No Coding Earlier than 10am; VCs Are Investing in Competing Corporations – DGAF About Conflicts; “Expertise is Not Future” – Rules for AI’s Future; and +++ [link blog]

President’s Weekend hyperlink weblog.

VCs Break Taboo by Backing Each Anthropic, OpenAI in AI Battle [Rebecca Torrence and Natasha Mascarenhas/Bloomberg] – VC conflicts. Increasingly more like hedge funds holding shares in opponents. Much less like OG VC.

For the longest time it was “no conflicts.”

Then grew to become “effectively, that is our core fund and that different funding is in our development fund.”

Then it developed to, “it’s okay as a result of two totally different GPs [within the fund] are making the funding”

Now it’s simply straight up YOLO.

AI, Democracy, and the Duty of Management [Bijan Sabet] – Bijan is a former VC [Spark cofounder] who then served as our Ambassador to the Czech Republic in the course of the Biden administration. He continues to do good work on instructional boards, Human Rights Watch, and others. I at all times recognize his writing, and right here he calls on our trade to be aware.

“Expertise will not be future. It’s a device. Its affect depends upon who builds it, who advantages from it, and the values that information its use.” Adopted by 5 rules in AI improvement.

the dream is materializing [Jackie Luo/the dream machine] – Jackie writes about her personal experiences with AI and LLMs, transferring from her skilled realizations to coaching her personal mannequin based mostly. I don’t need to excerpt it as a result of it’s lovely and attention-grabbing as an entire piece. Learn it.

No Coding Earlier than 10am [Michael Bloch/In The Trenches] – Entrepreneur turned investor, Michael right here covers how he’s seen one portfolio firm rework its engineering practices round AI-aided improvement.

“Their playbook will not be “use AI to code sooner.” It’s a full inversion. Brokers, not engineers, now do the work. Engineers be certain that the brokers can do the work effectively.”

The put up’s title comes from this rule: No coding earlier than 10am. Palms off keyboards. First hour or two each morning is for speaking, aligning, and drafting prompts collectively. As soon as the crew is aligned on what to construct and the right way to set brokers up, then you may code and let brokers begin working.

Craigslist Founder Indicators Giving Pledge and Narrows Focus [Ben Gose/Chronicle of Philanthropy] – Craig Newmark is an excellent mensch in relation to philanthropy. Looks like an excellent dude who simply desires a greater world. Right here he reconciles a number of the limits of how philanthropy can/can’t assist journalism.

“Craig Newmark made his fortune by beginning Craigslist, the net categorised web site the place individuals can purchase or promote absolutely anything. However in relation to his philanthropy, Newmark is taking a extra centered method. After some hard-earned classes from items that didn’t pan out, Newmark is concentrating on his prime two priorities – cybersecurity and serving to navy households and veterans.”

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