Jake Lynch

Last weekend, @FoodIsGoodCo team passed 500k downloads. More importantly, we continue to get positive feedback from our members about the difference we make in their lives. We are on a mission to help 1 million+ people with dietary restrictions - Here's to Half way there 💪💪

📚 How Fig keeps millions eating safely with a five-engineer team and Expo ✍️ @cobbviously @FoodIsGoodCo helps millions with dietary restrictions find safe food. Here's how a five-person team uses the Expo SDK and EAS Update to ship reliably and move fast. expo.dev/blog/how-fig-k…

First technical blog post up - check out some of the ways we use @expo here @FoodIsGoodCo

More!

I love Claude Code and Claude's products generally - it's a bummer that Claude Code review feels not quite there yet. It's expensive and more noisy. Wondering if they are attempting to more fully automate the review process rather than needing a human in the loop, but it blew like $200 on one PR.

Are people checking in their Claude plan files these days? @meekmill do you do this?

We are about to enter a golden era of hip-hop

Every repo is a monorepo if you "/add-dir" enough directories.

@jeiting Tbf VCs generally have a narrow view of success in startups.

Olivia’s being blown up here but she’s mostly right but maybe misunderstood. “Generational startup” is a word thrown around a lot in VC land but generally means “billion dollar plus valuation and very durable”. I.e. the outcomes VCs generally look for, these are the bets that make funds work. These outcomes (Duolingo, Roblox, Netflix, Spotify), are extremely rare, and only ever get there because they have a core PMF so strong the market pulls them to scale. They will use ads to supplement their growth, but only as an accelerant to an already compounding product and brand. Usually driven by word of mouth, which is a side effect of PMF. Apps whose primary driver of growth is paid ads, can reach great outcomes and even considerable scale, but the dynamics of paid acquisition mean they are less durable, and less capital efficient. Not bad companies, but maybe relatively “bad” investments. They are just too easily disrupted without constant acquisition knife fights. So, just know the game you’re playing, have the right capital structure, and most paths can “work out” for some definition of “work out”.

This country's gambling problem so bad that the ESPN's search result snippet is just the gambling hotline.

We've moved from Infrastructure As Code (IAC) to Vibes as Infrastructure (VAI)

Claude code team (@bcherny, @trq212) - I'm unable to set Claude code PR review to manual mode in the console UI and not sure how to file a bug, but this is blocking me from using (don't want to spend $25/PR)

Claude just like me FR 🥲

Interestingly, yesterday I asked claude if I should tell someone to fuck off and it agreed with me, but when I started over and asked it more calmly, it said the other person was right.

@mckaycoppins incredible graphic.

Last year, The Atlantic gave me $10K to gamble with. What started as a journalistic gimmick turned into something more... unnerving. My cover story on the online betting boom warping sports, culture, politics, and the psyches of millions of young men: theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/…

Have you considered that you actually DO suck at your job?

Worst case scenario we can just make a new strait. Shouldn't take long once we unleash the productivity boosting powers of AI. Maybe a day or two at most.

@elidourado this would seem to show there is no boom from the internet writ large

Chart here: tfp.elidourado.com Data here: frbsf.org/research-and-i…

Q4 TFP is out, still no AI boom in TFP.

Everyone walking around NYC today like they just woke up from the longest nap of their life.

Can I have an agent authenticate my MCP servers or is that too lazy?