Albert Lam

BYOC - what does it mean to you?

cli is dead and so is mcp we’re basically having LLMs simulate a chain of function calls, storing the call signatures and output at every step in context such as waste LLMs should not act as “computers” they should purely write and execute code instead, like people give it 6 months

slack channels be like

we’re already seeing way more cos needing to go on-prem / byoc when the time to go from vulnerability to exploit approaches zero, you’re left with either completely automating patches or tightening your security perimeter

Customers need to love your product If your customers aren't praising you to the skies, something is wrong

under $1,000 and half a day of compute to turn a patched kernel CVE into a working privilege escalation that was one of the easier ones apparently

vendor I know sells to a big healthcare company. their CISO sent them the anthropic mythos blog with zero context. just the link

Move fast and bring your own cloud

Ever met someone who regretted YC? Me neither Just apply

@thdxr new systems are easier to learn and integrate imperatively but once integrated it's hard to translate back down to terraform

idk how people manage infrastructure anymore every service has their own bespoke cli / config file and they don't support terraform well anymore your system is never just one provider so do people just have a mess of these smashed together?

@AlesyaMacWaters if the work is fun then the vacation can feel like “the work”

wife of a yc founder - vacation edition: 7am - babe wtf pls take your calls in another room 9am - coffee 🫶 11am - babe we’re literally in hawaii pls finish 1p - babe I’m literally going to kill you, get off your computer 3p - yay beautiful hike 5p - get off x we need quality time is vacation just them working in a different location?!

If you apply to YC you need to have a backup plan Us: "We have an edtech idea" YC: "We’ve seen this before and it never works. Do you have any other ideas?" Our backup idea was to make Bring Your Own Cloud painless That backup idea became Ryvn and we got accepted

@kiwicopple @supabase Excellent work man. Keep shipping.

the @supabase repo just hit 100K stars on github github stars are a vanity metric, but i love open source so it's something that matters to me thank you to all the contributors, maintainers, and partners. we didn't do it alone - we're standing on the shoulders of elephants

@larsencc Why didn't I think of this.

"What the fuck is running on port 3000?" Built a simple and clean CLI that answers this instantly. > "ports" shows every dev server on your machine > "ports clean" kills the orphaned ports > "ports watch" monitors in real-time Try it out ↓

@willahmed Most posts like this please! Super awesome job.

You have no experience. You’ve never started a company. You’ve never had a full time job. Nike is going to kill you. You’re a kid. You don’t have technical skills. You shouldn’t build hardware. Apple is going to kill you. You can’t build hardware. You can’t measure heart rate non-invasively. Athletes don’t care about recovery. Under Armour is going to kill you. It won’t be accurate. You don’t listen. You’re an ineffective leader. You can’t recruit great talent. You’re going to have to pay every athlete. You can’t measure sleep non-invasively. It’s too expensive to research. Athletes are a small market. The product costs too much to make. The product costs too much to sell. Your valuation is too high. Consumers aren’t going to want it. Hardware is too hard. You should measure steps. Fitbit is going to kill you. You can’t build a marketing engine. You can’t raise enough money. You need a real CEO. Google is going to kill you. You can’t be a subscription. You can’t build a brand. You can’t do consumer in Boston. Your valuation is too high. You shouldn’t make accessories. You shouldn’t make apparel. Lululemon is going to kill you. You can’t predict Covid. Stay in your niche. You are going to run out of money. You can’t build a health platform. Amazon is going to kill you. You can’t measure blood pressure. You can’t get medical approvals. The market is too small. You don’t understand AI. The market is too competitive. It won’t work internationally. The supply chain is too complicated. You can’t build an AI. You can’t raise enough money. It’s too competitive. Healthcare isn’t going to want it. … Just keep going ✌️

@jefielding Building a "boring" product that no-one wants to hear about at parties is a great moat.

Right now, VCs care about one thing only…defensibility / moats so don’t bother pitching anything else. Like throw away the entire deck and just have one slide on that.

@dexhorthy @badlogicgames Saving this to watch later! Thanks.

if you care about coding agents and tasteful software def go watch this talk by @badlogicgames it’s very good youtu.be/Dli5slNaJu0?si…

@michael_chomsky body like @mintlify, face like @tryordinal

@albert_ elaborate

mintlify: define docs as code autumn: define pricing as code openclaw: define assistant as code pulumi: define cloud as (typesafe) code in 2026, if your product can't be defined as code, I will strongly hesitate to use it. what are some other products that would be 10x better if defined as code?