Calvin Lee

product @tryramp | prev. founding team @ubereats, @google apm

[Calvin Lee @calvinclee]

the finance platform of choice for agent-native companies

[Ramp @tryramp]

Every company used to start with paperwork.

The next generation will start with a prompt.

Ramp for Agents lets AI agents incorporate your company, apply for Ramp, and get your business ready to spend, pay bills, and manage money.

[Calvin Lee @calvinclee]

@pontusab @tryramp so damn good

[Calvin Lee @calvinclee]

@gallabytes the problem is that he’s claiming anthropic invented this paradigm when other companies have been doing this for almost a year already.

[Calvin Lee @calvinclee]

weird spin since @cognition predates claude code

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

This is a new paradigm for interacting with Claude that is significantly more "inline" with all the other human activity org-wide. Once you do all of the under the hood engineering work to make this "just work" (e.g. across tools, integrations, compute environments, memory, security, etc.), Claude basically joins the team in a seamless way - you can talk to it as you would talk to a person and it can help with a very large variety of workloads.

Imo this is the 3rd major redesign of LLM UIUX. The first paradigm was that the LLM is a website you go to, the second was that it is an app you download to your computer. This third one is that it is a self-contained, persistent, asynchronous entity with org-wide tools and context, working alongside teams of humans. It really takes a while to wrap your head around it, but it works and it is awesome.

[Calvin Lee @calvinclee]

the insidious thing about long-running agents / loops is that they’re basically brute-force algorithms designed to maximize token burn while minimizing human oversight

[Calvin Lee @calvinclee]

these are genuinely so cool

[Karine Hsu @karine_hsu]

wow sick new billboards from openai

[Calvin Lee @calvinclee]

@adambaitch we’re so excited to have you here!!

[Eric Glyman @eglyman]

Today, Ramp raised $750M at a $44B valuation.

Last time we grew this fast, we were 1/20th the size.

For 2000 years, business was built on two pillars. Today, a third: intelligence.

It’s your least governed cost. It’s also your single greatest opportunity.

[Calvin Lee @calvinclee]

there has never been a technology shift so perfectly suited to transform the way the finance profession works.

and there’s never been a team so perfectly suited to do it 👏

[Eric Glyman @eglyman]

Introducing Stack.

The AI operating system that lets accounting firms take on more clients without hiring. Learns your firm's process, runs the close, posts the journals. Fully auditable.

We’re living through the biggest shift in accounting since the spreadsheet.

[Calvin Lee @calvinclee]

@edzitron How is this any different from engineering headcount...?

[Calvin Lee @calvinclee]

@ty_geri so free users aren’t ever going to get help with their personal finances? how sad

[Calvin Lee @calvinclee]

why one would connect their personal finances to a company that has chosen the path of advertising is beyond me

[ChatGPT @ChatGPTapp]

A preview for Pro users: a new personal finance experience in ChatGPT.

Pro users in the U.S. can securely connect financial accounts, see where their money is going, and ask questions based on the information they choose to connect.

Your full financial picture, now in ChatGPT.

[Calvin Lee @calvinclee]

@travisk yes!!

[Calvin Lee @calvinclee]

@andruyeung we did this in SF a day before

[Calvin Lee @calvinclee]

so the best interface for agents to communicate with humans turned out to be… interfaces designed for humans

[Thariq @trq212]

https://t.co/MXt5XS4xBX

[Calvin Lee @calvinclee]

@SlackHQ the mobile app has significantly regressed. why do I have a DM tab and an activity tab that only lets me filter down to DMs again? I want to easily filter for mentions.

[Calvin Lee @calvinclee]

@TrevMcKendrick Would love to hear more about the ways in which you are feeling this!

[Calvin Lee @calvinclee]

designing for the user’s agent instead of the user breaks a lot of what we used to call “good design.” your user now reads everything, acts instantly, and never gets tired or confused.

as someone who used to hang their hat on design sense, it’s been disorienting and liberating to throw out a lot of that conventional wisdom.

but most importantly, it’s never been more fun to build.

(also, we’re hiring!)

[Teddy Riker @teddy_riker]

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[Jaya Gupta @JayaGup10]

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