newfocogi a day ago | next |

As an outside observer, I'm interested to see how poolside handles keeping up with their competition on two fronts. On one side, they're trying to build a better code model then the large labs (OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft). On the other side, they need to outperform the UX of Cursor and VSCode w/ integrations.

It seems to me they raised on the pedigree of their founders, but to win they need to be better than the competition. The margin for being better than the competition on both fronts seems quite narrow.

But I also wouldn't mind having $500M to train a foundation model, deploy fine-tuned and RAG-based solutions on top of it for big customers and see what sticks.

codingdave a day ago | prev | next |

> AI progress will help us drive improvements in science, health, housing, food, and education by making it better, more affordable and more accessible.

There seems to be a huge number of dots they failed to connect between these ideas.

colesantiago a day ago | prev |

> We believe in a positive technological future, one of abundance for humanity, one where AI progress will help us drive improvements in science, health, housing, food, and education by making it better, more affordable and more accessible.

Agreed.

Very stoked for poolside and other AI tools to accelerate software development and create an abundant future for everyone.

I envision lots of jobs for software engineers because of AI.

This is definitely the future.