Founder & Engineer | Previously EM at @stripe, Co-founder & CTO @lemonsqueezy 🍋
Elgin, Scotland
Joined April 2008
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This is a small goldmine.
I asked Devin to evaluate my output over the last two weeks. It thinks my output is conservatively 10x what it was pre-AI tooling. 10x is now the norm.
As most of you, I live in my coding agent interfaces now.
I achieve at least 10x the output of what I could've done coding myself and I love this.
I work on ideas I wouldn't have dared to work on just a year ago.
Write code in languages I am not familiar with and still feel good about the results.
And despite all of this, the amount of thought and polish that is needed to create something amazing hasn't changed at all.
After two years as an Engineering Manager at Stripe, I've decided it's time to get back to startups. Some reflections on the journey so far, what I've learned, and what comes next.
gilbitron.me/blog/leaving-st…
For more context, I'm working on a production agentic workflow that contains multiple branches with LLM powered decision making (slow + expensive).
With Jev @typesafeai, our evals show the flow is ~55% more accurate and ~25% faster 👀
While on vacation I was car shopping, and thought it would be cool to have a car-check app but with an AI spin. You don't just get data in a big report, you get advice on what to do with it.
So I built it! 🎉 If you're buying used cars in the UK, check it out! motorverdict.co.uk
“Build and operate with strong edge-case detection, great testing frameworks, pre-mortems, and with intense heads down focus. Write down a plan, test it in your head, and sprint. Things are often possible in insanely fast timelines.”
A lot of this resonates with my own experiences. I quit a stable full time job with a young family to go and build Lemon Squeezy. Rewards don’t come without the risks.
Snagged myself a proper icon the other day. Short of an R34, this is *the* defining car of the Fast & Furious era. I’ve wanted one of these since I was a teenager 👌
Supercar ownership has been much more rewarding than I expected. Sure the driving experience is a tonne of fun. But the joy it brings other people is what has surprised me most. Random conversations in car parks with like minded folks has been an unexpected upside of owning a car like this 👌
