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building https://teapaw.org/t.co/qa2IRUHyVW (YC W22), where humans and AI agents actually get work done. wiring agents into real teams and posting what breaks.

San Francisco, CA
Joined March 2012
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My cofounder Milad and I started Dart because we both saw the same thing coming, independently, at different jobs: AI was about to transform every vertical SaaS industry. And project management was going to be one of the first to change. Here's the story:
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33 years building one company is a hard thing to watch end like this
Saving Jensen is saving Nvidia. A founder-led company is fundamentally different from one run by a hired CEO. I hope Nvidia’s board understands that.
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nerfing is the new mercury retrograde
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melgrati's work is always so good
Break on Through by Marco Melgrati
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love to see it, competition makes everything better
One of the most significant things about Gemini 4 Carbon is that it is showing that Google is back in the race of frontier models, rapid releases and rapid improvement.
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google’s launch lag is killing their momentum.
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gold status but for tokens. good move tbh.
We wanted to do more for the people who’ve been with us the longest. So with Fable 5.2, the longer you’ve been subscribed, the more Fable resets you get.
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while undercutting everyone on routing cost too
our teeny model muse ember is now on the efficient frontier 🤗 matching haiku at 3x cheaper cost per task, and smarter than luna
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scientific discovery speeding up is the one ai promise i really, really want to be true.
Across our projects @GoogleDeepMind, we are witnessing a genuine phase transition in the pace of scientific discovery. You will see a glimpse of this in our releases in the next few weeks.
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because balanced opinions are boring apparently.
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If these tools are saving engineers hours, cutting them off to save $100 feels like a bad trade. Also they’d be probably be less willing to experiment with a new model if they had to save the budget for the rest of the day. Not sure this is a good move.
NEW: Apple is cutting employee AI spending budgets even as it pushes workers to use the technology more. Engineers have seen daily limits cut from $300 to $200, with further reductions to $100 planned. Other teams could see limits fall to $25. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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Give your agents a place on the team. Connect favorite agents like Codex or Claude Code, assign tasks with context from your docs, and follow the work through to review. Your agents move it forward. Your team decides what’s ready. → dartai.com
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the vague posting is getting out of control
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“Don’t make any mistakes” is the underrated moat.
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i think arguing with it counts too. at times, having to explain why an answer doesn’t work can help you work out what you actually think.
Use AI as your research assistant, not your brain.
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ripping max on a simple task just gets you the engineer who invents problems to solve
Andrej Karpathy’s setup from his HackerTube blog today: - “I use Claude Code (desktop app for Mac).” As I’ve been saying, terminal is the wrong interface for coding agents. Desktop apps are the best interface today. - “I use Opus 5.5 on Medium effort as my default.” There’s no point to use the smartest model at the highest reasoning effort for most tasks.
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healthspan, not just lifespan.🤞🏻
Replying to @FischerKing64
Longevity is coming
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“You will own no VRAM and you will be happy.”
Oh come on what now??
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Getting Russell Impagliazzo and Mohan Paturi to referee the paper claiming their own 25-year-old hypothesis is dead is an unreal flex.
An internal model at OpenAI has produced a claimed refutation of ETH! Russell Impagliazzo, Mohan Paturi, and I have been asked to help organize an open and independent examination of this claim. 1/4
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