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@alexrkonrad thx for hanging with us on tuesday! sounds like the longest day ever

-2 stories published ☑️ -2 events keynoted ☑️ -1 dinner for 20 founders hosted ☑️ -25 meetings taken ☑️ ... and now it's time to really lock in for the week 🫡

@LaurenGoode this is so wildly good that i'm breaking my streak of not posting to x in 2+ years to tell you how good it is! bravo 👏

So a little while ago I decided that in order to really report on vibe coding—and how it’s changing engineering—I’d need to get inside a tech team. So I asked my editors if I could go work for a tech startup, Notion (for some reason) agreed to let a journalist embed with them, and, well, vibes ensued

We asked @guygr (Co-Founder @augmentcode) about the limitations of AI in making design and architecture decisions. "All the decisions you make around how the code is structured still require close supervision. It's high stakes because if you let it go autonomously for long enough, it can really slow your project down." "Once you get to low tens of thousands of lines, the bad decisions made around the design and architecture start to show up and development slows down."

@MaxLobovsky @EclipseVentures comes to mind

Who is the most successful VC in hardware companies? Someone who invested in many companies with multiple wins? Success = company that got to significant revenue, gross profit, and still exists in some form today.

@Suhail guys, have we ruled out the possibility that Soham is actually… an AI agent

PSA: there’s a guy named Soham Parekh (in India) who works at 3-4 startups at the same time. He’s been preying on YC companies and more. Beware. I fired this guy in his first week and told him to stop lying / scamming people. He hasn’t stopped a year later. No more excuses.

Reminder: It’s STILL the assessment of the US intel community that Iran had NOT decided to produce a nuclear weapon. This attack was a result of Israel sabotaging US diplomacy and Trump failing to assert strength and stand up to Netanyahu. Definitely NOT America First

Trump is lying: There was no groundswell of support in America for overturning Roe. In fact, support for Roe is higher today in America than it has ever been. The real truth is Trump made a political deal in 2016. He promised to appoint a Court that would get rid of Roe, so he did.

@dwarkesh_sp @SecPerkinsStan you should talk to @bcantrill from @oxidecomputer - just launched their rack scale system in Q4. more here: oxide.computer/blog/the-cloud…

@SecPerkinsStan Yup definitely.

Trying to learn more about AI hardware manufacturing & design. If you are either a: - Process engineer at a leading edge chip maker - AI chip designer at Nvidia, AMD, Qualcomm, Google, Apple, etc I would love to chat with you. DM me!

tip @Techmeme

This graphic has been on my mind this week

@readDanwrite i’ve had to do this in the US, but pre pandemic when we knew each other from the office

friend of mine works for a European tech startup and they have a company offsite next month in a cool European city -- and they're having employees share hotel rooms. these employees have never yet met IRL, company is fully remote. what does Twitter think about this?

@jswartz Gov Abbott took office in 2015. Look at that graph again.

@colinraney @da5ide a spoiler alert would have been nice, colin

I read this as “mozzarella and cream cheese”, and it’s had me fucked up since last night. (Word is burrata)

@jjvincent i asked a kid for a light recently and he looked me up and down and said, ugh no i’m digital, referring to his vape

GIVEAWAY: TWO (2) #SXSW 2023 MUSIC WRISTBANDS ($298 VALUE) How do you win? 1) RT this 2) Follow @partywithdirty on Twitter That’s it. Winner (one winner gets both wristbands) announced 7pm Sunday 2/19. Go!

@iamsternlicht how about a start up pr agency tell all. asking for a friend 🤫

Harry's memoir seems cool and stuff, but I'm waiting for the Big Tech VP of Comms tell-all 🙃

@Bernstein love this story so much. you should check out a @frankturner gig sometime - truly attracts punks of ALL ages all over the world

10/ This story has given me a major new appreciation for Bob Seger. That dude fucking pumps

1/ Last month I had “date night” with my wife. We were resolved to stay out until at least 930. We went to one of Ann Arbor’s best credentialed bars. After 1.5 clever cocktails and some well-considered merguez sliders, we were exhausted. I called a cab.

Should I step down as head of Twitter? I will abide by the results of this poll.

@DannyGroner The best leap I’ve made in my career was to return to agency life after a stint in house. It’s a bidirectional path but too few people see the opportunity and fetishize in house work as the holy grail.