Evan Goldschmidt
@evangoldschmidt
engineering extraterrestrials at http://tolans.com • prev: http://even.com, @google
I can’t believe the PRs popping out of our slack channels via cursor background agents. not stuff you’d give an intern - pretty meaty bugs, integrations, and migrations that you’d normally want someone senior to handle but there’s never enough time to dig in
truth
the nice thing about being an older founder 👵🏽 is you don’t have to “hire for potential.” you hire the ones who've shipped. I brought on 4 ex-GitHub eng teammates. 2 already started, 2 joining soon. when you hire people you trust, you skip the "how we work" culture debates…
what’s the modern version of richard scarry books? my kid is getting really into coal and steam engines
building a great companion is great fun. and it's working. Tolan sits at the frontier of embodiment, memory, and voice AI. if you're a staff level ios, unity, or platform engineer and find that interesting, reach out → [email protected]
Four months ago we launched Tolan, our first AI companion. Today, Wired's @willknight wrote about our progress since launch: 3 million downloads, a $12M run rate, and a $20M Series A led by @rabois / Khosla Ventures.
just wait till your 2yo says "pikachu" for the first time
in a bug bash with the team and imagining the future granola to linear to codex to github pipeline that could be running in parallel with the discussion
i’m old enough to remember when they used to call these people chagpt wrapper engineers
There’s a new breed of GenAI Application Engineers who can build more-powerful applications faster than was possible before, thanks to generative AI. Individuals who can play this role are highly sought-after by businesses, but the job description is still coming into focus. Let…
unsurprisingly, claude code is excellent at one shotting CLAUDE.md files
i feel this too instinctually, and I’ve experienced the asymmetry before with google glass, but I find it hard to imagine any consumer ick won’t just be eroded over time by sheer ubiquity kinda like how now there are AI notetakers in every meeting, dissecting your every word,…
hello. if you have "always-on AI awareness" please do not use it near me if you'd like to record me, please ask beforehand. it is common courtesy. inability to ask for consent before recording everyone around you will result in twitter coining a new slur for AI hardware wearers
the problem with these class action emails is they all look like phishing attacks
one of these appeared out of nowhere and landed in front of me while I was at the playground with my kid it’s size & shape (somewhere between a helicopter and a plane) plus the way it suddenly appeared and moved (quietly and precisely rotating while standing still) had me legit…
The Helix is an EVTOL which is legally an ultralight which means no pilot rating is required to fly it. Propelled by 8 props, controlled with differential throttles and 4 elevons during forward flight with the wings providing lift.
the more capable the models get the more apparent it is that we are very bad at asking the right questions
tomorrow is paywall day everyone. clear your calendars
pretty meta to have your AI checking on your progress building your AI
so when do we get to the beautiful part of the deleveraging mr dalio
i've never felt as disoriented with a product launch as i was when Tolan first started blowing up. i could see that thousands of hours of conversations were happening and yet... was our AI *actually* working perfectly across the board? it was so hard to say immediately i…
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beautiful day to discover something new about human machine interaction