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claude solving alignment: subconsciously programming world population to ideologically align with it
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a16z? the famous media company?
very illuminating
a16z always intended to be a media empire. This is the story of how it was built.
As one of a16z’s earliest employees, Margit Wennmachers laid the foundations for a16z’s marketing operation. In this conversation with Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, she shares stories of telling Marc to write Why Software Is Eating the World, getting Ben on the cover of Fortune Magazine, and finding that no publications were willing to run Marc’s now famous It’s Time to Build.
The conversation also covers why founders should have a public voice, how a16z learned from CAA and changed venture, the power of authentic personality-driven media, and how the role of traditional media has changed.
00:00 Introduction
00:43 Meeting at The Creamery: When the firm had no office
06:24 “Treat LPs like mushrooms”
11:00 “We don’t have products. We have people and ideas”
14:45 The Fortune cover that started a war
28:03 Software is Eating the World: One draft, no edits
29:45 When nobody would publish “It’s Time to Build”
33:36 Why Ben wrote a book
41:30 “You can’t market a company without a character”
50:33 The GPT test for human communication
53:30 “How many people have something to say every day?”
57:00 Every company needs a personality
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imagine having to bench to arrive at this conclusion. gstack is such a great example of what NOT to do.
garry tan spends $200K / yr on tokens
via a special Claude Code setup that has 23 skills to cover CEOs, designers, eng managers, etc
sounds impressive! or bloated. just like more programmers isn't always better (IBM has 295K employees), or how people used to be proud of their fancy prompt engineers... do elaborate coding agent setups actually help?
we ran a test. we benchmarked coding harness setups on 100 software engineering tasks from sudo L7. one of them had 37 skills, spawned 17 agents, and cost 8x as much.
*and it performed worse than vanilla Claude Code.*
in fact: the best performer was simply thinking harder (xhigh effort) with no extra coding add-on at all.
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garry tan spends $200K / yr on tokens
via a special Claude Code setup that has 23 skills to cover CEOs, designers, eng managers, etc
sounds impressive! or bloated. just like more programmers isn't always better (IBM has 295K employees), or how people used to be proud of their fancy prompt engineers... do elaborate coding agent setups actually help?
we ran a test. we benchmarked coding harness setups on 100 software engineering tasks from sudo L7. one of them had 37 skills, spawned 17 agents, and cost 8x as much.
*and it performed worse than vanilla Claude Code.*
in fact: the best performer was simply thinking harder (xhigh effort) with no extra coding add-on at all.
imagine spending half a billion in donations knowing the flip-side is losing hundreds of billions in market value, and still getting the hatchet
