Greg Chase

Product Marketer AI Developers | Data & Analytics. He/Him. 🏳️‍🌈

[Greg Chase @GregChase]

@KenWattana Are we back to the era of needing more area codes since each agent needs a phone number, like when everyone needed a private fax number?

Ya, I’m that old!

[Greg Chase @GregChase]

I used my voice to narrate a demo recording yesterday. I got asked if I used AI to generate my voice. Should I consider that a compliment?

[Greg Chase @GregChase]

@KenWattana Simply because they are building actual things :-)

[Greg Chase @GregChase]

@KenWattana I don’t know. Those token prices are increasing pretty significantly. The question is whether run your own inference will win over inference as a service at Enterprises.

[Greg Chase @GregChase]

@FiftyShots @Noahpinion This is relevant - in 2010, we were still excited by the "You got mail" blinking red light on our BlackBerries!

[Greg Chase @GregChase]

@thdxr Wait for it to ask permission to do the next step.

Assuming Claude isn’t down.

[Greg Chase @GregChase]

@ashoka408 @Noahpinion @mnolangray Santana Row and Valley Fair need a light rail connection, and, frankly, light rail needs them.

[Greg Chase @GregChase]

@JaykhatriDev In fairness, if maybe you are orchestrating enterprise ERP processes, might be hard to do something useful in a 4 person seed startup.

[Greg Chase @GregChase]

@soulfulsloth @hamedinsf I thought he was just commenting on how long it takes to drive between the neighborhoods.

Otherwise the culture in the Mission is way better than San Jose, and I grew up in SJ.

[Greg Chase @GregChase]

@typesfast In Austin, Waymo is working with Uber. Call an Uber and you might get a Waymo.

[Greg Chase @GregChase]

@jefielding @mattmireles In most parts of the world, sub 1 million San Francisco would be a village.

[Greg Chase @GregChase]

@nrmehta @garrytan @DStrachman Fashion in VC funding requirements might be changing, but the VCs themselves haven’t. Still lemmings.

[Greg Chase @GregChase]

@qadir5000 @dotta Now I just need a product
and customers…

[Greg Chase @GregChase]

You aren’t including the meeting to plan the planning meeting to write the plan.

[Todd Saunders @toddsaunders]

The token cost to build a production feature is now lower than the meeting cost to discuss building that feature.

Let me rephrase.

It is literally cheaper to build the thing and see if it works than to have a 30 minute planning meeting about whether you should build it.

It’s wild when you think about it.

This completely inverts how you should run a software organization. The planning layer becomes the bottleneck because the building layer is essentially free. The cost of code has dropped to essentially 0.

The rational response is to eliminate planning for anything that can be tested empirically. Don’t debate whether a feature will work.

Just build it in 2 hours, measure it with a group of customers, and then decide to kill or keep it.

I saw a startup operating this way and their build velocity is up 20x. Decision quality is up because every decision is informed by a real prototype, not a slide deck and an expensive meeting.

We went from “move fast and break things” to “move fast and build everything.”

The planning industrial complex is dead.

Thank god.

[Greg Chase @GregChase]

Don’t leave your gym bag in your car in San Francisco. They’ll smash your window and steal your smelly socks.

This isn’t new. It’s been the case for as long as I’ve known, 50+ years…

[lilly sharples @lillysharples]

Officially an SF local!🎉

[Greg Chase @GregChase]

@theojaffee There are no men in San Francisco between the ages of 20 & 34, only large male
children.

[Greg Chase @GregChase]

@i2cjak That’s close to 1 year of a moderately priced gym membership for a year.

So unless you want someone to launder your towels for you, it could be a good ROI to own instead of rent.

[Greg Chase @GregChase]

Agent only provide value when they get into production.

Hmm, isn’t that true for software in general?

[Greg Chase @GregChase]

Two sessions so far starting with a computer history lesson starting with mainframes and adding AI agents as a new layer.

Y’all forgot to mention punch cards. I used to color on those as a kid when my dad worked for IBM.

[Greg Chase @GregChase]

Really excited about @Ainekk0 and @AIFoundryorg foray into open source AI compute…

[SupermanSpace 𝕏 @superman_space]

Open hardware for AI just took a leap 🛠️

Ainekko is releasing Esperanto’s RISC‑V cores. 1 000+ cores on a chip and full RTL are coming for community use

Custom boards for robots, industrial edge or IoT could be built with these designs. What would you build?