Richard Lee

As cool as it is when AI generates mermaid diagrams for me, nothing beats a hand crafted Excalidraw with boxes in exactly the right place, lines that look like railroad tracks, and just the right amount of detail

@jxnlco @ashleybchae 👀

hey @ashleybchae — can you DM me when you get a chance?

@davidsenra @eglyman Can confirm after playing inordinate amounts of Minecraft

The two things Ramp Cofounder @eglyman looks for when hiring: 1. Evidence of a spike 2. Exceptional drive “ There’s a whole community of people at Ramp we found because when they were 15 years old, they were playing like 80-100 hours a week on Minecraft.” “I'm less interested in: what is on the resume. I'm far more interested in proof of work. Often I'm really looking for signs of that.” “You can find that by searching: where is the work?” “So part of our hiring process is trying to look for people who are very active on GitHub.” “We're trying to meet people who were leaders in different bizarre fringe communities.”

@AndrejDrats Well said

Steve Jobs' team told him to his face that his ship date was reality distortion. He agreed with their evidence and kept the date anyway. The tape explains a decision rule most founders never learn. December 1985. NeXT is 90 days old, funded with Jobs' own money after he left Apple. At the first company retreat, the team debates slipping the launch from spring 1987 to spring 1988. The pushback is brutal and specific. One team member has receipts: "We've got a person here that said he could do a word processor in six months that's taking three years." Another names the danger: "Reality distortion is reality distortion. It has its motivational value." Build the plan on a fake date, and every design decision made from it gets torn up later. Jobs does not argue the evidence. "Well, George, I can't change the world." He argues something else entirely: "I think we have to drive a stake in the ground somewhere. And I think if we miss this window, then a whole series of events come into play." "We can't sell enough units in 87 to pay for our operating costs." Colleges buy computers in the summer. The campus surveys had already put the ceiling at $3,000. Miss spring 1987, and NeXT sells nothing for a year while burning his money. "We have 18 months. So I don't think we have a company if we don't do this. No matter what I say or anybody else says, that is my deepest belief. If we don't do this, we will not be able to attract great people. We will not be able to retain some of the ones we have." My note: the team argued estimates. Jobs argued conditions. An estimate says when the work might be done, and it invites negotiation. A condition says when the company is dead, and it does not negotiate. That is why the stake held. He anchored the date to the market's calendar and his own runway, not to optimism. The engineers could refute the schedule. Nobody in the room could refute the window. The uncomfortable version for founders: if your deadline comes from your team's estimates, it will move. If it comes from the physics of your market, it was never really a deadline. It is a survival condition wearing one. Steve Jobs at the first NeXT retreat, December 1985. Footage released by the Steve Jobs Archive in May 2026. Founders: if you want your X to do this for your business, check the first reply.

Morning. The last 48 hours of Codex and ChatGPT Work have been intense! Three important updates: - Temporarily removing the 5 hour usage limit restriction for all Plus, Business and Pro plans - Rolling out changes that will make GPT 5.6 Sol more efficient across the board and that will be reflected in less usage being used so that it can take you further. Exact impact to be quantified and shared - We hit 6M active users, and are landing a usage reset in the next hour Go do things

@maria_rcks Thank you. Will be in the next version

I solved the model picker problem, no need to thank me Tibo

@wonforall Bring some back to the office

i ordered a couple things for myself and now i feel like im in a zoo with all these people staring at me guy just wanted to have one last meal in the motherland

Codex Pets are everywhere. Make sure to update your pet in settings

@techhalla Dune 4 is that you?

I didn't film this. I vibe directed it just by using OpenArt Director, the new way to bring your ideas to life through natural language. Here's how 👇

@poistudioltd That garbage can guy hits different

Honestly, I thought I'd be a manga artist. Grew up on anime and read a ton of comics. Drawing was my first love, way before design. But here I am, running a brand studio. The funny thing is that that love didn't go anywhere. Whenever there's a chance to bring hand-drawn elements in, I take it. For TrackBill, we did hand-drawn mascots, I proposed the idea and founder just went with it. For AELI, we also drew a little cute dumpster processor thingy and other little elements. Because tech/AI startups these days all look the same, dark more, some futuristic font, that same cold gradient. But those hand-drawn elements bring soul and character into the brand, which really helps them to stand out (doesn't work for all brands, FYI). Don't let some passions collect dust, sometimes they're your biggest edge.✨

@PounceLight Beautiful! I wish AOE looked like this

It's been 84 years, but we're cooking again! For y'all who wanted to build rustic villages, here's a sneak peek of upcoming wooden walls 👀

What are your most useful Codex Computer Use workflows?

@Visual_Salman Did Fable one shot it?

POV: you spent weeks on Blender just to make an animation nobody will see :)

@adelwu_ @mike_deeks Come visit my ice cream shop!

@mike_deeks this is it! didnt get around to responding yet but brentwood in general has hundreds of upick farms, all good

1 hour from sf you can eat an unlimited amount of the sweetest peaches you’ll ever try at the cutest family farm

@MilksandMatcha Congrats! And thanks for the cerebras swag

Got married, company IPO, gave my first talk at AI Engineer London, and turned 25. And that's 2026 Q2 Wrapped :)

@Etched Insane if true

We're coming out of stealth. We've built our first racks after a successful A0 tapeout, $1B+ in customer contracts, and $800m raised. Early customer tests show us achieving SOTA throughput, latency, and power efficiency on inference workloads. Our first racks ship this summer.

My gains have never been better

@d3v_ai @jacobmparis 👀

@jacobmparis Don’t give Sam ideas wtf bro

The new codex shop hits hard

Tons of improvements landed in Codex. - Handles super long threads smoothly. - Hoverable navigation rail for previewing and jumping between turns that feels just right. - Settings search covers more controls, with clearer appearance and host-filtering options and easier-to-find custom-provider settings. - Zoom-level changes no longer misalign tooltips, dialogs, menus, selection bubbles, drag previews, or autocomplete. - Copying into Slack preserves Markdown formatting such as bullets, bold text, code, and links; and large text pastes no longer freeze the UI. - And most importantly: a dedicated Pets panel.

@jxnlco Skys the limit ofc