Yung Dryas

🇿🇼🇿🇲🇿🇦 I rap and study the Maafa and all its implications. 3 exits in tech (@pagerduty, @lumiqlearn and @tulip).
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[Yung Dryas @everynine]

“I was born in 1941 but my Black soul is much older than that. It’s earliest incarnations occurred eons ago on another continent in the midsts of pre-history…” - @rRobinsonauthor

[Mr. Buzzoni @polydao]

video by Vasilios Syrakis - subscribe: https://t.co/z55rZjwEOx

[Mr. Buzzoni @polydao]

Atlassian's revenue: $1.79 billion last quarter
Atlassian's move: fire the engineer who built their infrastructure

his move: post a 38-minute breakdown of every system he built, free for anyone to copy

what he revealed:

> Envoy proxy instead of enterprise load balancers
> sidecar architecture for auth, logging, rate limits
> DynamoDB + SQS for async provisioning
> Packer + SaltStack for automated VM deployments at scale

Atlassian charges per employee across 350,000 customers

this guy just handed you the enterprise playbook for free

save this

[Mr. Buzzoni @polydao]

Atlassian's CEO after firing the engineer who built their $1.79B infrastructure and the guy released a 38-minute breakdown of everything he built, free for anyone to copy

[AilaunchX @Ai_Tech_tool]

A man spends 50 years teaching at MIT.

He knows his time is running out.

So he records one last lecture — everything he knows, distilled into a single hour.

He died 5 months later.

This is that lecture.

The most important hour you'll watch this week. 👇Bookmark it for later

[LumiQ @LumiQLearn]

#GenerativeAI is revolutionizing M&A by enabling smarter and faster decisions.

Stephen Charko explains how generative AI is transforming private equity operations.

Listen to the full episode, out now, only on LumiQ!

https://t.co/xiAE1tCaFc

[AilaunchX @Ai_Tech_tool]

Instead of watching an hour of Netflix, watch this 2 hour hour Stanford lecture will teach you more about how LLMs like ChatGPT and Claude are built than most people working at top AI companies learn in their entire careers.

[Kaito @KaitoEtLIA]

- j'utilise Claude tous les jours
- je me crois assez bon là-dedans
- je regarde deux ingénieurs Anthropic pendant 2 HEURES
- l'ingénieur de Claude explique les Skills from scratch
- les 5 premières minutes
- attends. Les Skills c'est juste des dossiers ?
- des dossiers qui retiennent ton workflow ?
- ton domaine ? ton expertise ?
- pause. retour arrière. je regarde a nouveau
- je pense à chaque prompt que j'ai réécrit de zéro
- chaque contexte que j'ai expliqué 100 fois
- chaque session qui a tout oublié
- ça n'aurait pas dû se passer comme ça
- 16 minutes. tout change
- skill issue détecté

[Rahul @sairahul1]

Anthropic's Head of Product just dropped a 28-minute masterclass on agent production.

Prompt caching. Tool search. Programmatic tool calling. Compaction. Advisor strategy.

28 minutes. Free. Worth more than 100 YouTube videos combined.

Watch it first.

Then read this.

The masterclass teaches you how agents work.

This teaches you what to build with them — a 5-agent content pipeline that does the work of a $300K creative team.

Full pipeline below ↓

Bookmark this. Start this weekend.

[Ronan Farrow @RonanFarrow]

(🧵1/11) For the past year and a half, I've been investigating OpenAI and Sam Altman for @NewYorker. With my coauthor @andrewmarantz, I reviewed never-before-disclosed internal memos, obtained 200+ pages of documents related to a close colleague, including extensive private notes, and interviewed more than 100 people.

OpenAI was founded on the premise that A.I. could be the most dangerous invention in human history—and that its C.E.O. would need to be a person of uncommon integrity. We lay out the most detailed account yet of why Altman was ousted out by board members and executives who came to believe he lacked that integrity, and ask: were they right to allege that he couldn't be trusted?

A thread on some of of our findings:

[Yung Dryas @everynine]

@iamdisobedient And the day happened

[Yung Dryas @everynine]

LOVE YOU TOO SIS ONE DAY WE WILL MEET AND IT WILL BE THE BEST THING EVER💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜 #July4th #711theory

[BUILD MORE HOUSING! @Dartagan_Llore]

This is the Baltimore City @FOXBaltimore doesn’t want you to see. All weekend they ran stories about “youth crime”.

The vast majority of youth in Baltimore are doing stuff like this we should all be proud of these students. We need to fund this program so it can expand.

[Damian Player @damianplayer]

Andrew Huberman is calling this peptide a TRILLION dollar drug.

phase III trials showed a third of body weight lost in six months.

bodybuilders have been using it for years. hollywood has been lying about it.

and now Eli Lilly wants to make buying peptides illegal to protect their patent.

should one company be able to own the patent on something that changes human health at this scale?

[DramaAlert @DramaAlert]

'Enhanced Games', a new Olympics competitor that allows juicing got valued at $1.2B before any single event... INSANE.

Every athlete is reportedly monitored and compounds are clinical approved/tracked. Only healthy athletes are allowed to compete.

[Damian Player @damianplayer]

THIS IS WILD!

Peter Thiel’s company the “Enhanced Games” got valued at $1.2B before a single event.

the first one is next month.

here’s what the headlines aren’t telling you (share this):

every athlete is monitored. every compound is clinically approved. every dose is tracked.

two independent medical commissions oversee the whole thing.

and if your bloodwork doesn’t pass, you don’t compete.

the same investors behind the biggest peptide and longevity companies put $1.2B behind this.

these aren’t sports guys…

they’re taking a public bet that performance medicine becomes a real market.

whether you’re into it or not, pay attention.

[Yung Dryas @everynine]

@allenanalysis The Mad King is here!

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

🚨Unreal: Trump today:

“After I’m done with this I’ll go to Venezuela. I’ll quickly learn Spanish — it won’t take too long, I’m good at language — and I’ll run for President.”

This is the President of the United States.

[Lenny Rachitsky @lennysan]

My biggest takeaways from @AnthropicAI's Head of Growth Amol Avasare:

1. Engineering is getting the most AI leverage—and it’s squeezing PMs and designers. With Claude Code, a five-engineer team now produces the output of 15 to 20 engineers. But PM and design productivity haven’t scaled proportionally. The result is a compressed ratio where one PM is effectively managing the output of a much larger engineering team. Anthropic's growth team is responding in two ways: hiring even more PMs (!), and formally deputizing product-minded engineers to act as mini-PMs for any project with less than two weeks of engineering time.

2. Anthropic is using Claude to automate its own growth. The internal initiative is called CASH (Claude Accelerates Sustainable Hypergrowth). It works across four stages: identifying opportunities, building features, testing quality, and analyzing results. Right now it handles copy changes and minor UI tweaks. The win rate is comparable to a junior PM with two to three years of experience, and improving rapidly.

3. The one part of PM work that AI can’t automate yet: getting six people in a room to agree. Amol and his head of design joke that even with AGI, it’ll still be impossible to align six stakeholders. Cross-functional coordination—managing opinions, navigating politics, mediating tradeoffs—remains the bottleneck that AI doesn’t touch for larger projects. This is why Amol believes PM roles aren’t going away, and may actually grow.

4. 60-80% of Anthropic’s growth team's projects have no PRD. For smaller work, kickoffs happen on Slack—messages back and forth with product-minded engineers who can push back and ask the right questions. For larger projects, Amol believes in a proper 30-minute cross-functional kickoff (legal, safeguards, stakeholders) to surface concerns early.

5. Adding friction to onboarding drives growth—if the friction helps users understand why the product is for them. His work Mercury, MasterClass, Calm, and now Anthropic, adding steps to onboarding flows consistently improved conversion. The key: cut annoying friction that doesn’t add value, but add friction that helps users understand why the product is for them.

6. AI companies need to focus on bigger bets, not better A/B tests. Amol’s argument: if your core product value is driven by AI, then the future value is orders of magnitude higher than today’s value, because model capabilities grow exponentially. In that world, micro-optimizations capture a shrinking share of a growing pie. Traditional growth teams do 60% to 70% small optimizations and 20% to 30% big swings. At Anthropic, they flip this ratio.

7. Amol built a weekly AI agent that scans Slack for cross-functional misalignment. Using Cowork with the Slack MCP, he has a scheduled task that looks across his projects and conversations and surfaces areas where teams are about to do overlapping work or pull in different directions. A colleague on the enterprise team already caught major misalignment that would have caused weeks of wasted effort.

8. A traumatic brain injury taught Amol the principle that now drives his work: freedom through constraints. In early 2022, a kick to the head during a Muay Thai sparring session caused a traumatic brain injury. Amol spent nine months off work and months relearning to walk, unable to look at screens or listen to music for more than 20 seconds. He was re-injured a month after joining Mercury and had to take two more months off. He’s still not fully healed. But the constraints—no alcohol, no caffeine, mandatory breaks, daily meditation—have become the habits that let him operate at the intensity Anthropic demands. “The true freedom in life is learning how to be content when you don’t get what you want.”

[Ivan Burazin @ivanburazin]

The founder of Postman says you have to kill your existing org chart, especially if you're still operating with a pre ai hierarchy arrangement.

The modern org chart, according to @a85:

- wide span of control (even within exec team)
- work directly with ICs, not through layers
- either you're building, or you're selling

Projects are led by staff/principal engineers with high agency. They see across the board as well as deep in the stack.

Product managers are building APIs and prototyping in Claude instead of writing PRDs.

Designers are shipping PRs through Cursor directly instead of relying solely on Figma.

Everyone is building. And the management's job is to develop better judgment.

[Garry Tan @garrytan]

Golden age of open source is here

[Top Girl Keiko, J.D. ✝️🙏 @TopGirlKeiko]

Money makes women falsely believe men with it are safe and good. Oftentimes, they’ve done the worst things to acquire it and that in itself makes them a danger—whether personally or from the people they’ve harmed. If the Epstein list doesn’t inform you that men with money are to be feared as much as the ones with nothing to lose, then I don’t know what to tell you. Going off with random men whether home or abroad is just inviting danger on yourself.