Ananth

@GabriellaHach @Dessn_ai @pietrobezza @betaworks @eminimnim This is EPIC 🔥🔥🔥

So excited to share that @Dessn_ai has raised $6m, led @pietrobezza , with participation from @betaworks , N49P, and a few other amazing partners and angels. @eminimnim and I started the company 2 years ago with one conviction: the future of product development wouldn’t happen in disconnected mockups or recreated environments. It would happen directly in production. Today, Dessn is the only product that enables an entire team to design and prototype directly in prod — visually, collaboratively, and in one click.

chappy… was this inspired by clicky?

step 1: say no one needs designers step 2: get free design work as they prove you wrong :)

Twitter’s algorithm is optimized for addiction, not for us. We deserve better. We’re releasing Bouncer today so you can take back control of your feed. Describe what you don't want, and Bouncer removes it. It’s free, doesn’t collect your data, and will be open source soon.

Big news for NY startups! QSBS is here to stay. From @politico: the idea now “seems to be moot” following strong, coordinated engagement from across the tech community—including a @TechNYC letter with 1,600+ founders, early employees, and investors. This is a clear example of what’s possible when the ecosystem shows up together. We’re grateful to everyone who spoke out and helped ensure policymakers understood what was at stake. New York remains the best place to build. 🗽

my grandfather was the sharpest man I knew he taught as a professor until he passed spent his days teaching, reading, writing, and engaging with students that is the clearest path to a youthful mind and healthy life never retire, find your passion

‘winning’ is so temporary for these model providers… the only real winners are the users who can arbitrarily switch to the best model in a second there is *zero* customer loyalty to either company, purely transactional, and almost no lock in peculiar market for the providers

.@autumn_ai_inc is building the first real-time signal intelligence platform for GTM teams. Define your ICP and the signals that matter, and Autumn delivers a condensed, real-time feed filtered by intents. Congrats on the launch @VishnuSampathk1 and @shiv_kampani! ycombinator.com/launches/PNL-a…

@stevesi “The number of processes and experiences in work and life that are not yet fundamentally improved by software is far greater than the number that have been improved by software.” 💯

Origin (@origin_bio) is using AI to make safer cell & gene therapies for diseases like cancer. Their model designs DNA switches & dials to program precise gene expression patterns in disease cells. Congrats on the launch @YashRathod_75 and @malhar317! ycombinator.com/launches/PMG-o…

A few random notes from claude coding quite a bit last few weeks. Coding workflow. Given the latest lift in LLM coding capability, like many others I rapidly went from about 80% manual+autocomplete coding and 20% agents in November to 80% agent coding and 20% edits+touchups in December. i.e. I really am mostly programming in English now, a bit sheepishly telling the LLM what code to write... in words. It hurts the ego a bit but the power to operate over software in large "code actions" is just too net useful, especially once you adapt to it, configure it, learn to use it, and wrap your head around what it can and cannot do. This is easily the biggest change to my basic coding workflow in ~2 decades of programming and it happened over the course of a few weeks. I'd expect something similar to be happening to well into double digit percent of engineers out there, while the awareness of it in the general population feels well into low single digit percent. IDEs/agent swarms/fallability. Both the "no need for IDE anymore" hype and the "agent swarm" hype is imo too much for right now. The models definitely still make mistakes and if you have any code you actually care about I would watch them like a hawk, in a nice large IDE on the side. The mistakes have changed a lot - they are not simple syntax errors anymore, they are subtle conceptual errors that a slightly sloppy, hasty junior dev might do. The most common category is that the models make wrong assumptions on your behalf and just run along with them without checking. They also don't manage their confusion, they don't seek clarifications, they don't surface inconsistencies, they don't present tradeoffs, they don't push back when they should, and they are still a little too sycophantic. Things get better in plan mode, but there is some need for a lightweight inline plan mode. They also really like to overcomplicate code and APIs, they bloat abstractions, they don't clean up dead code after themselves, etc. They will implement an inefficient, bloated, brittle construction over 1000 lines of code and it's up to you to be like "umm couldn't you just do this instead?" and they will be like "of course!" and immediately cut it down to 100 lines. They still sometimes change/remove comments and code they don't like or don't sufficiently understand as side effects, even if it is orthogonal to the task at hand. All of this happens despite a few simple attempts to fix it via instructions in CLAUDE . md. Despite all these issues, it is still a net huge improvement and it's very difficult to imagine going back to manual coding. TLDR everyone has their developing flow, my current is a small few CC sessions on the left in ghostty windows/tabs and an IDE on the right for viewing the code + manual edits. Tenacity. It's so interesting to watch an agent relentlessly work at something. They never get tired, they never get demoralized, they just keep going and trying things where a person would have given up long ago to fight another day. It's a "feel the AGI" moment to watch it struggle with something for a long time just to come out victorious 30 minutes later. You realize that stamina is a core bottleneck to work and that with LLMs in hand it has been dramatically increased. Speedups. It's not clear how to measure the "speedup" of LLM assistance. Certainly I feel net way faster at what I was going to do, but the main effect is that I do a lot more than I was going to do because 1) I can code up all kinds of things that just wouldn't have been worth coding before and 2) I can approach code that I couldn't work on before because of knowledge/skill issue. So certainly it's speedup, but it's possibly a lot more an expansion. Leverage. LLMs are exceptionally good at looping until they meet specific goals and this is where most of the "feel the AGI" magic is to be found. Don't tell it what to do, give it success criteria and watch it go. Get it to write tests first and then pass them. Put it in the loop with a browser MCP. Write the naive algorithm that is very likely correct first, then ask it to optimize it while preserving correctness. Change your approach from imperative to declarative to get the agents looping longer and gain leverage. Fun. I didn't anticipate that with agents programming feels *more* fun because a lot of the fill in the blanks drudgery is removed and what remains is the creative part. I also feel less blocked/stuck (which is not fun) and I experience a lot more courage because there's almost always a way to work hand in hand with it to make some positive progress. I have seen the opposite sentiment from other people too; LLM coding will split up engineers based on those who primarily liked coding and those who primarily liked building. Atrophy. I've already noticed that I am slowly starting to atrophy my ability to write code manually. Generation (writing code) and discrimination (reading code) are different capabilities in the brain. Largely due to all the little mostly syntactic details involved in programming, you can review code just fine even if you struggle to write it. Slopacolypse. I am bracing for 2026 as the year of the slopacolypse across all of github, substack, arxiv, X/instagram, and generally all digital media. We're also going to see a lot more AI hype productivity theater (is that even possible?), on the side of actual, real improvements. Questions. A few of the questions on my mind: - What happens to the "10X engineer" - the ratio of productivity between the mean and the max engineer? It's quite possible that this grows *a lot*. - Armed with LLMs, do generalists increasingly outperform specialists? LLMs are a lot better at fill in the blanks (the micro) than grand strategy (the macro). - What does LLM coding feel like in the future? Is it like playing StarCraft? Playing Factorio? Playing music? - How much of society is bottlenecked by digital knowledge work? TLDR Where does this leave us? LLM agent capabilities (Claude & Codex especially) have crossed some kind of threshold of coherence around December 2025 and caused a phase shift in software engineering and closely related. The intelligence part suddenly feels quite a bit ahead of all the rest of it - integrations (tools, knowledge), the necessity for new organizational workflows, processes, diffusion more generally. 2026 is going to be a high energy year as the industry metabolizes the new capability.

this mostly just signals they like you enough to text and if they like you they will want to work with you over the 5000 other vendors selling your exact solution

it doesn’t mean, blow up someone’s phone… it’s that you need to have such a personal relationship with the check writer that you are texting back and forth very casually and almost like friends about how to get it done

never believed them, but it’s so true massive enterprise contracts only get done over text but what exactly does that mean…? ⬇️

Even better if product, customer facing roles is ur jam

If you are a truly cracked Claude code user aka better at Claude code than traditional dev engineering we are hiring - dm me for AI roles in NYC 🚀🗽

Honcho has fully determined the Pareto Frontier in Agent Memory. It’s state-of-the-art on LoCoMo, LongMem, and BEAM. Honcho is also the fastest, cheapest and most token efficient memory solution.

@dev1yer @SarahAllali7 My two goats 🐐 Dev, Sarah is Betaworks family

@SarahAllali7 @ananth_7b oh snap cool that you both know each other!

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