@pmarca I had a CTO do this and he set the company back 6 months. We should probably just start replacing CTOs with Engineers and Product people that can bang.
Cloudflare's security team spent the last few weeks testing Anthropic's Mythos against fifty of our own repositories. What we learned about offensive AI, why faster patching is the wrong reaction, and what the architecture around vulnerabilities has to look like next. https://t.co/RSrRtIhgaV
General Catalyst just co-led a $31.5 million seed round into a blatant rip-off of my company, Kled.
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I would typically not speak on things like this, but this level of blatant copycatting is egregious and completely unacceptable, and needs to be made an example of.
This is one of hundreds of YC startups who have conducted this disgusting behavior. Unimaginative slop that continues to get rewarded due to nepotism.
@dexhorthy There's a lot of rediscovery of software best practices happening at the moment. I am curious to see if that will once again all be walked back as the models continue to improve.
Keep this in mind when you hear about companies laying off huge swathes of their workforce. I know at least an half dozen old school electronics guys that went to university to study electrical engineering when they saw manufacturers move from analog to digital circuitry in the 80s.
I am not sure why developers think they are above needing to stay up to date with their craft suddenly.
I asked again at ElixirConf EU (April/2026) and almost everybody raised their hands for some usage. But less than half of the room was using for more than 50% of their work.
Roughly 6 months since I last asked (where less than 50% raised their hands at all).
Silvio Berlusconi’s ‘Rule of 30’:
‘Before appointing a minister, you should ask them a simple question that’s more useful than any CV. How many women have you been with? Because if they say fewer than thirty, they can’t be a minister. They’re not vaccinated against life.’
@thdxr We cut the undersea cables connecting North Korea and Russia to the rest of us. Maybe an IRL geofence wrapped in copper foil around the offending countries.
World leaders, my DMs are open for consultations.