Traditional professions like doctors, judges, and the like need specialised academic guidance (certificate) + experience. I agree.
But what about technical and humanities? So far, everyone has argued that a university will bring contacts (I'm not arguing, that's true... but the same can be done with hustling/projects).
Yesterday Google published a paper on a new model called MusicLM, which generates high-fidelity music from rich text descriptions. I haven't seen as much discourse about AI-generated music as I've seen for images and artworks. Are we too early on when it comes to music, or what do you think is causing that? What do you see the biggest litigation challenges to be?
We used to think the safest rule for AI permissions was letting agents execute any task that could be easily undone in the database.
But we learned the hard way that database rollbacks don't fix customer relationships like when an agent automatically sends an incorrect status update or marks a feature request as "planned" without human context. Once the customer sees it the damage is already done.
How does your team handle permission boundaries for agents handling live product decisions?
There s a false sense of security in seeing signups tick upward when your actual core product usage stays completely flat.
We used to celebrate traffic spikes from launch directories only to find out those users vanished within 48 hours without touching a single key feature.
Chasing volume instead of actual activation was burning our engineering time on the wrong problems.
If you've run into this trap how did you restructure your core metrics to measure real engagement instead of empty vanity numbers?
I build my app alone after my day job, with no ad budget. So far the only thing that really worked for me is writing short, personal posts on Threads. One story about my family got over 300k views and brought more signups than everything else combined. Posts that explain features barely get noticed.
But I can't tell if that was luck or something I can repeat.
I ve attended a few conferences and meetups over the past two years always for a different purpose. Sometimes it was just 1. to socialise , other times 2. to interview guests, 3. find PR or 4. sell products. I have to say that the last item on this list was the least fulfilling we recruited a few trial users, but there were minimal paying customers. How do you approach similar events?
What positive results have you seen from it? [If you have any recommendations for meetups or conferences where people are more open to buying a product, I d be grateful if you could share them.]
I had someone take a concept I shared in good faith and launch a lazy clone of it a few weeks later. The silver lining was watching them struggle to execute because they didn't understand the 'why' behind the design decisions. But the trust hit was real and it made me want to build everything in total secrecy.
Moving forward, I started sharing only the problem I'm solving rather than the exact how at least until I have a working MVP. For founders who've had an idea taken how do you set boundaries with collaborators without becoming completely paranoid?
