People are wrong about "hustle culture." You need to hustle at the beginning of building almost anything that isn’t mediocre…. You just don’t need to “live there” for life.

If you’re a developer and can’t spot the bug, you’re probably a vibe coder. Note: Not for vibe coders.

Linear clearly has a unique culture, I respect the intentionality with which the company operates More founders should study this example but not as an alternative to the 996. Quiet the opposite. It's to understand that copy cat culture doesn't work Leaders need to figure out what team culture uniquely aligns with the product strategy, customer, category It might be 996 for some very competitive spaces where velocity is king. It might be in person for real world operating environments. Remote first for hyperlocal, etc Intentional culture >> copy cat culture FTW

Such a sharp take Claude having taste in one dimension explains that whole wave perfectly

[EPISODE] The first time @rvivek flew internationally, he asked the flight attendant, “This is going to San Francisco, right?” He was on his way to a 10-minute YC interview. He got in, built HackerRank, and helped define how the world hires engineers. Now he’s rebuilding it for the age of AI. Vivek is the co-founder of HackerRank, and he and @mayamshahh chatted about: >How tech interviews evolved from Microsoft’s golf ball questions to AI agent orchestration >Why HackerRank is tearing down its old assessment model >How to tell a vibe coder from a real production engineer 00:00 Meet Vivek, Founder of HackerRank 02:15 From counting Golf Balls in a 747 to LeetCode 05:55 Refounding HackerRank With Chakra 08:56 Process vs. Output and why partial credit matters 12:31 Who Adopted Online Assessments First 14:20 Why Hiring Is a Lagging Indicator 17:38 What Candidates Like About Chakra 18:20 How to Remove the Incentive to Cheat 22:44 The Three Ways People Cheat 26:59 Why Hiring Is a Hard Problem and Build-Your-Own Is Overrated 28:11 First Indian YC Company and a First International Flight

here’s a concrete example of how to make money with this new Claude drop build and sell AI agents for dentists a dentist’s office has the same 6 problems every single month: 1. patients not booking 2. no one answering calls at night 3. unpaid bills piling up 4. bad reviews (or no good reviews) 5. chasing people who haven’t been back in a year 6. new patient forms done manually here’s what your agent will do to solve these problems: 1. books appointments. patient fills out a form, it checks the calendar, sends the confirmation, reminds them 2 days before and the morning of. no receptionist needed. 2. answers every question at 3am. “do you take delta dental?” “how much is a crown?” it’s trained on the dental office’s info and answers instantly. 3. chases unpaid bills. sends polite follow ups, escalates if ignored. no awkward phone calls. 4. collects google reviews automatically (my favorite part). after every appointment it texts the patient. happy ones are asked to leave a Google review. unhappy ones get flagged privately before they post anything. 5. handles new patient intake. sends forms before the appointment, collects insurance info, follows up if anything is missing. 6. reactivates old patients. “hi sarah, it’s been 8 months since your last cleaning, want to book?” sent automatically to every single lapsed patient on the list. just build one AI agent that handles all of that and charge dental offices a $1,500 set up fee and $500 per month to maintain it. 20 clients = $10k per month the same playbook works for gyms, law firms, real estate agents, accountants. never has it been so easy to make money online

🚨 Anthropic IPO S-1 prospectus LEAKED: Valuation target: $2 TRILLION >$4.6 billion in revenue in 2025 >$8.06 billion in operating loss >$42 billion in net loss The prospectus warns that nearly 25% of revenue came from just TWO customers, and that many top enterprise clients aren't locked into long-term contracts and could cut spending or walk away anytime Anthropic plans to spend $518 BILLION on compute commitments ‘in the coming year’

Congratulations to our friends at @OpenAI! I guess this makes Abilene the birthplace of AGI!

Looks like today may be a record day for token volume % of open models on Vercel AI Gateway: 🟦 Open 78.4% 🟨 Closed 21.6% While spend 💲 usually tells a different story, #3 and #4 today are Moonshot AI & DeepSeek. Adding Z⁠.ai, their combined spend surpasses OpenAI (#2). (Do note that's the spend for inference of the model across providers (mostly in the US), not revenue going directly to the open weight labs.)

Cognition has crossed $1B in annualized revenue run rate. This milestone belongs to our customers. Here's how a few of them are building with Devin.

Exciting news: @ListenLabs is joining @salesforce . When @itsalfredw and I first met, we dreamed of a world where AI was as capable as it is today. But we knew intelligence alone wouldn't be enough. It had to deeply understand the humans it's built for. That idea became Listen. Since we started in 2023, Listen has interviewed millions of people for companies like Microsoft, Anthropic, and Sweetgreen. I am so proud of the product and the team we built. Now that world is here. AI can build almost anything. Knowing what people actually want is the hard part. With Salesforce, when the transaction closes, we can bring that to every company in the world, much faster than we could alone. We're just getting started. Back to work!