Dylan Mitic

what i respect most about linear, and why i think they will be a great company, is their desire to recognize that the old ways of doing things are shifting and to reinvent their core product to reflect the future. regardless of whether or not this is the end state of what they are building, and to be honest, the coding agents that are already integrated into linear already do a pretty good job of what their new agent does, the willingness to try something new and evolve as a product is commendable. engineering and product will always need a control-plane-level piece of software to coordinate. it will just continue to evolve and look different.

@dps @hbarra @alcor @dreamer @natfriedman Congratulations!

Excited to announce that @hbarra , @alcor and I are joining Meta Superintelligence Labs with the entire @Dreamer team today. The last few months have been extraordinary: we built Dreamer, put the beta in the world just a month ago, and saw magic come to life for real people. Since then, thousands of people have used Dreamer to build personal, intelligent software with our Sidekick in the world’s newest and most popular programming language: English! They're building and sharing agents to manage email, calendar, and to-do’s, create learning tools for their kids, learn new languages, plan trips with friends, become better cooks, help them with work, achieve their health goals, or simply to creatively express themselves—all sorts of surprising and uniquely personal needs. These are agents as unique as the people building them, because they're built exactly the way each person wants them to be. We’ve captured some of our favorites at dreamer.com/community-lett…. What matters most here isn’t the early momentum; it’s what Dreamer has enabled people to do. People are building things they’ve wanted for years. They’re solving real, important problems no traditional software company would ever prioritize, because they’re too niche, too bespoke, too personal. What company would ever build for an “n of 1”? Our bet from the beginning has been that software should be personal, malleable, and shaped by the person using it. The constraint was never people’s imagination. It was the fact that building software is out of reach for most people. This early chapter gives us conviction that the idea resonates, the need is real, and the moment is now. @alexandr_wang was helpful to us from the very beginning, and when we showed Dreamer to Mark Zuckerberg and @natfriedman earlier this year, it was clear right away that we share the same vision of the future: one where billions of people have the power to create software that makes their lives better. We’re thrilled to accelerate this mission by joining Meta Superintelligence Labs and licensing our technology to Meta. Read more at meta.com/superintellige…. Deeply grateful to our investors @jillchase124 and @ninaachadjian for supporting our vision for a more personal, creative, and intelligent future for software. Thank you for the trust, the thought partnership, and for being in our corner at every step. To everyone in our community who built with us: thank you. You've taught us what's possible, and you're the proof this works. We're so grateful, and we're just getting started!

@Teknium huge! congrats!!

10,000 Stars on Github - a huge milestone!

@jendarhy Now this is a factory

Make it black and white. And put type on it.

i think about this often

if there is one thing you read this week, this should be it

we just announced groq 3 lpx at gtc! this is the result of the hard work of some of the smartest people i know, who’ve been building the groq platform for nearly a decade. excited for the world to see and use this technology. if you’re interested, you can check out the deep dive!

"yeah you and what army?" the army:

happy GTC week to those that celebrate!

your philosophy changes when you come to terms with that fact that an LLM is the most inefficient solution to most engineering problems

@Basselo1 @kevinhartz @cory Love to see it

Great to meet @kevinhartz and hangout with @cory with some of the brightest and most ambitious friends from Stanford. Glad we managed to organize this together!

i think part of the issue with how people value replit is that they value it purely as a developer tool. there is the obvious impact of simplifying software creation, which is that more non-technical people get the opportunity to build software. but there is a second-order effect that i don’t think people appreciate nearly as much. replit is of course providing the utility of software creation; but, through that utility, it is also providing a form of entertainment. when i first used replit a few years ago, it was pretty clear to me that someone without a technical background might not only find coding useful, but genuinely fun. for a lot of people, building little programs or websites in a browser could feel the same way minecraft did when i was a kid. and i don’t necessarily buy the narrative that “i know nobody who uses it.” maybe. but chances are you are a senior swe in sf who is friends with other senior swes. sf is a bubble. i’ve started to notice it in places that traditional developer tools rarely reach. there are kids in my college’s business school using it. members of my family use it. friends of mine started coding because of it. and truth be told, much of the audience that is attracted to vibe-coding platforms doesn’t want the complexities of modern software creation. they don’t care and they want those complexities taken care of for them. they care about the creative pursuit of building software. my two cents, based on what i know about the platform, is that replit isn’t even trying to build for those senior developers who have qualms with the web ide, or the abstractions, or whatever it may be. the whole point of replit is the abstraction. it’s the simplicity.

palo alto would be the easiest game of geoguesser

worth a read. i also think regardless of technological erosion of moats, the power of a powerful brand imo has been under-appreciated in technology. once you can theoretically clone 90% of software overnight, the only thing that remains non-fungible is the emotional and cognitive real estate you occupy in the consumer's mind, i agree. but even before that, people want things that are cool, dope, sick, you name it. people want to buy dope sh*t. this is the reason nobody puts a poster of a highly efficient database management system on their wall. they put up a porsche, a rocket, or a photo of jordan. not only that, but they want a product to feel personable. is the company funny? do they make you laugh? do they make you think? do they make you feel anything at all? it's the reason people buy a leather jacket instead of a windbreaker. they both keep you warm. the windbreaker is cheaper, more high tech, and by most objective metrics probably a better product. but the leather jacket has a weight, a smell, and aura that people yearn for. it's dope. it reminds you of something. it feels real, and it feels trustworthy. it has a soul that a windbreaker can’t replicate. technology needs more soulful products. tldr: if the product, or the way it is displayed, makes you feel something like joy, laughter, or a relation to literally anything but rage, it’s high-status. if it’s high-status, it’s desirable, recognizable, and increasingly un-clonable. if your product doesn't make users feel something and only provides a logical utility, you have some work to do because utility is increasingly a commodity. perhaps this isn't true for anything, but for the vast majority i think it is. technology has been stuck on the fact that logic sells utility (this is true), but, and a big but, identity sells the product. when i look back on my time at Groq, @chelseythinks deeply understood this and taught me to understand it. we tried to be something people would put on their wall. we tried to be dope. we tried to be funny. and i think that let us come across as more human, which in turn made us more personable. brand is a powerful thing.

@NousResearch Congrats!!

Hermes Agent is officially our fastest-growing project ever! A huge thank you to everyone who has been experimenting with it, shared the announcement, or took the time to make a contribution to the project.

I see two reasons to be a techno-optimist: 1) nearly all prior data points to technology being a net positive for the world and improving the quality of life for everyone it impacts 2) being a pessimist is draining