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Embracing AI in the Workplace: A Paradigm Shift
Embracing AI in the Workplace: A Paradigm Shift
In many professions, especially for developers and doctors, much of our time is spent diagnosing problems. Whether it’s…
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John Davison shared thisDid you know the secrets of how to succeed in the age of AI are written down in a Bluey song? https://lnkd.in/gN8Fwzaj And I think the secret is, you have to think deeply about what is awesome, dig deep into the universe of what exists, develop your inner taste and then apply all that to what you make. Why do I think that? Simple, all the knowledge and all the agents in the world probably wouldn't just automagically make something as funny and endearing as this remix of Pachelbel's Canon - the magic is that someone (or a team) put probably a huge amount of effort into curation and then went the extra 2% on top of what already exists to make something of great value. Thanks to my daughter for the education lesson on this one, from this morning's "can you make sure to pickup snickers" bus driver routine as I take her to school.
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John Davison shared thisMan I love Claude Code inside NeoVim, it is the greatest pairing of tools since peanut butter met jelly... But I can't understand why so many people are so comfortable letting go of any oversight... Last week someone told me "well, about this time last year I stopped looking at the code..." Every single day I'm confronted with reasons why I can't let Claude "just do whatever it thinks is right" - Consider just now... I'm researching why link tracking in an email outbound tool isn't working Claude: "have you tried these 10 things" me: 'yeah, they are all correct' Claude: 'how about these other 10 things (which is just a repeat of the first 10)' me: '... grrr' me: ' oh interesting if you write https://link.domain vs <a href:"link.domain">text here</a> ie raw url vs correct href tag - the outbound tool doesn't work correctly' Seriously, how could Claude be all knowing and basically miss the most important part of the process? Which is not even to discuss why Claude Code out of the box puts application logic inside a Rails Controller and not the Appropriate Model, to have to be told this is lke "wtfoxtrot, I ordered a magician and all I got was mickey and his infinite brooms with buckets but no clean floors..."
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John Davison posted thisOf the many things that I'm thankful for one is without question living in the Cuernavaca area of Austin - in the mornings I wake up at 5:30 drink coffee and rock through the hills, listening to founders podcast and it is beautiful, relaxing, and amazing Today's specifically there was some commentary, listening to the story of Helzberg diamonds - the founder had developed the skill to pay attention and invest intellectual energy and only things he could control I think there is no more important psychological skill as AI in the world are changing in unprecedented ways I say it again focus only on information facts and systems that you can control everything else as a founder is outside of your circle of impact and probably not worth your time or attention
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John Davison shared thisAs far as I can tell, this is a huge freight train in the making...John Davison shared thisSomeone asked me recently what makes The GoodDog different from a regular medical alert device/PERS. Why not just wear a Life Alert? Why not put it on the dog? One word. Stigma. Who remembers the first time they saw the woman on the floor, feebly calling out: "Help! I've fallen and I can't get up." I do. I was watching Gunsmoke with my dad. And I remember the next day at school, kids flailing around making a fool of someone asking for help. That was the moment the industry was built on. Fear and shame, dressed up as safety. That is the first thing we do differently. We are changing the stigma around asking for help. No shame. No judgment. Instead, we give you a way to ask for help through the loyalty of your most trusted companion. And second? The pendant gets left in a drawer. The dog doesn't. Nearly 40% of personal emergency response devices go unused during actual emergencies, not because people don't need them, but because wearing one feels like giving something up. 🏄🏼♂�� Scott Leese put it perfectly this week: the PERS industry hasn't created a new category in over 30 years. We're changing that. The GoodDog is the first canine-enabled PERS, assistive safety technology built around the bond between a person and their dog. Not a tracker. Not a panic button. Something entirely new. Built for veterans. For people living independently with a health condition. For the aging parent who is fine, thank you, but whose daughter would sleep better. The communities doing this work every day, like K9s For Warriors and Retrieving Freedom, Inc already know what we're proving: the dog is already your protector. We're just giving them one more way to help. Pilots available. I'd love to connect with: — Veterans and service dog handlers — Occupational therapists and case managers — Anyone who's watched a loved one leave their Life Alert in the bathroom Who do you know that needs to see this? #AssistiveTechnology #IndependentLiving #VeteranHealth #PERS #TheGoodDog
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John Davison posted thisThe real reason I bought that $50 adaptogenic drink mix: It's not actually better than green tea. Let's be honest. But there's a massive difference between saying: ❌ "Yeah, I had some tea this morning" ��� "I'm microdosing L-theanine and polyphenol blends for cognitive optimization" One sounds like you're hydrating. The other sounds like you're running a biohacking startup from your kitchen. The supplement industry has figured out that we don't just want health benefits—we want the feeling of being someone sophisticated enough to understand complex ingredients. The placebo effect is real, and so is the dopamine hit from premium packaging. Plot twist: A $3 cup of quality green tea literally has all the same stuff. But it doesn't make you sound nearly as cool at networking events. So here's my unpopular take: Buy the fancy powder. You deserve to feel fancy. Just know what you're actually paying for—and it might not be what's in the cup. 😄
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John Davison shared thisNumerous founders I've been interacting with are basically repeating the patterns of why people went to coding bootcamps in 2013-2016 except now, AI is removing some of the difficulties. There are still important parts of the journey like community driven feedback, mental models that matter - I want to and enjoy getting people on the right track. This will be a 2x monthly workshop format. Join me at these workshops and hopefully I can help you learn how to make choices about what to focus on, what tools to invest time in, how to stay unstuck and ultimately build stuff that improves your world. cc: Jeremy Antoniuk Jesse Farmer Ethan Brooks Prerna Sharma Andy KeilJohn Davison shared thisI have become obsessed with helping others adopt AI tooling....while also learning from everyone else who is doing the same. One of my favorite practioners is John Davison with StartupLandia who is a fellow member of the Red Fridge Society here in Austin. He has two vibe coding events plus happy hour coming up. He keeps the groups small so they can be interactive. Hope to see you there so we can share tooling experiences with each other. https://luma.com/a5ax3ijq https://luma.com/463jep8gVibeCoding for Indie Entrepreneurs (virtual) · LumaVibeCoding for Indie Entrepreneurs (virtual) · Luma
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John Davison shared thisEveryone Thinks the Value of Vibe Coding is the Code. Everyone is Wrong. The value of the vibe coding is the vibe. The vibe is an open draw bridge connecting entrepreneurial intuition to the cold hard realities of html. The value of the vibe is being able to say; "i think it would be fine to use that font you just had in there to display the actual sms:message to john inisde this element" and have the agent interpret my verbal scratch to intelligible UI #themoreyouknow
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John Davison posted thisOne of the things that ironically stands in the way of experienced, seasoned engineers being great and ai assisted product engineering, is literally PAIN And I mean lack of PAIN, when I'm using google antigravity and/or claude code to build things, there is no pain, not mental kung fu, there is none of the intellectual friction that I'm accustomed to feeling when sitting down to build. I open the terminal, talk about the ux and since I already know the rails ecosystem inside an out, actually getting the right ux into the architecture/UI is surprisingly EASY and I'm not used to that... If you are a dev and feeling this, I'd like to hear from you!
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John Davison shared thisWhat if a key ingredient to seed-stage success was pausing to sit quietly with peers? Counterintuitively, no "move fast and break things" business... On a beautiful Austin Spring day, we sat together, had lunch, and listened to a Founder Spotlight on Andy Keil (CEO, Dreambase.ai). We got comfortable enough that powerful questions and blockers finally emerged. We engaged in Community. Community is incredible because: - It grounds you. You mirror the skills of those ahead, while those struggling remind you of the good choices you’ve already made (feedback you desperately need). - It separates hype from reality. Stop setting goals based on unverified 'posts.' Anchor decisions around outcomes that actually worked for real people IRL, and your world transforms. Sara Blakely started Spanx with $5k, zero connections, and no MBA. When she stopped going it alone and joined peer circles, she found the clarity to turn that $5k into a $1.2B exit. Can you afford not to? "The moment I stopped trying to figure it out alone... everything changed." -- Sara Blakely In 2009, Airbnb was dead: $40k in debt, <$1k MRR. At a small YC founder dinner, Paul Graham told Brian Chesky to "do things that don't scale." That dinner led to a pivot—Brian going door-to-door in NYC—that gave life to the $80B juggernaut Airbnb is today. "No one ever told me how lonely it would get." -- Brian Chesky I've stood in rooms of a thousand people building en-masse networks that leave you exhausted. If you're asking "what should I do instead?" the answer is to do nothing: show up, let community become the brine for your petri dish. Join our community. Attend Poker, Pickleball, or Founder events. Surface your problems, get peer reinforcement, and let these people become your peloton. My next event: Founder Spotlight with fellow Red Fridge Magnate Thomas Lentine. In 2023, Thomas founded UpAhead (now 30k users across 500 universities) to scale AI tools for academic workloads. Thomas is 25 years old and has the demeanor of a seasoned operator running a rocket ship. luma/bd1w6x9g luma/startuplandia Special Thanks to... Andy Keil for your time and honesty Jason Burks & Andy Chang for being supportive regulars at my events (you have no idea how much it helps at poker games to have familiar faces in all thatchaos) Prerna Sharma making it to two of my events in a 24 hour period during SxSW - a huge investment of time 🙏 🙏 🙏
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I like your point here that we'll see what is the demand for unsubsidized usage - delivering inference at scale isn't just as simple as using an open source model. I've used a bunch of the llama products and they're good but they're not as full proof transitions as people think. - the more salient point here is that no matter what being reliant on any model and over serving the solution to any problem, both puts the model provider as a dependency and excuse the economics of whatever it is people are building both of which are bad
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The more interesting part of this conversation is about how various tooling and various workflows support various types of thinking on behalf of the user so I don't think that question is about what tooling is right the question is more about who am I as a thinker and how do I want to interface with my work? Ag vs cc have very different affordances
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John Davison liked thisI guess that makes Anthropic now more open than OpenAI 😅 A source map bundled into the Claude Code npm package exposed the entire TypeScript source tree: 2,203 files, 512,664 lines of code. #anthropic #claudecode #codeleak
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Supervised Machine Learning: Regression and Classification
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