right now experts are actually the softest targets. the higher you climbed, the more your status depends on yesterday’s difficulty. so when the game changes, the denial part of the grief cycle becomes pure self defense & most of these people will not get past that until it's way

Garry Tan has donated to every Democratic party in every state every year. He has donated money to Ro Khanna. He has donated money to Dems in Minnesota. If you were a Democrat. Garry Tan helped get you in office to destroy our country. Now he wants to primary them😂

Everyone is freaking out of a billionaire tax but I’m worried about the folic acid mandate in tortillas.

That’s just brainslop. You only came up with that by thinking

"Coding with AI is not intrinsically enjoyable unless you have an ownership stake in the outputs." smartest thing I've read here in a while, clarifies everything

Not true Like wealth inequality, aesthetic inequality is accelerating While SF AI Sooners (gooners for superintelligence timelines) worried about escaping the economic permanent underclass, they damned themselves to the permanent underclass of ugliness Ascend

2026 is shaping up to be a hall of fame year for guys like us

I rode on United recently and was amused that the Economy cabin had blue lighting but business class was yellow/amber

.Garry Tan I would urge you to reconsider this decision and open YC Austin. First, the data is looking in the rear view mirror. “Past performance does not guarantee future results,” as the saying goes. The Austin startup ecosystem is off to the races thanks to first movers like

Just set up this Sentry exception->PR idea at Realm. One surprise was that invalid API requests (which generate Sentry errors) result in whole new backend features being autogenerated 😳

Mippo 🟪 Borrowing against stock isn’t really free. The interest costs and variability, opportunity cost, and risk of being margin called is already a “tax”.

I guess customers got tired of this absolute humiliation ritual anytime they ordered

YC taught me to never go a single day without a goal. A bad goal (or no goal) is the easiest way to guarantee failure. Setting a good one is also the easiest way to achieve success. you’d be surprised how much you can accomplish with a singular goal. What’s yours?

Stefan Georgi Caracas has better year-round weather than even Miami

Miamiposting might be a phenomenon whose time has passed, but having just spent a few days visiting, it really does feel like a boomtown in a way that no other American city that I've spent time in over the past few years does. In some ways, it reminds me of Chinese cities.

“Founder mode” with claude code will run through tech startups like an earth quake Will be v jarring for the AI skeptic middle manager and engineers to see their founder produce single-handedly what their team couldn’t get done all year

On the contrary 2026-2027 is the period where you get to “cash in” on the skill of programming by being the most adept at directing these agents. It won’t last forever but this Goldilocks zone is where being an expert at the domain of software construction has insane leverage.

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"real" programmers are going to drag me through the mud on this but alas i could not care less. tl;dr i now have claude run a full "suite" of E2E tests using plain english + playwright traditional E2E tests are a giant pain to maintain. they're incredibly fragile and just not a