Ilya Sukhar

Tuesday is primary day in Illinois! Polls are open from 6am-7pm CT. Get out, vote, and help elect candidates to Congress who will fight for working-class Americans. @KatAbughazaleh @JunaidForUs @drthomasfisher @paulnolley @RobertJPeters @DeliaRamirezIL @CongressJackson

Excited to share that @deeptraceai has raised $5M to identify and fix every alert in production. This round is co-led by @felicis and @matrix, with participation from @ycombinator. As AI generates more of the world’s code, the real leverage shifts to systems that help engineers understand and run it in production. Deeptrace is that reliability layer. Today, teams like @opendoor, @mintlify, and @phantom use Deeptrace to automatically investigate every alert in production and proactively catch issues before they turn into incidents. If you’re looking to automate on-call and use agents to monitor prod, please reach out!

$550M Series D led by @Accel. $5.55B valuation. One year into our U.S. expansion, we’re doubling down: accelerating across America and building AI with the lawyers who use it every day. Grateful to our customers, partners, and team. More: legora.com/blog/series-d

The last car we bought was a @Tesla Model Y. Painless purchase process. No salespeople, no showroom, no upsells, no games, no haggling, no pressure. Just a personal choice on my own time, and a simple few-minute process handled entirely via a clear and straightforward app. The next car we're buying is from another brand. And holy hell, it feels like I'm going back in time. Salespeople, back-and-forth charades, pricing games, "when can you come in?" before the deal is finalized tactics, etc. And I'm still doing it all via email so I don't have to deal with the showroom antics. I've modernized the process as much as I can from my side, and yet it's the same old same old. They don't even feel like the same thing. In one case I'm buying a car with all the baggage that comes with buying a car. In the other case I'm buying a Tesla with none of the baggage of buying a car. This experience could make me lament this other brand, but what it really does is make me appreciate and respect the lengths to which Tesla has fully reconfigured the car buying experience. It's become effortless, like buying any other product. As it should be. A car is just another product. Bravo.

Tomorrow on Cheeky Pint: @glangley from @Flock_Safety joins to talk about their license plate readers, autonomous drones, and how tech is changing the offense/defense balance of crime.

This episode of Cheeky Pint covered a super interesting new domain for me: the technologies that have rapidly become critical for police work in the US. @glangley of @Flock_Safety describes how they are helping clear over one million cases each year, how the balance of power between criminals and police is evolving, why crime spiked during the pandemic, how police departments are using and fighting drones, and much more.