Evan Mays

Evan, Parker, and David are building a backend and database that is entirely LLM-powered. “Who needs Postgres?” 1KB of storage!

A lot of folks talk about "escaping the permanent underclass". If AGI pans out, the future class divide won't be based on wealth, but on cognitive agency. There will be a "focus class" (those who control their attention and actually do things) and a "slop class" (those whose reward loops are fully RL-managed by AI)

friend is in the stage of claude psychosis where he asks claude to send him newspapers about what claude is doing for him

Came to sf for spring break, and we ended up winning the YC × Deepmind hackathon! So excited to continue building :)

Introducing Fort, a wearable that automatically tracks strength training. Strength training is one of the best things you can do for your health and longevity. It deserves better tools.

GPT-5.4 is a big step up in computer use and economically valuable tasks (e.g., GDPval). We see no wall, and expect AI capabilities to continue to increase dramatically this year.

Sam Altman told employees in an all-hands meeting today that OpenAI doesn't 'get to make operational decisions' regarding how its models are used by the Department of Defense. That authority falls within the purview of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.

OpenAI Codex-Spark powered by Cerebras You can now just build things faster—at 1,000 tokens/s.

i think robotics is still underhyped the way ai was underhyped in 2023. like sure it’s hyped but no you don’t get how big it’s going to be