JP Ren (@jpren) profile picture

Building @frenslol, YC and a16z CSX alum

Joined March 2008
We believe robots are going to reshape the world, making work and businesses that were previously impossible a reality. Over the last three months, we’ve been working on a robot useful enough to do real work and affordable enough to deploy at scale.
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from full-stack engineer to full-stack founder. we now have enough time in each day for both maker and manager schedules, for both making and talking to users
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DevX? Grok Code?
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I'm feeling energized and having so much fun. Finally found a workflow that works for me :)
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The funny thing about streaks as a retention mechanism is as soon as I miss one and the streak ends, I give up It’s kind of like Nassim Taleb’s turkey parable applied to product retention
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my current sniff test of AI writing is consistent rhythm
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Saw someone selling a 1988 Apple Macintosh Plus on FB marketplace Thought about the vibe coding possibilities(!), but then remembered that I would have to save them onto a floppy disk
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If you’re seeing my posts and we haven’t spoken in so long that it seems the Overton window has closed… well it’s not closed and awkward is better than invisible I’d love to get a heartbeat from you. DM me with a “yo” or whatever
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ok wow that worked? thanks for the DM's!
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♾️ IQ 0 EQ
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I can no longer track what percentage of my feed is botted or ghostwritten. I yearn for an internet that connects people, but that’s not where the current trajectory is going
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After not posting here since ever, trying something new. Only posting hand written, half baked, run-on sentences here that take 1 minute or less to draft
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Have yet to find anything that beats the serendipity of jamming with friends
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Soon there will be more agents than humans
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AI transformed coding, science is next @ReactorfieldAI makes scientists and deep tech startups AI-native Built by me and @berkbuilds to accelerate science with frontier AI
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Ok preordered
Snap Specs + Tesla FSD sounds like a pretty magical experience for orchestrating agents on the go
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Snap Specs + Tesla FSD sounds like a pretty magical experience for orchestrating agents on the go
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All the Sybil problems we faced in crypto are coming for everything and everyone else with AI spam
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It’s been fun rethinking the humble calendar from the lens of AI-first interfaces
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tinkering on a new project… what if your calendar were smart and you can just talk to it?
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