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Nick Kuhn

Agents increase developer workload rather than reduce it

Contrary to job-loss fears, Nick reports working harder because AI agents constantly need human input. He builds things he previously lacked time for, suggesting agents amplify output but also demand more from their operators.

From AGENTS.md to Enterprise Deployment with Nick Kuhn

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I am, like, working harder than I ever have because I have all these agents, and they, like, they need stuff from me. And I'm constantly, like and I'm doing building things that I always wanted to build, but just never had the time to.

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From AGENTS.md to Enterprise Deployment with Nick Kuhn
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Pieter Levels

Photorealistic AI models retain NSFW training bias

Base Stable Diffusion struggles with photorealism and anatomy. Fine-tuned models trained on explicit content produce better results but retain that bias, requiring builders of AI imaging startups to actively prompt out unwanted NSFW outputs.

Pieter Levels on Bootstrapping Startups, AI Image Models, and Indie Development

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if you look at the photorealistic models that people use now, there’s still core of porn there, of naked people. So I need to prompt out, and everybody needs to do this with AI startups, with imaging, you need to prompt out the naked stuff.

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User-driven parameter optimization

With over a million monthly generated photos, Levels randomly tested generation parameters like step count and sampler on 10% of users. He measured favorites and downloads to statistically determine which settings produced better images before rolling them out universally.

Pieter Levels on Bootstrapping Startups, AI Image Models, and Indie Development

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on like 10% of the users, I would randomly test parameters and then I would see if they would, because you can favor the photo or you can download it, I would measure if they favor it or like the photo. And then I would A/B test

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