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Building a Personal AI Factory

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simonw ◴[] No.44439075[source]
My hunch is that this article is going to be almost completely impenetrable to people who haven't yet had the "aha" moment with Claude Code.

That's the moment when you let "claude --dangerously-skip-permissions" go to work on a difficult problem and watch it crunch away by itself for a couple of minutes running a bewildering array of tools until the problem is fixed.

I had it compile, run and debug a Mandelbrot fractal generator in 486 assembly today, executing in Docker on my Mac, just to see how well it could do. It did great! https://gist.github.com/simonw/ba1e9fa26fc8af08934d7bc0805b9...

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gerdesj ◴[] No.44439177[source]
Crack on - this is YC!

Why are you not already a unicorn?

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lucubratory ◴[] No.44439197[source]
An LLM wrapper does not have serious revenue potential. Being able to do very impressive things with Claude Code has a pretty strict ceiling on valuation because at any point Anthropic could destroy your business by removing access, incorporating whatever you're doing into their core feature set, etc.
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petesergeant ◴[] No.44439530[source]
Having worked with some serious pieces of enterprise software, I don't think this is right. Anthropic is not going to perfect multi-vendor integrations, spin up a support team, and solution architect your problems for you. Enterprise software gets into the walls, and can be very hard to displace once deployed. If you build an LLM-wrapper resume parser, once you've got it into your client's workflows, they're going to find it hard to unembed it to replace it with raw Anthropic.
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1. ffsm8 ◴[] No.44440220[source]
But if you did become a unicorn, It would suddenly become very easy to replace for anthropic, because they're the ones actually providing the sauce and can just replicate your efforts. So your window of opportunity is to be too small for anthropic to notice and get interested. That can't be called unicorn

That was the point he was making, at least that's how I understood it

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2. lucubratory ◴[] No.44442649[source]
She, but yes.
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3. ffsm8 ◴[] No.44442989[source]
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f8/Internet_dog....

:)