In case you are looking for a great alternative: plantnet.org.
I have not tried it in Patagonia but it works great in India, Sri Lanka, East Africa and Europe.
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In case you are looking for a great alternative: plantnet.org.
I have not tried it in Patagonia but it works great in India, Sri Lanka, East Africa and Europe.
Die durch USA verhängten Einreiseverbote, darunter gegen die Vorsitzenden von #HateAid, sind nicht akzeptabel. Der Digital Services Act stellt sicher, dass alles, was offline illegal ist, auch online illegal ist. 1/2
#battchat
“Sodium-ion battery technology is no longer a research achievement in laboratories,” Gao Huan, chief technology officer for EV business at CATL
Wild to watch the world move ahead in the energy transition and the clowns in the US talk about bringing back coal.
So liberating to work on my own startup again full time.
It's been a while and the feeling really can't be compared to anything.
@postmarkapp.bsky.social is awesome!
Signed up, created webhook, sent myself test-email and received full email body with attachment all within 5 minutes.
Really cool!
Ok, time to jump.
Going full-time on subledger.app.
I'll be posting a lot more about the journey here. This is both exciting and scary!
Yeah exactly.
Great quote in the bootstrapped founder's podcast by @arvidkahl.bsky.social
AI is very good at reducing complexity but not good at increasing it.
He explains: It can get e.g. insights out of data but is less good at creating new things.
The "modern" UI of the bank that powers so many startups... yeesh.
Instead the tools we build need to enhance and empower people. Take away the need for manual work and doing menial tasks and instead focus on the higher level work of defining and understanding the processes that power the underlying business which can then be run in an automated way.
The promise of fully automated "AI accounting" in my opinion is not the right way.
It's similar to how so many startups have relied on Bench for all of their accounting because they did not want to have to think about it. And now they need to learn to own their numbers again.
The magic of LLMs in my opinion is in the ability to make use of data sources in really new ways without building specialised machine learning tools.
But this should often more of a supporting feature than really replacing humans in the process.
Yes, LLMs allow fundamentally new use cases and make it easier to develop features that in the past required complicated solutions - which were often delivered in clunky interfaces.
But it remains important to use LLMsin a way that makes sense. It's not enough to slap an LLM into a tool.
My opinion is that make the same mistake as I think so many others make as well which is to think that AI in software is fundamentally different than how software has worked in the past.
What I mean by that is that the problems and opportunities they see have been playing out for a while already.
Very interesting conversation on why Marc Andrusko - a16z.com/author/marc-... and Seema Amble - a16z.com/author/seema... believe that AI will transform accounting.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPRJ...
Bench's shutdown is a lesson for founders to "own your finances".
But this means more than just the accounting process. In addition to merely recording the numbers, founders should be close to them.
Accounting is the language in which a business operates and it's an important part to fully own.
Being second or third in a market can be a huge advantage. It allows you to observe how others have done things and to learn from their mistakes.
A team that is growing (in capability, not number of team members) will hit different bottle necks each time as old ones are removed.
Good retrospectives really help with that.
A warning sign that a tech team has not gelled yet is when different bottle necks keep appearing. E.g. APIs not ready so frontend implementation is blocked, backlog not groomed so planning goes badly, user story not well discovered so UI design not ready.
Just read and very much enjoyed this due to your post so: thank you!
For customers or for investors?
I'm writing go professionally without having read any actual books to date. Looking forward to filling some of the gaps.
Nope but just ordered it. I'm normally not big on reading programming books but got some development budget to spend this year.
Which one?