took me a long while to realize burn out isn’t only caused by working too hard
you can experience a 10x more potent burn out just by working on something unexciting for too long
it’s hard for me to play video games now because life is just 10x more fun, i’d rather be playing the game of life
ai needs a minister of propaganda
there is endless anti-ai propaganda, it's everywhere, your grandma somehow hates data centers
yet where is the pro-ai sentiment? it's here on X, but literally does not exist elsewhere
why aren't we fighting back?
we must agi pill the normies
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we just reached 1M ARR with
it was our best case scenario for the entire YC batch, yet it took only 2/3rd of it to happen
slowly then all at once, we grew from 0 to 1M ARR in 22 months over 6 pivots:
0 -> $10k ARR in 16m, 5 pivots
$10k -> $100k ARR in 4m, 1 pivot
$100k -> $200k ARR in 1m
$200k -> $1M ARR in 1m
we already got way more in rev run rate btw, subscriptions are just a fraction of our total revenue
now road to $100M!
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it might be dangerous to hold on to the idea that "being a good software engineer" is still important
it's true today, but for how much longer?
it might be healthier to disassociate yourself with that identity sooner than later
your software engineering skills are going to be increasingly devalued with every SOTA model that drops
depending on how good you are, you may not even survive another SOTA model drop
maybe you'll survive the next 2 or 3, and with the rate of acceleration you should expect this to happen pretty quickly anyway
so maybe it's worth derisking that now by exploring other skill trees
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my new greatest pleasure is glazing and hyping up my talented friends to get them great jobs so they can move to sf
things are moving so fast that if you’re not thinking at least 3-6 months ahead, you’re already behind
we just reached >2000 active paying users for cloud VMs!
2x in less than 2 weeks!
I'm joining @Nothing this week!
We spent the last two years at @WaferSystems building a mobile OS that feels like it understands you. During that time, I met @getpeid as well as many others on the Nothing team to talk about our shared vision of what the next generation of mobile devices could look like.
I'm excited to continue working toward that vision with a team that has the courage to ship bold new products and the expertise to build the fastest growing smartphone company in the world.
If you're interested in working with us in San Francisco, check out our careers page or shoot me a dm!
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you have literally no excuse to not to learn anything now
get agent to explain it to you, draw diagrams, generate infinite videos explaining tricky concepts
if agents are good at everything, then it might be better to work on things you find maximally fun over what you are really good at
formal verification all the rage now but you're probably sleeping on deterministic simulation testing
there is too much software and too many failure modes that can't be very nicely modeled with formal methods
so you want deterministic simulation testing which is basically fuzzing on steroids
chai built a custom linux hypervisor and made it deterministic so it could performantly do snapshots and time travel rollbacks for deterministic simulation testing
and it could do crazy things like reduce bugs to their most minimal reproduction etc
so basically 1 dude in a cave with a box of scraps rebuilt antithesis and made it a 10x better product to use
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Today I'm announcing Workers IO to solve the slowest part of engineering, verification!
AI agents can now write years’ worth of code in days, but it still takes significant engineering effort to verify what’s being built.
It’s impossible to predict all scenarios that could lead to a failure and that’s why most expensive failures are found in production.
Workers IO runs millions of simulated production scenarios on your entire system, including dependencies. These simulations run inside a deterministic hypervisor which injects faults like network delays, disk errors, clock skew, and process failures to verify how your system handles these conditions.
Deterministic execution allows us to systematically explore the state space of the system and perfectly reproduce failures.
We are already helping customers do years worth of production hardening in days and build confidence in what they’re shipping.
If you are working on systems that you can never afford to break, DM me and we can help you battle test them!
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we're living in the most personal era of personal computers now
i'm making my own personalized UIs for everything
for managing agents, a better slack ui, emails, etc
you don't have to compromise, make your most ideal most optimal software, be free
who else can do it but you? who else can design a UX that perfectly aligns to your preferences, your taste, and allows you to achieve optimal productivity and happiness?
maybe the point was never productivity, you just wanted it to look cool, okay, in 1 prompt claude just added explosions to your calendar app
the time is so ripe for creativity and experimentation, go play
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you should be like 10x more scientific in every major decision you make now
it’s so much faster and cheaper for claude to run tests and analyze em and crunch the numbers
in a world pre-agents this was tedious and took so long that often you were better off using your intuition most of the time to move fast
but being scientific is so quick and cheap now. your priors are still tuned to a world where this is not the case. so you should probably bias to being even overly-scientific just to push and see the bounds of where the time tradeoff is now worth it
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ai getting this good is basically a massive balance patch and elo reset in the game of life
and everyone’s still playing the old meta
if you’re not blasting drum and bass in the waymo you’re doing it wrong
my new tweeting philosophy is to relentlessly spread optimism and avoid the temptations of ragebaiting
you must overcome ai-induced ego death:
the sooner you accept that the models are smarter than you, the sooner you’ll see your true value was never just your intelligence
and you'll be so much happier
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you need to be working on something so frontier that the models are still dumb
