Jay Patel

@gregoryblotnick Same in engineering too. I just posted this x.com/waymodriver/st…

one trait of really good investors that I havent seen discussed much on here "willingness to look stupid." in lots of mgmt meetings...u hear the oldest and wisest person in the room, asking extremely simple questions - zero fear. guessing this is universal (i.e. same in VC/PE)

I was also at @awscloud and was very intentional about observing ultra successful (L8+) engineers and leaders. I agree with what you said. I also think there is some “je ne sais quoi” element to it. Could never really understand how they are able to ask some extremely simple yet important questions that I being closer to the problem for months completely missed

During my time at @awscloud I tried to be an astute observer of how the Senior Principal and Distinguished Engineers carried themselves in new projects/teams and design reviews. This has made a lasting impact on how I operate as well as evaluate others. All of these "Very Senior" engineers are smart but the absolute best ones were humble, secure, incredibly curious, and appreciated the history and path of a system. They can jump into whole new domains and immediately win over the people under them that ultimately do the work. The worst Very Senior engineers show up and inflict their insecurity by asking divisive and superficial questions like "why didn't you use {{language foo}} or {{database bar}} or {{platform qux}}?" These very questions reveal their inner fear: they don't have the depth and breadth their position requires.

@samlambert She's very (read) committed

@vilinskyy Do you think google search is bad UX?

> Good UX means "less than 3 clicks" > Great, now it has 1 click and 50 keystrokes. ✅ Mission accomplished.

@scottastevenson Have you written anything or thought about existing customers ability to absorb (actually use and get value from) new features? There has to be a limit beyond which new features are only used by power users

Agree, but boiling the ocean is much easier to do in product than it is with marketing. There are only so many features a user can absorb and associate with a brand. “High-Frequency Software Companies” will need to operate many brands to overcome this. blog.scottstevenson.net/p/high-frequen…

@NWischoff This is what it's all about. Congratulations!

Mom and stepdad have worked physical jobs for nearly nothing their entire lives. Stepdad took in 7 kids when he met my mom and never accepted child support from my dad. Did whatever he could for us to have a chance at a real life. Took them to dinner Friday night and let them know I would be retiring them very comfortably for the rest of their lives. One of the best moments of my life.

@hiiinternet 10/10 engagement strategy

if you want to work at anthropic interact

@gbrl_dick I have the exact opposite view. It will soon be unreasonable to not use LLMs to code or at least review your code for bugs/vulnerabilities You think an average SWE has better chances to not write bugs than Mythos?

one funny thing about the timing of the mythos announcement is that we're going to look back on the first 3 months of 2026 as the only time in history it made any sense at all to say 'why would i pay for b2b saas products? i could just vibe code my own'

@AnthropicAI Here to be a part of the history books

Introducing Project Glasswing: an urgent initiative to help secure the world’s most critical software. It’s powered by our newest frontier model, Claude Mythos Preview, which can find software vulnerabilities better than all but the most skilled humans. anthropic.com/glasswing

@LeoMargolis_ @probabilitygod The cheapest way to fill the order will be different for your counterparty (agents betting on no). Efficient market hypothesis eventually kicks in here and fees become a very sustainable way to maintain that platform (infra, salaries, etc) imo they are extremely defensible

@probabilitygod Yes I agree 100% I’m sort of envisioning a world where you have an agent transact on your behalf. I ask my agent to by me 20 shares of yes etc and it finds the cheapest way to fill this order.

I always find it crazy that Prediction Markets have 20 Billion+ valuations. These companies have nothing proprietary and now charge a 2% fee on taker transactions. Polymarket and Kalshi just provide a matching engine and it would be pretty easy to mirror the liquidity in an identical market w less fees and the same resolution.

@gabor Is it possible to extend this to the Atlanta office? Already interviewing for another role there

New role: Come work in my team at Google! Build the surfaces for AI in Google Workspace as a Product Manager in New York, San Francisco, or Sunnyvale. google.com/about/careers/…

@ekzhang1 Any plans on doing virtual sessions?

Nice turnout at NY systems reading group today!! Meeting folks, reading code and discussing on a Friday evening :)

@gm_mertd @daytonaio (not biased, just a user) Modal has been my default because of how well both opus and 5.4 one-shot deploying on it

Every devtool should do this. Some DMs I got were raving about @daytonaio so I gave Claude Code a simple task. Prompt: Spin up a stateful sandbox, install pi agent in there, and let me see the results stream on a simple html page with a preview URL to the sandbox. The env variables are in .env --- Still running after 1 hour. Still can't figure it out. There is so much to do here. Don't get me even started on Cloudflare and Modal

@rtwlz How is a SWE dropping so much cash at this? I’m in the wrong big tech

Ever wanted to NAME A STREET? We’re auctioning off the naming rights to an actual alley in San Francisco. Highest bidder can name it whatever they want. Ends Tuesday at 1pm PT

@Cdpetty Are you familiar with the law?

Mercor has the opportunity to do the funniest thing: open source all their data and code and transition to an open source RL env & data co. This was always the plan.

@zuhayeer isn't this just AWS ladder? Even worse because there is no staff

The quiet restructure happening at companies isn’t just layoffs, but org compression. Companies are starting to delete levels from their ladders, and increase scope overall across the board.

@gabriel1 learned it the hard way today x.com/waymodriver/st…

coding kinda pay to win

@geoffreylitt Beautiful! There so much value in bringing runtime context to development environments (both for Agents and us)

People and agents would be better at writing code if you could easily check what value a variable usually has in production:

Before automating ask yourself if you can eliminate

This is where were at and its only 6pm