Christophe Chong

Founding team @Lime, Co-founder @Kikoff

[Christophe Chong @ChristopheChong]

Was paying at a restaurant and looking at the pre calculated tips, which were inflated

Beneath it was a disclaimer that we are now calculating gratuity based on the AFTER tax amount

I have an Econ degree and know it’s a subsidy for customers lost due to the original tax

[Christophe Chong @ChristopheChong]

@CoachDanGo First practical tweet I’ve seen in a while. Had all the ingredients, and now I have one fewer thing to buy every week (fresh berries). Topped with a low sugar granola.

[foks @ExaltedFoks]

I was in a sauna where this man and his friend were discussing what sort of adventure they wanted to go on for his 30th birthday. Something "extreme, unexpected, never before seen" were the approximate requirements.

Cambodian river hunting, Afghani mountain climbing, Patagonian glacier trekking was floated. Yacht rentals with billionaire friends were mentioned. Bharatpur, Ulaanbaatar, Nairobi. Ice, volcano, jungle. The entire world traversed in a single conversation.

And I pondered, the ridiculousness of a man constructing adventure, rather than suffering it as it arrives. True adventure is not purchased on your phone, it is inflicted. It is illness, it is heartbreak, it is grief. The man scheduling an adventure is fleeing the one waiting for him at home. Attendre et espérer.

[Christophe Chong @ChristopheChong]

“Why do East Asians migrate to California?”

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Body hair might seem pointless, but it actually helps shield us from mosquito bites.

[Christophe Chong @ChristopheChong]

Bro met Garry Stan

[Vikram Subbiah @tiovikram]

First day in SF and already met Garry Tan at Chipotle on his birthday

Told him what I was building and the guy invited me for an interview

SF is truly the greatest city on Earth

[Christophe Chong @ChristopheChong]

Could The Bronze Age could be a blueprint for The AI Age to come?

In it, there are four new kinds of software engineers: agent of empire, urbanite, rebel, and nomad.

1) the agent of empire. these are the tier 1 lab shops. they are growing the beast. unlimited token use is applied as much to growing the beast as creating competition for incumbents, to force them into paying the AI tax.

2) urbanite, aka the new factory worker. they are the ones who are enjoying the centralization of AI, for now. includes both people who have never written code before, to those who are ex-engineers. since they haven't been reading the code before, they continue to ignore it now. they are just happy to be a part of it all.

3) the rebel. these are the open source models. they are growing mini beasts, goading the empire into attacking them and mimetically growing beastlings. they refuse to pay the tax and eschew centralization, and are increasingly a thorn in the side of empire.

4) the nomad. these people are AI minimalists. they are the bedouins, living off their own skill and knowledge of the land. they will be here when urban knowledge centers fail or the beast becomes uncontrollable.

[Christophe Chong @ChristopheChong]

I remember during my stint at meta I rented a room in an Airbnb to explore living closer and an electrician who was working on one of the new MPK buildings said:

“I don’t know why the company needs so many engineers for an app that can run on a laptop.”

Oh, where to begin. I politely nodded, put on my helmet, and jumped on my gxxr.

[Kontra @counternotions]

WSJ: “Meta has no platform layer, no operating system, no cloud business, no device. It is an application running on Apple’s hardware, spending up to $135B this year to build consumer AI features that Apple ships free, at the OS level, on every device it sells.” → 20% layoff?

[Christophe Chong @ChristopheChong]

Stellar record of finding the previous generation's founders. First principles approach to incubation. Excited to see where this program goes! I've met some of the potential candidates and it's a high bar.

https://t.co/KZtL66c6ML

[Christophe Chong @ChristopheChong]

SMBs are now proven LLM winners – which is great because that includes half of all working Americans.

Case in point: my friend runs tech at an SMB with less than a hundred ppl, closing in on nine figure sales.

They abandoned a million dollar salesforce migration (which they are still on the hook for) since it took forever for the salesforce engineers to add buttons in the right place... but not abandoned for nothing. Instead, the tech lead modernized their homegrown solution using Claude Code.

This is a technology so powerful that sunk cost contracts by incumbents can't hold you down.

All the little integrations and add ons he would be charged for he can now build in house. All they need is a ledger and some core accounting software for financials.

Making integrations hard to migrate away from, nickel- and dime-ing every both headcount growth and every added functionality, heavy upfront contracts – all of it is going away.

That’s triple downside for the giant software shops. Your order management, website, CRM is now cheaper, faster, more secure and scalable.

Which means more money for businesses to do business!

And it's not just the saved costs, it's velocity unlock and capabilities unlock — toss into this story a DB with 80% CPU utilization being brought down to 12%.

So sure, software is getting hammered, but software is about utility, and those at the heart of the American economy stand to gain big when we push software from big centralized brains to the edges.

Interesting road ahead!

Cautiously optimistic.

[Christophe Chong @ChristopheChong]

@linderps >> search for bachata in sf bay

>> drive down to San Mateo.

>> it’s all guys but two girls

>> not enough girls so me and a few guys volunteer for female part

>> doing both actually helps in learning bachata better!

>> never go back

>> mfw i learn the sexy ppl are in ny 😂

[Christophe Chong @ChristopheChong]

>> claude --resume d535acb8-c68a-4f38-b3c0-36b7298fce65

No conversation found with session ID:
d535acb8-c68a-4f38-b3c0-36b7298fce65

[Christophe Chong @ChristopheChong]

If data was the new oil, then AI coding is the new plastic

[Christophe Chong @ChristopheChong]

@tunguz Software ate the stock market. But it was done by the older vintage.

[Christophe Chong @ChristopheChong]

@tszzl @tylercowen I stopped full contact sparring after my fingers wouldn’t remember to do their thing following a hard session.

Could’ve just been panic-induced though 😅

They eventually recovered

[Christophe Chong @ChristopheChong]

It's when we cure LLM dementia before human dementia that it's truly over.

[Christophe Chong @ChristopheChong]

@paulswaney3 Conventional masculinity may be about acting bullet proof, but it’s also about discipline which I think BJ owns to an extreme.

[Christophe Chong @ChristopheChong]

@ebitdaddy90 Yeah last time someone said something like this they invented AWS

[Christophe Chong @ChristopheChong]

@AmazonHelp Thx — the mental model of “scrolling your notes to where you’re in the book” doesn’t work well in the reverse: when you’re scrolling your notes and checking the context, you need to click through into the page (full view) to mark where you are in the notes to keep it synced.

[Christophe Chong @ChristopheChong]

Now that we can vibe code things can someone from @AmazonKindle fix the highlights section so that clicking through to see the text doesn’t lose track of the scroll position in the highlights? Might be worth joining the team to fix this myself.

[Christophe Chong @ChristopheChong]

Major consumer to enterprise pivot.

Defense tech VCs salivating.

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

We received signals from partners in the Middle East. There have been strikes by Iranian “shaheds” on civilians in those countries. They are seeking our expertise. We are open. If their representatives come, we will provide the expertise. Especially since there is also a request from Europeans and from the United States. Requests have come to us to share our experience with partners in the Middle East.

Regarding weapons: we ourselves are at war. And I said, completely frankly, that we have a shortage of what they have. They have missiles for the Patriots, but hundreds or thousands of “shaheds” cannot be intercepted with Patriot missiles – it is too costly. Nothing is too much for the people, of course, but they simply do not have that many missiles. That is why they need interceptor drones, which we have. Meanwhile, we have a shortage of PAC-2 and PAC-3 missiles. So, when it comes to technology or weapons exchange, I believe our country will be open to it.

From an interview with Rai Italia (2/5).