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One piece of advice we got during YC was to explain our company using verbs instead of nouns. Early on, I walked into a meeting and did the opposite: “We’re building a cloud platform for AI” No one knew that that meant, their eyes glazed over. Then I started saying this instead: “We containerize your code and run it on GPUs in the cloud so you don’t have to manage the infra yourself” That clicked way more. Our brains understand verbs because they’re more concrete. If you describe your company using nouns, you risk people not understanding you. And no one buys or invests in things they don’t understand.

added some really nice real-time metrics to our dashboard, thanks to @s2_streamstore previously, we kept everything in elasticsearch which was also a lot harder to setup for new data streams the stream is such a nice DX primitive - instead of adding elastic indices/queries for every part of our backend, we just emit streams instead it's so elegant

@trillhause_ which provider?

@mernit Yes, completely changes how the token streaming feels.

Inference providers can make such a huge difference in how the product feels. It's insane how much power a vendor can have on a product's quality.

@InfiniteReign08 lmfao

@mernit Wild reading these comments while this is literally on my screen right now... 😂🤣

texting my gf like fable 5

@luisgonzaleznf 😂

@mernit Let me verify rather than making assumptions

@LunarKing_X 😊

@mernit I actually laughed quite a bit more than I should of

@cprisongs ok sherlock holmes

@mernit not a real screenshot, this is not how SF Pro looks in iOS, spacing too large on messages and too tight on date

@meekaale that's really smart, and honestly - it's the right choice.

@mernit I'm about to smoke test one more banana before I commit to a final response.

@albert_ @ryvnai let's goooo

don’t let customers self-host they’ll end up on dozens of different versions with @ryvnai, you control updates blueprints let you define your stack once blueprint diffs help you scale to 100s of customer deployments and clearly see what changes across them with each deploy

this workflow is beam.cloud btw

What is the easiest way to deploy a Dockerfile on a GPU right now? Ideally with: - GPU snapshots - Scale-to-zero - OpenAI compatible endpoint I want to drop in a Dockerfile, get an API, and only pay when my code is running

@DopeDaditude doesn't support checkpoint restore

@mernit Runpod.io

@jjacky looking for this

who's making a better screen studio?

@nextgenacela you're doing god's work

Slopped another thing, this one tries to make it easier to meet up with friends on the same train. Watched a video where people were able to coordinate getting on the same train to Coney Island in 1986 and figured, we should be able to have something easier than "hey, get to the station in like 30 minutes? I think you should probably make it onto my train." This assigns an ID to each departure on each line, making it easier to ensure that you're getting on the same train as each other, which is nice for those long boring trips down to the beach where you might want to yap with someone along the way. Try it at sync.sneed.ing

“Hey Codex, spin up a Redis” Introducing Beam DB. One-click Redis or Postgres. Agent-ready. Serverless. Give your agents persistence 💾

@matt_slotnick happy to be part of the TAM for this tweet

“f**king SRAM” is alive and well in 2026

People are using the same prompts on the same models to apply for jobs I literally have 500 emails in my inbox with the same exact structure, the only differences are the names on top of the CVs The saddest thing is that I don’t think most people even realize how obvious it is

@Karmedge very cool

On Friday evening I decided to learn piano So I one shotted a personal app in one hour with codex. It connected to my keys and taught me. It worked.

@hudzah you didn’t answer my question

@mernit truthfully i haven’t tried cursor in a long time now

i used to be a devin hater but man it’s one of the best new products we’ve started using, so refreshing because it actually ships and tests and no haggling with connectors for teammates. codex and claude code Bros are missing out. albeit, 2 OOMs more expensive than subsidized oai/ant subscriptions