after having seen what his -1 week has looked like, i came to the conclusion that jordan joining replit might be one of the best things that happened to the company in the last few months. and it's no small statement - the last few months have been unlike anything i've seen at a

2 years ago today i moved to the US. i genuinely do not remember what life was like before. quite extraordinary how clean the rupture has been, literally can't picture my identity not being culturally american, even if it's only been a v small % of my lifespan so far. time and

Raphael Schaad a large portion of startup culture today is about metrics maxing. it's a very utilitarian function. reminds me of the finance industry. it lacks soul but tech didn't use to be like this. OG tech was more like art. about making things for each other. pursuing a creative vision.

- told chatgpt (4.5) about some personal conundrum i'm facing. i tell it to not be an echo chamber, be honest and objective, to offer unbiased external perspective - it subtly proceeds to confirm my perspective - i ask it to play devils advocate. it does. tells me that in all

i've seen a version of this being proposed for the last 20 years (back in the days it was indian programmers, not europeans, remember?) never happened communication bandwidth decreases exponentially for each added time zone, not just for obv direct logistic reasons, but also

claude code wish: smaller model predicting command i want to run when i type `!` + autocompletes + reads stdout and suggests follow ups

we >10x'd our revenue in less than 6 months the AI revenue ramp is absolutely insane. never seen anything like this before. this time is truly different

no better way to remember of the many ways nyc and sf can be polar opposites than flying between sfo and ewr quite crazy how great of an airport sfo is and how horrific newark is instead. of all the major ones i've been to, the best and the worst respectively

typical low intelligence high agency people never finish high school and are now running a thriving business typical high intelligence low agency people have two degrees and blame the rich

gian The Wall Street Journal Agreed. The effect of individuals increasing their agency will bring exponentially increased value to the economy, wellbeing, innovation, etc.

You can just do things

maybe this is finally it! the first generational edtech company that can finally prove me wrong the deeply personalized part was the missing piece when i first wrote about it 4 years ago and what made me disillusioned about the vertical. AI solved one of the two edtech problems

.gian giving a great talk at Engineering Night #5

4o is both the most objectively dangerous and painfully cringe model to have ever been released

fascinating how the incentive structure is shaping the output of anthropic/openai vs meta/google quite differently. research, product, gtm, strategy, mktg. the first two face real market pressure, the latter two don't anthropic and openai won't be bankrolled forever. no infinite