Donald Bough

Bootstrapping goal of $5 mil. by 2028 with | Aspiring to help people by writing software | Amazon fulltime

[Donald Bough @DonaldBough]

@jdnoc @matteing Product I'm working on is actually at around ~1000 users and it has been less than $5 from @Firebase so far.

[Donald Bough @DonaldBough]

@mynameisyahia YC that’s awesome! Good luck I’m sure you’ll kill it

[Donald Bough @DonaldBough]

@forgebitz

[Donald Bough @DonaldBough]

@vercel_dev Whoah @MatthewStanciu congrats on the launch!

[Donald Bough @DonaldBough]

@yongfook How do you like the Apple keyboard + trackpad setup? Just got the same but can’t tell if a mouse and thicker keyboard would be better

[Donald Bough @DonaldBough]

It feels like a marketing stunt “oh wow we’re so good we had to get regulated”

[Anthropic @AnthropicAI]

The US government, citing national security authorities, has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States, including foreign national Anthropic employees.

The net effect of this order is that we must abruptly disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all our customers to ensure compliance.

Access to all other Claude models is not affected.

We apologize for this disruption to our customers. We believe this is a misunderstanding and are working to restore access as soon as possible.

Read our full statement: https://t.co/bwn0sximKZ

[Donald Bough @DonaldBough]

Neat!

[Google Research @GoogleResearch]

Today on the blog, we discuss a pathway for the second life of phones through the exploration of “phone cluster computing”, which can directly reduce the environmental footprint of computing by avoiding the need for further raw material extraction. More →https://t.co/FFUNjfaEm5

[Donald Bough @DonaldBough]

Horrible timing on Anthropic to call for a pause on AI then release their “safe” version of ultra hacker model Mythos

[bayes @bayeslord]

They didn’t mean pause AI research, they meant pause *your* AI research

[Donald Bough @DonaldBough]

Such a weird job market

[The Random Recruiter @randomrecruiter]

We're in the weirdest job market of all time.

From 2020 to mid 2022, companies were hiring at a pace that made no sense.

Some teams grew 50%, some doubled. Everyone was afraid of missing out on talent, so they just kept adding headcount. If you could spell the word "javascript" you could land a remote role and a 25% raise.

Then the second half of 2022 hit and the hangover started. Layoff after layoff. Each wave was supposed to be "the last one."

Now in 2026 there are already over 130,000 tech layoffs and we still have another 6 months to go in the year.

The twist this time is AI.

Companies aren't just saying they overhired anymore.

They're saying AI is making them leaner. That they can do more with fewer people. It's become the convenient new reason that sounds strategic while making their stock pop.

But here's where it gets absurd.

More and more companies are admitting the AI math isn't working out. They can't find the ROI they promised their boards. The computing costs are massive. It's more expensive than they thought, not less.

So let me get this straight.

We're in a job market where companies fired their workforce to buy something they now say is too expensive and doesn't work as advertised.

And the executives responsible for those decisions? They're still collecting their bonuses.

Weirdest job market of all time.

[Donald Bough @DonaldBough]

Fruit ninja guy strikes again, I need this

[Luke Muscat @pgmuscat]

My 2nd solo dev game is coming soon. It is a very normal golf game.

[GL @gldivittorio]

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[Donald Bough @DonaldBough]

@VicVijayakumar Yes! So glad to see others coming full circle. Coding with agents has never allowed me unplug my brain. The human needs to solve the problems and review the code

[Alvaro Bedoya @BedoyaUSA]

United Auto Workers president Shawn Fain testifying in favor of a 32-hour workweek. "Eighty-four years ago the 40-hour workweek was established. And since then, we've had a 400 percent increase in productivity, and nothing's changed."

[Donald Bough @DonaldBough]

@sam_kececi This is huge! Big congrats on the launch Sam

[Donald Bough @DonaldBough]

My friend is building the future!

[Sam K @sam_kececi]

We raised $6.5m to build humanity’s platform for uploaded consciousness.

Sentience creates one unique model for every person — a digital twin of your mind — to remember everything, recall what matters, and operate as you.

I started this company because I am worried. For the first time, we have intelligence that will fully replace humans across a range of domains within a few years.

For those outside of the tech echo chamber, this is a period wrought with confusion and uncertainty about what actually matters anymore. I’ve had numerous conversations with people who aren’t sure if they have any value as a unique human being, or whether their own thinking matters. While Silicon Valley goes full speed ahead towards AGI, many people are left wondering what place they have in this AI future.

If I can communicate one thing to everyone out there with these doubts, it would be this: your unique knowledge, memories, and who you are still matter. In fact, these things matter now more than ever.

The problem is that the course of AI is heading towards a world where all of us will outsource our thinking to the same one-size-fits-all AI models. This is not a hypothetical future. If 100,000 people ask a question to ChatGPT, every single person gets the same answer. You can see the cost of uniform AI models across writing, social media, and even academic papers. This uniformity is more than annoying – it’s dangerous.

There’s a genuine chance that we lose the texture and vibrancy that makes us unique as a species.

I founded The Sentience Company to arm real humans against this dystopian outcome.

First, your Sentience lets you collect everything that holds context from your life, learning from what you do across every platform – starting on desktop and mobile. Never forget a detail again.

Second, your Sentience becomes the best recall engine for everything in your life. Never copy/paste context or search across 50 chrome tabs again.

Finally, your Sentience becomes the full simulation of you – an AI model that thinks and acts like you, to scale and share your unique ideas and interact with others. Your Sentience emulates more than your context. It understands your values, emotions, drive, and goals.

We’re creating a world where you can leverage your own Sentience model alongside the models of your colleagues and friends to jam on ideas and access their knowledge 24/7.

We’re not building Sentience to scale AGI and replace more human thinking. We’re building Sentience to scale you.

We’re proud that many amazing humans are supporting our mission. Our round was led by @kevinzhang (@BainCapVC), with participation from @ditzikow, @adityaag, @evantana, @AgrawalArian, @gopalkraman, @JPBrebner (@southpkcommons), @rex_woodbury, @tmrohan, @soleio, @anniecase1, and many more.

[Donald Bough @DonaldBough]

@brunoborges This would be an awesome twitter account!

[Donald Bough @DonaldBough]

@threepointone How big is your https://t.co/x7VEAQOQze? I have a 30+ page one (mainly diagrams) for human review, not sure if something smaller would be better for agent

[Donald Bough @DonaldBough]

Has anyone used @DevinAI and went back to Claude? I feel like Devin is just better for high level tasks

[Donald Bough @DonaldBough]

@thdxr So is this an open source alternative to Devin AI?

[Donald Bough @DonaldBough]

“we have automated coding but not software engineering”

[Rachel Thomas @math_rachel]

AI coding agents produce syntactically correct code. However, they don’t produce useful layers of abstraction nor meaningful modularization. They don’t value conciseness or improving organization in a large code base. We have automated coding, but not software engineering. 10/

[claire de lune @ClaireMPLS]

just as a general rule if there are a bunch of clergy peacefully protesting in the cold and you’re the one dragging them away in cuffs, there’s a 99.9% chance you’re on the wrong side of history