Recommendation · MoneyIf running Blackwell-generation GPUs, don't run anything higher than FP4 quantization; FP4 is best, and going from FP8 to FP4 saves roughly 40% of GPU footprint for zero loss in precision. Long context is a scam: even though you can serve one million tokens, 256K is really what you need. Consider tensor parallelism: even though GLM fits on TP4, you may not have enough KV cache, so TP8 might work better depending on workload size. Coding tasks need to be above 90% cache hit, and you can look into optimized speculative decoding, sequential pre-fill, and PDD disaggregation as esoteric tuning options.
TP8 might work better depending on workload size
AI Engineer · How Revolut Cut AI Coding Costs 90% With Self-Hosted Open Models - David Abitbol, Revolut
Recommendation · MoneySet rules for operations you don't want to allow (e.g., allow grep but not gradle); this gives regulators confidence the system is not an autonomous agent needing different supervision.
AI Engineer · How Revolut Cut AI Coding Costs 90% With Self-Hosted Open Models - David Abitbol, Revolut
Recommendation · MoneyIf starting from scratch, Aaron Levie would look at the industry/job-function matrix, pick an industry he knows extremely well, reverse engineer what the work looks like in that industry, and build an agent for it. The second best scenario is having a co-founder that has done the job you want to automate; the third best is to go find a way to do the job yourself, like shadowing somebody and doing it all day long.
attributed to Levie as his personal approach ('if I had to literally start from scratch')
The a16z Show · The New Startup Playbook | Box CEO Aaron Levie
Method · MoneySGLang's president describes how the team manages memory pools for hybrid architectures: they allocate one shared pool of physical memory without per-pool-type limits, letting pools grow dynamically from opposite ends depending on context length. They build a unified radix tree on full-token IDs across GPU memory, host memory, and external storage as L1, L2, and L3 cache tiers. They introduced a compaction operation that reorganizes memory fragments in physical memory space using low-latency memory copy kernels and remaps virtual page IDs by only changing the low-level mapping. The president explains that managing memory pools separately creates major challenges for efficient cache sharing, and that using separate standalone radix trees per memory pool component brings compatibility and
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Y Combinator · Not All Open Model Tokens Are the Same | YC Paper Club
Recommendation · MoneyFounders should hire a filmmaker as one of their first hires — it was his number one planned hire even before starting the company (along with an engineer). The reason: no founder wants to put daily attention on making videos. At his last company the film team was two people on a seven-person team; at Clicky at one point three people made videos and there was one engineer.
Y Combinator · This Is How You Should Actually Make Launch Videos
Recommendation · MoneyGaryVee's concrete playbook: if you like jigsaw puzzles, film yourself doing the puzzle over a beer with Love Island in the background and post clips on TikTok. The content is the activity you'd already be doing, so it only works if it's genuinely what you want to do. Consistency and perseverance, plus learning a little something, are prerequisites.
illustrative scenario, not verified outcomes
GaryVee · The Biggest Business Opportunity Nobody Is Taking Seriously
Recommendation · MoneyKeep the input form visible and expanded directly on the landing page so people can type right into it, because conversion was much higher than requiring a click-through, popup, or email gate. Removing the visible prompt input box from their landing page caused their conversion rate to totally tank.
self-reported anecdote, no numbers given
Y Combinator · How To Stand Out In A World Of AI Designs
Method · MoneyIsabelle Williams describes a flow where an agent takes anonymous actions in your app with limited capabilities, receiving an access token plus a claim token. When a user wants to take ownership of what their agent did, the agent gives them a link and a one-time code to enter at sign-up; the user signs up, signs in, enters the code, and claims the agent's work under their account. She notes that requiring a signup flow with link, code entry, and email verification is where you lose your user in product-led growth.
Method, not a verified protocol.
AI Engineer · How to Let AI Agents Sign Up for Your App Safely — Isabelle Williams, WorkOS
Recommendation · MoneyKurtz advises auditing the organization for 'Shadow AI' — finding where AI agents are operating, who is doing what, and under what identity — since nobody knows where rogue AI is. He describes CrowdStrike's approach of instrumenting agents from birth to capture the entire chain of events (sub-agents, tool calls, MCP server access, data pulls) and then adding policy and blocking rules around them. He also warns against unleashing agents with broad identities and unrestricted package-downloading permissions, which creates tremendous exposure.
No Priors: Artificial Intelligence | Technology | Startups · The New Apex Predator: CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz on Adversaries Armed With AI Agents
Recommendation · MoneyBrockman urges defenders to use peak frontier AI capabilities during the defender's window to find and fix vulnerabilities in their systems, applying each new model to their infrastructure until it saturates, then repeating with the next model. OpenAI's Daybreak program is cited as an example of responsibly giving defenders access.
No Priors: Artificial Intelligence | Technology | Startups · The Changing Physics of Cybersecurity and Drug Development with OpenAI President Greg Brockman
Recommendation · MoneySam McKenna recommends asking the prospect who else would benefit from this in your organization, and whether peers on other teams or in other lines of business would need to see this before deciding to move forward, since prospects often have pals with the same issues who could be brought onto the call.
30 Minutes to President's Club | No-Nonsense Sales · #619: Active Listening to Loosen up Your Discovery Calls and First Dates | Sam McKenna | 30MPC Hall of Fame
Method · MoneyWhen a prospect accepts a meeting, follow three steps: respond with gratitude before booking, send a calendar invite with your name first and a clear purpose in the subject line, and connect with the buyer on LinkedIn with a thank-you message.
Method, not a verified protocol.
30 Minutes to President's Club | No-Nonsense Sales · #619: Active Listening to Loosen up Your Discovery Calls and First Dates | Sam McKenna | 30MPC Hall of Fame
Recommendation · MoneyThe speaker advises letting UGC creators submit statics, requiring them to prove themselves first, and having video-script creators write statics too since they already craft the perfect script in their minds.
Foundr · The NEW Creator Playbook that Took Me from $80K Debt to $250K/Day | Trybe
Recommendation · MoneyThe guest recommends that designers, design psychologists, and graphic designers jump into the current flexible influx period and insert themselves into the spec process, articulating design intent into the tool — developing the practice of distilling design knowledge into a format where other people and the AI tools building products can read it.
NNgroup · Specs Are The New Source Code (feat. Thomas Watkins, NN/G Guest Instructor)
Recommendation · MoneyThe guest endorses that designers need to write the layer of specs that tells us what the product is supposed to be and how we know we're being true to it.
NNgroup · Specs Are The New Source Code (feat. Thomas Watkins, NN/G Guest Instructor)
Recommendation · MoneyTo solve the collaboration and intelligence gaps, Ford Prior recommends creating a multiplayer AI-native war room consisting of a roster of key decision makers and subject matter experts relevant to the topic, a driver to wield the expensive AI tools, and an AI-native productivity suite.
AI Engineer · One Day, $1,000 in Tokens: An AI War Room for Legacy Code — Ford Prior, GEICO
Recommendation · MoneyGary Vaynerchuk's biggest advice for someone launching a live show three to four times a week is to post-produce every episode into as much post-production content as possible. He says every live show should become a Substack and Beehiiv article, and should be cut into 19 clips posted on every platform. He maps this onto a gym analogy: the host knows live is right, and now it's about doing the form properly — which for them is post-production, not the content.
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GaryVee · You Might Be Making Content Completely Wrong
Recommendation · MoneyStandardize a set of skills into structured documentation within a repo plus a CLI that models use to drive work — creating plans, visualizations, client readouts — so the pieces around writing code happen automatically and standard across the team. Maintain a big canonical plan document with consistent structure, but reduce enforcement of that structure as models get better.
Latent.Space · AI for the Fortune 2000: How Tenex Builds an AI-Native SDLC — Alex Lieberman & CJ Hess
Recommendation · MoneyGaryVee tells people making under $20 an hour to buy anything at wholesale that has a higher retail value and sell it via live shopping on TikTok Shop and Whatnot, claiming that going hard could produce a million dollars in profit a year within 24 months.
The million-dollar-in-24-months figure is the creator's own claim, not a verified outcome.
GaryVee · How to Start Live Shopping Without a Huge Following
Recommendation · MoneyThe creator argues that every mom-and-pop store selling trinkets, candles, watches, or shoes should be on TikTok Shop tomorrow, because the FYP delivers free customers and there is no reason not to participate. He frames it as equivalent to 30 random people walking into your store for free, something store owners would lose their minds over.
GaryVee · The Biggest Business Opportunity Nobody Is Talking About