David J Yang

@johnyang100 raising off our anthropic citation was a trip transformer-circuits.pub/2025/july-upda…

@SamuelRSolomon @jenny_wen people tend to forget that bad functionality existed before vibe coding now the limit is the amount of testing

@jenny_wen There's a lot of bad software out there. In the age of AI there's no real excuse for it.

these days, i find myself getting super frustrated at software i know was made by humans, but that i know AI could have done a better job of.

@thejustinguo second yerba buena island

new startup idea: san francisco without SOMA

@FCB_EXT @annieqyang @sri9s i'd love to be a part of it! building maingen.ai ycs26!

@annieqyang @annieqyang @sri9s hey guys so i recently started a GC for fellow devs and engineers to grow,learn and discuss about this evolving AI era together and to also support each other on this platform.. would love to have you guys be a part of it too! FB!

My biggest regret in life is not starting on X earlier. Its my new fave social media (by far)

@gott_zac @rackSpreader1 i've worked on a lot of evals and most of them have no gt i.e. bundle heuristics until the failure modes of your eval are niche enough

@rackSpreader1 once you have a ground truth eval is pretty easy its constructing the GT that’s a lot of hard work

From all the interviews ive done i think the hottest skill rn seems to be llm evals

@ijsthee i guess workplace culture is always about nudging people no matter what lol

@djyang1 Sorta yes, most ux work is tons of research + using well known methods to nudge people to do what you want them to do

I've been a bit quiet the past two weeks, but I want to get more into tweeting about design and AI again. In the meantime, I want to connect with more designers and builders. Let's hype each other up

@lincarson_ @snowmaker @mntruell @tryhermeshq he would've if he could've

@snowmaker @mntruell i think Michael used @tryhermeshq to sent that 😎

A common problem we hear from founders trying to "talk to their users" is that their users don't respond. Well, they're more likely to respond if you write them a very good message. Check out this email that @mntruell used to send his users - this how to do it.

@AndrewK404 @benln i'm meeting people whose entire batch was spent selling with just the landing page and a pitch deck

@benln I rarely agree with something this strongly It feels like, right now, the balance between talking to users and working on the product is especially important for CEOs

YC on how to pick a startup idea in the AI era:

@PedroGuiti generator maintenance maingen.ai

Founders, sell me your startup in two words

@PhillipYan2 remote instances are for people who are risk-averse. directly against founder principles

if this isn't you you're ngmi

@omarvvvr chairs

Founders, If someone gave you $10,000 today to grow your startup, how would you spend it?

@jurree Let's! building maingen.ai in ycs26!

I've just hit 1,000 followers on 𝕏. Two weeks ago I was still at 75... ...How? Simple. I just stopped hoping, dreaming, and lurking around, and started shipping what actually excites me. Are you a builder, designer or founder? say hi 👋 let's #connect.

@wtf_nakul7 computer science is still great

Computer Science went from one of the best degrees to pursue to one of the worst all within a decade. Absolutely crazy 🤯

@sukoooonnn let's! maingen.ai ycs26

If you are in tech let's connect !!

@TTrimoreau larpers with beautiful websites

They say AI will create entirely new jobs we can’t even imagine yet. name one

@Joi2James let's! maingen.ai ycs26

If you are a SAAS founder I want to connect with you.

@sourceandscale @pcshipp checks out to me

@pcshipp Because people on Reddit actively look for solutions. If your app solves a real problem and you share value first, you get feedback, users, and distribution at the same time.

iOS developers What's the best place to promote an app?

@scottastevenson @PhillipYan2 fade reading anything claude didn't produce

learn-maxxing is a bad bet when the world is changing so quickly. The expiry date on knowledge is just around the corner. It is the era of do-maxxing

@averycode Even with my co-founder and I split work we normally own 5 different workstreams no clue how solos do it

I think the hardest part about being a solo founder is context switching I work on marketing, dev and a bunch of other tasks daily - a lot of productivity gets lost trying to get in the flow of another vertical Do y’all batch your work or have any tips for structuring your day?

@araseb_ refusing to ask chatgpt or google questions just perpetuates ignorance

I am genuinely shocked at how many people just casually use ChatGPT instead of just like… thinking