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New comment by mobattah in "Muse Spark: Scaling towards personal superintelligence"

mobattah — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 17:43:02 +0000

Exactly. We’ll see the cost of AI continue to drop.

I was saying this for years about Tesla’s FSD - they finally had to give in and drop the price to stay competitive.

New comment by mobattah in "Little Free Library"

mobattah — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 07:43:27 +0000

These started in a tiny Wisconsin town called Hudson, where I grew up. The only time we’d ever be front page on HN :)

New comment by mobattah in "Anthropic Education the AI Fluency Index"

mobattah — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 18:52:45 +0000

My software development skillset has improved. I’m learning and stress testing new patterns that would have taken far longer pre-AI. I’m also working in new domains and tech stacks that would have taken me much longer to get up to speed on.

New comment by mobattah in "Claude Sonnet 4.6"

mobattah — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 19:37:07 +0000

“Cryptic” exit posts are basically noise. If we are going to evaluate vendors, it should be on observable behavior and track record: model capability on your workloads, reliability, security posture, pricing, and support. Any major lab will have employees with strong opinions on the way out. That is not evidence by itself.

New comment by mobattah in "Learn Your Way: Reimagining Textbooks with Generative AI"

mobattah — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 20:33:49 +0000

Cultural obituaries are often premature, and the one for literacy is no exception. A nascent contrary impulse is emerging: readers deliberately turning to long-form works as a form of intellectual resistance. I’ve been working through Norman Lewis’s Word Power Made Easy and Tom Heehler’s The Well-Spoken Thesaurus, not just to expand vocabulary but to restore the sinew of productive speech.

That project led me to conscript AI as a private tutor. With custom instructions, ChatGPT and Gemini now surface new words and nudge my prose toward clarity, turning a vague fear of erosion into conviction. A dedicated subset of users will inevitably harness such tools to strengthen their expressive range and communicative precision.

Until recently, my writing rarely left emails and journals. Now, with AI as scaffold and sparring partner, I draft short stories from my own life and recast them in the voices of authors I admire. This feels less like a technology poised to supplant teachers, and more like the substrate for a renaissance in autodidactic education.

New comment by mobattah in "VC Fund gives money back, says the market for mature startups is too weak"

mobattah — Thu, 03 Oct 2024 03:52:21 +0000

There are several strategies companies can employ. One common approach is to raise an extension or bridge round. Many startups are adopting this method, with estimates indicating that approximately 40% of current funding rounds fall into this category.

In these cases, companies raise funds at the same valuation as their previous round, often labeled as Series A+ or Series C+ or Series B Extension.

Another, less common strategy involves using a SAFE (Simple Agreement for Future Equity), which will convert to equity during the next priced round.