So, @adamhjk is spot-on here -- and to a degree that was honestly surprising. Aren't all startups either fundmakers or zeroes? As it turns out, no -- or at least not to the degree that we were... It took us a while to see the pattern, but because of this starkly bifurcated potential outcome, we were REALLY divisive within partnerships: over and over again, we had partnerships tell us that their normally genteel firm had nearly come to blows over Oxide. (Always when they passed, BTW!) The level of discord was surprising: there were partners who quit their firms over Oxide (more than one!) -- and there was one who LEFT VENTURE after their firm passed on Oxide (!!). Of course, it wasn't over Oxide per se, but rather over the disagreement about us, as it highlighted a deep fracture in the firm -- one that went to the heart of what venture capital MEANS. For us, for our advocates, and for the partners that championed us within their firms, we were the epitome of what VC should be -- and when their partnership passed, it caused them to question their own career trajectory. Which of course made it that much more satisfying when we discovered firms like @EclipseVentures: they saw what we saw -- and were unafraid. So to the ones who invested, thank you for being believers; it is obviously thrilling for us to make good on your belief in us. And to the ones that lost the fight over Oxide within their partnerships: we see you, and we know that you believed in us too -- and hope that your career since has been blessed with colleagues who share your boldness!

@RahulBhagwat01 @TheGingerBill Looking at the writing in question (e.g. "...and treating them the same is a category error") it is loaded with bullshit LLM'isms. So if you have written something yourself that is being flagged as AI, good news: it's telling you that your writing is merely bad.

Apropos: on Monday, @ahl and I were joined by @max_spero_ to talk about what the team at @pangram has built -- and its crucial importance. (And, it must be said, @ahl dropped the perfect Simpsons reference for AI writing: it is Skinner's "steamed hams.")

To those linking to pieces that are obviously 100% LLM generated: do you... actually read them? I can't make it through the FIRST PARAGRAPH without my brain hitting its LLM abort; did you actually READ the WHOLE THING? Fine, you no longer write, but do you also no longer READ?!

With Oxide, your compute gets more valuable over time, not less. The same Rack Model 0 we launched in 2023 now supports more than 2x the vCPUs per rack with our latest compute sleds and system version 21 which adds support for Zen 5c processors.

Picking up on the hot topic: stoked to announce that @max_spero_, co-founder and CEO of @pangram, will be joining @ahl and me tomorrow on Oxide and Friends. Join us live, Monday, 5p Pacific. (Recorded and syndicated, as always!)

I use @pangram extensively at @oxidecomputer, and have found its false positive rate to be very low. So when people complain that their own writing is flagged as 100% AI but refuse to provide the writing in question, one has to wonder if there aren't other agendas at work...

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How does Oxide think about the supply chain? FAQ Friday #54# @RenesasGlobal's regulator is a good example of where it makes sense to partner deeply on a single source rather than trying to commoditize and multi-source everything in our server BOM

I'm on Oxide and Friends podcast this week! We talked about accidental cyberattacks, Kimi K3, Golden Gate Claude, the Zizians, Alameda wild turkey attacks, Soviet Marburg virus research, the Lead-crime hypothesis, and a bunch of other worthy digressions