THE PROBLEM CAN NOT BE SOLVED WITHOUT EXTENSIVE INTERNET RESEARCH.

Varun Mohan and the team at Windsurf built something great. What I heard is every founding engineer (over 40 of them) cleared 7 figures. The remaining org of 200 was only 15 engineers who had worked there less than a year, the rest were sales and ops, and even then they left more cash in the business that could have made everyone more than whole if the remaining team was willing to dividend it and shut down. Varun preserved $2.3B in value for the investors and vested cap table and did his best under time pressure with the options he had. He and his team don’t deserve to be dragged and I think in the long term their decision to sell will be vindicated. It can be irresistible to fan the flames on Internet beef but in this case everyone should stand down given what really happened.

Whoever controls the AI controls the mind.

imagine trying to compete with this lineup and this is just a random thursday cc @tbpn @johncoogan @jordihays

Broke every @bryan_johnson rule about sleep tonight. Wish me luck.

“Nuclear launch detected”

We have a scarcity of talented people because there’s incredibly large sums of money sitting around doing nothing. There aren’t many good reasons for that and intelligence alone can’t unlock that. You need hardcore people who will persevere through hard problems.

Engineers spend 70% of their time understanding code, not writing it. That’s why we built Asimov at @reflection_ai. The best-in-class code research agent, built for teams and organizations.

AI is going to change almost every aspect of work. There’s a window right now where the first AI native generation will be entering the workforce, and will have a ton they can teach the companies as they go AI-first. Every company should take this opportunity seriously.

I am looking for great things to read off the beaten path. What is the best blog post, essay, or paper you've read this year that changed your thinking from last year?