Han Yuan

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Democracy dies in silence. Ezra Klein makes the case for the Democrats to leverage the looming government shutdown to save our Democracy.

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I was thinking about this just the other day - that the house was a lot neater before work from home and the alternative which is not working from home.

Reset Before You Regret The reset technique that saves AI collaborations from context rot

Remember high school? Those long conversations with your best buddies that go on so long that you forgot what you were originally talking about? Good memories in real life, bad when you’re vibe coding.

My latest post discusses context rot and how to beat it.

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Make AI Admit It's Confused The simple technique that prevents hours of circular conversations

Sharing a tip I use every time I start a prompt open.substack.com/pub/avibe/p/...

Welcome to "A Vibe" Together we will be the last of the jedi

My newsletter is a vibe!

And yes, it's on vibe coding.

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I didn't realize you were launching a podcast! I had somehow confused our podcast discussions with you being on other people's podcasts. 😵‍💫

I actually find it to be epic. I think I’ve been unemployed for about one-third of my career. During these periods, I often learn the most, and they usually set the stage for my next thing. However, the boredom will get you at some point.

What if instead of AI-generated advice, you could get the perfect quote from someone who actually lived through what you're facing? Built The Perspective Shift to make that happen. Type in what's on your mind, get timeless human wisdom back: theperspectiveshift.vercel.app Would love your thoughts! 💭

I tried to save some money by not ponying up for a Cursor license and instead used Avante + Neovim. At this rate, my ghetto command line IDE is costing me 7x what the license would have cost me thanks to API pricing for token calls at the API level. Oops.

According to my Perplexity queries, 30.5% of the human population, representing 2.5 billion people, was born after the iPhone was released. That's a lot of people who've always lived with information ubiquity. I wonder how AI will change things further.

Y Combinator startups are fastest growing, most profitable in fund history because of AI Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan says for about a quarter of the current YC startups, 95% of the code was written by artificial intelligence models.

Labor is the most expensive line item for early-stage start-ups. AI-natives will have a cost and speed advantage compared to pre-AI companies because their org was built around an older workflow. The tech recession continues, more downsizing is inevitable.

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Four Fundamental Rules #managing_others Sometimes the things you regret the most are the things you didn't say

I wrote this.

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Even in today’s AI-automated world, where vibe coding seems to be the future for many computer science students, mastering the art of writing code the traditional way is still clutch because knowing what's up when AI-generated code leads you on a path to nowhere will give you the tools to fix it.

Apple is the biggest winner of DeepSeek’s new AI breakthrough Ai revolution unfolding

If you're not first you're last - unless you're Apple.

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Despite VCs investing $75B in Q4, it’s still hard for startups to raise money, data proves | TechCrunch After two years of relatively muted investment activity, it seems that VCs are starting to pour capital into startups at pandemic-era levels once again.

A few months ago, Cybertaxis were the talk of the town. Meanwhile, Waymo quietly raised $5.6 billion in a Series C funding round.

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Matt Mullenweg deactivates WordPress contributor accounts over alleged fork plans | TechCrunch Matt Mullenweg has deactivated the accounts of several WordPress community members, including two with plans to fork WordPress.

WordPress drama today isn't just open source politics - it's about who controls the platform that runs 43% of the web.

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#wordpress #opensource

Han-Shen (Han) Yuan on LinkedIn: #careeradvice | 17 comments Three Fundamental Rules (Expanded article coming soon in my newsletter) These three rules form an interconnected foundation for career success that I started… | 17 comments on LinkedIn

I wrote a short article on three fundamental rules for managing your career, but the LinkedIn community reminded me that there should be four!

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Product manager is an unfair role. So work unfairly. How to thrive in “the great flattening” by redefining work norms

Beyond productivity hacks: refactor the PM role for asymmetric returns. Key moves: real-time work, 59-sec async comms, protect focus time, and team autonomy, and evidence banking. Companies need exponential output—linear won't cut it.

#productmanagement

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Palantir, Snowflake, Salesforce to gain in next era of AI: Wedbush The artificial intelligence (AI) era is hitting its second stage, benefiting software and cloud providers, Wedbush analysts say. Wedbush managing director of equity research Scott Devitt joins Seana S...

According to Wedbush analysts, AI is entering its second phase in 2025, shifting focus from semiconductors to software applications and cloud infrastructure.

TL;DR - We'll be in the shovels and picks of this S-curve for a bit longer!

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Amazon and Anthropic announce strategic collaboration to advance generative AI Anthropic selects AWS as its primary cloud provider and will train and deploy its future foundation models on AWS Trainium and Inferentia chips, taking advantage of AWS’s high-performance, low-cost ...

Amazon just invested 4B dollars into Anthropic. When I read the news headline, I thought that was a typo, so I had to double-check. Turns out, not a typo.

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Founders' Salaries Are Shockingly Humble, New Report Finds According to a survey of 500 startup founders, the average annual founder salary is $114,000, with 46% making less than $100,000 and over 5% receiving zero pay at all.

Being a startup founder doesn't pay even if it seems glamorous according to Pilot's survey with 500 founders. Average salary stands at $114,000 a year.

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