John Dengis
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John Dengis
@jadengis
Software auteur, code luthier, musician and retro gaming enthusiast. I also make videos in my spare time. Building @useunderflow.



why are all ai companies trying to build a claude cowork? bubble?

Yep, Composer 2 started from an open-source base! We will do full pretraining in the future. Only ~1/4 of the compute spent on the final model came from the base, the rest is from our training. This is why evals are very different. And yes, we are following the license through our inference partner terms.



“If your $500K engineer isn’t burning at least $250K in tokens, something is wrong.”

After YC, Airbnb raised $615k at a $3M post-money valuation. We were the highest valuation in our batch.




I realized something else AI has changed about coding: you don't get stuck anymore. Programming used to be punctuated by episodes of extreme frustration, when a tricky bug ground things to a halt. That doesn't happen anymore.


















