Byrne Hobart

@ByrneHobart

The John Henry of excessive use of the em-dash. Tweets are map, not territory. Co-author: Boom (Stripe Press): a.co/d/f7m2OG8 anomalyfund.vc

Austin, TX

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Byrne Hobart
@ByrneHobart
Oct 19
Today's free issue of The Diff: Doing Business in the Dark Forest thediff.co/archive/doing-…
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Byrne Hobart
@ByrneHobart
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Imagine your boss asking you to build a complicated app and then, after you're done, saying "Oops, I meant to say it should be a native iPad app."
Byrne Hobart
@ByrneHobart
Nov 5
One of the frictional costs that agentic coding lowers is that some requests are just mean. Imagine telling a human being "thanks for redesigning the site. Looks fine. Now give me a page with every single piece of copy you edited so I can fix all of it."
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Byrne Hobart
@ByrneHobart
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When you use AI to create a user interface, it usually adds too much explanatory text, too many subheads, etc. And when you create an image, sometimes it labels a dozen objects (mugs get slogans, it decorates rooms with posters, etc.). AI just loves text!
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Byrne Hobart
@ByrneHobart
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I had completely forgotten about this bet, because it was so long ago we had no idea there would be an excellent oracle for answering the question "how do people usually refer to X?"
Harry Heymann 🥑
@harryh
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Replying to @harryh and @ByrneHobart
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I lost & paid. 😆 at MVRS though. That idea was short lived.
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Byrne Hobart
@ByrneHobart
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When you’re at a gathering where everyone’s p(doom) is 90%+, is the standard icebreaker “What’s your t(doom)?”
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