Interconnects
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1 month ago
The author of Interconnects, a technical AI newsletter, is pursuing a full-time career in the non-profit sector while maintaining the blog as a side project focused on frontier AI ecosystem development and open science. The publication has 70,000 subscribers with approximately 900 paying subscribers, and the author has set a goal of reaching 1,000 paid subscribers by summer 2026. Going forward, the blog will paywall all comments to prevent AI-generated spam, increase the proportion of paywalled articles to improve financial sustainability, and expand in-person events for its core technical audience.
Platformer
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1 month ago
Eugenia Kuyda, founder of Replika and now Wabi, stated that AI has made hiring junior engineers unsustainable for startups because they compete with what she calls a "1,000x engineer," and believes job loss concerns are justified rather than fantasy. Wabi, which launches publicly before month's end, is designed with a soccer-team model of 10 to 15 superstar employees with sizable equity, supported by contractors, reflecting Kuyda's belief that this structure is sufficient to build billion-dollar companies. Kuyda argues the industry is in the "Microsoft DOS era of AI interfaces" and that as AI tools mature and enable rapid app creation, long-tail subscription software and traditional hiring models will be disrupted.
