Fireside Alpha(@firesidealpha):Stripe's Patrick Collison says we should no more mourn coding than we mourned hand-written assembly, and admits he misses writing it himself. "Obviously on the one hand, it used to be really fun to write all this assembly and machine code and to optimize your instructions and layout and memory and everything." "And now we don't have to do that anymore. Compilers do it for us. We don't mourn it too much." "And so maybe in the same way we shouldn't mourn source code. We should just transcend the plane of instructions to Claude et al." "But emotionally, I miss it." _____

2026.08.03 01:34

Stripe's Patrick Collison says we should no more mourn coding than we mourned hand-written assembly, and admits he misses writing it himself. "Obviously on the one hand, it used to be really fun to write all this assembly and machine code and to optimize your instructions and layout and memory and everything." "And now we don't have to do that anymore. Compilers do it for us. We don't mourn it too much." "And so maybe in the same way we shouldn't mourn source code. We should just transcend the plane of instructions to Claude et al." "But emotionally, I miss it." ______ More from his fireside here:

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2026.08.03 00:50

Patrick Collison reveals 25% of all Delaware corporations are now started through Stripe Atlas. "And in the case of Stripe, I really love it because we're working with the world's most interesting and innovative companies." "Like we're 25% of all Delaware corporations are started with Stripe via Atlas." "And then we get to partner with them and work with them and hear from them and get their feedback and get the request and everything through the entirety of the journey, up to being the Shopifys and the OpenAIs and all the standout successes." ______ Takeaways from Patrick's fireside: