software engineer in NYC. prev mergestat.com and augmentable.dev/. Now @powersetres.
Joined November 2007
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Jun 5
switched from Claude Code to Codex CLI today and am experiencing this in real time. I can’t articulate exactly why…it’s just better
Less sycophantic? Feels more comprehensive? 5.5 seems to just miss fewer things
Jun 5
Underreported story in AI Eng: Just how much better it is to work with gpt 5.5 than Opus 4.8. It's smarter *and* has a decisive speed advantage. The speed difference also underrated.
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May 27
The best recruiting signal is often sitting in public GitHub data.
Today, we’re open sourcing the data layer we use to help founders recruit exceptional engineers.
research.powerset.co/posts/r…
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May 24
the job of software engineer is so clearly no longer about directly managing code, but managing the systems and rails for AI tools to ship the best possible codel, given the domain and its constraints
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May 24
e.g. don't spend cycles on frontend code, spend time getting the agent connected to a design system, following best practices, and self-verifying its own code changes.
the work is now building and operating the machine that ships and maintains code, not the code itself
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Apr 29
1/ Applications are now open for Powerset Cohort 4, where top founders get their own $ 1M fund for angel investing. Last year, Anton Osika (Lovable) and other elite founders joined Cohort 3. Our founders have deployed $ 20M so far and are outperforming top VCs.
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Apr 22
I think there are interesting use cases for sandboxes that have nothing to do with AI code execution.
If you can isolate tenants and pin them to their own compute, that’s a pretty powerful primitive for multi-tenant software generally.
CI/CD systems, per-tenant queries with variable compute/memory, third-party plugin systems, user-defined logic, etc.
Cool to see AI infra make infra better for non-AI products too.
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Feb 27
1/ If history is any guide, I think the end state of agentic coding is something far more declarative than imperative (relative to where we are today). We’ve headed far in that direction, but there’s probably more to go…
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Feb 27
6/ I think there’s more to climb on the “declarative-ness” ladder though. Especially when it comes to on-going maintenance and day two development.
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Feb 27
7/ Instead of a human prompting specific features and fixes to move a codebase forward, do we end up in an even more declarative/spec-driven world, where human changes are text updates to a CLAUDE.md spec and agents continuously work to reconcile to a final state?
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supabase open source metrics:
Feb 19
We dumped GitHub into DuckLake. Here’s what we found:
• Growth rate of new repos doubled in 2025
• Microsoft leads Big Tech in repo creation, contrary to narrative the company is closed
• a16z captured nearly as much OSS value as all other early-stage VCs combined
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Feb 23
Just released my next-generation agent session viewer with analytics dashboard (Go Svelte). A much evolved version of wesm/agent-session-viewer which is now deprecated:
agentsview.io
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Feb 23
We replicated the @SemiAnalysis_ estimate that ~4% of public GitHub commits are being authored by Claude Code. Moreover, this figure is growing exponentially.
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Feb 19
We dumped GitHub into DuckLake. Here’s what we found:
• Growth rate of new repos doubled in 2025
• Microsoft leads Big Tech in repo creation, contrary to narrative the company is closed
• a16z captured nearly as much OSS value as all other early-stage VCs combined
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Feb 19
The power law of venture, open source edition:
a16z > all other early-stage VCs combined
Feb 19
We dumped GitHub into DuckLake. Here’s what we found:
• Growth rate of new repos doubled in 2025
• Microsoft leads Big Tech in repo creation, contrary to narrative the company is closed
• a16z captured nearly as much OSS value as all other early-stage VCs combined
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Feb 19
Special thanks to @modal, @motherduck/@duckdb, @googlecloud, @supabase, @opencode, and @github for building the tools that make our research possible. Read the full post: research.powerset.co/posts/g…
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Feb 19
Happy to share that a few months ago I joined Powerset (powerset.co/).
I’ve been heads down on a number of projects, but excited to share a small portion of my work looking at GitHub and commercial open source in 2025:
Feb 19
We dumped GitHub into DuckLake. Here’s what we found:
• Growth rate of new repos doubled in 2025
• Microsoft leads Big Tech in repo creation, contrary to narrative the company is closed
• a16z captured nearly as much OSS value as all other early-stage VCs combined
More below
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