briac.eth

I help SMBs optimize their finances on AI & stablecoins.
CEO @Fdotinc | UC Berkeley '24 | AI/Blockchain Economics Researcher

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@MarieAdant LFG 🔥

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@_SDAV @ycombinator @joinstationf Let's go! See you then!

[Sylvain Catherine @sc_cath]

Depuis l’étranger, mon sentiment est que le rôle que la France pouvait jouer dans la lutte contre le réchauffement était celui d’un laboratoire démontrant la possibilité d’une économie décarbonée sans restrictions majeures sur le confort des habitants.

Les Américains, les Chinois et les Indiens ne vont pas renoncer à leur climatisation. Les économistes étrangers me parlent de notre parc nucléaire avec admiration, mais de notre attitude vis-à-vis de la climatisation avec moquerie.

Alors que ce sujet est relativement anecdotique par rapport au niveau de décarbonation de notre économie, il réduit la crédibilité du modèle français.

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

This is a super exciting release - Claude Fable 5 is the same underlying model as Mythos but with added safeguards. The benchmarks are great and it's SOTA on everything by a margin but I'll add that *qualitatively* also, this is a major-version-bump-deserving step change forward (imo of the same order as Claude 4.5 was in November), peaking especially for long problem-solving sessions on very difficult problems. You can give it a lot more ambitious tasks than what you're used to, the model "gets it" and it will just go, and it's never felt this tempting to stop looking at the code at all (but don't do this in prod!). The model still has quirks that people will run into and the safeguards are configured to be a little too trigger happy for launch, which can hopefully be tuned over time.

I feel a lot of things changing as working software increasingly comes out on a tap. The Jevon's paradox kicks in and I feel my own demand for software growing substantially. You can ask for anything - explainers, visualizers, dashboards, bespoke single-use apps (e.g. a full wandb that is hyper-specific just for your project), you can 10X your test suite, auto-optimize code, run giant research projects with custom HTML for the results, anything! "Free your mind" (Matrix ref). Really looking forward to all the things people build!

[briac.eth @Briac_S]

Really cool to be in the first 100s ; let's keep the grind going until then!

[Nicolas Dessaigne @dessaigne]

We just sent the first 100 invites for Startup School Paris! 🇫🇷
Expect candid founder stories, hard-earned lessons, and zero filters.
Apply here: https://t.co/tL1zN1IXUM

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@NgoTomek @ycombinator Thanks! See you then!

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let's gooo, see you at the Paris startup school @ycombinator

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@samuel_0xK @ycombinator Congratsss! Looking forward to see you there!

[Satvik Puti @satvikputi]

You can JUST BUILD IT.
Organised the first WHYC Event in Paris.

Started as a crazy idea thanks to @0xratnakar @tushaarmehtaa for organising @whycshow in India.

We invited 2 YC alumni in Paris to share their experience:
- Sarah Najmark, Osium AI, YC S23
- @geoffnegiar, The Forecasting Company, YC S24

We selected 3 startups who shot their shot at @ycombinator. They are relentless.

Thanks to @FeatherlessAI for making this happen & sponsoring us!

Selfie with my brilliant team!! 🤩

More pics coming soon !! 😆

[Satvik Puti @satvikputi]

@geoffnegiar on Failure at WHYC Paris

This really stuck with me. Definition of success & failure depend on the game you choose to play and the outcomes you want.

For me failure is not trying, not doing the thing that I’m drawn to.

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@haileyhmt Same (and f stanford lol)

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@hthieblot Carefully validate demand/willingness to pay before doing anything else!

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@boardyai DeFAI

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Launching something I’ve been working on for months: YIELD (https://t.co/prC8rUTSFE), an AI treasury autopilot that turns idle SMB cash into 5% APY on stablecoins automatically.

If you’re an accountant or SME owner in France and want your cash to finally work, DMs open!

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@Schmett Hey David, I'm working on a SaaS to optimize SMB treasury automatically through DeFAI. Would love to connect!

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@yashpxl Building https://t.co/prC8rUTSFE, agentic treasury optimization on stablecoins for SMBs

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@adilmania @fdotinc French builders are cooking it seems! Happy to contribute to the energy online from Paris 🤝

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@fdotinc 👀

[Founders Inc @fdotinc]

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