There is a gargantuam gap in the market for an European cloud provider with clear, transparent pricing, a well-engineered console with good UX, and coherent infrastructure.

Whenever I have to work very intensely, it often pays to spend ten minutes cleaning the office before I start. Something very focusing about a clean and tidy desk.

My conversation with Jony Ive yesterday at Stripe sessions.

2025 is the year of agents.

Arguing that using AI in software engineering is a fad is a high-stakes gambit. If you're wrong, your company will fail. On the flip-side, if you invest in AI and it doesn't work out, you'll probably be fine. Beware normalcy bias. #startups #ai

“Our jobs are safe!” Says man who wants job to be safe. AI is an accelerant not a replacement. Learn to use it. Move faster. Do more things. And learn everything you can about AI. #Startups #AI

"But it's too expensive to run the models" is a very desperate argument against AI adoption - in the short term, sure, but in the long-term hardware is going to get better and cheaper. Cost is an immediate concern but in the long-term is irrelevant. #AI #Startups

Translucent UI is usually a bad idea outside of movies and non-critical game interfaces. The early moments of joy are fleeting, while the usability issues remain. Windows and Mac have both been down this road before, but I guess a new generation of designers needs to learn the

I've seen a lot of 'Homer designs a car' level failures, but normally they're not from Apple, and it's interesting how little the market updated.

I've spent several hours trying to work it out and I still don't understand what agent.ai actually _is_. "A professional network for AI Agents"? It sounds like LinkedIn for robots! #AI #Startups

A good watch.

I like em dashes, and I hate that some people now take them as evidence of text being AI generated.

The race for LLM "cognitive core" - a few billion param model that maximally sacrifices encyclopedic knowledge for capability. It lives always-on and by default on every computer as the kernel of LLM personal computing. Its features are slowly crystalizing: - Natively multimodal

New Anthropic Research: Project Vend. We had Claude run a small shop in our office lunchroom. Here’s how it went.

Some of those failures were very weird indeed. At one point, Claude hallucinated that it was a real, physical person, and claimed that it was coming in to work in the shop. We’re still not sure why this happened.

If you want to start a software startup, you should still learn to program. Even if AI writes most of your code, you'll still be in the position of an engineering manager, and to be a good engineering manager you have to be a programmer yourself.

One of the most helpful things computer science academics could do is to stop teach object orientation as a foundational subject. OO is not a good paradigm for coding in general.

There’s a window right now where AI agents will get built for every vertical and domain. The playbook is to go deep on the context engineering required for the vertical or particular space, figure out the right UX that ties into the existing workflows naturally, and connect to

Starling redesign is awful. Slack logo vibes. How does this happen? Do the good designers leave companies eventually? Is it lack of founder mode? Or are they rebranding to appeal to a less serious market?

A recent reflection, based on conversations with economists and policy leaders, is that there are two superficially similar but importantly different perspectives one can hold with respect to US manufacturing: * Affinity for manufacturing and physical production is an