Dan O'Keefe

@howard The only thing that would get me to move is if this relationship remains inverted.

wow it is hotter in nyc than miami by a lot

Last week of our legislative session. At the capitol today briefing some of our friends in the legislature about our economic strategy.

@nxthompson It is truly staggering. Claude Opus 4.6 was the clarion call moment. That was the moment I saw it move from adjacent to replacement of what we have traditionally called work. Implications for not only the future of work, but the future of fiscal policy.

These stats on Anthropic’s rate of growth are wild. theatlantic.com/economy/2026/0…

The national debt just exceeded 100% of GDP for the first time since 1946: wsj.com/economy/u-s-de…

I’ve wondered aloud whether the era of great leadership is behind us. Whether in a world of always-on discourse and exhaustive histrionics the truly great contemplative leaders could still emerge. @bensasse is the leader we did not deserve. Please watch this.

Kevin Warsh just said in his confirmation hearing that most economists started as a math or physics major but realized it was too hard. Ummmmmmm guilty. youtube.com/watch?v=mKAnk2… youtube.com/watch?v=mKAnk2…

Groton, Conn., suffered after Cold War military spending dried up 30 years ago. It’s being asked to deliver again. on.wsj.com/4cWWTnd

This is the future. Well done @Benioff

The global split we are seeing at OpenClaw is wild: In America, installing OpenClaw on your work computer gets you fired. In China, not installing OpenClaw gets you fired. Two completely different theories of the next decade.

The CEO of Y Combinator just open-sourced his entire AI development setup. And it is already at 72,600 stars on GitHub. Garry Tan runs Y Combinator. He has worked with Coinbase, Instacart, and Rippling when they were two people in a garage. Before that he was one of the first engineers at Palantir. He has seen more startups build product than almost anyone alive. He is now shipping 10,000 to 20,000 lines of production code per day. Part-time. While running YC full-time. In the last 60 days alone: 600,000 lines of production code. 35% of it tests. That number is not a typo. Here is exactly how he does it. He built a system called gstack — 23 AI tools that turn Claude Code into a full engineering team. He open-sourced the entire thing. Free. MIT license. One command to install. And then he posted the quote that explains why he built it: "I don't think I've typed like a line of code probably since December, basically, which is an extremely large change." — Andrej Karpathy, March 2026. When Tan heard that, he wanted to find out how. The result is gstack. Here is what the 23 tools actually do. There is a CEO tool that challenges your product framing before you write a line of code. It does not just approve your idea. It finds the 10-star product hiding inside what you described and pushes back on everything you got wrong. There is an engineering manager that locks architecture, draws ASCII diagrams of data flow, and forces hidden assumptions into the open before anything gets built. There is a designer that rates every design decision on a 0 to 10 scale, explains what a 10 looks like, and edits the plan until it gets there. It also has AI slop detection. It catches the generic AI output that looks fine and ships badly. There is a QA lead that opens a real browser, clicks through your actual app, finds bugs, writes regression tests, and verifies the fix. Not a simulation. A real browser. There is a security officer that runs OWASP Top 10 and STRIDE threat modeling with 17 false positive exclusions built in, so you only see findings that actually matter. There is a release engineer that syncs main, runs tests, audits coverage, pushes, and opens the PR. One command from approved to shipped. And then there is something Tan says was the biggest unlock of all. You can run 10 to 15 of these sprints in parallel. Each one in its own isolated workspace. One agent challenging a product idea. One implementing a feature. One doing QA on staging. Six more on separate branches. All at the same time. Tan's GitHub contribution graph for 2026 is a vertical wall. In 2013, building Bookface at YC from scratch, he made 772 contributions in a year. In 2026, he is at 1,237 — and still climbing. Same person. Different era. The difference is the tooling. One more thing. In the README, Tan quotes the number directly: 140,751 lines added. 362 commits. 115,000 net lines of code. In one week. Part-time. That is not what a solo developer looks like. That is what a team looks like. Except it is one person with 23 AI specialists and a GitHub repo you can clone right now for free. github.com/garrytan/gstack

There's never been an investment like the investment in railroads. (This graph has a log scale!)

🚨: New video shows Navy divers welcoming the Artemis II crew back home after splashdown

This is a remarkable chart about the future of computer science degrees. washingtonpost.com/technology/202…

@howard Early in my career, my bias was always to yes. Yes to a meeting, yes to a flight, yes to every friend who asked if I could do whatever. Then I ran out of time. Every yes became a tradeoff decision. No my bias is to no, and I am just direct about it. Allows the yes to matter.

i have reached the point in my life where everything feels like an indulgence that steals from another indulgence: -workout, I am not reading -reading, I am not working -do high level work planning, I am not Claude coding -Claude coding, I am ignoring my family -Travel with Family, I am not inventing the future -Inventing the future, it’s just a broad conceptual indulgence, must do the sweat work in the details of sales -Sales, I am not improving the product -A moment of quiet reflection, upon which I had this thought, I must open X to write it out And so on. I just enjoy it all so much. It’s impossible to choose what to do, but i’m going to just do it all.

"So You Want to be a VC" Im enjoying this week in Boston visiting students promoting my new book - Runnin Down a Dream. Not surprisingly, many ask me about trying to break into venture capital. I wrote a letter answering this question 15 years ago. I would send it out when people inquired. I'm making it public for the first time - with zero modifications. 1) I think it holds up well 2) make sure and read my new book also 3) I probably can't help with followups (as suggested in the letter) Hope you find it useful. Good luck!

Running a company: 2020: can you survive a pandemic? 2021: still here? we’re going to give all of your competitors $100m series A rounds. 2022: wow, you made it? okay, all engineers cost $600,000/year now. 2023: nice job! okay, SVB failed and we’re going to take away your bank account. 2024: a survivor I see. but can you pivot from ai to crypto to defense tech back to ai-enabled defense tech in a 12 month period to stay relevant? 2025: unfortunately all of your competitors have raised $2b series B rounds. oh and only 500 engineers are relevant and they cost $100m/yr each. 2026: well, well, well. you’re still in business? let’s deploy the thunderclap of godlike LLMs from the heavens so all of your customers can rebuild your app in 2 hours. can you survive?

Since then, 𝘄𝗲 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗮𝗱𝗱𝗲𝗱 𝗮𝗹𝗺𝗼𝘀𝘁 $𝟭𝟬𝟬𝗕 𝘁𝗼 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗺𝘆. Connecticut is back. I wrote about the detail at dokeefect.com. (2/2) dokeefect.com

BEA released 2025 numbers and CT was the 12th fastest growing economy in the country. In the 10 years post the global financial crisis, our economy 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗲𝗱 on an inflation adjusted basis. (1/2) dokeefect.com

$9->$30B. Truly unprecedented growth at that scale.

I would like to formally complain that I was misquoted in this article. Anyone who knows me knows I didn't say we just want to get "stuff" done. (kidding - thank you to the HBJ for bracketing the word "stuff", and now I'm gonna get back to getting shit d hartfordbusiness.com/article/okeefe…