Valentin De Matos

AI engineer @withdelphi in SF. I write about AI products, founders, and what actually ships. Prev @arcads_ai @gladia_io

[Valentin De Matos @VDMatos]

I’ve joined @withdelphi as an AI engineer.

Today happens to be one of those dates that reminds me how unpredictable life can be, and how lucky I am to still be here doing the things I love most.

If you don't already know Delphi, I strongly invite you to check it out.

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Linear is positioning itself at the core of every software factory. Wild vision, I buy in.

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@h4shkat @poolsideai What are they even talking about?

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@PenguinWeb3 I see...

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I don't know who you are but all your tweets are bangers

[thebes @voooooogel]

what are we doing here claude

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@gregface9er beep/bop is gay

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I asked codex how I've been treating him so far:

"You are not especially performatively polite" might be the highest euphemism I've heard so far.

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@alexisaftalion Need to make Jensen proud

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Now we're talking

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It's obviously sugar-coated, we need the truth

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$30M post-money. That's the median seed valuation I'm hearing from YC founders right now. Some of them even pre-revenue.

Half of them are building the 400th AI sales agent. Somebody explain what I'm missing?

[Leonardo @mrloldev]

i know someone that spent 25k$ in codex TODAY

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How many agents you can run on a codebase at once is the most honest measure of how ready it is for the agentic era.

Stuck at one or two means coupling and shared state. We each run 5+ in parallel at Delphi, climbing as the code gets cleaner.

The model was never your bottleneck

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Met a room full of French founders in SF, a bunch of them proud they keep eng in Europe so they never pay six figures.

I'm the engineer you're trying to underpay, and it's the dumbest money you'll ever save.

Want the best? Pay them. Make them rich. Share the profit.

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@MicheleRivaCode Then you're an AI Engineer. Congratulations!

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But how many tokens are you burning per day?

[Michele Riva @MicheleRivaCode]

AI psychosis made it even worse

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Half these YC founders are only founders because they couldn't pass the interviews at AI labs.

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@mrloldev The only acceptable way

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If you're still using claude, ngmi.

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Can someone invite me?

[Mercor @mercor_ai]

We're running a 24-hour hackathon June 19–20 in San Francisco with @cognition, @etched, and @AnthropicAI.

$50k top prize. $100k in total awards. Every accepted team gets 8xH100s, Anthropic credits, and Cognition API access.

Guest judges include: @BrendanFoody, @robertwachen, and @silasalberti.

Apply by 6/12: https://t.co/wuqEpBOSIm