Every big business in the world biases towards risk reduction and cost reduction over getting an edge.

Different businesses have different biases.

I was lucky enough to start my career sat on the next desk across from Kirat. Genius programmer and nice guy! He later went on to found Beacon platform which was the same again, as a cloud hosted service.

Yeah, and Beacon was acquired a year ago. The acquiring company in turn went private. Yesterday.

Genius coder, yes. Nice guy, most definitely yes.

You can vibe code a clone of Trello in 30 minutes.

Sure, but I'd like it to be good

Brilliant framing. If you understand a domain and understand software architecture then you are in an extremely strong position right now.

They need something like this as it's hard and flaky to automate Google apps with AI. However, step 2 drops me to a fairly technical looking page where I have to configure Google Cloud. If they had a one click installer to automate Google Apps it would be an absolute killer use case for AI for me.

A demo of using an LLM/agent to analyse data stored in ClickHouse. This stuff is getting really good!

Does it require a semantic layer such as DBT, Lightdash, or Rill?

I wish I knew the difference. I’ve ran or been close to tens of businesses over the last 20 years and we’ve always paid the Google tax, but I’m not sure it’s ever had a positive ROI.

The AdWords platform is extremely complicated nowadays, and try as I might I can’t get any impressions from it. I then went through a period with an AdWords specialist from their team who also couldn’t get any impressions. It’s like they don’t want or need my money.

It’s yet another way for investors to screw early employees whose face doesn’t fit.