Founder Reality
I build in AI - and I write down what it's actually like.
Right now I'm shipping an open-weight model. This is where I think out loud about it - what I'm seeing, what I'm deciding, and what I'm getting wrong as I build.
First-hand, no script. Notes from inside the work, not commentary from outside it.
George Pu. Building an open-weight model in Toronto - no investors, no co-founders.
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The Day I killed our product strategy
Today (on a Sunday) I took our own AI models off our own app and replaced them with a competitor's model. This is the story of how the decision happened in 24 hours, what it was like in the 4 days leading up to it, what it cost me to see it, and what I think other founders can take from it. Day 1 - my own product told me the truth We're an AI model company. Or we were. We spent months training small open-weight models for honesty - models that say 'I don't know' instead of inventing answers
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I Got Bored of Being a Commentator
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The Barrier to Building AI Isn't Talent. It's Capital.
From the series · The AI Displacement Series
The Path Forward
This is Chapter 7 of 7 in the AI Displacement Series.
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