Ethan Shea

[Ethan Shea @ethshea]

Introducing Regbase: The AI-native Legal Research Platform

Built alongside big law firms, @theregbase cuts 100-hour research projects into work that can be done in just one.

[Ethan Shea @ethshea]

AI doesn't raise the ceiling , it raises the floor

You still have to use your brain to get ahead

[Ethan Shea @ethshea]

If you think your code changes aren’t being applied- your code changes aren’t being applied.

[Vatsalpandya333 @Vatsalpandya333]

The OAuth error that wasted half our day finally got fixed.

Turns out the callback URL was correct.

The credentials were correct.

The bug?

We were editing the wrong GitHub app the entire time.

3 founders.
4 hours.
1 line fix.

Startup engineering in one picture 😂

[Ethan Shea @ethshea]

Proposal for a new TLD

.hq

[Ethan Shea @ethshea]

@GJarrosson The big detail is that the $2M is uncapped- so it’s priced at your series A rather than your seed cap. If your A is 4x your seed it’s effectively 75% off, assuming you can spend that many tokens in 3 years.

[Ethan Shea @ethshea]

@aaron_epstein Why say "Team" when you can say "The team is cracked"

[Ethan Shea @ethshea]

@housecor > stop batching work in lower environments
> stop spending hours every week maintaining and coordinating work in lower environments

It sounds like you need ephemeral preview environments

[Ethan Shea @ethshea]

@fahdananta Did you invest at the seed stage?

[Ethan Shea @ethshea]

Don't chase the long tail unless you want to build your entire business around it.

[Ethan Shea @ethshea]

@ZackKorman Or this is where a Neuralink comes in?

[Ethan Shea @ethshea]

@karrisaarinen Quality comes from builders with idle time

[Ethan Shea @ethshea]

@t_blom That 90% lives on the severed floor

[Ethan Shea @ethshea]

@ycombinator @DraftedAI Each time I move apartments, I look for a good floorplan editor so I can visualize my furniture layout. Nice to see it all come together for homes

[Ethan Shea @ethshea]

@xuelinda7 Just use Arial, nobody will know the difference 😉

[Ethan Shea @ethshea]

@nbcsnl is so back

[Ethan Shea @ethshea]

Me: Drags a photo to upload
Webpage: Does not support drag and drop
Browser: Replaces current tab with photo, erasing my progress
Year: 2026

[Ethan Shea @ethshea]

This phenomenon has always been true in software- accelerated with the ability ship the foundations without first grokking the design.

[Mitchell Hashimoto @mitchellh]

I strongly believe there are entire companies right now under heavy AI psychosis and its impossible to have rational conversations about it with them. I can't name any specific people because they include personal friends I deeply respect, but I worry about how this plays out.

I lived through the great MTBF vs MTTR (mean-time-between-failure vs. mean-time-to-recovery) reckoning of infrastructure during the transition to cloud and cloud automation. All those arguments are rearing their ugly heads again but now its... the whole software development industry (maybe the whole world, really).

It's frightening, because the psychosis folks operate under an almost absolute "MTTR is all you need" mentality: "its fine to ship bugs because the agents will fix them so quickly and at a scale humans can't do!" We learned in infrastructure that MTTR is great but you can't yeet resilient systems entirely.

The main issue is I don't even know how to bring this up to people I know personally, because bringing this topic up leads to immediately dismissals like "no no, it has full test coverage" or "bug reports are going down" or something, which just don't paint the whole picture.

We already learned this lesson once in infrastructure: you can automate yourself into a very resilient catastrophe machine. Systems can appear healthy by local metrics while globally becoming incomprehensible. Bug reports can go down while latent risk explodes. Test coverage can rise while semantic understanding falls. Changes happens so fast that nobody notices the underlying architecture decaying.

I worry.

[Ethan Shea @ethshea]

@SahilExec Hmm start by adding a few retries?

And exponential back off just to be safe

[Ethan Shea @ethshea]

@shadcn It's like writing a poem- expressing yourself simply and well is very hard to do

[Ethan Shea @ethshea]

@stake_jevens no yerba mate?

[Ethan Shea @ethshea]

You can't vibe code infra