Christopher Settles
@never_settles_
co-founder & ceo @operative_sh (yc x25). prev ai platform @uber, @uofillinois (go illini!)
Introducing Blueberry Social A social selling agent that tracks everyone who engages with your ads & posts, sends them personalized DMs, captures emails, & converts them into customers like a human would but 24/7
the new bottleneck is no longer doing the work it’s reviewing the work
There exists a world where software becomes sentient. Stay tuned.
I'm at the point in my life where I'm realizing doing the thing you always wanted to do is the only option because doing anything but that will make you want to give up and do the thing you always wanted to
« Everything we know today was once someone’s dream » is one of my favorite phrases
Trying to change the world and having a shot at it is addictive
Sad. I’ve worked on that floor in Startup HQ before.
Just had our office broken into, SF is back fr (bro literally smelled my $3 pants)
The world would be so much better if everyone's phone screen time was posted publicly
Thrilled to announce that Blaxel has raised a $7.3M seed round led by @firstround, with @ycombinator, @Liquid2V, @transposevc, and incredible angels! 🚀 We're on a mission to build the foundational infrastructure for the next generation of software: AI Agents.
Consumer app idea: Log in with twitter and it clusters all your bookmarked tweets over the past week in 3 dimensions based on semantic similarity for you to see And then AI tells you how to act on them / which to act on Who's building this
I’m sick and tired of yall not cleaning your air fryer
Really love Patrick’s thoughts on the future of development being an environment where the code editor richly integrates with the local and production runtime and operation of the application (around 8 minutes in)
A conversation with @patrickc on old programming languages, software at industrial scale, and AI's effect on economics/biology/Patrick's daily life. 00:15 - Why Patrick wrote his first startup in Smalltalk 03:35 - LISP chatbots 06:09 - Good ideas from esoteric programming…
Next bet is that @cognition_labs will be acquired by Amazon
Cognition has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Windsurf. The acquisition includes Windsurf’s IP, product, trademark and brand, and strong business. Above all, it includes Windsurf’s world-class people, whom we’re privileged to welcome to our team. We are also honoring…