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Are there any more startups with real technical challenges?

2•artifix•10h ago
I'm a technologist with 25+ years of hands-on experience across all IT roles and hundreds of technologies. I've done it all: from startups to Fortune 500s, from desktop applications to global distributed systems to AI dark factory harnesses.

But I'm bored.

I want to work with a startup who's taking on real challenges, challenges that require the kind of engineering expertise that gave us the microprocessor revolution and the real birth of Silicon Valley.

Yes, everyone is talking about AI. Sure, in the right hands, with the right ring-fencing, AI is great, and there are plenty of great startup ideas around AI. At the same time, there is a lot of disinformation. The risk is that many of these startups will fail because they lack the serious engineering needed to use AI to its maximum potential.

But I'm looking for something else.

Do you have something that shifts the paradigm? Do you have a startup with a real challenge?

I'd like to hear from you.

I'd love to see what people are doing out there ... things that my AI agents haven't found yet.

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iohotspot•10h ago
Start using LLMs to assist building hw projects. a couple ESP32's opened up a whole new world for me moving a lot of the brutal first steps forward quickly.
artifix•10h ago
Ok yes, that's cool. Is that what you are doing? Do you have a startup?
kgcgfva•10h ago
Pentad.ai -- an operating system for agents... Very real tech challenges.
artifix•10h ago
That's cool. Maybe not very cool, but cool. I like it. Is this you? The downside I think is that you'll freak out clients with autonomous agents that are working for vendors.

Let me put it to you this way: I don't trust vendors. I've worked with them on behalf of large clients. I know what they want. So how should I trust vendor agents?

Nonetheless I like the idea ...

wmf•3h ago
Oxide, Cloudflare, Tailscale...

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