
exploring, technology, startups, telecommunications, tier 1 cities, little villages, mountains, oceans, & languages. Founder @siglocom (YC S21)
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it’s clear we need to retire the term vibe coding because the models now produce better architecture & way more coherent code than an average software engineer.
perhaps even better than top software engineers too because unlike a human, ai has a much much larger context window.
this ain’t vibe coding at all. it’s precision engineering.
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Personas que viven en Ixtapaluca, Chimalhuacán, Ecatepec y Chalco, en el Edomex, son quienes más tiempo tardan en llegar a sus empleos en todo el país: casi media jornada laboral en recorridos de ida y vuelta, para regresar sólo a dormir.
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We instituted an official AI Writing Policy at @Clay.
Massive thanks to @sophiebits on our engineering team who wrote this.
Originally this was just for eng, but other teams found it so helpful we expanded it company-wide.
Here are the four guiding principles:
1. You must stand behind every idea and sentence
It is your responsibility to make sure that the entire document is representative of your own thoughts before you share it.
2. Writing is thinking
Spending time on the writing process teaches you more about your topic. If you circumvent this process, you will walk away with a poorer understanding of the subject matter.
3. More time should be spent writing a document than consuming it
If you generate a document from a short prompt then ask your readers to go through the longer output, you are disrespecting their time. They can talk to ChatGPT themselves if they want to.
4. Longer is not better
AI makes it easy to generate long docs, and it loves padding them with sentences that say nothing. If you're producing docs from a short prompt, consider just sharing the prompt.
You can read (and borrow) the full policy below. Hopefully we all communicate a bit more clearly now :)
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¿Cuánto tarda el Valle de México en llegar a trabajar?
2.5 millones tardan MÁS DE UNA HORA (28%).
600 mil, más de dos: eran 478 mil en 2020 (+25%).
Crucé los microdatos de la Encuesta Intercensal 2025 en R y así se ve 👇
Our team at Siglo Internet has been to tens of thousands of houses in the urban periphery of CDMX. I can confirm, we need more multiple dwelling units.
Esta estadística de @ElenoAM me mata:
¿Por qué en México tan pocas familias viven en edificios? Denme sus mejores hipótesis..
via @opinion
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"The solution is evident: Mexico needs to build taller towers and denser public and private multifamily buildings, particularly in the central areas that have lost population over the years."
Mexico's urban chaos has a clear, but unpleasant, solution: build towers and more towers
Keep expanding the metropolitan and suburban areas farther from city centers isn't sustainable anymore
my latest for @opinion 🇲🇽
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📡 Isaac Phillips retweeted
Søren Kierkegaard on the Importance of Walking
“Above all, do not lose your desire to walk. Everyday, I walk myself into a state of well-being & walk away from every illness. I have walked myself into my best thoughts, and I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot walk away from it. But by sitting still, & the more one sits still, the closer one comes to feeling ill. Thus if one just keeps on walking, everything will be all right.”
This guy advocates getting off the beaten path with… **checks notes** … a photo of the Carretera Federal? I love Parres as much as anyone else, but you got get out of the town to truly experience its beauty IMO.
Example:
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Replying to @ycombinator
Some features:
• Triggers (crons, webhooks), memory, shared files
• Connectors for a company brain
• Agent browser support
• Shareable web app artifacts
• Multi-player projects
Like many things we do at YC, it’s an experiment. It’s early and has bugs. But it’s been surprisingly useful for us so far, and we’re excited to share it and get feedback from the community.
If you want to host it yourself, try telling your coding agent of choice to “deploy github.com/yc-software/qm”
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Why would we go to Mars if there wasn’t spicy Sichuan style crawdad soup? 🤔
Crawfish soup on Mars? Fears over China’s scientific ambitions raised in Senate scmp.com/news/china/diplomac…
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📡 Isaac Phillips retweeted
Every CEO I coach asks me some version of the same question.
"How do I find A-players who make sh!t happen?"
At Bridgewater, I ran hundreds of interviews looking for this exact thing. We called it "acting like an owner." Others call it high agency. Here are 5 tests to find it:
❤️ @freddier
"Crime does not pay as much as code."
This is one of the most important lessons of history, if you generalize code to include steam engines and crime to include getting rich through government connections.
elpais.com/america/2021-10-1…
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