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@sama Thanks! Does it sync across devices @sama ?

Codex in the ChatGPT mobile app!

The opposite of AI Psychosis is AI Cope.

"The single most important thing for anybody wanting to break into any industry is go to the headquarters or cluster of that industry. Move to wherever that thing is. And all the advice that you can do anything from anywhere and everything's remote is all BS. With AI, 91 percent of private technology market cap is in the Bay Area. Ninety-one percent of the entire global set of AI market cap is all in one 10 by 10 area." — Elad Gil Listen to my interview with @eladgil: tim.blog/2026/04/29/ela…

LLMs made code more accessible but did it make software easier? The hard part is still deciding what should exist, how it should behave, where it will break, and what tradeoffs are worth making. AI raises the floor for builders. But it raises the ceiling much more for people who already think deeply. The gap is widening.

@NVIDIA_AI_PC Around 20TB worth of models but let me check what the model says.

Be honest — how many local models do you have downloaded right now? 👀

@TheAhmadOsman @TheAhmadOsman sent you a DM. Would love to hear more from you.

They’re installing mini-data centers in people’s homes What’s so funny is that I pitched this idea a couple of years ago and got shot down by multiple VCs I have moved on to greater things since, and these funds missed out on printing $$$ :)

AI didn’t kill software. It made taste, trust, and execution matter more. Everyone can now generate an app the way everyone can cook dinner. But people still pay restaurants because the value isn’t just "food exists." It’s the details: - the sourcing, - the consistency, - the polish, - the speed, - the experience, - the judgment. Same with software. The hard part was never just making buttons work.

@sama @sama 10xing Codex is fun!

we are gonna do something nice for everyone who applied for the GPT-5.5 party and that we didn't have space for. hope you enjoy!

Hot take: most software was built for humans driving machines, not machines acting on intent. We layered abstractions (C++/Java/Python→ Frameworks → APIs/UIs) to tell computers what to do. That assumption is breaking. Shift happening: Interface = intent, not UI Models interpret + execute Software adapts vs. being explicitly programmed Stacks won’t disappear, but they get pushed down the abstraction ladder.

2000s: I'm building B2C 2010s: I'm building B2B 2026: I'm building B2C2A2A2A User asks their agent. Their agent asks our agent. Our agent asks another agent. A human gets CC'd for vibes.

As code generation becomes more agentic, the real eng surface area shifts from "did the code compile?" to "what evidence do we have that this behavior is safe across the long tail?" Deterministic tests are still necessary, but they’re no longer sufficient. We’ll need stronger eval harnesses, production guardrails, rollback paths, observability, and probably a much more explicit notion of confidence before shipping.

Its pretty obvious that voice is the new interface but interesting how we want to fit this into existing interactables (web/desktop/mobile). It would be cool to not having any interface and spin up one as & when needed.

What’s the first thing you’d stop doing manually if this existed?

The winners won’t build better apps They’ll build one system that understands messy human intent and executes cleanly. Keyboard was built for machines Voice is built for humans That’s the unlock 5/5

The next interface isn’t typing. It’s continuous voice. No structure, no commands. Just speak and it gets done. 1/5

@FarzaTV @FarzaTV in a similar phase talking to potential cofounders. Would love to connect and learn more. DMd you.

I decided to join Y Combinator, again. This would be my second time! Not fully sure what I'm working on yet. But, I'm sure I'll find something in time as I wander and ship. I'm a little scared to do the whole build a company thing again ngl, but mostly excited. There's never been a better time to work on the ideas in my head. The batch started this week. Starting a company at 23 vs now starting a company at 30 feels so different. At 23 (when I did YC in 2020), naivety was there. At 30 I guess I know how difficult it all is. It's not surprising to me that most people in YC are aged 19-24. Still, I feel like I have the naivety of a 19 year-old, but, with the mental of a guy who's been through a lot and learned a lot. So, I'm bullish. Let's see what happens. You'll probably see me launching a lot of random stuff over the next few weeks especially. Also, I am blown away by the number of founders in the batch walking up to me telling me they credit being at YC to @_buildspace. It's so wonderful, and warms my heart. I often struggle to stop and understand the value of my past work because I'm so interested in the future. So, this was nice. It's funny, many saw me irl and freaked out thinking I was joining as a YC partner and were very very surprised to hear I was joining as a founder back in the dirt alongside them haha. Most founders never start another company and usually turn into VCs or get a high-tier job at a big company. I do not blame them. And honestly, that would be the easier more secure path for me especially as I begin thinking about family. But, idk. I feel like my ideas are important. And even though I don't have a specific "This is the idea I'm excited about" it's more a feeling of "I should explore my ideas...I would regret it if I didn't". Especially in 2026, at the epicenter of one of the greatest inventions of my lifetime. Every time I think about getting a job (of which I've been offered many great ones) that voice in my head comes back and says to give my nascent visions a shot. So, gonna try :) Maybe I flop, maybe I don't, only one way to find out. I'll be dropping weekly updates on YouTube if you're interested. I put one out last week that talks more in depth around the story of how this YC stuff even happened randomly, why I'm doing this again, my imposter syndrome and how I think about it, and other stuff. I'll link it below. Lets see what happens!! See y'all.

So what are you building?