Aneel ✊🏽

active investor | unbeholden malcontent

[Aneel ✊🏽 @aneel]

There was never any good old days
They are today, they are tomorrow
It's a stupid thing we say
Cursing tomorrow with sorrow
— @GogolBordello

[Aneel ✊🏽 @aneel]

"used by engineers from"

None of these companies are customers but we want to borrow the status and prestige of the engineers who work at these companies to influence you, another engineer, to use our thing which is no different from x other things

[Aneel ✊🏽 @aneel]

I just mark every AI-slop-email as spam

The spam filters are gonna explode soon

I wonder how much of global email/wa/sms/etc traffic is spam filter load and what the trendline is

[Aneel ✊🏽 @aneel]

Corey Adjusted for Spin Quinn

@QuinnyPig ‘s slinging a new substack

[Aneel ✊🏽 @aneel]

Let the agent do whatever it wants on prod data; just don’t let it do that in a prod env. Let the bots bot.

[Y Combinator @ycombinator]

Ardent (@ArdentAI) let's you clone any Postgres DB <6s at TB scale so coding agents can test their code and engineering teams can ship fast without fear of taking down production.

It's already being used by dozens of teams like Supermemory and Surface Labs with 10TB+ of data across customers.

Congrats on the launch, @vchennai2!

https://t.co/nxA9jhbYQn

[Aneel ✊🏽 @aneel]

Remember to be a real human today, friends

[Aneel ✊🏽 @aneel]

If it looks like a wealth transfer, swims like a wealth transfer, and quacks like a wealth transfer, then it probably is a wealth transfer

[Aneel ✊🏽 @aneel]

“I use Grok for some things, because it has no morals”

[Aneel ✊🏽 @aneel]

Looking forward to being unalived by a lamp in my sleep

[Aneel ✊🏽 @aneel]

@QuinnyPig

[Aneel ✊🏽 @aneel]

@HarryStebbings asked for startup merch startups and the world already delivered https://t.co/XmLiZIk6Iv

[Aneel ✊🏽 @aneel]

Germ of an idea: meaning isn't one dimensional

[Aneel ✊🏽 @aneel]

It’s gonna be fun

[Matt Webb 🌸🌼 genmon.fyi @genmon]

there are two visions of the future of computing: cyborgs and rooms

cyborgs = augmented self. AI glasses, brain-computer interfaces... the personal computer paradigm

rooms = augmented environment. from smart speakers to dynamicland. ambient computing!

https://t.co/xUOaRvEF44

[Aneel ✊🏽 @aneel]

First contact with Boardy

[Aneel ✊🏽 @aneel]

Surf goes OSS!

What would happen if notes were alive, if the notebook came before the browser, if all your work was saved locally, if you could extract information from a youtube video into a table and do some math at will, and pick your model or bring your own?

SURF

[Deta @detahq]

Today, Surf goes open:

• open source
• open (&amp; local) data
• open model choice (incl. local)

What's Surf? Watch for more.

[Aneel ✊🏽 @aneel]

Watching people slowly realize that LLMs aren’t semantic

Is weird

Because these are all “engineers” with a fundamental incuriosity about how the thing they’re playing with works and doesn’t work

VC’s, on the whole, seem completely disconnected from any ground truth

[Aneel ✊🏽 @aneel]

Surf the World

🏄‍♂️ ✨🌍

[Deta @detahq]

Browsers are for consuming.

Chat is a consumer interface.

𝙎𝙪𝙧𝙛 𝙞𝙨 𝙖 𝙣𝙤𝙩𝙚𝙗𝙤𝙤𝙠 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙘𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜 — 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙮𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙤𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙞𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙣𝙚𝙩.

Completely re-built. Local first data. Live in Beta today.

[Aneel ✊🏽 @aneel]

Met Vikram in April. Sleeping on a friend’s couch—shipped an alpha, got users to pay $$$ for a prod built by 1 human w/o VC. Converted another 60k account while we were talking.

Alone
After being rejected by YC
Exceptional

My case for @ardentai—
https://t.co/dIqYA4QRnM

[Vikram @vchennai2]

We raised 2.1M led by @crane_vc to build @ardentai the first AI Data Engineer

Today, companies bleed engineering hours to data pipeline maintenance hell

Ardent autonomously builds pipelines, optimizes queries and models data so companies never feel that pain again

Link below

[Aneel ✊🏽 @aneel]

"Ai native furniture platform"

Wut

[Aneel ✊🏽 @aneel]

Fine tuned models are the ASICs of ML?

[Aneel ✊🏽 @aneel]

"That was so much better than ChatGPT"

TIL
1/ I was the 2nd port of call for advice
2/ The bar is set by ChatGPT
3/ For now, I can keep my job