Kelly Sutton

Some yearly reflections on the business, @scholarlysoft, of what we accomplished this year.

I see that "types and tests do the same thing" has once again reared its head, so here's Ideology again: destroyallsoftware.com/talks/ideology

Not usually how I make intros, but since they’re two design giants meeting on camera for the first time, you should watch this terrific convo. @wjosephflynn 🤝 @brian_lovin

Sat down to take a look at where we're at with our Ruby/JS mix, and our decision to ditch React 3+ years ago. Here's the post: kellysutton.com/2026/05/21/mov…

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Join us at the next #SFRuby meetup tomorrow (May 21) with Kurt Ude from @checkr on fraud protection, @wallyqs from @synadia on building agents with Ruby and DSPy, and @pranavrajs, founder of @chatwootapp (YC W21). We experiment with a special networking section-you are invited🪩

@Stammy Have I spread the good word of YNAB? Great for budgeting. Brokerage sync doesn’t work that well, but I just do a 1x/week reconciliation

genuinely excited about this. hopefully it can connect to all the brokerages i use for investment data and not just credit cards and bank accounts.

fidelity rep: before we can approve you for options trading we have some questions about your appetite for risk me: this morning i peeled my toddler’s banana without asking fidelity rep: approved for tier 3

The aggressive buildout of data centers, coupled with the high-throughput fiber links we'll need to connect them, create hope that mobile users could see the first 1 GB web page as soon as 2029.

slavoj žižek for vogue

We’ve been using FixtureKit at Scholarly to shave 70%-90% off of test runtime. It’s great!

Our mission at @GustoHQ is to grow the small business economy with technology and heart. We are deeply grateful to all the work small businesses do every day in communities everywhere, and we are committed to being their partner, taking hats off their head, delivering them peace of mind, and giving them superpowers, so they can progress their business. @agarfinks from @FortuneMagazine has been following Gusto for a long time, and we recently shared with her some milestones in our journey of building Gusto (including passing $1b of revenue). These are still the early days of what’s possible. We are building Gusto for the long term, and when small businesses succeed, we succeed.

On the heels of some fresh capital, we're growing the engineering team at @scholarlysoft in Seattle. If that's you, let's chat!

@ExtinguishedEng Xcode?

What should Cursor be called when SpaceX acquires it? Unfortunately the obvious name is already taken: CodeX.

@caglakaymaz @villi @_shriyanshk Also seeing our CI infra spend grow quickly in the age of AI. Lots of opportunity!

Lots of interesting startups attacking slices of CI/CD for agents, AI code review, automated QA, monitoring. All point solutions. The real opportunity is reimagining CI/CD end-to-end for an agent-native world. Who's building that? We want to meet you @villi @_shriyanshk

This stuff is literally not real. I give this feature 6-12 months tops before they remove it, bookmark this and confim. Like what do you mean you want me to pick how hard my model wants to try? I want it to try its hardest, always, and I want it to be fast. Why would I ever need to consider tradeoffs when doing knowledge work with AI.

Everyone apologize to DHH

Founders - what do you wish you knew when you first started out?