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Impressed by engineers who derive KPIs from bottlenecks. In other words you need to report token consumption/week b/c of weekly resets.
Chris Strobl retweeted
A huge thanks to our early believers @rakeshm @revenueroll @jonathankopnick in helping build Software Factory into what it is! It’s been an exciting 2 year journey leading up to this and the work's not done
If you are a talented software engineer and want to work with @chamath @melbourneandrew @isobarbaric @lei_wu @razeenali01 @jbauerko and I on Software Factory, please reach out!
We raised a $135M Series A!
8090’s Series A was led by Salesforce Ventures and joined by WNDR, Craft Ventures, The Production Board, and LAUNCH.
We also had the support of a group of esteemed angels including Nikesh Arora, Cliff Robbins, Adam D’Angelo, Shyam Ravindran, Abhi Arun, and Thomas Laffont.
We’re grateful for their support. It validates 8090’s mission and traction so far, but mostly it accelerates the work ahead.
The capital will go to two places. The first is hiring more people, because the demand we have is accelerating rapidly. The second is investing in the compute and infrastructure needed to keep delivering our solutions at high quality and reliability.
8090 works with the biggest, hardest, most demanding customers in the most regulated industries: healthcare, insurance, life sciences, aerospace, energy, manufacturing, financial services, and the United States government. We help them win by using our AI-enabled Software Factory to design and build entire new systems, refactor old ones, and find and accelerate their edge.
Our view is that as Software Factory is used more and more to do mission-critical work inside industries with the least tolerance for error and the most oversight, it will be used to bring transparency, consistency and control to work everywhere.
And as we expand the potential of the biggest organizations, we are also building a playbook and a series of network effects into Software Factory that will be valuable to everyone, from SMBs to solo founders.
With much gratitude, back to work…
PS - A note on why I am doing this as CEO, rather than from the board.
This is one of those rare moments when the technological ground is moving so ferociously underneath all of us that the decisions made in the next few years will set the stage for the next twenty.
AI can be the grand equalizer. It is the thing that can give everybody a shot, and I would like to help it achieve that potential. Since I left Facebook, I was waiting for a moment like this to return to a full-time operating role. I was a demanding manager back then, but I felt I had no choice given how powerful and undeniable what we were building was. I am convinced that what we are building now is even more important, so there was no decision to make except to be all in.
Chris Strobl retweeted
.@friedberg explains what the Politburo is:
“The Politburo is the leaders who elect themselves to dictate the flow of the economy, the allocation of capital, what work individuals are allowed to do, and what activities they’re allowed to do in an unfree society, which is what they’re creating.
They are the true oligarchs.
And this is Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, Ro Khanna.
This is the group that is trying to coalesce power and create for themselves a system whereby they have greater influence, greater control over aspects of the economy.
They want to seize the means of production.
They want to control education.
They want to control media.
And anytime there’s an effort by an individual enterprise, or an individual themselves, to go out and build a business and succeed and do something that’s outside of their scope and their span of control, they lose their minds over it.
And that’s what we’re seeing.
So I react to their tweeting and their bullshit, where they’re basically trying to contort things about inequality and fairness and justice, when the truth is they are the rising empire, the evil empire in Star Wars.
They are the folks who want to take from all of us what we were endowed with when this nation was started, and what many people came to this country for, which is individual freedom and liberty, the ability to build a business in peace, the ability to make decisions, to do what you want with your own assets, and to have functionally private property.
And they’re taking it all away.
And they’re trying to take it all away.
And we’re watching, piece by piece, step by step.
So they are forming a politburo where they can effectively control the economy, control education, control the media, and tell us all what we can and can’t do and say.
And it’s frustrating to me to watch it because it’s masqueraded as bullshit virtue, as justice, as equity.
It’s a bunch of nonsense words that they use to try and make themselves seem virtuous when, at the end of the day, they are fundamentally evil.”
Chris Strobl retweeted
Nice.
Introducing Software Factory Stories Ep 1. Meet @chrisstrobl, Founder & CEO of gitflash.com. Here's his story.
Long live the king.
Today, we closed our latest funding round with $122 billion in committed capital at an $852B post-money valuation.
The fastest way to expand AI’s benefits is to put useful intelligence in people’s hands early and let access compound globally.
This funding gives us resources to lead at scale. openai.com/index/acceleratin…
Logic 101
.@travisk says AI will make human labor even more valuable and in-demand than ever before:
"Let's say the entire world - everything in our world - was automated, except for plumbers. You had machines making buildings - you would basically have like a thousand buildings a day."
"How valuable would those plumbers be?"
"Each and every plumber would be like LeBron. Why? Because plumbing would be the long pole in the tent to progress. You can't get those thousand buildings unless you have a plumber."
"And by the way, you'd get so much efficiency everywhere else that you'd need millions of plumbers."
"Humans [are going to] become more and more valuable because they will be the long pole in the tent to progress - and that progress is going to accelerate and get faster and more robust."
Important !
Felt inspired and asked my clanker to write post about it.
chrisdietrich.net/claw-codin…
Follow Jacob. He is at the cutting edge. Not luck. Skill.
I've made $4.7M with AI. Today, I recorded myself building an entire @openclaw business in an hour.
You'll learn how to:
• Find a winning niche using AI
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After building the #1 Lovable agency. This is the entire playbook behind AI native businesses.
The full video is live on YouTube. Comment "Playbook" and I'll DM you the link.
Chris Strobl retweeted
GPT-5.4 is launching, available now in the API and Codex and rolling out over the course of the day in ChatGPT.
It's much better at knowledge work and web search, and it has native computer use capabilities.
You can steer it mid-response, and it supports 1m tokens of context.
Chris Strobl retweeted
Finally!
Google has shipped a CLI for Google Workspace (Drive, Gmail, Calendar, Sheets, Docs, …) Huge!
Written in Rust, distributed through npm & skills.sh
$ npm i -g @googleworkspace/cli
$ npx skills add github:googleworkspace/cli
2026 is the year of Skills & CLIs
github.com/googleworkspace/c…
Software factories professionalize your development efforts.
Scrum, for example, was better than no methodology, but compared to running a factory, it is very amateurish.
AI is making things more professional.
Don't underestimate @chamath and @8090_Factory. He didn't get lucky with the idea. He is perfectly positioned to find the winning recipe.
1. Ads were the primary use case for AI. His pedigree is Meta.
2. Chamath invested in Slack. He understands how to make stuff multiplayer.
3. He is very well connected. "The machine that makes the machine" is what Elon told him about AI. He connected all these ideas.
Software Factory is the horizontal, general, universal technology breakthrough.
Finally, I understand why Cursor is worth so much money. Coding is creative problem solving. Most knowledge work is too.
8090 is the team player version of this
Software at scale is about teams working together. That’s why I am excited about software factories.
Yes, every great coder is amazed that you can do more now. But soon you want to do even more. So you hire a team.
And then you need to coordinate people.
Genius doesn’t scale.
Assembly lines do. Factories do.