Startup founder. Fixing the admin burden hidden inside every employer in America.

San Francisco, CA
Joined January 2007
It’s @OpenAI DevDay and @EdmontonOilers opening night. OpenAI gave out ModRetro Chromatics, and Codex can one-shot games, so naturally I had to make a game where McDavid feeds Draisaitl one-timers. #LetsGoOilers
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Poor GitHub, Claude Code is generating 2-3x more commits for the same amount work over the last few weeks
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I swear Claude is trying to hammer GitHub to the ground
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California Profit: $800 Tax: 100%
California currently has a flat 8.84% corporate tax. Whether a company makes $100 or $1 billion in profit, the rate is the same. It’s time for a tax code that recognizes the difference between a local shop and a global giant.
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I suddenly feel better about spending 100+ hours on SOC 2 over the past year
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I'm noticing in my Claude Code usage stats (from ccusage) that 95-99% of tokens are "cache reads." If true, then we're really not using as many tokens as we think. Instead of $573 it would be more like $5 of usage. Maybe ccusage is broken because I doubt I used 691M tokens yesterday, but still.
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I’m far too old to be this online
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I built a little utility app with Claude Code and Cloudflare workers. Within minutes, ClaudeBot and GPTBot started hammering the app at 8 request/second. The fun part is Cloudflare workers are usage based, and D1 (their hosted sqlite) charges by row read...
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Just like YC doesn’t invest in California, New York or Texas corporations.
New from me: Y Combinator is no longer investing in Canadian startups. The accelerator recently cut Canada from its list of countries where enrolled firms can be incorporated. They'll now need a new parent company in the U.S., Cayman Islands or Singapore. thelogic.co/news/exclusive/y…
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If your great technical achievement is graduating from vlookup, you aren’t allowed to comment on the brex deal.
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I miss Stripe before the PMs
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“Extreme Cold Watch” and a low of 46°
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After a 10 hour flight to Europe, you land and are denied entry because your AI retouched and generated passport photo doesn’t match your actual face.
It costs $22 / person to take passport or visa photos at UPS, I'm gonna vibe code an alternative right now.
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Just to be clear: 1. California borrowed heavily from the federal government to cover pandemic unemployment that they “LOST” due to fraud. 2. Unlike every other state, California chose not to pay that loan down 3. The repayment burden was shifted almost entirely onto employers QUIETLY and automatically 4. This all occurred while the governor went on a press tour celebrating a “budget surplus”
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Who's going to acquire buildkite and include CI into their coding agent?
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I appreciate that Spotify filters out truck songs and blippi on wrapped
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I'm drowning in ChatGPT chat threads. Projects aren't quite enough anymore
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It's fun to see this much excitement around San Francisco, when it's still only about 60% of what it was in Feb 2020
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Over the last few months I've seen AI demos from state governments that rival seed stage startups. Google for Government is the main driving force
“governments are adopting AI almost as fast as my friends running startups.” - Zac Bookman
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