I have been playing around with building an Iroh Tunnel Sandstorm app that can connect two Sandstorm instances, and share some capabilities exposed from one Sandstorm instance to the other, as if the capabilities were local. Iroh has been very reliable throughout the process.
Presumably the people paying the author for translation services are aware of AI, but for whatever reason are choosing a humans services instead. IMO it would be a form fraud to heavily rely on AI and not disclose that to the customer.
That is both an excellent question and the root problem at that company. The PE firm was a majority shareholder, drive the board, and there were two board members who were HEAVILY involved in the company. Too heavily, they kept making decisions about them and not the company, and that's why I left. Several months later the PE firm was tired if waiting for results, fired those two board members and sold their share of the company at a big loss.
I was really surprised, because one of the two I'd worked with at three other companies, all of which had successful exits (including an inpatient healthcare provider that we ran and sold during COVID!). Something changed, and at this company he made it all about him making the calls and not just trusting his CEO and company staff. He froze out the C-suite, manipulated facts to cause a change of leadership, and in 6 months he forced the new CEO to do all these dumb ideas we'd already tried repeatedly, taking the company from being break even and close to profit to a $2m/month revenue shortfall. There were structural process issues inside the company but he just kept insisting we needed a bigger marketing spend, "marketing can fix any problem."
I’m not in the industry, but I would say Hermeus would be a perfect example. Ostensibly building a commercial airliner, but if you look closely it feels like a military oriented startup from the inside out.
Can't give any examples but I have definitely heard the same about a lot of aerospace startups through the grapevine. As for OP's point about private jets, Boom supersonic is your classic example.
I can't name names but 3 of the startups I've worked at.
Places I haven't worked:
Skydio
Applied Intuition
Saildrone
Planet Labs
Boom
Scale AI
Also worth noting that sometimes it's on purpose, sometimes the founders are all "we're gonna save the world" then AFWERX enters the chat with a big fucking check and the founders yell "Nevermind! Guess we're the baddies now! How many slaughterbots did you say?"
A good way of thinking about it is that every commit is itself version-controlled, allowing unlimited edits. This even allows two people in an evolve-enabled repo to make changes to history at the same time, and Mercurial will resolve any conflicts. It makes it trivial to commit (and even share) a "WIP" commit which you can later amend/split/whatever. It's different from git where you basically can't edit history after pushing (in Mercurial this only becomes true if you push to a non-evolvution or "publishing" repo, where everything then gets squashed for public consumption).
My team has been using AI to add code, but also to aggressively remove old deprecated code. "Is anyone still using this? How does this get called" is easier to answer when you can toss your FE, BE, and entire codebase at an agent and let it create a map of your software project. IDEs can do this in a single language to some degree usually in a single project, but RPC, REST, etc... break some of these tools in a lot of IDEs.
Yes, I write software. The company is 100% remote with an annual team meetup and an annual company meetup, but I only go to the team one.
4 days a week, online at 9-10 am, offline 2-3 pm most days. Sometimes I'm working a sticky problem and stay online later. Or if I start a deploy in late afternoon, I'll stick around to finish it, etc.
Still on group chats, may or may not mute them on my day off.
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