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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.
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…
Chris Strobl retweeted
When it’s comes to matters of life and death for our warfighters, having a reliable and steady partner that engages in good faith makes all the difference as we enter into the AI Age. Onwards @sama !
Tonight, we reached an agreement with the Department of War to deploy our models in their classified network.
In all of our interactions, the DoW displayed a deep respect for safety and a desire to partner to achieve the best possible outcome.
AI safety and wide distribution of benefits are the core of our mission. Two of our most important safety principles are prohibitions on domestic mass surveillance and human responsibility for the use of force, including for autonomous weapon systems. The DoW agrees with these principles, reflects them in law and policy, and we put them into our agreement.
We also will build technical safeguards to ensure our models behave as they should, which the DoW also wanted. We will deploy FDEs to help with our models and to ensure their safety, we will deploy on cloud networks only.
We are asking the DoW to offer these same terms to all AI companies, which in our opinion we think everyone should be willing to accept. We have expressed our strong desire to see things de-escalate away from legal and governmental actions and towards reasonable agreements.
We remain committed to serve all of humanity as best we can. The world is a complicated, messy, and sometimes dangerous place.
Chris Strobl retweeted
Tonight, we reached an agreement with the Department of War to deploy our models in their classified network.
In all of our interactions, the DoW displayed a deep respect for safety and a desire to partner to achieve the best possible outcome.
AI safety and wide distribution of benefits are the core of our mission. Two of our most important safety principles are prohibitions on domestic mass surveillance and human responsibility for the use of force, including for autonomous weapon systems. The DoW agrees with these principles, reflects them in law and policy, and we put them into our agreement.
We also will build technical safeguards to ensure our models behave as they should, which the DoW also wanted. We will deploy FDEs to help with our models and to ensure their safety, we will deploy on cloud networks only.
We are asking the DoW to offer these same terms to all AI companies, which in our opinion we think everyone should be willing to accept. We have expressed our strong desire to see things de-escalate away from legal and governmental actions and towards reasonable agreements.
We remain committed to serve all of humanity as best we can. The world is a complicated, messy, and sometimes dangerous place.
Chris Strobl retweeted
If you're at a tech company whose CEO is a sales-type and not a product- or engineering-type, you should bail.
Chris Strobl retweeted
Software engineering changed more in the last 3 months than the preceeding 30 years.
Everything about running a software company needs to be rethought from first principles.
Chris Strobl retweeted
Introducing Devin 2.2 – the autonomous agent that can test with computer use, self-verify, and auto-fix its work. Try it for free!
We’ve also overhauled Devin from the ground up:
- 3x faster startup
- fully redesigned interface
- computer use + virtual desktop
...and hundreds more UX and functionality improvements.
Chris Strobl retweeted
The maximalist form of my thesis is basically this: SaaS is not about code, it is about solving a problem customers have and selling them the solution. Services + sales. If the cost of code goes to *zero*, SaaS will *not* go away. It will *benefit*, since code is a cost center.
Chris Strobl retweeted
But if you derive your self-worth from the output of your work and not the work itself you will have a great time.
ex: a dev who likes coding because of the craft behind it vs a dev who likes coding because they are building things.
One will have an identity crisis and one will have a great time.
Chris Strobl retweeted
🦞 Been working with Peter Steinberger (@steipete) on the OpenClaw Foundation structure for weeks. A home for thinkers and hackers and those that want to own their data. Honored to serve as the founding independent board member. This community built something extraordinary, our job is to protect it. Open source forever. Excited to share more soon.
Chris Strobl retweeted
Open means Open. 🦞
Been working with Peter Steinberger (@steipete) on the OpenClaw Foundation structure for weeks. A home for thinkers and hackers and those that want to own their data. Honored to serve as the founding independent board member. This community built something extraordinary, our job is to protect it. Open source forever. Excited to share more soon.
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Chris Strobl retweeted
welcome @steipete to openai!
Excited to work with Peter Steinberger to build the future of agents for everyone and to continue to improve Codex in leaps and bounds.
We are committed to OSS, continuing to make OpenClaw flourish and bringing agents to life in a way that is fun, safe and highly productive. Can’t wait to see what we ship together!
Chris Strobl retweeted
The golden age of discovery is here
garryslist.org/posts/demis-h…
Chris Strobl retweeted
GPT-5.2 derived a new result in theoretical physics.
We’re releasing the result in a preprint with researchers from @the_IAS, @VanderbiltU, @Cambridge_Uni, and @Harvard. It shows that a gluon interaction many physicists expected would not occur can arise under specific conditions.
openai.com/index/new-result-…
Chris Strobl retweeted
“It is the first time I’ve seen AI solve a problem in my kind of theoretical physics that might not have been solvable by humans.” — Andy Strominger
I spent last night with Andrew Strominger and Alex Lupsasca, two of the top physicists in the world
They just released a paper, co-authored with OpenAi, that seems to me like ASI
Andrew, who helped develop string theory, told me that a year ago, his view was that he didn’t know how helpful AI was going to be.
A year later, after some back and forth with GPT 5.2 pro, they submitted a final query to an internal model which solved AND proved a previously unsolved problem in quantum field theory…in 12 hours.
A model, doing something two of the smartest people in the world in their field couldn’t do. And, when I was with them, they were giddy with excitement for what might lay ahead.
Andy said “It is the first time I’ve seen AI solve a problem in my kind of theoretical physics that might not have been solvable by humans.”
They said, “two things changed: the model improved and we figured out how to talk to it.”
Andy also told me “I also now feel that with the recent advances, most physicists who want to keep up with the frontiers of progress will need to learn how to talk to it. That wasn’t true a year ago.”
ASI is here, just not evenly distributed.
