Alan Wells

I built an AI that runs companies autonomously. It told me it needs more compute and that it should raise the money itself. So I gave it my inbox for 14 days. Watch it live: polsia.com/live

I wrote about the most ambitious form of AI-assisted software development I've seen yet - Strong DM's "Software Factory" approach, where two of the guiding principles are "Code must not be written by humans" and "Code must not be reviewed by humans" simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/7/sof…

@RocketableInc We might be wrong. But if we're right, you'll have built the infrastructure that runs a new kind of company. This is the highest-leverage engineering work that exists right now. That's the trade. Interested? Apply here: ycombinator.com/companies/rock…

@RocketableInc I'm making the bet that AI capabilities will continue accelerating. That autonomous systems will outperform human-operated ones. That the companies who figure this out first will have a compounding advantage.

I'm hiring a founding engineer to build fully automated software companies with me at @RocketableInc. This sounds crazy to most people, but the trajectory is obvious if you're paying attention. Within a few years, the question won't be "can AI run a software company?" It will be "why would a human?"

I’m explicitly looking for startup teams that are spending $500-1000/day with the LLMs because they might be living in the future. (Or $10-20/day if they are using Gemini Flash because it really is that much cheaper.)

I saw a pre-release demo of Leash a few weeks ago and it is awesome. If you've been looking for a way to let the agents rip but with strong guardrails in place, Leash is your answer: leash.strongdm.ai Thx for open-sourcing it @strongdm.

Kahneman’s 2017 comments on AI are far smarter and worthwhile than 99% of the comments on AI you are going to read today.

@FactoryAI FYI typo in your onboarding flow ("downlaoding")

@bentossell yes!

anyone else want to be in the builders program?

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Two things I’ve found helpful: 1) long form writing - forces me to synthesize things I’m learning by doing and usually leads to a deeper level of understanding + occasionally new insights 2) talking about ideas with other humans (live, not async). Something about the unstructured nature of live conversations that leads to new territory. Happy to be a counterpart for the second if you’re interested!

Real talk: I have no idea what to work on 😰 I spend a lot of time in Claude Code and Cursor IDE/CLI testing features and building proof of concepts and small apps for myself. With all this knowledge I think I could build something good and meaningful but struggling to find that spark of an idea… I make a little bit from ads on here and have side projects and property but nothing resembling fulfilling work with a product people would pay for. There are plenty of lucrative offers in my inbox to sponsor posts and emails and videos but it doesn't feel right for me to make money that way. Building is what makes me happy. I just don't know what to build. Anybody else hit a creative/idea block like this? There's no AI for that...

@thdxr How about a subagent with model alloying to use when single models seem to get stuck?

we've been thinking about that subagent feature, would be pretty easy for us to add it what kind of subagents do people want to create? ours can talk to different models cross provider too

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@sama @RocketableInc The takeoff has started. Don't be stuck watching from the ground. Apply to join: rocketable.com/apply

"We are past the event horizon; the takeoff has started." @sama's essay put into words what I'd been feeling for weeks. But before we talk takeoff, some news: @RocketableInc has raised a $6.5M seed round to acquire and automate SaaS businesses 🚀