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The watershed moment for me was when he pretended to be a top tier gamer on Path of Exile. Anyone in the know saw right through it, and honestly makes me wonder if we just spotted this behavior because it's "our turf", but actually he and people like him just operate this way in absolutely everything they do

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Singapore has government enforced racial quotas, both in housing policy and in PR/citizenship grants with the goal of maintaining a stable 75/15/7.5. So it's really not a good example of merit based


Racial quotas for non chinese :)


Feels like we're at the stage where models are good enough, the missing piece is tooling which still needs to catch up to make full use of them.

For coding, this has started to happen and it's in full swing, what about other domains?


> For coding, this has started to happen and it's in full swing, what about other domains?

There needs to be a moat. I see all these startups with a moat that is no bigger obstacle than a puddle.

A local (geographically to myself) pre-LLM (Convolutional Neural Network) company invested in a huge moat, building a large training set of human labeled data ... I knew the moment I saw an LLM that could ingest image that their moat had evaporated in an instant. A lot of the technical staff either left or lost their jobs but the company appears to be limping on hoping for an exit.

If a startup depends on a secret prompt and a few MCP servers, they have no moat.

I think the next wave of AI-based SaaS (rather than pure AI API providers) will be companies like the Legal IDE (Tritium [1]), recently featured on the homepage. Tools that innovate and use AI, but would still be innovate even without it.

[1] I have no affiliation whatsoever. I just liked the demo and the concept.


I was talking to Jeff Lawson the other day and he said something really interesting I hadn't really considered the nuance. I always considered Twilio, DigitalOcean, Sendgrid etc "dev tools" - but Jeff said I was wrong and they are supply chain primitives/components. DevTools are more like IDEs in this lens.

Only reason I bring it up is related to your moat comment. supply chain stuff is tied into workflow that becomes institutionalized, and typically more b2b, dev tools are more like b2c, so you really have to compete on merits hard, moats of b2c2b look to Slack or anything with seats/licenses/team features.

In the new AI world we can see it starting to emerge, on one hand you have something like Cursor, on the other something like charlielabs.ai - Will be interesting to see how it all plays out, but I wanted to just add some nuance I've been thinking about recently. :)

(full disclosure I'm considering joining charlie labs, don't want to be accused of shilling later if I do.)


> There needs to be a moat. I see all these startups with a moat that is no bigger obstacle than a puddle.

Cursor doesn’t have a moat. And yet…


Cursor's moat is it's user's data.

they have SOTA completion models (bought NineTab, founder left already, but still).

Cursor moat is they're the touch point with customers, not the big labs. imo

they can use all that data to better improve the ux/ui and piggyback on general models improvements


Have they done that? In my opinion they’ve built an AI IDE consisting of 90% forked open source code that has an identical experience to competitors with less of a chance to integrate with big tech Google/Microsoft/Apple-style ecosystem products.

The “step one: get user data, step two: ???, step 3: profit” business model is well established, and it definitely doesn’t always work.


The guys right in front of the user usually win. The rest are just price-sensitive commodity.


The difference is that this time the price sensitive commodity is right in front of the customer with very little value surrounding it.


> There needs to be a moat.

Why does there need to be a moat? You don't believe in markets and competition?


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I can't find any results searching for "POTDEZ", was that a typo or could you clarify what you meant?


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Ah, hadn't occurred to me that it might be a zero-humour joke.


much like your replies lmao


The article mentions Singaporeans, so I was very curious to find out how they were involved. But the word (erroneously?) links to the Hong Kong protests movement.


It wouldn't be a post about Singapore without someone bringing up the 27 year old article


Author's point is that Promise.allSettled never rejects


>Anecdotally, devs I know are very sensitive to ads/privacy, much more so than to paying money.

Thank you for qualifying this as devs you know. In reality, this is a very privileged position to take and I'd bet would be a minority if polled globally (between paying in cash or in ads)


No. Singapore is a tiny city state with a service based economy


Dyson is setting up an EV plant in Singapore.


Singapore is the closest success story I can think of.

Requirements: - be a citizen - get married

The government will then build a flat for you and hand you the keys 5 years later for about a fourth of the private market price.

Of course you need an economy that can pay for all this, so it won't be universally applicable


What do you do while unmarried or in the first 5 years?


You continue living with your family.


You conduct your relationships and the first few years of your marriage within earshot of your parents?


This seems cultural, and before the invention of privacy this was the norm.

EDIT: I thought that was a meme and it's not—i'm referring to the growth of the middle class and multi-room houses.


That's how the rest of the world does it, so, yes? Also note that pre-marital relationships are often not very common.


The alternative is a market based housing market such as another city state has: Hong Kong.

I think everyone in Hong Kong would happily live with their parents for 5 years if it means they can buy their own flat afterwards.


The simple rule is to pretend all commits start with "once committed, this change will ..." Or more simply, "this will ..."


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