Birch Eve

Birch, like the tree 🌳. Somewhere between software, AI, and ambition | leading AI @ Lucid | YC alum | cool dad

[Birch Eve @Bircheve]

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[Birch Eve @Bircheve]

@RobinhoodApp already tempting me to give OpenClaw/hermes a credit card

[Birch Eve @Bircheve]

Between all the stressful things, I whole heartedly think it’s important to make sure you enjoy what you do

[Esther Crawford ✨ @esthercrawford]

The biggest flex is having fun at work. If you’re genuinely excited by the challenge and want the thing you’re building to exist, then work starts feeling suspiciously like play.

[Birch Eve @Bircheve]

@clairevo Too many people have an opinion on how other people live.

[Birch Eve @Bircheve]

@artman "Be a goldfish" - Ted Lasso

[Birch Eve @Bircheve]

@thenanyu @WillManidis I feel like it’s easier for me to learn what I want in a topic but it’s also just as easy to be lazy in that learning. Similar to what was probably the same argument when Google came about vs going to the library

[Birch Eve @Bircheve]

An easy way to set it and forget it, it’s the small paper cuts that matter the most right now

[Garry Tan @garrytan]

Everyone building AI agents is focusing on building the prefrontal cortex. Planning. Reasoning. Multi-step chains. There's value here. CEO-stuff.

But also, a reframe: there is value in building the cerebellum. It's offloading boring tasks into reflex so the complex thought can focus.

Your mortgage gets paid by a standing order, not a committee. The things that are not fun, not interesting, but have to be done? Done. Most agent frameworks will fail because they treat all cognition as high cognition.

The winners will nail the boring stuff first.

[Birch Eve @Bircheve]

Actually caring about what you build makes a difference

[X Freeze @XFreeze]

Elon Musk on why the Model S and Model X succeeded:

“Those cars were designed with love. Every part of it, inside and outside, even things people couldn’t see - we put there because we love the product”

“It’s at the heart of any great product. If the people making it genuinely love that product… it’s not a spreadsheet thing. You do things to make the product amazing because you love it

Even if people don’t see all of those things, they feel a lot of those things. And that’s what translates to people wanting the product”

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

🇺🇸🇺🇸 This will be awesome!! 🇺🇸🇺🇸

[Birch Eve @Bircheve]

@thenanyu Any company that is able to do pivot and survive for a good amount of time is a success in my book.

[Birch Eve @Bircheve]

YC teaches you that distribution beats cleverness. AI is making that harsher, not softer. The cost to build is collapsing, which means the premium moves to taste, trust, and knowing which problem is worth years of your life.

[Birch Eve @Bircheve]

So many mixed feelings on this one

[The New York Times @nytimes]

Breaking News: Tim Cook is stepping down as Apple’s chief executive and will be replaced by John Ternus, the head of hardware engineering. https://t.co/roDQdKL1cz

[Birch Eve @Bircheve]

@clairevo you can just do things!.....with codex

[Birch Eve @Bircheve]

I see both sides and prefer the optimistic one

[Aaron Levie @levie]

Agents are going to use software 100X more than people will in the future. As a result, enterprise platforms will become headless and be able to work with any agent on or off platform. If you don’t do that you’re DOA.

What some have missed is that this creates vastly more use-cases for these platforms than even existed pre-AI. This isn’t zero sum. Software value props have traditionally been capped at the number of users you have in a company. Agents have no upper limit.

We’re going to run agents to process data at a scale humans never could, they’re going to be running 24/7 in parallel doing work for us, and they can integrate workflows across systems to generate all new value propositions.

Once you embrace this approach, it becomes obvious how much more upside there is.

[Birch Eve @Bircheve]

Felt like you could see this coming from the first time at a supercharger

[Tesla North America @tesla_na]

Place your order while en route to Tesla Diner & it will be ready right after you arrive

[tobi lutke @tobi]

The most future-proof job: Entrepreneurship https://t.co/NbMUHPSoEi via @Shopify

[Birch Eve @Bircheve]

@jessegenet @cryptopunk7213 Its what excites me most about AI, winning back time to be where you want

[Birch Eve @Bircheve]

I see so many companies say they only hire the best, but in practice they just want someone to fill the role. It shows.

[Deano🧙‍♂️ @deanbloembergen]

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[Birch Eve @Bircheve]

@clairevo It’s so easy to be pessimistic in AI, this is where I see some of the most value. It creates more time!

[Birch Eve @Bircheve]

@RhysSullivan @linear I use it personally as well

[Birch Eve @Bircheve]

@Yuchenj_UW The is guy is asking the real questions. Manage all my finances, reconcile my books etc