Eric Simons

When we needed SOC2 for Bolt, our team chose diligent vendors, and invested the necessary time & efforts to not just meet but exceed the bar Took more time than I would've liked, but such is the nature of good things Security for our customers is #1

Always choose diligence, even if it requires patience Shortcuts can get you ahead *now*, but nearly always set you back *later* True for startups (and life generally)

@levelsio Next time you’re in sf let’s take a drive together over the bridge to Marin etc Ideally top down, weather permitting Basically the same appeal as forza horizon but irl

@aakashgupta Wait till you see what we’ve been cooking You’ll understand why I’ve been sleeping soundly 😁

This is the part Replit, Lovable, and Bolt should be losing sleep over. Google AI Studio now ships with the Antigravity coding agent built in, Firebase for auth and databases, and one-click Cloud Run deployment. The entire pipeline from “describe your app” to “it’s live on the internet with a working backend” runs inside one browser tab. Free tier. No credit card. The vibe coding startups charge $15-39/month and still require you to stitch together Supabase, Netlify, and two or three other services before anything actually works in production. Users on Bolt have reported burning $1,000+ on a single project when debugging cycles eat through token budgets. Lovable and Bolt both hit a complexity wall around 15-20 components where the AI starts losing context and making destructive changes. Google just bundled the entire backend those companies never built. This is the same playbook Google ran on email, maps, and cloud storage. Give it away free, make it the default, wait for the market to reorganize around your infrastructure. The vibe coding startups built better creation experiences. Google built the deployment layer those prototypes always needed. The gap Google is exploiting: every startup in this space built a great front door and a mediocre production experience. Google built a mediocre front door sitting on top of the best production infrastructure in the world. They paid $2.4 billion for the Windsurf team to fix the front door. The startups are still trying to build their own backend. One of those problems is easier to solve. And the company with 20+ million developers already on its platform gets to solve it with distribution the startups will never match.

@amanrsanger incredible work to you and the team

Composer 2 marks the one-year anniversary of our large model training efforts. Since then, we've built an exceptionally talent-dense team of ~40 people with some of the best researchers and engineers from the labs, academia, industry, and more heterogeneous backgrounds. And we are exclusively focused on coding. We don't care about models that can respond to emails, do your tax returns, or be your friend. Every FLOP, token, parameter, and researcher is entirely dedicated to software engineering.

@dalmaer ❤️🙇

@EricSimons Means so much coming from you mate!

Great release- congrats Google frens!!

Update your website based on user feedback with the Granola MCP connector, now in @boltdotnew!

@kiwicopple @bentossell @supabase 🔥🔥🔥

There are now 7M developers using @supabase Signups have been accelerating since the start of the year Our growth rate right now is as fast as it was during YC, except that we are doing it from a base of millions of developers instead of thousands

@asleMammadam @rickyfm @stackblitz ^ ditto, would be happy to get this set up for yall Ricky! We prev had chatted w your team about it actually

@rickyfm we'd be happy to host you at @stackblitz

Any sandbox providers want to pair with me on switching the React docs to use your thing?

Crazy how far we’ve come And the next 4000 are gonna be even crazier 😄

@ka7mi_server @boltdotnew let's go!!

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@TheFlowAgency lolol

@EricSimons Maybe Gemini mirrors it's user's language closely?😉

first time i've seen gemini swear like this lol either we're cooking something crazy good, or gemini is the best sycophant you could ever ask for... only one way to find out! any PMs, designers, product engineers wanna see a sneak peek?

@0x_Vivek 💯

@EricSimons local compute is the only way true autonomy scales anyway. paying cloud tax for every agent step is unsustainable when there are m-series chips sitting idle on desks. the cloud cpu crunch will just accelerate the inevitable shift to local-first ai and foreground agents.

Incoming CPU shortage is real As clouds get tapped of their supply, agent co’s will increasingly explore on-device compute (everyone already has a CPU in pocket/on desk!) With foreground agents rising, we expect this graph to get even steeper this year

Happy #PiDay! ICYMI - all Bolt.new Pro and Teams users have free credits for #PiDay. From 3:14 am PT on 3/14 to 3:14 am on 3/15 you can build whatever you can dream up, for free. Submit your #PiDay project through the link below for a chance to win up with $1000 in free Bolt credits. Happy Building from @Anthropic and @Boltdotnew #shipitFTW

@clairevo This looks amazing Also- congrats on taking the plunge!! So stoked for you 🔥

I quit my executive job to live the AI-native startup life. And I've spent years studying what it takes to shift an existing team to a new way of working. In my experience, it takes 3 things: - a new operating model - technical readiness (prepare the repos!) - cultural change I'm SO psyched to be kicking of this very limited @MavenHQ weekend course (April 18-19) for EPD executives and super senior ICs with my friend Zach at LaunchDarkly, a Principal Engineer that went from AI-skeptic to the AI-champion in our team. This is NOT for - ICs looking to learn things like claude code - people wanting high level consulting fluff - small teams who are already yoloing the tokens This IS for - VP+ executives in product, engineering, and design - staff + engineers - 100+ person teams who need to move AI mountains @gaganbiyani has been asking me to put something together for several years, and I said I would only do it if it was something I really thought I could uniquely speak to, was technical, and focused at my peers. This is that. I'm also excited we'll have @chintanturakhia and @thenanyu as guest speakers to talk about what they're seeing and doing as EPD leaders. We just opened enrollment, and recommend you register as an exec-sr. IC pair to get the most out of the content: maven.com/clairevo/ai-na…

@gabefletcher @bcherny @theo @trq212 @gregisenberg @weswinder @jrdnmix 🔥🫡

hi. yeah uh. bolt pro & teams - completely free this weekend. and anthropic just put opus 4.6 1m on main. "file>quit slack" i'll be with... the bois all weekend.... @EricSimons @bcherny @theo @trq212 @gregisenberg @weswinder @jrdnmix See you on monday.