Danylo Borodchuk

@eperlste if you over-index on this, you'll attract partners who are only into you bc others want you. brutal lesson there once you hit a dip

dating and fundraising are the same thing you’re either hot or ur not

@nichochar @nilslice @zachtratar It is a fact of life, does not mean it needs to be tolerated and accepted

@nilslice @zachtratar I mean I am with you I just accept corruption as a fact of life

Wait, didn’t the Anthropic CPO only resign from Figma’s board like last week? So they were actively building this while he had a major conflict of interest?

@scottastevenson I've seen this myself - it's becoming ridiculous and hurts real players in the process

It’s time to expose a huge scam in AI startups: Contracted ARR The reason many AI startups are crushing revenue records is because they are using a dishonest metric The biggest funds in the world are supporting this and misleading journalists for PR coverage. The setup: Company signs 3-year enterprise deals. Year 1 is discounted (say $1M), Year 2 steps up ($2M), Year 3 is full price ($3M). They report $3M as “ARR” — even though they’re only collecting $1M right now. The worst part: The customer has an opt-out option at 12 months! It’s not actually a 3 year contract. In the chart below, by Q5 the company is trumpeting ~$100M “ARR” to press, while actual cash-generating, in-effect ARR is ~$35M. That’s ~3x inflation. On top of this, enterprise AI companies are bundling full-time “forward deployed engineers” into deals massively reducing margins, sometimes producing Year 1 negative margins. At some point customers are going to start triggering their opt-out clauses or aggressively negotiating down Year 3 pricing. And a wave of enterprise AI companies may collapse.

@handotdev @skeptrune lmaooo

@skeptrune you didn’t pay shit my guy

brother i just paid a $250k anthropic bill

Introducing Zag AI review agents for iOS, iPadOS, and macOS developers. Zag runs agents in real Apple developer environments with Apple Silicon, Xcode, simulators, and your complete toolchain. Describe agents in TypeScript or Swift that do code review, QA, security, or App Store compliance, and run them on every PR.

@Jason Jedi = Samurai tho no?

We're hiring four recent graduates (or folks looking to make a career change) for the world's best VC training program. Tuition: $0 You'll work 60 hours a week, get paid what you would have spent on your MBA tuition and learn more than you can imagine -- unless you quit because you can't handle the pace. You start as a researcher Then you become an analyst ... and 1.5 in three make it to associate You need to: 1. Be a learning machine 2. Have high executive function 3. Be extremely focused and curious 4. Be able to work 12 hours a day for our founders We accept < 1% of applicants, we don't care about how fancy your degree is, we love folks from @UTAustin, and we love folks with a chip on their shoulders Four slots, program starts in May/June... email a cover letter on why you want to be a venture capitalist, what skills you currently have and give us some examples of your work ethic... ... because 80% of VCs are lazy AF, and you can beat them by simply showing up for work and doing 10-12 hours a day and checking your email on the weekends. Not kidding... these VCs are all calling in rich and skiing in Japan. They don't really do much work. researchers@launch.co [ samurai/jedi only ]

@helloitsaustin “Hey Claude, re-write Wix for me, make no mistakes”

we just launched one of the coolest features for marketers today: Claude Design 🎨 I've posted a lot about building marketing tools without being technical, and this is the visual side of that. I described a landing page editor and Claude built me one. here's an example of my actual workflow with it 👇

@signulll Less to think about

maybe i am a freaking moron but why is dragging better than just turning it on? every other app just asks you to turn it on & it’s already there. one good reason is that we are all talking about it now, but i can’t seem to figure out the second good reason. dragging is much more of a pain but maybe it feels better psychologically or something? i don’t get it. someone explain this in plain terms to me.

@aarekaz @dylan_a @theo Same

@dylan_a Yeah @theo was also reporting the same thing. I also experienced the same

Opus 4.7 keeps pausing mid-response to reassure itself my customer's strategy doc isn't malware. Four times in one session. Someone's system prompt is showing.

Perplexity will win, mark my words

Overhead in SF: "TBPN is just Cocomelon for VCs"

once we get tech body implants, every human will eventually face the "ship of theseus" problem - after enough technological modifications, are you still the same human?

For every marginal unit of information ingested You lose a marginal unit of agency Simply because your mind can either receive free information Or act upon the world to gather new information Every minute you spend on this site, you lose capacity to act upon the world

No Time? 🏃‍♂️🚫⏰ Here is a tl;dr of the Jensen interview 👇

single till series b is true i guess

i have a friend in nyc that just goes on dates constantly (like 3-4x per week) & i am amazed by her resilience cuz i think mindless dating right now is the highest cost low return activity in modern life. it’s not even close. ppl make it a hobby without realizing the emotional costs are real & they compound silently. every casual encounter trains you to treat intimacy as audition. like turning this into job interview pipeline devalues it almost entirely. ironically you become worse at the thing you’re optimizing for. you can feel ppl who are doing this when you encounter them. what a tragedy.

Nightlife in nyc is shifting from alcohol-induced socializing to activities that combine connection with intellectual interest. Out: clubbing, drinking games, bars without themes. In: lectures at bars, philosophy clubs, board game nights, reading meetups. Gen Z'ers are paying $40 a ticket to attend these things. Someone is going to build a massive platform aggregating these activities for the next generation.

@Chris_Orlob ChatGPT is especially tuned for pandering, which feels incredibly manipulative

Want to know what would make me trust AI more? I share my next big idea with it and it responds: "LMFAO. What a dumb idea. Next." Instead I get: "Chris you're so pretty and everything you say is correct."

@bentossell we’re building data infra, come say hi 👋

heading to SF tomorrow - teaching at Stanford on Tuesday 😳 also writing $100k checks for dev tools/infra founders + seeing new lps who should i meet?

@ivanburazin They need an email too @adisingh

Someone needs to build auth for agents, aka identity infrastructure for non-human digital workers. As agents become digital humans, they'll need to log into services just like we do. Which means they need: - authentication systems - session management - access control That's the next big unlock in the agentic economy.