active investor | unbeholden malcontent
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4 May 2021
There was never any good old days
They are today, they are tomorrow
It's a stupid thing we say
Cursing tomorrow with sorrow
โ @GogolBordello
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May 28
"used by engineers from"
None of these companies are customers but we want to borrow the status and prestige of the engineers who work at these companies to influence you, another engineer, to use our thing which is no different from x other things
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May 20
I just mark every AI-slop-email as spam
The spam filters are gonna explode soon
I wonder how much of global email/wa/sms/etc traffic is spam filter load and what the trendline is
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May 8
Let the agent do whatever it wants on prod data; just donโt let it do that in a prod env. Let the bots bot.
May 8
Ardent (@ArdentAI) let's you clone any Postgres DB <6s at TB scale so coding agents can test their code and engineering teams can ship fast without fear of taking down production.
It's already being used by dozens of teams like Supermemory and Surface Labs with 10TB of data across customers.
Congrats on the launch, @vchennai2!
ycombinator.com/launches/QE3โฆ
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Apr 24
If it looks like a wealth transfer, swims like a wealth transfer, and quacks like a wealth transfer, then it probably is a wealth transfer
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20 Nov 2025
Itโs gonna be fun
14 Oct 2025
there are two visions of the future of computing: cyborgs and rooms
cyborgs = augmented self. AI glasses, brain-computer interfaces... the personal computer paradigm
rooms = augmented environment. from smart speakers to dynamicland. ambient computing!
interconnected.org/home/2025โฆ
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22 Oct 2025
Surf goes OSS!
What would happen if notes were alive, if the notebook came before the browser, if all your work was saved locally, if you could extract information from a youtube video into a table and do some math at will, and pick your model or bring your own?
SURF
Today, Surf goes open:
โข open source
โข open (& local) data
โข open model choice (incl. local)
What's Surf? Watch for more.
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5 Oct 2025
Watching people slowly realize that LLMs arenโt semantic
Is weird
Because these are all โengineersโ with a fundamental incuriosity about how the thing theyโre playing with works and doesnโt work
VCโs, on the whole, seem completely disconnected from any ground truth
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3 Oct 2025
Surf the World
๐โโ๏ธ โจ๐
Browsers are for consuming.
Chat is a consumer interface.
๐๐ช๐ง๐ ๐๐จ ๐ ๐ฃ๐ค๐ฉ๐๐๐ค๐ค๐ ๐๐ค๐ง ๐๐ง๐๐๐ฉ๐๐ฃ๐ โ ๐ฌ๐๐ฉ๐ ๐๐ซ๐๐ง๐ฎ๐ฉ๐๐๐ฃ๐ ๐ค๐ฃ ๐ฉ๐๐ ๐๐ฃ๐ฉ๐๐ง๐ฃ๐๐ฉ.
Completely re-built. Local first data. Live in Beta today.
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26 Sep 2025
Met Vikram in April. Sleeping on a friendโs couchโshipped an alpha, got users to pay $$$ for a prod built by 1 human w/o VC. Converted another 60k account while we were talking.
Alone
After being rejected by YC
Exceptional
My case for @ardentaiโ
crane.vc/meet-ardent-your-daโฆ
25 Sep 2025
We raised 2.1M led by @crane_vc to build @tryardent the first AI Data Engineer
Today, companies bleed engineering hours to data pipeline maintenance hell
Ardent autonomously builds pipelines, optimizes queries and models data so companies never feel that pain again
Link below
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9 Sep 2025
"That was so much better than ChatGPT"
TIL
1/ I was the 2nd port of call for advice
2/ The bar is set by ChatGPT
3/ For now, I can keep my job
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