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Ali Ansari
@aliniikk
hire remote engineers here:micro1.aiJoined May 2016

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"You can't have a great culture and be remote-first." A lot of people believe that. And maybe it's harder - I don't know. All I know is Gainsight has been a work-from-anywhere company for a LONG time and is now the #1-rated company on Glassdoor. You can make anything work IMO.
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today is my bday, but more importantly, we've launched micro1 v3. clients can now hire & manage their engineering team right on the micro1 dashboard and engineers can manage their pay, bonuses, weekly summaries, and more on the developer dashboard🥳
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udemy + chatgpt is already 10x better than university
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Um... I just had like a 20 minute conversation with ChatGPT about the history of modern physics. If I had this shit as a tutor during high school and college.... OMG. I think we can basically re-invent the concept of education at scale. College as we know it will cease to exist.
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lean team philosophy will be the next big thing in silicon valley: companies will actually make profits, and a lot of talent laid off can start companies and contribute much more than they previously were.
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looking forward to serve the 50+ people that redeemed this offer. Offer expires tomorrow for those hiring engineers.
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for those hiring remote software engineers: i've put together a special offer for pre-seed to Series A companies. You can get 240 hours of free software engineering w/ micro1
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however, it’s important to note that this reduction in threshold is simply a “phase shift” and the detection algorithm itself needs to continue to get incrementally better with time as well.
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i think the main problem right now is “bot engineers” fighting the twitter bot detection algorithm and one or the other becoming incrementally better periodically. by reducing the threshold by such large amount, the “bot engineers” will not win the incremental war.
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users that verify identity can have something that lets the world know they’re real (not a blue check mark), perhaps a simple, low opacity text under their name on their profile.
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once something is labeled as “potential bot” with the significantly lowered threshold, the user will have to verify identity before using the API or logging in (aka timeframe to verify reduced to 0)
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let’s say right now, twitter’s bot algorithm labels something as a bot once it believes there’s 70% probability that its a bot. if you reduce this threshold to 40%, it will be extremely difficult to create bots (especially if the bot detection accuracy also improves over time)
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the above solution brings up another problem 2.) bots at scale can easily fight this timeframe by creating many new accounts. solution: significantly reduce the “bot labeling” threshold.
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there’s two big problems with this approach (which are solvable). 1.) large friction to new users signing up solution: allow 30 (or even 90) days for users to add this verification.
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