Excellence
Our most important value is excellence, the aspiration to do things that are outstanding. For this we believe in understanding our work deeply, finding innovative solutions, iterating till we find the perfect balance and delight, and rigorous training for all our team members. For us growth is an outcome of excellence, not the other way around.
Freedom
We believe that human beings have infinite potential, free will and aspirations of their own, and are happiest when they are in harmony with their surroundings. The organization must be seen as a collective of people rather than a “machine” that is run to create customer value or profits. As long as each person's liberty does not infringe upon others' liberty and leads to harm, they should be allowed to express their choices in a non-judgemental manner. We believe that the quest for excellence along with liberty to choose one's path will lead us to great outcomes.
Transparency
Most of our source code is free for anyone to use, study, modify and redistribute, and our flagship product, ERPNext comes in just one free version. For our customers, our pricing and services are transparent on the website. Transparency leads to accountability and accountability leads to honesty, and is also the foundation of any democractic system.
Democracy
We believe that each one of us has equal rights and our form of governance is like that of a democracy. Every person in the team has access to all company level information, and an equal voice and vote in all decision making. Democracy does not mean that everyone is equal, but has equal rights. It makes sure that ideas from all sides of the team are given voice and the best idea wins.
First Principles
Just because there is a popular way to do things, we believe it is not always the best. Since our earliest days, we have written our own web framework, with distinct concepts that make us highly productive. We believe that this is our superpower.
Teamwork
We believe that we can accomplish more as a team than individuals. Great talent can create sparks of sustained brilliance, but it is never complete. Teamwork means understanding the people you interact with to achieve the team goal, spending time with them and learning to take subtle hints and clues from them, and ensuring you share the same culture.
Long Term over Short Term
We want our products and services to be used and appreciated for a very long time. This means sacrificing some short term gains and waiting for the longer returns. We prioritize process over outcome and systems over targets. Thinking long term also leads us to asset creation along with delivery.
Social Impact
We must actively consider the societal impact of our action not only benefits to customers, team or shareholders. We must use our work to change how people think about managing software through open source / free software etc. Helping to solve big problems in productivity, minimalism, aesthetics, freedom along with our other goals.
Environment Consciousness
We acknowledge that the planet is in a dangerous situation due to climate crisis, pollution and waste and we make sure that we will not add to any form of waste. This means optimizing on travel, packaging, consumerism, choosing options that minimize our carbon footprint and investing to ensure that we measure and have a zero carbon footprint.
At bootloader studio, we love super-smart, innovative people who are fun and thrive in a collaborative team environment. we hire only the best and are looking for people who are:
- Open-minded and comfortable in an intense, high-growth startup
- Innovative and love to find new ways to solve problems
- Able to adapt according to changing project schedules
- Self-motivated and can work independently
- Totally committed to quality
- Professional and responsible
05.10.2023
Who am AI
2022 will go down as the year AI met the public. ChatGPT, MidJourney, NovelAI and a magnificent Cambrian explosion of AI models, bots, image and voice generators, language interpreters, and music composers burst onto the public stage, competing for our attention and promising miracles.
While it’s true these AI project have been brewing for years, it’s this year in which AI has truly grabbed attention, much like the arrival of the internet in the 90’s and perhaps every bit as consequential.
In just the last few months millions of people have experienced for themselves the shocking, delightful, disturbing and sometimes downright weird creations and applications of AI and machine learning.
Models and the AI software to interface with them have spread around the net like an R-factor 20 virus. The image generators can make anything from drawn illustrations to photo realism practically indistinguishable from a genuine photograph. With a decent video card you can set up and run your own AI locally and crank out a new image every few seconds. If you find one you like, throw it back in the hopper and tell it to make variations until you get exactly what you want.
The images generated fill the spectrum of imagination. You could get anything from jumbled garbage to astonishingly beautiful and relevant results, nightmares and abominations you could never have dreamed up on your own to sublime visions of heaven—all are possible and everything in between.
This is no exaggeration. There are limits to the AI’s comprehension, the number of subjects and the level of control, but these limits are probably easily surmounted, We’re in early days here. Already you can take a handful of photos of a famous person and train them against a model, giving the AI the capacity to place that person anywhere and doing anything you want at photographic quality. How long before photographic evidence becomes inadmissible in court?
It seems unimaginable, but so to the silver tongued ChatGPT chatbot that just took center stage. Created by OpenAI, which is owned by Microsoft, the chatbot can discuss any subject under the sun intelligently. It can even argue politics with you, bluster and make up facts out of thin air, like that guy on Twitter you keep forgetting to block.
It can write stories. It can do your homework. It can even write articles like this one.
