keith
@keithwhor
founder @instantbots | prev @openai @autocode 🍁❤️🇺🇸
one of my favorite childhood stories. when i was in early high school my mom was frustrated by how much time i spent on the internet & how hard it was to get me to do chores like mowing the lawn, so one summer she got rid of our home computer & cut the internet hoping (1) i’d be…
"i bet claude sonnet 4 can write a good chunking algorithm for me" nope. nope nope nope. throw it all out.
> Ah, you're absolutely right! I apologize for the confusion. Cursor's business model:
did u know you can use the new Gemini image segmentation feature in… a lot of different ways
did u know you can use the new Gemini image segmentation feature in… a lot of different ways
what is it about the concept of backrooms that's so compelling? like they open up a childlike curiosity in me and i just want to explore every room.
This is INSANE I'm staying in this apartment/hotel thing Just found a secret floor only accessible by the stairs- fully empty/abandoned- feels like the backrooms What do I do now
This is honestly the biggest fustercluck of an acquisition ever.
I’ve joined Cognition to continue to work on the future of software engineering. I was employee #2 at Windsurf and have worked on AI+code for years. There’s never been a more exciting time and place for it than now at Cognition. I had a place at Google DeepMind as part of the…
management principle i’m committed to with @instantbots; don’t burn the team out on things that don’t matter or nobody will recognize what actually does & be able to execute well when it arrives. in practice rn this means; - keep team small & focused - only one big bet at a…
“it has $100M ARR, but nobody I know uses it” is intended with incredulity but is actually a compliment it implies the addressable market for the company is much, much bigger
Water being transparent in only the ideal blackbody radiation zone bolsters the Anthropic principle significantly. If these *aren’t* mechanistically linked via some undiscovered physics, then IMO it’s pretty strong signal that the universe is fine-tuned for life.
'water is transparent only within a very narrow band of the electromagnetic spectrum, so living organisms evolved sensitivity to that band, and that's what we now call "visible light". ' (found via HN)
as a result of LLMs I have just started using semicolons more often instead of emdashes. same impact on the reader, less language model smell. it makes me a little sad, I loved emdashes! makes me wonder if we’re poisoning the well of human connection, conversation & storytelling
F1 was the best moviegoing experience i’ve had in nearly a decade. the best way I can explain it is it was just… a real movie. made me laugh, feel excited, feel anxious, i liked the characters, it was great. movies are back and i love it.
by many measures, @instantbots is the most successful product i've ever built - most organic traction - fastest growing - fastest to revenue i'm excited but impatient; still nowhere near where i want it. we're about to rebuild major parts of the product from the ground up.
