Cackling while reading this visiting my family in Northern Virginia for the holidays. Despite it being a prominent place in the history of the web, it's still the least reliable AWS region (for now).
Makes sense and appreciate the transparency. Have admired what you're building at Graphite and look forward to seeing what you build as part of the Cursor team. Congrats!
I thought this was really interesting, although I'm not sure I fully understand / agree with the three paths you described.
In some ways, I think the path that makes the most sense is not becoming an expert or decision-maker or AI operator alone, but rather embracing the empowering capabilities of AI to become an ultra-generalist capable of all of these things. That said, it's such an uncertain future and I do think today experts, decision-makers, and AI-operators are "safer" perhaps than many other roles.
Playing to win vs. playing not to lose is something I've thought a lot about in a games / sports context, but hadn't applied to company building in the same way. I thought this was an interesting piece, and had similar experiences to the author working at a startup in the early days vs. hyper-growth vs. immediately pre/post-IPO.
> "Since its inception, we’ve been committed to ensuring MCP remains open-source, community-driven and vendor-neutral. Today, we further that commitment by donating MCP to the Linux Foundation."
Interesting move by Anthropic! Seems clever although curious if MCP will succeed long-term or not given this.
If they’re “giving it away” as a public good, much better chance of it succeeding, than attempting to lock such a “protocol” away behind their own platform solely.
> This entry was written at 33,000 feet while flying over the Canadian Rockies.
Respect the commitment to the craft!
Also useful / timely knowledge for me, thank you. I have a big international trip with multiple longhaul flights coming up and was debating if I should upgrade my airpods or consider something else (e.g. overear headphones). Do folks have overear recommendations?
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