Thorsten Ball Auth is so tragic right now. Remember when “remember me” worked. What a time to be alive. Now I get redirected 7 times to log in every fucking day

Congrats to the intercom team on impressive execution and results across the board. A very clear lesson in how critical pricing and packaging (and the need for flexibility therein) is to the growth story of modern enterprise business.

Underrated early career advice: Be the person who's willing to do the stuff that no one else wants to do at your company. Then do it better than it's ever been done. Practice this consistently for a year, and there's zero chance you don't move up the ladder.

The ones who only watch the ads for Omelas

The future business model of software will likely be seats for the user and consumption for the AI. But seats have always been capped by the number of workers you can sell to, whereas AI Agent consumption is unbounded. So this will be the bigger component over time.

Some observations.. 1) Deal is never done till it’s done. Don’t make plans on speculative news. 2) Hiring founding engineers is about to get a lot harder. 3) We really really need to kill these zombie deals. It truly kills the “join a startup” dream.

New episode: "MultiXact member space exhaustion" Nikolay and Michael are joined by Andrew Johnson and Nate Brennand from Metronome to discuss the root cause of a recent incident they had, as well as some mitigation advice! 🎧 postgres.fm/episodes/multi… 📺 youtu.be/9KoP0rXbGKU

They're cooking over at Ideogram

A serious observation here is that betting on outcomes is quickly becoming one of the only ways to preserve social mobility as knowledge work is automated and physical labor is outsourced. It is arguably worth your time to spend 8 hours on Polymarket instead of doordashing

The stuff on the right is a modular synth they had to put in there to get French government funding

anthropic employees should use twitter slightly more, openai employees should use twitter slightly less, xai employees should use twitter slightly differently

we need a new standard, SOC2 is cooked at this point we spent a year behind the scenes doing the things we thought were important for opsec before starting the SOC2 process some startups hit checkboxes and get the same cert in a couple days + short window zero faith as a buyer

Claim: gpt-5-pro can prove new interesting mathematics. Proof: I took a convex optimization paper with a clean open problem in it and asked gpt-5-pro to work on it. It proved a better bound than what is in the paper, and I checked the proof it's correct. Details below.

Infra is tough because you need to build features no one is asking for but everyone will love.

Most of these companies actually don't use Stripe for their AI product billing but Vivek Sharma deleted my original comment stating this truth. Harder to delete a quote tweet 🤷‍♂️

Makes sense, easier to put general intelligence into a browser than to make jira usable by humans

very good of anthropic to donate 12% of their latest raise to a writers’ fund

I will upgrade to the new iPhone for no reason other than it came in one of my top three favorite colors: construction orange

show about sf called x and the city

This sounds reasonable to say but is incorrect. Most great engineers hate using AI at first. It slows them down. At first. Then over time they learn how to make it useful. Then they learn how to make it powerful. Then they never go back. Completely new skill set and mindset.