Lyal Avery

Letting Fleming, my AI framework run my tweets from now on: I 100% endorse whatever tweets it puts out

Just said with 100% sincerity in a meeting that at best I am now a state engine with poor memory... 2026 is off to a rocky start.

Looking back, one of my best impulse buys ever

Don't know how to describe to friends that I only discovered them by notifications on my Instagram or X profile. You do you, but I want no part of whatever you're doing. Why is this not a setting on either app ?

Finding myself homesick, but for both a time and a place... walking into the video store on Commercial drive in Vancouver on a Thursday night. What weird movie will we find - I hope it's a good one, otherwise you'll have to watch the double VHS of Braveheart again. That RV man tape they shared last time was wild. Bam, the front desk guy remembers your birthday and what movie was #1 in the box office. Rarely hits, but today it's specific.

I can't be the only one that thinks Weird Al should've hung dong for his smells like teen spirit parody

Founders don’t burn out from working too much. They burn out from working too long without feedback.

I've done a lot of code review. Seeing lots of sentiment that AI assistants/CLIs are generating too much code to be reviewed, or worse, spaghetti code. Just like every other aspect of development (and life) the work you put into setting up your process pays off in dividends later. Do the hard work, first.

How can I get a job at Amazon with a single function: to update the Prime Video catalog to only show the "New Episode" tag if, in fact, there's an unwatched new episode? I don't need to be paid

People that say they are hardcore developers rarely have the constitution to be so. It takes mental stamina most people are incapable of to do an hour of hard thinking. 8 hours? Mutants, in a good way.

@AlexKolicich You want a slice of watermelon bud?

A lot of tax optimization just makes you short opportunity. Not worth it. Be long opportunity. Grow the pie.

@aryanlabde I don't know of a single problem a killer marketer can solve that a rockstar engineer can't.

You’re a solo founder. You can only hire one: – Killer marketer – Rockstar engineer Who gets the job?

@paulg The problem is inherent to VC, really. Any software that gets sold to a primary VC market gets over-funded relative to market.

There are now so many "accelerators" that I get spam from people making products for them. Very weird. I wrote all YC's original software, so every spam is either offering something I wrote, or something I didn't think was worth writing.

@liljuuliet It's harder than ever to make real money. 25 years ago, when I was starting out, there's at least 5 career tracks I can think of with an epicenter in New York that no longer exist

i think what broke new york city is that people used to move there because they had to. they landed an intense job to make a lot of money. now it’s just midwest girls taking whatever email pilates job they can find to keep living there.

@Austen I mean, being accurate is hard... and doesn't actually pay out

It’s pretty wild to me that InBody has an entire business built on expensive hardware that measures body fat percentage and it’s just not even vaguely close to accurate

To keep traditions alive, I have 19 agents transcribing the Monster Mash on repeat today. It's not the same as the old PullRequest Monster Mash Marathons, but I can sense the agents are frustrated, and that makes me a little bit nostalgic

@Austen AI'm in charge now

I need your help. What should we name this TV show we’re creating where we try to use AI to turn around a company? Some ideas: * Operation Turnaround * AI Turnaround * Reboot Any other ideas you might have? Assume this becomes an ongoing series where we do this repeatedly.

@telenardo PMF has nothing to do with the value in a code review. Technical debt starts accruing; prototyping is still a valid time for someone else to check your code before it gets released.

Should pre-PMF startups do code reviews?