Simo Rachidi

AI/ML cybersecurity @salesforce. CEO at R1015. Previously founding eng @pixlee (acq), cofounder @Distinc.tt.

[Simo Rachidi @Sim0Rachidi]

That's the 10.

#5 and #9 are where people usually pick fights. Comments open.

Cleaning up our actual taxonomy file + PRD template, the ones our agents read before robot-sim tasks. Follow and I'll post them this week.

Building this at SafeWorld, we stress-test robot safety in simulation.

[Simo Rachidi @Sim0Rachidi]

Most engineers blame the model when AI code sucks.

The model is fine. Your repo is illegible, your decisions are undocumented, and your CI is mute.

I ship production code with agents every day robots, sims, cloud infra. 10 lessons, no fluff: 🧵

[Simo Rachidi @Sim0Rachidi]

10/ You are the merge gate.

Agents made writing code cheap. That made accountability expensive.

Never merge what you can't explain. The new 10x engineer isn't whoever prompts fastest, it's whoever's review catches what four models missed.

[Simo Rachidi @Sim0Rachidi]

Frontier thinking LLMs can follow ~ 150-200 instructions with reasonable consistency. Smaller models can attend to fewer instructions than larger models, and non-thinking models can attend to fewer instructions than thinking models

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[Simo Rachidi @Sim0Rachidi]

@themichelinmin @SnappStats @speedrun @GoldHouseCo @DormRoomFund @ValiaVentures Congrats @themichelinmin ! this is huge for the industry

[Simo Rachidi @Sim0Rachidi]

@Chen Looks good!

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@mokoyfman Humanity won’t. Robot safety should be :)

[Simo Rachidi @Sim0Rachidi]

@JoshLu Ms dos era of agents !

[Jon Lai @Tocelot]

a16z @speedrun request for startups: GUIs for Agents

we’re still in the MS-DOS era of agents today - CLI, terminal sessions, file directories deleted by openclaw etc. while a small slice of silicon valley are power users, we're SO early for the rest of the world

at Speedrun, we’re looking for bold founders excited to bring the power of agents to normies everywhere. there's a whole slew of products to be built here - from agent builders to marketplaces to managed infrastructure

one broad idea we’re excited about are visual abstraction layers for agents. if you don't know exactly what you want, a command line / chat interface is paralyzing - you need to see options

1 example - think of a GUI or visual command center inspired by strategy games (ex. Factorio) where agents and workflows are represented graphically. skills, tools, MCP connections, background processes, etc could all be configured and shown visually in a workspace

on UX, strategy games have long perfected agent management. zoom to get a birds-eye view of your agents, batch and queue orders via shortcuts, assign agents in multiplayer etc. a well-designed agent command center would make multi-agent orchestration for normies feel easy & intuitive

most folks today still haven't moved beyond ChatGPT. the potential is enormous - just as Windows unlocked mass-market use of personal computers, the right visual abstraction layer could unlock agentic work for everyone - from individuals to enterprise teams

if you share our vision, we'd love to chat!

[Macy Mills @_CallMeMacy]

WE WANT TO HELP YOU INFLECT @speedrun. 🚀

Why apply? You'll be pushed by your fellow batchmates, @a16z partners, and yourself to do more than you ever thought possible. The SR community is like no other.

Waiting for your sign to apply? This is it. Link below.

[Simo Rachidi @Sim0Rachidi]

friends/ex-colleagues if anyone wants an intro to the a16z speedrun team, please email/DM me!