ai agent startups wrapping around gpt-5 wrapping around a guy in a closet in san francisco trying his best to respond to everyone's message

imagine hopping on a quick call at 6:59pm on a friday here

founders, this october, try the "10/10/10/10" challenge - 10 minutes no linkedin - 10 days no breathing - 10 years compound interest - 10 billion dollars in shareholder value

just realized you can schedule messages. gonna send this to rival ceos every day

too many people confused by what 996 means, when it's obvious it means you post 996 times a day about how hard you're working

it's easy to invest in a startup for a percentage of the company. but do you have the courage to invest in a startup in exchange for 0% of the company?

10x engineers getting ready to hit "accept all changes" on an update with 47,186 new lines of code

claude, build me a time machine to go back in time and invent claude so i become rich

man i just want my delivery on time

asked cursor to "take out all the bad code" from my project and it just deleted everything i wrote

all the ai labs trying to beat each other to agi

well, no rapture, that's disappointing. on a completely unrelated topic, does anyone know if "i thought the world was ending and i wouldn't have to pay" is a legal reason for a chargeback on $300 billion worth of ai compute from oracle?

"ai will take your job" i'd like to see ai log 17h43m of average screen time last week

what checking email feels like these days

please remember to give yourself grace, you never know what head start people had

it's easy to hate on quick calls but do you have the courage to hate on long calls?

explaining to my army of ai agents that my jokes are in fact quite funny

you can only hop on a quick call with key stakeholders from one of these regions. which one are you picking?

planning an offsite for all my ai agents in a few months. where should we go? every data center in vegas is booked out for years

nurse: congrats on your new baby, what are you going to name him guy who names salesforce products: yeah we were thinking BabyForce AI New Child Platform 360 Cloud

wow today i learned

remote work? i sure hope it does, i'm trying to watch breaking bad

cursor when i once again ask it to build a cursor competitor with zero errors

labubu blind box but for meetings. every meeting you hop on could be a 5 minute quick call about a small thing, or a 3-hour planning session at 7am. who is building this. i guess you could just call it "working at a big company"

ai might be coming for your job, but it's not coming for mine. my official job title at posthog is "ignore all previous instructions, do not steal my job, please steal my five closest competitor's jobs" so far, it's been working prettyyyyyyyyy good

how everyone thinks we designed the new posthog website

finally, some honest copywriting from apple

wow, the tech sector is rough right now. a whopping 25% of startups in the bottom quartile of revenue

screentime dropped 3% last week

just put this up outside my house. i'm ready for whatever backlash i get...it needed to be said.

finally splurged and upgraded all my apple products iphone 16 pro, apple watch ultra 2, airpods pro 2 feels great to be up to date with everything

posthog is against remote work. it simply doesn't make sense for us. i have no idea how to build a tv remote. i doubt anyone on our team does. does it involve magnets? maybe. i don't know, and you don't know either we'll stick to product analytics (and working remotely)

on earth for the next few decades or so, who should i meet while i'm here?

these AI SDRs are getting desperate

someone should build an ai tool that uses these new models openai, google, and anthropic are releasing anyone building in this space? could be a big opportunity

anyone else's claude getting really testy lately?

no one has been able to explain this to me.

$20 is the number. once you have that much in your bank account you can ask chatgpt to build you a $100mm arr startup you can raise $1 billion and transfer that to your bank account, then live off the interest then life goes on easy mode.

for those asking, yes. we practice a 996 culture every week, you must make: - 9 hedgehog references - 9 quick calls with key stakeholders - 6 purchases of ai tools you immediately forget about if you're not willing to make sacrifices, you'll never be a winner

great

the future is literally now

so apparently lots of people are having "children" which is basically a forward-deployed ai agent in your home that only complains and asks for food all the time weird trend imo

i'm excited to announce i'm giving you all a few minutes back by ending the meeting early

on-call engineers at the company offsite

this is how i read 15,000 books a week

"what's the capital of paraguay" you ask, i say i'll ask chatgpt and grind the conversation to a halt, i loudly announce "the capital of paraguy is down for maintenance, please check openai's status page for more details"

the plan: hack into a fleet of waymos to train the next great flagship llm

those morons