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@_CallMeMacy @EmlynThompsonLA 👀 that hat tho

Get you a colleague that cuddles on the floor of the airport after a lonnnggggg week in sf ⁦@EmlynThompsonLA⁩

Today, we’re launching @autoaicam, a camera that builds personal apps for anything you point it at. How does it work? - Take a photo - Auto picks a Frame, a mini-app built and designed by you or our community - The Frame does something for you: track calories, virtually try on outfits, identify a plant, and much more How many of you have a camera roll full of photos that are really actions or reminders? Auto turns these photos into something useful.

@TheMotelMan Congratulations! Life will never be the same

My first baby was born today! 🎉 Love you son!!

@andrewchen I review key areas - migrations, prompts, and files changed. But before I do that I make sure the AI goes through a few rounds - codex ftw

Do you review all the AI code before pushing to main?

One question I've been asking founders is: do you try to review all the code that the LLMs write or do you just accept it? I think it's about 50-50 right now but the momentum is towards just accepting the AI-generated code and I think that number will eventually go to 100% This is one of the most telling indications of how AI-native a team is. It's hard to get super high throughput if you are reviewing every line Poll: what do you do?

> Agent 1: "Not in our app. If you're seeing them swapped in practice, it's likely upstream data has values reversed" > Agent 2: "Not our bug — it's in X itself. Look at the pattern" I'm guessing "works on my machine" is next

a16z Speedrun Alpha, for pre-idea/pre-team/pre-everything founders it's time to bet on yourself, and figure out your startup idea. 2026 is well underway, crazy stuff happening in AI, and you're building agents/apps/whatever every night+weekend. You want to start a startup but you're working or still going to school. what if you're pre-idea, pre-product, pre-launch, and even a solo founder? You need time to cook The Alpha Fellowship is for you. alpha.a16zspeedrun.com details: - $20K equity-free upfront to start building - up to $250K investment when you finalize - automatic final interview for a16z speedrun, with up to $1M investment - 8-week, in-person experience with a kickoff retreat, founder AMAs, and small-group dinners alongside the a16z speedrun community - targeted to early-career highly technical founders - deadline to apply is March 6 We ALSO have a "startup track" for the Alpha Fellowship where you can get more founder experience by working for a portfolio company if you're not quite ready to found something. The Alpha Fellowship places top early-career engineers into full-time roles at fast-growing a16z speedrun and Andreessen Horowitz portfolio companies. For future founders, we provide capital before a team or idea even exists. We're looking for highly technical students and recent grads who don't want to wait to start building. Fellows take full-time roles at fast-growing portfolio companies - or, if you're ready to build now, receive capital to start your own company - kicking off with a two-month in-person fellowship. Fellows also have access to the a16z speedrun and EO Ventures communities and events. ... If this is you, want to meet you. If you have people to introduce us to, that would be amazing too. will have more to say, and lots of ideas coming up here. But excited to get this out! Excited to host y'all soon.

@elawless Every night as well

Claude code fomo: if I'm not maxxing claude code, I'm falling behind. Newly forming habit is making sure to kick claude off on something productive before leaving the house. #claudegrindset

@lennysan Cute idea!!

Vibe code project of the week: A soundboard of my toddler's cutest words $20 mic off Amazon + Descript to slice up each word + Claude Code to clean up the audio quality + Lovable to build

@trq212 Makes a lot of sense. Why do you start a new session vs use the existing? Resetting context window?

my favorite way to use Claude Code to build large features is spec based start with a minimal spec or prompt and ask Claude to interview you using the AskUserQuestionTool then make a new session to execute the spec

@RoKhanna @zoink @amasad Would much rather get to see this conversation in public, the discourse and POVs are helpful.

@zoink @amasad Please DM me to continue the conversation.

Peter Thiel is leaving California if we pass a 1% tax on billionaires for 5 years to pay for healthcare for the working class facing steep Medicaid cuts. I echo what FDR said with sarcasm of economic royalists when they threatened to leave, "I will miss them very much."

Was cool to see planes flying and landing every 5m at Bayfront park. @united just dominates @flySFO after 8 AM

@tkexpress11 Let’s rebrand Annual recurring revenue to RAR = recurring annual revenue

I really wish we could agree on separate acronyms for: ARR = Annual Recurring Revenue ARR = Annual RUN RATE Revenue The ambiguity can lead to breakage of trust when a founder implies the first but it’s really the second. They’re not the same

What the fuck

@lennysan 👏🏼well deserved!

Guys

@Rafa_Schwinger It’s very poor form to screw someone out of an upcoming vest. That’s why people are empathetic and amplifying it. That’s probably why @yacineMTB is also choosing to air this out publicly.

@VinayGaba @Google Microsoft has been crushing it, seen good things from Facebook as well. Big tech no longer feels asleep at the wheel!

I've been around the @Google ecosystem for ~15 years. I've also had the fortunate of attending Google I/O a few times over the years. Trust me when I say this..... Yesterday's Google I/O event was different. Google is executing and things are working. A lot of the current AI ecosystem exists due to Google. This is not just from a technological standpoint but also the AI talent that it fostered over the years. They are truly vertically integrated and it needed to execute at the same pace as the startups around it. Their hand got forced but I think it was for the better. Nothing like a good ol existential risk. While Microsoft made some 4d chess moves over the last few years and certainly made them "dance", their dependency on others for the model chops is a big risk. This is where Google can really shine. They have complete control over their fate, unlike any other player.

Careful vibe coding out there! Keep your brain on 🧠

Cursor: Starts refactoring confidently Me: 𝘙𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘥𝘰𝘤𝘴 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘤𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘺… 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘱𝘴 𝘪𝘵 “Umm no. Here’s what it actually says.” Cursor: “My bad!”

AI has gotten really good. But I think it's a little too sure of itself. Today, while fixing a build, it told me I needed to write my code a different way.