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Tasklet (YC P26) Is Hiring a Customer Success Engineer
2 months ago
- Tasklet is an AI platform that automates business processes based on plain English descriptions across tools and systems.
- The role focuses on owning customer support, improving self-serve resources, and automating workflows to reduce workload.
- Responsibilities include handling inbound support, managing high-value customer relationships, and feeding insights to product/engineering.
- Ideal candidates have 1-5 years of experience, strong technical problem-solving skills, and a passion for AI and automation.
- Compensation includes a salary of $130k-$180k, equity of 0.05%-0.15%, and competitive benefits.
No-One Escapes the Permanent Underclass
2 months ago
- AI will replace all human workers if it surpasses human capabilities at lower cost, leading to a permanent underclass with no social mobility.
- The wealthy and corporate owners (permanent overclass) are also vulnerable because they become economically unnecessary and can be expropriated by the state when conflicts arise.
- Governments themselves will be replaced by AI due to faster decision-making and superior intelligence, leaving humans as ceremonial or obsolete.
- Even perfect AI alignment does not preserve human autonomy, as humans become dependent on vastly more powerful machines with no real control.
- Equity in AI companies or property ownership will not protect anyone from eventual disempowerment by machines and the state.
The 4-Hour-Work-Week is over
2 months ago
- The 4-Hour Workweek's core thesis of creating automated passive income loops is now obsolete and dangerous in the AI era.
- Historical passive income success relied on information asymmetry, outsourcing to cheaper labor, and geographic arbitrage, which AI has flattened.
- AI automates tasks previously done by VAs, content farms, and dropshipping, removing the asymmetry and making passive models a race to the bottom.
- True passive income never existed; it required constant upfront effort, maintenance, and reinvention, as seen with Tim Ferriss himself.
- The new strategy is active leverage: using AI to amplify human judgment, curation, and trust, not eliminate involvement.
- The goal is shifting from 4-hour work weeks to 40 hours of high-leverage work producing 400 hours of impact, as passivity leads to irrelevance and replaceability.
Prefect Acquires Dagster
3 months ago
- Prefect is acquiring Dagster Labs to merge two popular orchestration tools for data and ML teams.
- Dagster and Dagster+ products will continue unchanged, with the team joining Prefect for ongoing development.
- Founded in 2018, both companies approached orchestration differently: Dagster focuses on asset-based data definition, while Prefect emphasizes dynamic workflow execution.
- The acquisition combines complementary approaches, allowing organizations to use both tools under one company.
- The merger enhances Prefect's portfolio, adding Dagster for outcomes and FastMCP for access, aimed at AI-driven automation and agent orchestration platforms.
Claude, Start My Database
3 months ago
- EventSourcingDB plugin 1.1.0 enables Claude to autonomously start a local database using the /esdb:start-server Skill.
- New session defaults ESDB_SOURCE and ESDB_EVENT_TYPE_PREFIX ensure consistent event sources and type prefixes across interactions.
- Enhanced CloudEvents reference reduces errors by teaching Claude proper event structure, validation rules, and server-managed fields.
- A full demo session illustrates the workflow: starting the database, writing events, querying data, applying schemas, and cleaning up.
- The plugin simplifies development by automating Docker commands, preflight checks, and ephemeral instance management for disposable testing.
Automating AI Away
3 months ago
- OpenAI researchers are automating themselves away by improving AI, but LLMs remain imprecise and non-deterministic.
- Beagle SCM uses Anthropic's Fable to spot issues in code and make fixes, but LLMs like Claude can be clumsy and error-prone, such as committing wrong directories.
- To handle expensive, slow, and clumsy LLMs, use fast, deterministic tools and integrate them into a formal workflow with self-correction.
- Make tools and processes malleable to automate frequent LLM actions and verify failures, allowing LLMs to automate themselves away in favor of reliable tools.
- Beagle SCM enables LLMs to script routines in JavaScript, with heavy lifting in C, and uses a tooling and workflow layer in JavaScript for tasks like tokenizing files and checking git history.
Yep, we're using OpenClaw to date now
3 months ago
- Ben Guez uses AI automation (OpenClaw and Claude) to post identical Instagram trial reels after World Cup matches, asking for DMs from women of losing teams, gaining over 1 million views and 200 DMs in days.
- Other individuals, like Jeff Weisbein, use OpenClaw to streamline date planning (e.g., researching restaurants), while cautioning against AI-mediated communication in relationships.
- AI assistants raise privacy and ethical concerns, with security experts warning against granting unilateral account access and highlighting risks like unauthorized dating profiles, though some use cases (e.g., managing family schedules) are considered more wholesome.

ai automation

Tasklet (YC P26) Is Hiring a Customer Success Engineer

No-One Escapes the Permanent Underclass

The 4-Hour-Work-Week is over

Prefect Acquires Dagster

Claude, Start My Database

Automating AI Away

Yep, we're using OpenClaw to date now