Atul

Entrepreneur · Angel Investor · Mentor

[Atul @atulmy]

💡 "To be a successful creator you don’t need millions. To make a living as a craftsperson, photographer, musician, designer, author, animator, app maker, entrepreneur, or inventor you need only thousands of true fans." https://t.co/AC14PNXayG #innovation #creator #success

[Paul Graham @paulg]

If you want to start a startup, don't learn "entrepreneurship." Learn how to build things. The hard part of startups is not "entrepreneurship" but product: to know what to build, and to be able to build it.

[mrdoob @mrdoob]

Made a toy maker with Fable this morning 🧸

Snap wooden pieces together, make parts spin, watch them come alive.

Make your own:
https://t.co/GJCG6CXmrT

Remix mine:
https://t.co/Iif38yoVkC

Made with box3d.js by @erin_catto and @isaac_mason_

[Years Progress @YearsProgress]

2026 is 50% complete.

[Naval @naval]

It's the Age of Builders.

(sorry financiers and talkers)

[Garry Tan @garrytan]

A founder kept saying "if only we had money we'd do X."

Money is not the fire. Money is gasoline you pour on a fire that already exists.

You don't have a funding problem. You have a "people don't want it yet" problem. Go make the first fire.

[Naval @naval]

The new competition isn’t Humans vs AI. It’s Humans with AI vs everyone else.

[Progress Bar 2026 @ProgressBar202_]

2026 is 30% complete.

[Reid Wiseman @astro_reid]

Only one chance in this lifetime…

Like watching sunset at the beach from the most foreign seat in the cosmos, I couldn’t resist a cell phone video of Earthset. You can hear the shutter on the Nikon as @Astro_Christina is hammering away on 3-shot brackets and capturing those exceptional Earthset photos through the 400mm lens. @AstroVicGlover was in window 3 watching with @Astro_Jeremy next to him.

I could barely see the Moon through the docking hatch window but the iPhone was the perfect size to catch the view…this is uncropped, uncut with 8x zoom which is quite comparable to the view of the human eye. Enjoy.

[a16z @a16z]

"Action produces information"

[NASA @NASA]

1972 ➡️2026
Apollo 17 ➡️ Artemis II

[Atul @atulmy]

@cursor_ai screen recordings on macos are not being accepted. Composer 2 says: Can't decode the .mov here

[Atul @atulmy]

@cursor_ai would be helpful if we can annotate the uploaded image when chatting with agents within cursor itself.

[Atul @atulmy]

@cursor_ai should add Figma like basic ui builder/wireframing within the new glass editor, that'll make life so much easier!

[Naval @naval]

A lot of software is about to get a lot better, right before it becomes unnecessary.

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

It is hard to communicate how much programming has changed due to AI in the last 2 months: not gradually and over time in the "progress as usual" way, but specifically this last December. There are a number of asterisks but imo coding agents basically didn’t work before December and basically work since - the models have significantly higher quality, long-term coherence and tenacity and they can power through large and long tasks, well past enough that it is extremely disruptive to the default programming workflow.

Just to give an example, over the weekend I was building a local video analysis dashboard for the cameras of my home so I wrote: “Here is the local IP and username/password of my DGX Spark. Log in, set up ssh keys, set up vLLM, download and bench Qwen3-VL, set up a server endpoint to inference videos, a basic web ui dashboard, test everything, set it up with systemd, record memory notes for yourself and write up a markdown report for me”. The agent went off for ~30 minutes, ran into multiple issues, researched solutions online, resolved them one by one, wrote the code, tested it, debugged it, set up the services, and came back with the report and it was just done. I didn’t touch anything. All of this could easily have been a weekend project just 3 months ago but today it’s something you kick off and forget about for 30 minutes.

As a result, programming is becoming unrecognizable. You’re not typing computer code into an editor like the way things were since computers were invented, that era is over. You're spinning up AI agents, giving them tasks *in English* and managing and reviewing their work in parallel. The biggest prize is in figuring out how you can keep ascending the layers of abstraction to set up long-running orchestrator Claws with all of the right tools, memory and instructions that productively manage multiple parallel Code instances for you. The leverage achievable via top tier "agentic engineering" feels very high right now.

It’s not perfect, it needs high-level direction, judgement, taste, oversight, iteration and hints and ideas. It works a lot better in some scenarios than others (e.g. especially for tasks that are well-specified and where you can verify/test functionality). The key is to build intuition to decompose the task just right to hand off the parts that work and help out around the edges. But imo, this is nowhere near "business as usual" time in software.

[Matt Shumer @mattshumer_]

https://t.co/ivXRKXJvQg

[Google Design @GoogleDesign]

Introducing Glimmer ✨ @Google’s new design language for UX on glasses! Glimmer prioritizes voice, gesture, and eye-tracking — focusing on glanceable, transient elements that appear only when needed.

Discover thoughtful design for a new dimension: https://t.co/vlh43tqMVs

[dax @thdxr]

everyone's talking about their teams like they were at the peak of efficiency and bottlenecked by ability to produce code

here's what things actually look like

- your org rarely has good ideas. ideas being expensive to implement was actually helping

- majority of workers have no reason to be super motivated, they want to do their 9-5 and get back to their life

- they're not using AI to be 10x more effective they're using it to churn out their tasks with less energy spend

- the 2 people on your team that actually tried are now flattened by the slop code everyone is producing, they will quit soon

- even when you produce work faster you're still bottlenecked by bureaucracy and the dozen other realities of shipping something real

- your CFO is like what do you mean each engineer now costs $2000 extra per month in LLM bills

[Guillermo Rauch @rauchg]

Terminals used to accept shell commands, now it’s natural language.

IDEs used to accept code, now it’s natural language.

Search engines used to accept keywords, now it’s natural language.

Your sites & apps accept clicks, drags, hovers, taps… soon it’ll all be natural language