Mike Pollard

PodSnacks is probably my favorite daily email. News from everything I’m interested in all in one place.

Come hang out with @samhogan and I. These dinners are always a great time.

@NicoCosmic @Anubhavhing Exactly, there are much better alternatives where you have more control

@Anubhavhing This doesn’t evade Cloudflare’s bot management or waf rules. It’s a transparent ethical crawler. A simple robots.txt can block this.

Crawling an entire website used to take: A Python script. Playwright or Selenium. Proxy rotation. Rate limiting logic. Error handling. 3 hours of debugging why page 47 returned a 403. Now it's one API call. Every web scraping startup that raised millions to solve this problem just became a single endpoint. Every freelancer charging $500 to "extract website data" just lost their entire business model to a /crawl command. HTML. Markdown. JSON. Pick your format. No scripts. No browser. No headache. The entire web scraping industry just got reduced to one line of code. Someone is going to use this to clone every competitor's website by Friday. 💀

@Anubhavhing Well this was already a thing with firecrawl and nothing huge happened so I don’t imagine this would be much different. Cloudflares also self identifies as a bot so can get blocked more easily. Schematron-3b is the best model for extracting good page data for the cost.

Day Zero fine-tuning & hosting support for Nemotron 3 Super by @nvidia is now live Fine-tune on real production traces & deploy on high-performance infrastructure optimized for Nemotron 3 Super Your data, your weights, your performance edge Learn more: inference.net/blog/nemotron-…

Going to open source our own internal version of this soon. It’s called Gator and it rocks

What if a codebase was actually stored in Postgres and agents directly modified files by reading/writing to the DB? Code velocity has increased 3-5x. This will undoubtedly continue. PR review has already become a bottleneck for high output teams. Codebase checked-out on filesystem seems like a terrible primitive when you have 10-100-1000 agents writing code. Code is now high velocity data and should be modeled at such. Bare minimum, we need write-level atomicity and better coordination across agents, better synchronization primitives for subscribing to codebase state changes and real-time time file-level code lint/fmt/review. The current ~20 year old paradigm of git checkout/branch/push/pr/review/rebase ended Jan 2026. We need an entirely new foundational system for writing code if we’re really going to keep pace with scale laws.

@solofounders It’s literally in the name, solo founder. Most decided to do this solo without the headache of hiring and partners.

Solo founders have double the equity to recruit with but almost none of them are using it. We suspect this will shift as solo founders understand this gives them a hiring advantage.

Introducing our new Schematron benchmark. We took some time to compare all of the latest open source models to see which one takes the crown. The benchmark essentially measures the ability of LLMs to take raw HTML along with a JSON schema, and then fill out that schema. We measure things like recall/precision, hallucinations, and ability to handle ambiguity. The benchmarks are graded with an ensemble of frontier models on a 5 point rubric. We can see that GLM 5 is the best open source model currently for schema extraction. Surprisingly, GPT-OSS 120B does very well at these type of extraction tasks as well. Another interesting result is we noticed degradation of quality using Qwen3.5 Plus on this task versus the original Qwen3.5 397B MOE. The inputs can be up to 120K tokens, so this is akin to a long context benchmark, with an additional reasoning layer. We will be open sourcing this benchmark if it gains sufficient traction. Also, more benchmarks coming from our side!

@milesdeutscher if your'e doing this instead of renting VPS's you're cooked

bro You literally CANT be lazy right now This is your competition HUNDREDS of AI agents working autonomously at once (thousands in revenue btw) Lock tf in

@michael_chomsky 3.5 hour gym sesh is crazy

So sorry to anyone I’m leaving on unread. I’ll get to everyone eventually. My schedule looks like this for the time being. Focusing on providing a world-class experience to existing customers. This OpenClaw thing is insane and demand is almost more than I can handle (but I’ll handle it. hiring a security/IT expert) (for legal reasons had to cover specific names and links)

Vibe coding is the new product management. Training and tuning models is the new coding.

@samhogan @inference_net Lfg, stoked to join the team!

We're welcoming @mikepollard_dev to @inference_net as our Founding DevRel Engineer! Mike and I won a pitch competition for my first company nearly 7 years ago Life is long. When you find someone you love to work with, keep them close. You never know when your paths may cross

@samhogan @AmarSVS @atbeme @inference_net Congrats @AmarSVS!

Today I’m incredibly excited to announce that @AmarSVS has joined me and @atbeme as a co-founder of @inference_net Anyone who has worked with Amar knows he is a N=1 type of guy. His energy, raw horsepower, and dedication have allowed us to unlock exciting new opportunities and inspired the whole team. I look forward to many more years of partnership, ping pong, and late nights in the office.

@netflix Great, can’t wait for every movie to feel like it was co-written by a brand safety team. Shows will become even more corporate slop and artistry in cinema will die for fear of less profit.

Today, Netflix announced our acquisition of Warner Bros. Together, we’ll define the next century of storytelling, creating an extraordinary entertainment offering for audiences everywhere. about.netflix.com/en/news/netfli…

@trashh_dev maybe let it make 2-3 mistakes to add personality

claude clone their repo and make a competitor. no mistakes.

Even if you could have made more money as an employee, you'd always be wondering what if and feel ashamed that you never took action. Also, while its harder to be an entrepreneur, you are free to do do what you want. Work from Vietnam to keep burn low, take days off, choose who you work with, etc. That power alone makes it worth it to me.

90% of "entrepreneur types" will look back when they are 40 and realize they would have been much better off simply having a job. Sad but true.

@creatine_cycle "We turn frictionless interoperability into exponential value through dynamic cognitive optimization with federated autonomous workflows"

why is it that when i get to the end of every modern-day startup launch/round announcement video i still have no idea what their product does?

@chinesegon Easier access to the peptides?

this is the greatest opportunity of your life time if you’re chinese btw