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> Across his various startups, Peter has seen two kinds of work:

> 1. the "IQ 180" work. some mad scientist genius type comes up with some crazy solution you've never thought of.

> 2. the "token spewer" work. being ultra responsive, pushing the ball forward across dozens of different fronts.

Interesting comp to pg's Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule https://www.paulgraham.com/makersschedule.html

I'm curious about not only which of these roles models will fill, but also how they will empower us to be in the mode we prefer.



I conceive of this as Protoss vs Zerg. I’ve had a lot of success in my career following a Zerg strategy.


That's been my goal too, know a bit of everything - enough to know it exists and maybe Know A Guy I can ask if I need to know something more specific.

Now in many cases the "Guy" is an LLM. I know enough to know when the LLM is bullshitting me and when I need to consult an actual human.


We call it Ravenclaw vs Hufflepuff. I guess it's a generation thing.


Zerg rush


> July 2009

> Thanks to Sam Altman, … for reading drafts of this.

Oh how times have changed!


Have they? Some say he's still reading those drafts, along with everything else on the Internet.




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