Comment by wslh
9 months ago
Your message doesn't make it clear what those 175 employees can realistically accomplish on their own.
For instance, you might have an SEO expert on the team, but that alone won't guarantee top search engine rankings. There are countless SEO professionals and tools (human or AI-powered), and even having the best one doesn't eliminate the underlying challenge: business competition. LLMs, like any other tool, don’t solve that fundamental problem.
No employees accomplish anything on their own in the real world, all employees are part of a team. That's why I designed a business strategy and analysis layer (over half the system, in fact), with web tools and connections to all of the insights systems (like mix panel). I built the exact same thing I build at digitalocean but instead of humans I defined them with code, digitalocean runs just fine, so does my LLM system. The whole system I build is self learning, insight gathering and refinement. Competition is for losers, the best teams win via the best insights.
Why 175? Why not 5 billion employees? Why not 20000 companies in parallel? Why not simulate 5 earth's worth of history and setup a full universe of worlds full of startups?
This sounds like those guys in social media that one up each other with their bed times and end up saying they wake up every day at 2am to meditate and work out
Because that was the scope of the project. When we got to 400 employees at DigitalOcean I noticed I thought it was really half that, original I just sat out to make the marketing and strategy team, but got bit carried away, the fp&a team was the only group I really struggled with, my cfo skills are very meh.
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