Benedikts

Cursor emailed me saying I'm top 1% of users in Riga over the last 6 months. I stopped using Cursor in November/December. Switched to Claude Code. Shipped enough in ~6 weeks to outrank people using it daily since. This is what a real CTO does.

@ValliVeeti Maybe your demo also could be a YC startup

@benbolsakovs Wait that’s the same font as my demo

Our demo could be a YC startup on its own.

We kinda tried... @adilmania @siliconmania @tryharlow

@vfsenkevich @fdotinc Cracked guy

Participated in the Founders, Inc. cohort last December, always good to be back! Some of the best energy in SF happens in places like this. @fdotinc

First Latvian to get into @join_ef . In Latvia, "funded dropout" isn't really a thing. The expected path runs through university and into a stable job - not through failed companies and second attempts. I've been building things for a while. Competitive coding as a kid, fine-tuning GPT-2 before many knew what that meant, a few companies since. The last one was Lindra - a browser agent that ranked top 3 on WebVoyager. We couldn't crack distribution and shut it down. The Bridge (by @join_ef ) is two months in SF with founders from across Europe. <1.5% acceptance. The people in this room turned down offers from Palantir, left PhD tracks, walked away from the most promising startups in their home countries. Being around that kind of commitment changes what you think is reasonable. I met my co-founder @vfsenkevich here. BJJ world champion, very ambitious, great at sales. Working with him feels like being pulled by a Formula 1 car. We started working before the program officially began. We're building @tryharlow - AI agents for hotels. A $1.5T industry still running on software from the 90s. That shouldn't be happening in 2026.

@RMladek Did you get robbed?

SF evening walks hit different

@ValliVeeti Go to SF

@the_bochok is flying to sf for EF so feeling real sf fomo right now, you guys are not helping

@ValliVeeti Interesting thought

This is what seems to be the shared trait among very successful founders: absolutely zero sunk cost fallacy Anyways, probably still cooking

@ValliVeeti To seem important. And then that VC will lowball you like crazy

I like seeing VCs posturing in Linkedin about how Cursors revenue scaling changes the game for the founders in their portfolio when in reality nobody has a Cursor in their portfolio, especially not the VCs posting these takes. What's the purpose of these posts?

Cool thing: My AI Threat Level: 3.4/10 — "You aren't 'integrating the unintegratable'—you're just the unpaid intern cleaning up the web's UI so a real AI can eventually eat it." Check yours: candidate.perfectly.so/roast/result/n…

@ValliVeeti @_philschmid Don't ask stuff like that, it is cool tech

@_philschmid What's the use case?

18,000 tokens/sec even for Llama 3.1 8B is ridiculous. Even a "dumb" model as llama 3.1 would be incredibly useful at this speed. It works by merging storage and compute, permanently etching the model parameters directly into the physical transistors of the chip. Demo link below.

@ValliVeeti You should be put on a European wall of shame for such tweets. Go pay taxes on the money you didn't make

Yes

One of those nights when I need to be sleeping, but my body wants to ship stuff instead

Worked my entire flight. It's amazing when an airline has starlink.

One quote about building startups that really stuck with me: "Nobody told you it will be easy"

Working alone in the office at 9 pm on a Saturday so my future kids can also work alone in an office at 9 pm on a Saturday. The dream is real.

Somewhat decent day of work, but felt like quite some more tokens should have passed through (probably due to coding with Sonnet)

@tadasgedgaudas What's the app?

You'll be able to see globally fastest growing apps, quickly spin up copies and win way before the app reaches it's true potential :) This database is going to be something else guys. You'll only need to vibe code ideas: this app marketing: topyappers.com vibe coding: Cursor