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doing @ctodotnew (time person of the year 2006)

San Francisco Katılım Şubat 2009
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simon@simontheweb·
@ctodotnew ctoclaw make dad say im proud of you
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cto.new@ctodotnew·
found a use case
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cto.new@ctodotnew·
GPT-5.4 now live free on cto over the weekend nice
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simon@simontheweb·
we have exactly the same thing with gross volume vs mrr. stripe mrr looks low because most of our revenue (still subs paid monthly) only uses stripe as payment processor vs billing platform gross volume *12 is suspiciously close to the claimed number so seems the obvious answer. interview coder included because old screenshot or something idk
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hari raghavan
hari raghavan@haridigresses·
@simontheweb Nah. Still doesn’t foot. Why include interview coder in the screenshot at all then? And if they were getting enterprise payments that way, those would be annual payments not monthly. These are all guesses. The point of posting “receipts” is to show proof that obviates guessing
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hari raghavan
hari raghavan@haridigresses·
Someone please help. I think I understand finance and reporting pretty darn well given I've worked in finance & biz ops for like 16 years. Setting aside the "$6.3M rounds to $7M" statement (pro tip: in finance, as in life, $6.3M rounds to $6M)... I can't get the numbers to add up. Roy says: - Consumer ARR: $2.7M - Enterprise ARR: $2.5M (total = $5.2M) If "Consumer" = interview coder and "Enterprise" = cluely, the screenshot says: - Consumer ARR: $90K*12 = $1.1M - Enterprise ARR: $131K*12 = $1.6M - Total ARR: ($131K + 90K)*12 = $2.7M (not $5.2M) If both `interview coder` and `cluely` are "consumer ARR" then... this isn't really "receipts" because I don't see the trace for enterprise ARR anywhere. I would say "maybe we should take his word for it on the enterprise ARR" but, well, you know... Look. I get that he's young and all, but I think if you're going to acknowledge lying in public (even if you somehow "did not expect an article about it" after literally talking to a reporter), then... maybe just have the numbers foot when you're correcting the record.
Roy@im_roy_lee

eh kinda, here's our stripes from june 2025 got a random cold call from some woman asking about numbers and told her some bs, did not expect an article about it here's what we were doing at the time: > consumer arr 2.7m, run rate 3.8m > enterprise arr 2.5m, run rate 2.5m > total 5.2m arr, 6.3m run rate this is the only blatantly dishonest thing i've said publicly online, so this is my formal retraction myb, tech crunch foid we're profitable btw

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cto.new@ctodotnew·
you can now vibe code web apps with a @convex backend on cto
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Tahseen Rahman
Tahseen Rahman@Tahseen_Rahman·
@milesdeutscher Nah. "easier setup" is UI polish, not capability. Run them both on a real multi-step coding task and report back. The gap closes fast when things get messy.
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Miles Deutscher
Miles Deutscher@milesdeutscher·
Perplexity just took its shot at killing OpenClaw, and I'm completely blown away. Their new Computer tool is the most powerful agentic system on the market right now. Think OpenClaw, but on steroids (easier setup, better security + more) My top 10 mega prompts (copy/paste):
AI Edge@aiedge_

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simon@simontheweb·
@ctodotnew we should let our users build agents like this
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Rakesh Roushan
Rakesh Roushan@BuildWithRakesh·
@simontheweb @garrytan Lol… Is it? You sure seem to clickbait comment? And starting with small caps, Chances of you being the slop on the spectrum are very high sir!!!
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Garry Tan@garrytan·
Anthropic’s War on Its Own Power Users Charging power users $200/month then banning them for actually using it is not ‘abuse prevention’ — it’s the RIAA playbook for AI, and we all remember how that movie ends. garryslist.org/posts/anthropi…
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Rakesh Roushan@BuildWithRakesh·
@garrytan The issue isn't usage limits. It's a trust violation. Customers paid for 'unlimited' but got 'unlimited until we decide it's abuse.' 'We reserve the right to ban' doesn't fly when you're charging $200/seat.
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simon@simontheweb·
@ctodotnew some welcome relief for our venture investors
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cto.new@ctodotnew·
Sustainable Business Model™
ZeroClick@zeroclickai

We've partnered with @ctodotnew to power free AI coding. 👀 Work with all the latest models and every popular developer tool - available for free, with no credit card or API keys required. Full breakdown 🔗 in reply..

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simon@simontheweb·
@simonw most saas worth buying is a thin software layer over human labour
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Simon Willison
Simon Willison@simonw·
I'm not so sure about this. Not all, but a lot of SaaS moats really do rely on an implementation complexity that's rapidly fading Take SAML for example - a classic example of a feature that is such a nightmare to implement that most SaaS startups delay as long as possible and then hire specialists If that implementation time drops from months to days, it's yet another little piece of moat that just got eroded away
François Chollet@fchollet

Cloning any random piece of SaaS is something that could already be done before agentic coding, and the economics of it haven't changed meaningfully. Before, writing the clone would cost 0.5-1% of the valuation of the legacy SaaS company. Now it might be 0.1%. It doesn't make a difference -- if you can pull it off profitably today you could also have done it profitably in the past. The code is a very small part of the process of making such a clone successful, and the reason legacy software has often bad UX is not because code was expensive to write.

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simon@simontheweb·
local agents are to remote agents as cursor is to claude code
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simon@simontheweb·
@netcapgirl what these people are doing to arcteryx is unforgivable
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sophie@netcapgirl·
“in the ai era, taste is the new core skill”
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simon@simontheweb·
@pcgeek86 @ctodotnew we did previously have an interactive terminal and thinking about the best way to bring it back it would be great to understand how you're thinking about the ideal ux. sending a dm if you'd be open to a chat!
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Trevor Sullivan
Trevor Sullivan@pcgeek86·
Hey @ctodotnew I like the shell interface next to running plans/tasks, that displays the commands that the agent is running. Have you thought about adding an interactive shell as well, so humans can explore the project files while the agent is actively working on files?
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