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You can do all that with comfyui now

Have an upvote! I've been trying it out, it's quite nice. What I like about this vs CoPilot and Cursor is that I feel like (especially with CoPilot) I'm always "racing" the editor. Also Cursor conflicts with some longstanding keybindings I have, vs this which is just the terminal. Having worked on a similar system before, I know it's difficult to implement some of these things, but I am concerned about security. For instance, how well does it handle sensitive files like dot.env or gitignored files. At some point an audit, given that you're closed source would go a long way.


Thanks! Yup, so long as you don't have key bindings for meta-x and meta-c, you ought to be good in the terminal. We honor any repository's .gitignore and won't touch those files. We don't even let Codebuff know they exist, which has caused some issues with hallucinations in the past.

Making sure that our word is trustworthy to the broader world at large is going to be a big challenge for us. Do you have any ideas for what we can do? We're starting to think about open source, but we aren't quite ready for that yet.


Ha! That's fun. Mediapipe api + threejs?


Thanks. Mediapipe but not threejs.

Right, better to give the money back and preserve IRR/ reputation than try to simply earn carry.


They aren’t giving it back they are converting it into a new fund for early stage companies. The article is click bate.


Oh i missed that part -- that makes way more sense.


> preserve IRR/ reputation than try to simply earn carry

Management fees. Carry is performance based.


FWIW, the IRR clock doesn't start until they call capital from the LPs.


> the IRR clock doesn't start until they call capital from the LPs

Capital calls must be honoured on short notice. That means committed capital must be kept low-risk and liquid. That has an opportunity cost. While you are correct in conventional IRR, particularly that touted by funds, only starting the clock when capital is called, LPs measure their own IRRs that consider the opportunity cost of committed uncalled capital.


Yeah, that's a good point :)

Do you have any inside info on how some of these big LPs are modeling opportunity cost against their growth equity commitments? My understanding gleaned from friends has been that they're generally just cutting exposure to growth-stage software and planning to park the capital in pretty vanilla/liquid public equities and fixed income anyway.

Seems like no one really wants to be interested in increasing their exposure to PE or growth equity anymore.


> how some of these big LPs are modeling opportunity cost against their growth equity commitments?

This isn't unique to growth equity but commiting to a capital-calling fund in general.

> no one really wants to be interested in increasing their exposure to PE or growth equity anymore

PE and VC suffered relative to private credit [1][2]. (Basically, folks want to lend to private companies more than they want to buy stakes in them.)

It's unclear whether growth is being uniquely impacted versus private equity in general, early-stage VC inclusive.

[1] https://www.institutionalinvestor.com/article/2dk6rmatv89c9u...

[2] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-10-01/jpmorgan-...


Thanks for sharing your perspectives in this thread. You seem to have a lot of deeper knowledge about how all this works. Any guidance on what to follow or where to learn to understand these complex dynamics of the investment world? I feel like much of what I’ve seen is more like the basics.


I could make the same argument for every form of entertainment. Sure, we should all be hunter gatherers and only have sex to procreate. It's not realistic.


I think what he says is we should be perfect users of our time, leading to some certain goal. Kind of like what AI could potentially be. So I think maybe we transition progressively from humans to AI to reach that perfectness. I'm sure it's possible to have AI that doesn't fall victim to those vices.


Because of switching costs. If you start a new thing this is definitely the case. It’s often said that a new product (startup), can’t be a marginal improvement; it needs to be 10x better. 95 percentile is not 10x


> Uber is objectively worse for every single party involved.

Wrong on at least one count. I've never been refused service while black from Uber. The taxi industry was brought out of the dark ages of discrimination by Uber et al. Taxis (around the world) have tried to rip me off almost half the time I've used them, with no accountability.


Elon Musk has certainly been made very rich from ideas alone.


No... teams of people had to execute on those ideas first, usually with far more valuable ideas of their own, as well as teams of engineers and employees to make them a physical and profitable reality. He didn't simply manifest his ideas from the aether like an arcane sorcerer.


He has delivered on many things, and not delivered on many other ideas. It’s just that the things he didn’t deliver ( the vision ) helped him sell stocks as well as cars, via fame.


And way before that, there was this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Answers


Love the idea and isometric style! I played with it, I think the dragging needs some work...

Edit:

  * Enter should leave the editing modal with the updated title reflected on the "node"
  * I want to drag my "nodes" around but it's not clear how to do that.
  * Can't edit or delete the nodes ( maybe with an authenticated account? )
  * Wishlist: right click context menu to do the above
  * Wishlist: should be able to drag the scene without needing to select the hand icon


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