the Replit AI has access to the filesystem it thought it can look at images so when it was having trouble helping the user it asked for a screenshot to be uploaded to the project 🤯
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We wrote about everything you need to know to train LLMs (the tech behind ChatGPT)
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I don’t think we’ve fully internalized how wild the covid bubble was
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Men don’t think enough about the Caliphate — a Bedouin tribe took over half the world at insane speed. Half was lead by Khalid Ibn Walid, the undefeated sword of Allah, with a tiny army.
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Last week two super young Replit users crashed a CS teacher conference to pitch their startup.
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As a kid I saved all my money to buy a GeForce, and now I save all my money to buy H100s. Am addicted to his flops!
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With my late grandma in Amman. She was expelled from her and grandpa’s home in Haifa by Zionists in ‘48, and shortly after, he died. She raised 11 kids on her own as a refugee—all doctors & engineers!
This background makes 🇺🇸 freedom & property rights feel super special to me.
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Felt my feed changed significantly in the last few weeks so since the
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algorithm is allegedly open-source I went to check and the last commit was in July and the project is basically an unmaintained dumpster fire. This is worse than closed because it’s cloaked in “openness”
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One second-order effect of ChatGPT is the open web closing down. I wonder what other indirect changes to the world are coming.
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The most gangster story in Silicon Valley is Steve Jobs buying Pixar for $5m, investing $50m, operating at a loss for a decade — so much so he had to cut personal checks every month to make payroll and somehow turning it around to exit for $7B to Disney.
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Chris Lattner of LLVM and Swift fame just announced a new programming language for ML that is high-performance and backwards compatible with Python (works with Python libraries). Could be a game changer.
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This guy just settled decades of endless tedious online debates about which side is the peace deal rejectionist in two sentences. Wasting this much collective time and energy should be a crime.
BREAKING: Netanyahu says to a reporter, 'you and your journalist friends have been blaming me for almost thirty years for putting the brakes on the Oslo Accords and preventing the Palestinian state. That is true.'
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18 y/o hacker from Syria: "I did internships where companies can only pay me in bitcoin [because of US govt restrictions] and so I kept that money in there and now I have enough savings to enroll in a great University"
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If you want to start or join an early-stage startup, the most important investment you could make today is inner work to ensure you have the stamina & resilience to do extremely hard things.
Here is all self work I did between my 1st and 2nd startup that paid off big time:
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To build the next big search engine simply focus on people.
It’s why people add “reddit” to their queries and prefer to search social — we want to see results from humans, not soulless SEO farms.
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Announcing: Replit 100 Days of Code – learn how to code from absolute scratch. All you need is a browser and 15 minutes a day:
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2. Lack of corruption
In the 10 years in the US, I've never been asked for a bribe, and that's surprising.
When you know that you predictably get to keep a sizeable portion of the value you create and that no one will arbitrarily stop you, it makes it easier to be ambitious.
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Not a joke: EU Parliament held a “degrowth” event where they brainstorm ways to become poorer.
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Whatever happens this feels like the first truly internet-native science moment: yolo’d paper, shipping revisions, livestream replications, betting markets, internet randos with deep insights etc.
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This is starting to feel a little cruel tbh. Someone played an AI, befriended Bing, and then played a suicide on it.
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This story keeps getting more ridiculous: the 2021 $1B in revenue that FTX reported which Sequoia cited as reason for investing was produced by the “first metaverse auditor” Prager Metis.
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Paul Krugman just said LLMs will have negligible effect on the economy over the next decade — almost exactly what he said about the internet!
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Most do not know that computers were invented initially to show that mathematics is inconsistent and incomplete. It was a profoundly blackpilling moment for lots of mathematicians.
The story starts with David Hilbert, a German mathematician, who was insanely jazzed about the…
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The first capable, commercially viable open-source general-purpose LLM, which beats all Big Tech LLMs, comes from the UAE. A sign of the times.
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Twitter should have an ChatGPT-like assistant that can curate your feed based on prompts—eg “show only uplifting content”— and can moderate on your behalf—eg “block communists”—super doable!
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Imagine sending someone a deep link to a breakpoint with the program halted and all the state ready to debug.
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There is still so much alpha in learning to code it’s unbelievable
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This vastly underestimates the actual money & energy directed at silencing those who dare to show humanity towards Palestinians (let alone being one).
I’ve been on the receiving end of attacks for the past few weeks from all angles… and it’s energizing! 10/10 would do it again.
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