Peter Kao
@peterkao.com
• Founder at @MetanautLabs.com
• 18+ years of tech entrepreneurship
• 10+ years of running a VR studio
• Current: https://risingtheory.com (fintech)
• 18+ years of tech entrepreneurship
• 10+ years of running a VR studio
• Current: https://risingtheory.com (fintech)
When people ask entrepreneurs how many employees they have, what they're actually asking is how successful are you. This question will be outdated in a few years as smaller companies with higher revenues and lower profit margins (compared to non-AI software businesses) become the norm.
November 10, 2025 at 6:21 PM
When people ask entrepreneurs how many employees they have, what they're actually asking is how successful are you. This question will be outdated in a few years as smaller companies with higher revenues and lower profit margins (compared to non-AI software businesses) become the norm.
The 21st century play is turning out to be selling the materials needed to sell the shovels.
October 13, 2025 at 1:20 AM
The 21st century play is turning out to be selling the materials needed to sell the shovels.
Could retail stock participation decline if tech weakens while precious metals and rare earths outperform? 🤔
October 9, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Could retail stock participation decline if tech weakens while precious metals and rare earths outperform? 🤔
Canada's economy is going to be saved by mining. It's a great time to look into shifting sectors in your portfolio if you haven't done so already.
October 7, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Canada's economy is going to be saved by mining. It's a great time to look into shifting sectors in your portfolio if you haven't done so already.
Over a decade ago, I traveled the world as a digital nomad running an ecommerce business. If I were to do it again today, trading and investing in the stock market would probably earn me more money than ecommerce. Crazy times.
October 6, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Over a decade ago, I traveled the world as a digital nomad running an ecommerce business. If I were to do it again today, trading and investing in the stock market would probably earn me more money than ecommerce. Crazy times.
I've been "fact checked" by people using AI so many times now. It's crazy to me how people still don't understand how LLMs work. And it's even crazier to think how this will develop poor and intellectually lazy habits in people, en masse.
October 5, 2025 at 4:21 PM
I've been "fact checked" by people using AI so many times now. It's crazy to me how people still don't understand how LLMs work. And it's even crazier to think how this will develop poor and intellectually lazy habits in people, en masse.
Gemini models still sound like a robot. If Google is after the consumer market, they need to make it sound more like OpenAI, or better, Anthropic's models.
October 3, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Gemini models still sound like a robot. If Google is after the consumer market, they need to make it sound more like OpenAI, or better, Anthropic's models.
AI will be the greatest bundler of our century.
October 2, 2025 at 8:23 PM
AI will be the greatest bundler of our century.
No one's going to buy your product if you use poorly AI generated images like this. AI generation is fine but don't be lazy about it.
September 22, 2025 at 8:08 PM
No one's going to buy your product if you use poorly AI generated images like this. AI generation is fine but don't be lazy about it.
Wow Codex is actually better at programming than Claude Code right now. How fast things change!
September 19, 2025 at 5:34 AM
Wow Codex is actually better at programming than Claude Code right now. How fast things change!
Due to the "lost in the middle" issue with current LLMs, you should put the most important parts of a long message to LLMs at the beginning as per the research paper, "Lost in the Middle: How Language Models Use Long Contexts" (arxiv.org/abs/2307.03172 )
September 18, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Due to the "lost in the middle" issue with current LLMs, you should put the most important parts of a long message to LLMs at the beginning as per the research paper, "Lost in the Middle: How Language Models Use Long Contexts" (arxiv.org/abs/2307.03172 )
I get why @sama (Sam Altman) don't capitalize words anymore. LLMs don't care for capitalizations. When you use LLMs for so long, it starts to affect how you write.
September 16, 2025 at 8:18 PM
I get why @sama (Sam Altman) don't capitalize words anymore. LLMs don't care for capitalizations. When you use LLMs for so long, it starts to affect how you write.
Made this with my daughter over the weekend. Her face lit up when she realized she could bring her ideas to life with AI just by describing what she wanted to see. What a great way to teach kids how to be more detail-oriented.
September 15, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Made this with my daughter over the weekend. Her face lit up when she realized she could bring her ideas to life with AI just by describing what she wanted to see. What a great way to teach kids how to be more detail-oriented.
Has the world gone insane? Headlines in my inbox today.
September 15, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Has the world gone insane? Headlines in my inbox today.
Favorite thing to do with my daughter right now: Creating AI generated images in the style of Cocomelon. It's a great way to teach her to think and describe things in detail while preparing her for the inevitable AI future.
September 15, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Favorite thing to do with my daughter right now: Creating AI generated images in the style of Cocomelon. It's a great way to teach her to think and describe things in detail while preparing her for the inevitable AI future.
One of my favorite standups. Happy Friday everyone
September 5, 2025 at 3:46 PM
One of my favorite standups. Happy Friday everyone
It's crazy how much Sonnet and Opus have declined in quality, and it only took one month. This is another friendly reminder to never pay for annual subscriptions when it comes to AI models.
September 5, 2025 at 12:08 AM
It's crazy how much Sonnet and Opus have declined in quality, and it only took one month. This is another friendly reminder to never pay for annual subscriptions when it comes to AI models.
Seeing how people write prompts on X (grok) is alarming. Some of these prompts are terribly framed with no context. If this is how the average person writes prompts, future chat interfaces for all AI should show a list of questions to ask next like predictive autocomplete on kb
September 4, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Seeing how people write prompts on X (grok) is alarming. Some of these prompts are terribly framed with no context. If this is how the average person writes prompts, future chat interfaces for all AI should show a list of questions to ask next like predictive autocomplete on kb
The bane of my existence. I'm glad I won't have to deal with this anymore.
September 3, 2025 at 8:40 PM
The bane of my existence. I'm glad I won't have to deal with this anymore.
I had to bring out my Quest 3 to do a simple file transfer. Had to go through so many hurdles including: restarting PC, restarting Quest, reinstalling Sidequest, going into Quest settings, finding my ultra long USB-C cable, and on and on. In the end, I just gave up.
September 3, 2025 at 6:00 PM
I had to bring out my Quest 3 to do a simple file transfer. Had to go through so many hurdles including: restarting PC, restarting Quest, reinstalling Sidequest, going into Quest settings, finding my ultra long USB-C cable, and on and on. In the end, I just gave up.
I'm shocked at how bad the iCloud dashboard looks. I had to check I wasn't being phished.
September 3, 2025 at 5:55 PM
I'm shocked at how bad the iCloud dashboard looks. I had to check I wasn't being phished.
When doing competitor research, note down the order in which features are listed. If the competitor is well-managed, you can tell from the order which features are most important to their customers. This can guide your own dev priorities.
September 2, 2025 at 5:46 PM
When doing competitor research, note down the order in which features are listed. If the competitor is well-managed, you can tell from the order which features are most important to their customers. This can guide your own dev priorities.
Privacy + AI is scary to think about. Imagine all of your internal dialogue accessible by a single corporation. As models get commoditized, open source tooling and shared prompting techniques must rise to the occasion to offer a competitive alternative to corporation-owned AI.
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August 30, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Privacy + AI is scary to think about. Imagine all of your internal dialogue accessible by a single corporation. As models get commoditized, open source tooling and shared prompting techniques must rise to the occasion to offer a competitive alternative to corporation-owned AI.
Do market research until it hurts. At first, market research is quite fun but the key is to do it and keep doing it even after it's become a dreadful experience. The dread and ordeal means you're seeing repeating patterns and nothing is new to you anymore. That's when you're done
August 29, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Do market research until it hurts. At first, market research is quite fun but the key is to do it and keep doing it even after it's become a dreadful experience. The dread and ordeal means you're seeing repeating patterns and nothing is new to you anymore. That's when you're done
"Bluesky now platform of choice for science community"
Hell ya! arstechnica.com/science/2025...
When will startup and VC communities move to Bluesky? It's a more natural fit than X.
Hell ya! arstechnica.com/science/2025...
When will startup and VC communities move to Bluesky? It's a more natural fit than X.
Bluesky now platform of choice for science community
It’s not just you. Survey says: “Twitter sucks now and all the cool kids are moving to Bluesky”…
arstechnica.com
August 29, 2025 at 12:52 AM
"Bluesky now platform of choice for science community"
Hell ya! arstechnica.com/science/2025...
When will startup and VC communities move to Bluesky? It's a more natural fit than X.
Hell ya! arstechnica.com/science/2025...
When will startup and VC communities move to Bluesky? It's a more natural fit than X.