They say teams get a limited amount of time to build things from scratch at these hackathons but isn’t it trivially easy to build the thing or most of the thing and then bring it in and pretend you made it on the day of
Announcing No Limit: a bot building tournament hosted by @Sequoia, @citsecurities and @OpenAI.
Teams of 1 or 2 get 60 minutes to build a pokerbot from scratch.
Agents play thousands of games across six scored rounds.
Open to university students and recent grads (‘25 or ‘26).
Regionals in Boston, Pittsburgh and the Bay Area in early November. Top five teams from each fly to the Finals. $100K grand prize.
It’s astonishing how rich someone will be while pretending to be poor
Not only pretending but actually believing themselves to be poor
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Replying to @potterlab
I randomly come across your accelerate posts, and they always make me smile and/or laugh while reminding me to accelerate 🫡
Ty
John Potter spirit/acc retweeted
Most irrational fear these days is Waymo crashing while I'm sewing and my needle going right through my eye.
The people who speak as if declining birth rates will be here forever are just as foolish as those who thought that we’d have population growth forever
Hackathon that asks you to fill out your CV
Am I applying to a job or am I providing free labor for your startup event??
We’re hosting the world's first Autonomous Company Hackathon @ycombinator
$100,000+ in prizes. Winners get a guaranteed YC interview. Mac Minis, iPhone 18 + much more: 💰💰
Pick a business. Build the agent team that runs it with the Naïve SDK. Show it operating at demo time.
November 7–8, YC office, San Francisco.
Thanks to our sponsors:
@OpenAI , @OpenRouter , @supabase, @neondatabase, @vercel , @stripe , @agentmail, @tenki, @MonidHQ, @apify, and more.
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I too have setup contraptions on my computer
That would be true computer use, a boutique hacked together robot running agents to physically operate the computer
Probability isn’t real except at one of the most mysterious fundamental substrates of reality?
Sounds like reality isn’t mechanistic then
There’s a big difference between AI that is capable enough to be considered AGI and AI that is good enough for normal people to finally use it regularly for work
It needs to be much better and cheaper and faster than even the current magical AI capabilities
AI will solve this problem
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