James Cham
@jamescham
@bloombergbeta; of the San Gabriel Valley; investing in 2050; working to improve the second derivative; looking for troublesome ringleaders!
Sometimes, all it takes is to find kindred souls to feel like the world is an amazing place.
Here's the follow-up to my post about the existential crisis facing seed VCs. Spoiler alert: I'm not going to give "the answer". I'm keeping that locked in the mystery box. But I'll share a few thoughts on the potential path forward. Full read: nextview.vc/blog/a-path-fo… TLDR:
Feel deeply seen.
Male friendship is just sending tweets to each other for years until one of you dies
How Paris is like Heaven: Barbara Tversky remembers the last week in the life of Danny Kahneman. (Posting because I have mentioned it so many times.)
We're thrilled to introduce NeuralOS, Lambda’s first neural-native operating system: neuralos.lambda.ai The OS, the apps, the network, the logic... all dreamed in the mind of a model. This is where words become apps. And thoughts become systems. - Create your own space…
From Ross Fubini about his grandfather and an insight that isn't just true about war but more widely applicable: > [In the 1960s] Gene Fubini understood — far earlier than most — that the future would be won not by the biggest bombs or the fastest planes, but by the teams who…
Credit to Paul Graham for being so prescient in 2001. I think he could see “The Other Road” so vividly because he was able to live in the future before others and he was such a clear thinker. Who has written the AI version of “The Other Road”?
Seen in the Presidio: the always ambitous and resourceful @alanwells. 🚀able!
Distributed systems is the most fun field of computer science because of the stories behind each concept. That's why I'm launching Distributed Systems Made Simple, a YouTube channel to tell these stories in a fun way while diving deep into the "why". youtube.com/@DSMadeSimple
It’s surprising there’s not more breakout apps per year due to AI coding tools. Outside those tools, have there been any?
Funny UI shift I'm noticing as folks advance in day-to-day agents for Serious Work. Think 20,000-40,000 lines of code later for vibe coding, not just your first 2-4 weeks, or the same for doing hard data analysis. The IDE hollows out, and the loop is now between: 1. Agent…
One of the most important superpowers of LLMs is they unlock qualitative insight at quantitative scale. It has massive implications across industries and society.
Review: @yangszechoo *The Fox Wife* is a delightful blend of genres: detective story, romance, and fairy tale. By James Smoker plough.com/en/topics/cult…
Congrats to Lovable! The worlds fastest growing business use Netlify.
Lovable went from $1M to $100M ARR faster than any other software company in history. Huge thank you to everyone who made this possible.
Could not agree more. Of all the cheat codes to life and business I've learned, "thinking in public" is way up there.
Know what stops all my friends from writing? Not a lack of ideas, but fear of judgment If you need to, just hedge with a disclaimer: “These are early thoughts” ← State you're not claiming to know everything Thinking in public isn't shamelessness. It's necessary to grow.
about to go onstage with @james406 to talk about the @posthog success story and am surprised to see a demo of a kanban board for claude code within posthog! everyone’s converging on the same software form factors, i can feel it
watch @LouisKnightWebb explain Vibe Kanban and live code adding Gemini Code and @thdxr's OpenCode to Vibe Kanban - USING vibe kanban! youtu.be/NCksand7Iwo
Looking for founders who are working on this generalized insight. There’s great value in using the models to speculate on/understand us!
What if LLMs could learn your habits and preferences well enough (across any context!) to anticipate your needs? In a new paper, we present the General User Model (GUM): a model of you built from just your everyday computer use. 🧵
Small single purpose models ftw
today we're releasing a new small model (0.5B) for detecting problems with tool usage in agents, trained on 50M tokens from publicly available MCP server tools it's great at picking up on tool accuracy issues and outperforms larger models
See you all there!
Come to our epic AI Dev Tools night in SF on 8/5. Speakers include founders of @WorkOS @Netlify @mintlify 🔥🔥 250+ rsvps from staff and principal engineers in SF. Just a few more spots left. RSVP 👉 lu.ma/ai-dev-tools-n…
California Ave looks so nice today that @dave_chun thought it was fake background!
