Sahil Lavingia

What should the IRS ship in the second half of 2026?

@foucist < 1

@shl Full-time engineers? Or how many units of 30-man hours per week if you’re relying on mainly contractors/part-time.

Gumroad is now 100% engineers

@mvwi People changing helped it take longer, but inevitable

@shl To what extent was this changing people vs. the people changing?

@NickKulikaev Staff-level SWEs only

@shl Proper trained SWEs? No PMs converted to vibe coders?

@galus_titanium Hopefully it will have happened by then

@shl Keep believing that until you’re lying in a hospital bed or visit an emergency department for a few hours, then tell the nurses, physicians, respiratory therapists, and surgeons they’re about to be replaced

@DanielW_Kiwi Politicians and businesspeople

@shl Politician?

@antepeov Or was replaced by one

@shl Everybody became an engineer using Claude

@jc50000000 Still waiting

@jc50000000 That would be great!

14 years ago, Gumroad launched Today, Gumroad goes open-source

@shazow Open source now

@shl Open source has these properties: opensource.org/osd Your license is what we call "source available"

@ikeyata @devalapatel Can you explain why people get mad?

@shl @devalapatel Such a vindicating feeling lol In my last federal job, my supervisor got mad at me for not going through proper channels because I put in an IT ticket to fix a conference room computer that had been broken for years. IT came and replaced it in 5 min for free 😄

I work at the IRS 😂

@devalapatel We have a water fountain. It was broken for months but I got it fixed one of my first victories 💪

@shl I used to work there. We had an office water cooler that employees had to chip in for. There was literally a sign that said if you didn’t pay, drink tap. Is that still a thing? 😂

@BrendanFoody 10x Clubhouse

Mercor will be a $1T company by 2030

@sriramk No need for email subscribe - my agent will keep me in the loop

back to writing

@aaronpardes DM me URL so I know which form/app and can fix?

Incredibly Gemini knew what the issue was.

Hey @shl - it’s really awesome when you get to the end of filling out a form on irs.gov and the submission just fails with no way to recover. Plz fix.

came in there with no plan at all honestly i respect it

Cook to eat or eat to cook?

@dvorahfr Critical feedback is always appreciated