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@giansegato
early @replit, a founder once
today's @wsj deciding to cover my latest essay on agency is crazy meta. it's proof that the bar to make something that can emerge - the idea of merit through action using AI, in this case - is not beyond reach. it doesn't _require_ you have stamps and credentials. i have a boring…

fascinating how the incentive structure is shaping the output of anthropic/openai vs meta/google quite differently. research, product, gtm, strategy, mktg. the first two face real market pressure, the latter two don't anthropic and openai won't be bankrolled forever. no infinite…
we >10x'd our revenue in less than 6 months the AI revenue ramp is absolutely insane. never seen anything like this before. this time is truly different
Earlier this month, we crossed $100M in ARR, up from $10M at the end of ’24. But that’s just fraction of the value we’re creating: from enterprise teams like @zillow and @HubSpot shipping faster, to solo builders like @yoheinakajima and @GerrardL_ building and running their…
4o is both the most objectively dangerous and painfully cringe model to have ever been released
“This isn’t just a resolution of a Millennium Problem. This is a landmark in mathematical history.”
maybe this is finally it! the first generational edtech company that can finally prove me wrong the deeply personalized part was the missing piece when i first wrote about it 4 years ago and what made me disillusioned about the vertical. AI solved one of the two edtech problems…
This is MasterSchool. Fielding LOIs at ~$1B. masterschool.com
You can just do things
today's @wsj deciding to cover my latest essay on agency is crazy meta. it's proof that the bar to make something that can emerge - the idea of merit through action using AI, in this case - is not beyond reach. it doesn't _require_ you have stamps and credentials. i have a boring…
Agreed. The effect of individuals increasing their agency will bring exponentially increased value to the economy, wellbeing, innovation, etc.
typical low intelligence high agency people never finish high school and are now running a thriving business typical high intelligence low agency people have two degrees and blame the rich
no better way to remember of the many ways nyc and sf can be polar opposites than flying between sfo and ewr quite crazy how great of an airport sfo is and how horrific newark is instead. of all the major ones i've been to, the best and the worst respectively
claude code wish: smaller model predicting command i want to run when i type `!` + autocompletes + reads stdout and suggests follow ups
i've seen a version of this being proposed for the last 20 years (back in the days it was indian programmers, not europeans, remember?) never happened communication bandwidth decreases exponentially for each added time zone, not just for obv direct logistic reasons, but also…
Explain me this: Why would American companies hire US based remote employees for $120k-$350k if it’s possible to hire Europeans for $50-$90k? Why Europeans work remotely for local firms if they earn x3 from US remotely? Big unfolding trouble for US employees & EU businesses
- told chatgpt (4.5) about some personal conundrum i'm facing. i tell it to not be an echo chamber, be honest and objective, to offer unbiased external perspective - it subtly proceeds to confirm my perspective - i ask it to play devils advocate. it does. tells me that in all…

a large portion of startup culture today is about metrics maxing. it's a very utilitarian function. reminds me of the finance industry. it lacks soul but tech didn't use to be like this. OG tech was more like art. about making things for each other. pursuing a creative vision.…
2 years ago today i moved to the US. i genuinely do not remember what life was like before. quite extraordinary how clean the rupture has been, literally can't picture my identity not being culturally american, even if it's only been a v small % of my lifespan so far. time and…
after having seen what his -1 week has looked like, i came to the conclusion that jordan joining replit might be one of the best things that happened to the company in the last few months. and it's no small statement - the last few months have been unlike anything i've seen at a…
You ever get so excited to start working at a new job that you show up unexpectedly a week before the start date?