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if this resonates, you should join us at cursor
- just do the thing
- pace & scrappiness
- in-person culture >>>>
- talent denser than a neutron star
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Alex Tapper
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Alex Tapper
@ABTapper
building GTM Apps @cursor_ai, prev internal tools czar @retool, all words are made up, always be tinkering
San Francisco, CA Katılım Ocak 2009
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organic architecture
good codebases have always had strong foundations and constraints. these files go here. this kind of code goes there. the codebase is held together either by catering to the lowest common denominator developer using conventional frameworks and languages, or by strict adherence to a style guide enforced by code review.
the arrival of an infinite number of monkeys armed with keyboards have obsoleted the latter. codebases designed for agents need hard constraints so that even the dumbest agent (and pilot) can contribute meaningfully. the chaos must be tamed.
refactoring your codebase and choosing a tech stack with strong type systems/compiler diagnostics has far greater impact than AGENTS.md and tweaking your skills. hard constraints and well thought out architecture guide agents to do the right thing by default. the best rules are in your code.
invest accordingly.
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ok! quick updates from me:
- i left anthropic (who does that?!)
- had a baby (i love her)
- and am joining @cursor_ai as head of design (eep!)
it's been a low-key dream of mine to nurture a team that cares so deeply about craft, quality, and building great tools. very excited!
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it's really not so hard...all you have to do is test out 5+ new models launching per week at every different thinking level across every harness and remember which benchmarks matter and which are cooked and develop your own personal evals and figure out how to best tokenmaxx to avoid the limits bc some limits get reset 2x per day and some models are only available for 50% of your weekly limit until it moves to API only today but it's really next week oh it's actually the week after next bc a new model just dropped that you should def test bc it's supposed to be good
ayush@ayushxpatne
Its genuinely so difficult to keep up w everything- i learn one thing for da job prep n next day something new comes up which is big
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cannot wait to use this! thx @Shpigford
Josh Pigford@Shpigford
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shipped v1.8 of my little ports app with some fixes and improvements 🔌
- added a rescan button
- improved port detection
- auto-hide processes from raycast, dia, google drive and other common apps
- fixed issues with "auto-hide menu bar" macOS setting
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took a quick break from b2b SaaS to propose to my fiancé
she said yes but that if ARR doesn't 10x this year she's putting me on pip.
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jk
In all seriousness, a few notes on how I met Vicky and everything she means to me:
I first met Vicky at a wine bar near Gramercy Park in 2022 after a great day of numbers going up.
My over-confidence led to an above average charisma day which tricked her into going on a 2nd date and I've been lucky to somehow keep her around since.
She's been with me across multiple startups, including founding Taxwire.
She was there when Taxwire was a vague idea with no traction and I was bleeding out my life savings every month.
She's been there through every up and every down. The big highs and the low lows. All the times I've doubted myself. All the times I've needed a reality check.
She's watched me pour everything into this company and been my biggest supporter while doing so.
Both I and the company wouldn't be here without her.
There are not good words to express how much she has meant to me in this journey.
She has built me up in more ways than I have the words to express.
So anyway, I got one one knee and asked her if she wanted to be a long-term shareholder in Taxwire and she said yes and that's basically what happened.
Happy Sunday!
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