FDE is dead introducing BDE (Backward Deployed Engineering) instead of deploying an engineer to ship fixes for your customers, let your customers ship the fixes themselves with your coding agent

that line on the right, is starting 5 days ago. our self serve user traffic has nearly doubled. in 7 days. personal agents operate at a scale that is unfathomable. our information infrastructure isn't prepared.

Today we're incredibly excited to announce @DreamscaleLabs (YC F26)! We're an applied research company putting robot brains in the cloud. Robot AI models are growing larger and on-board compute is getting increasingly inaccessible due to cost. We're taking a contrarian bet that the future is moving inference off the robot and into the cloud, while still meeting real-time deadlines required by robot motion. We're building the real-time inference infrastructure that enables frontier physical AI models to run smoothly on your robot. We optimize for low latency across the full stack: from the model, down to the GPU kernels, and over the network. Our mission is to unlock a future of safe and intelligent robots doing meaningful work, and we think this is only possible by letting you deploy and run robot models in the cloud. Reach out to us at founders@dreamscalelabs.com or visit our website at to learn more. @KDog112358 @AntoineNeedGPUs @eternaI_entropy

it’s my birthday!! a year ago, my life was completely different. i had 20 followers on X and felt stuck in a job today, i’m building @AgentPhoneHQ with my brother (@themeetmodi), doing something i genuinely love fuck it and just do what you want. excited for the next year 📈

we tell YC companies not to hire during the batch. founders often find that confusing - isn't hiring the ambitious thing to do to grow faster? basically there are two types of hiring. one is fine to do during the YC batch, the other might mess up your company. the type we don't recommend is traditional hiring. this is where you put up a job post, do some sourcing, ping people you know for referrals, and run people through an interview process. hopefully within three or four weeks you have an offer out. then it takes them another week or two to actually start the job, and at least a couple more weeks before they're onboarded. big problems with this approach: 1. it's slow. it's two months before you get any ROI, and that's optimistic. realistically more like three months. in YC, three months is the whole batch! 2. ...and all that assumes you actually hired somebody, that they're good, and that they became effective fast. you might spend a bunch of time and not make a hire at all! 3. it's a big time investment for you and will distract you from everything else you need to do at a critical point in time for your company. 4. and if it doesn't work out, you spend even more time and life-force managing them and firing them! here's the type of hire that's actually okay to make: somebody who you already know really well. why? you already know they're good and that you want to work with them. it derisks the entire process. you can talk to them the same day, give them a short technical interview and get them signed that week, and have them productive immediately. you're also way more likely to get a much stronger candidate this way (since your earliest hires will want to work for you not because of the company, but because of you!)

Playing catch with 14 yo. At one point he dives for a loose ball and ends up on the ground. As he's lying there looking up at the sky, the dog comes over and starts licking his face. "This is the good old days," I tell him. He gets it.

Legora's revenue has increased by over 9x from this time a year ago. That's an astounding growth rate for a company of this size. It's not unusual for a startup to grow that fast in the first 6 months, but Legora is 3 years in.

Ordered an Uber for the first time in years tonight b/c Waymo wait time was a bit long. Within 1 min of being matched with a driver, they start sending messages complaining about how far away I am and trying to get me to cancel the ride. Waymo never complains ❤️

When we started Bland, I made a commitment: Bland will talk to 100M Americans every month. FedRamp is the next logical step in this direction. We are proud to announce we've achieved Class A as the *first* and *only* voice AI company to do so. Moreover, we are proud to be one of the only fully American owned Voice AI companies.