we just rolled back gpt 5 to gpt 4.1 wowow

funny that startup people are obsessed with failing like what if we did hard stuff well and good actually

most of my employees are poached my gf was dating a different guy and I called her for a month until she said yes best way to get the things you want is to go after them ruthlessly

I'm so curious what happens when you flood a city with great engineers

consultants are really just therapists for your whole company fr

realized this weekend that I no longer have to convince visiting founders that NYC is a valid alternative to SF they just come and visit FT, verci, SPC, bathhouse, coffee shops, and surrounded by startups convo has shifted from “where’s the scene” to preferred lifestyle

everybody wants senior talent nobody wants to train senior talent

there are only 2 jobs in startupland build or sell

if meditation has taught me anything, it's that attention is sacred inability to focus for longer than 15 seconds is a crippling addiction to chaos x.com/JakeZegil/stat…

the copilot paradigm is vastly superior to the agent paradigm the perfect copilot is indistinguishable from the perfect agent. A human (copilot) provides the accountability for the correctness of a service boundary (in this case, I mean the literal service delivered - marketing,

NYC keeps winning

at a certain point if you don’t have a baby you start turning back into a baby I see this everywhere

the worst part of nyc is you have to wear pants like a big boy when you go out

one of the highest ROI things the US gov could do is fund a team to maintain an open source tech and civics tree. What is the dependency mapping for our current set of technologies? What about the technologies we want to see in the world? Who is credibly working on them?

On October 8, I'll be moderating a panel of software engineers from Stripe, DoorDash, and Spara as we discuss the startup scene in NYC, breaking into the tech industry, the impact of AI on development practices, and much more! Join us at Fractal Tech in Williamsburg, link below.

acquired (x1) now we continue building founder paradise in nyc and then do it again

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