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bragging about how many tokens you spent building a sloppy product is the new bragging about how many meetings it took to ship a feature

Our new website is live! nango.dev Bolder, simpler, and, most importantly, with dark mode. 🌑

Excited to announce that Nango has raised $7.5M led by @GradientVC , with participation from @HorizonVC and @ycombinator ! nango.dev/blog/nango-rai…

When I was at Google, I wasn’t afraid to make mistakes in production. The general consensus was: if a well intentioned engineer manages to bring the system down, then we better fix the damn system. The Delve founders should definitely be held accountable if this is true. But this really is bigger than them. They didn’t even try too hard to be sleazy, they just followed the Silicon Valley playbook. 1. Drop out of school as a status symbol, completely missing that correlation is not causation. Dropping out does not make you a genius. 2. Start a business with 0 mission (no 21yo dreams of compliance) 3. Fake it till you make it (hide human labor behind the grandeur of AI features) 4. Raise an obscene amount of money because you can and because those losers who stayed to finish their degrees will be jelly. This is the playbook. The biggest culprits are the ones who made it and uphold it. If you’re not allowed to drink before 21 but are allowed to raise 30m on a compliance idea with no due diligence from investors, then maybe something is really really wrong with the system.

> be niantic > launch Pokemon go > 500M players scan real-world places while playing > scans turn into 30B geo-tagged images > niantic builds a 3D map of the world > robots and AR apps use it to navigate within centimeters without GPS this is actually insane.

how to (artificially) increase MAUs on Google's admin console step 1: raise prices step 2: blast an email to every customer step 3: don't include the new pricing step 4: watch millions of admins log in to check someone at Google is getting promoted for this long $GOOG

asking Claude to create a prompt for my other Claude

name a better feeling than stepping out the door at SFO and breathing that first lungful of SF air

So basically, companies pay Youtube to show ads and we pay Youtube to not show ads

When the coding is getting exciting 𝘊𝘭𝘢𝘶𝘥𝘦 𝘶𝘴𝘢𝘨𝘦 𝘭𝘪𝘮𝘪𝘵 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘥. 𝘠𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘭𝘪𝘮𝘪𝘵 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘦𝘵 𝘢𝘵...

Maturing is realizing that Tony Stark was a vibe-coder.

I’d like to see the CEO of Intuit file his taxes through TurboTax without screaming at his computer

The Taco Bell in Pacifica, CA

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europeans prepared to respond… on monday

Everyone is talking about the Square layoffs but just a reminder... - Robinhood has 2500 employees (market cap of $70b) - Coinbase has 4500 employees (market cap $50b) Square (market cap $30b) just cut to 6000 employees. I wouldnt say this is all the sudden a symbol of AI transformation and leanness.

Seedance 2.0 Prompt: Show what’s happening in Silicon Valley after the @Citrini7 article. Make no mistakes.

Someone really built this. A VS Code extension that turns your AI agents into pixel art characters working inside a virtual office.

I’m no architect but give the people of X what they want

San Francisco in February