angela strange

@astrange

General Partner (AI Apps & Fintech) @a16z, proud Canadian, mom of 2 boys, distance runner; Previous: product leader

San Francisco, CA

Joined February 2007

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angela strange
@astrange
Aug 20
There is now an *advantage* to having one foot in your home country, and one foot in Silicon Valley. Silicon Valley has always run on the magic of paying it forward. Everyone here has been helped by someone, at a critical moment - for no reason other than just to be helpful.
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Gabriel Vasquez
@GEVS94
Aug 20
Article
Rise of the Borderless Founder
Silicon Valley has always run on the magic of paying it forward. Everyone here has been helped by someone, at a critical moment - for no reason other than just to be helpful. There’s a special version...
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angela strange
@astrange
20h
This is just the beginning of the agent/data wars: Amazon cuts off Muse. Every platform who has done the hard work of aggregating users is trying to figure out how not to become “dumb pipes”. Do they: 1/ Try to block the agents — but risk pissing off their customers — in
BuccoCapital Bloke
@buccocapital
Sep 21
Amazon cuts off Muse. While I am bullish Meta and Muse, I think many people are overlooking the digital knife fight that’s about to occur Nobody wants to get commoditized or layered here. Let the games begin
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angela strange
@astrange
Sep 19
The best way to quickly teach users what your product (in this case model) does, may be to state decisively what it does NOT do.
Sydney Runkle
@sydneyrunkle
Sep 18
Article
Building a Harness with Jev
Agents run in a loop: an LLM decides what to do, a tool executes, a model evaluates the results, and then continues in that loop until the task is complete. Agents and LLMs were initially difficult to...
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angela strange
@astrange
Sep 16
“I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time” — your AI slop cannon
Shane Parrish
@shaneparrish
Sep 15
Lazy work used to mean too little output. Now, with AI, it often means too much and more work for everyone else. @tobi call it "slop grenades." A "Slop Grenade" is when you let AI produce the work and pass it on without adding any value (including checking it). Someone else
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angela strange
@astrange
Sep 15
This is what Insurance companies (and banks) should be TERRIFIED about. Muse found a new/cheaper policy, and canceled the old one. Inertia and information asymmetry will no longer be enough to keep customers. Exciting times!!
Joe Devoy
@JosephDevoy
Sep 10
Yesterday I uploaded my auto insurance policy to Meta @Muse and asked for a better rate with identical coverage. In ~5 minutes, it found a policy saving me $3,500 /year, bought it, and canceled my old one. I knew I was overpaying. I’d abandoned several attempts to switch because
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