Jacob Young

founder @ | previously @zoom @keybaseio
tech lead + fractional CTO

[Jacob Young @jryio]

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[sophie @netcapgirl]

“in the ai era, taste is the new core skill”

[Seth Pollack @sethmpk]

NYC needs a temperature word that’s the opposite of “brick”

[Jacob Young @jryio]

@rauchg Everyone in NYC is gay ask me how i know

[Lailani🌺 @nonlocalai]

Williamsburg may as well be a foreign country at this point. I can’t believe that it’s in Brooklyn anymore

[Jacob Young @jryio]

The only lines New Yorkers actually wait in are for the post office, dmv, and court house. If you're waiting in any other line get out and start cussin'

[Kamil Ruczynski @unable0_]

can frozen yogurt really be that good?

[Jacob Young @jryio]

@parisbayarea

[Jacob Young @jryio]

I'm going to Jacob Riis on a Saturday with the amigos, idgaf

[gianmarco @GianmarcoSoresi]

I think you become a New Yorker when you don’t give a fuck what people think qualifies as a New Yorker

[Jacob Young @jryio]

There should be bagels at night, it's New York ffs...

[Jacob Young @jryio]

@Archetapp you're visiting 0.03% of the landmass at best, insane to color the whole area

[Jacob Young @jryio]

nice

[Jacob Young @jryio]

The one thing @NotionHQ is missing is chat... I would pay a very large sum of money for Notion to design and implement team chat (and also agent chat).

[andrew pignanelli @ndrewpignanelli]

happy NY Tech Week to everyone here from SF.

Some reminders:
- yes this is the center of the universe for everything that isn’t AI
- it’s OK to dress up here
- apple maps has easier subway directions
- the hottest people are at the @intelligenceco office or west side highway

[Palash Shah @palashshah]

how did we reach a point where the most common format of documents is one that requires research worth billions of dollars just to simply parse

[Jacob Young @jryio]

@nummanali Gotta give the kiddies their treats

[Jacob Young @jryio]

There is no limit on how good this meme is

[shaurya @shauseth]

“high agency high taste is the unlock these days”

[Jacob Young @jryio]

If only there was a scripting language for HTML that you could distribute to everyone via ... the web!

[Thariq @trq212]

the basic trick to using Claude Code for non-technical work is to put a bunch of files in a folder and tell it can write scripts + make HTML

[Jacob Young @jryio]

@zachpogrob NYers don't performatively do anything

[Jacob Young @jryio]

@thesoggyblanket We're mean

[Jacob Young @jryio]

What Paul is touching on, but not saying, is that the social contract of communication is collapsing...

As a society we should collectively shame people for throwing AI slop grenades

https://t.co/lqwCywSJ6E

[Paul Graham @paulg]

A lot of the emails I get from founders are now written in a hard-hitting journalistic style. I know they're written by AI, because no founder ever wrote this way before. And once you realize something is written by AI, it's hard not to ignore it.

[Cory Etzkorn @coryetzkorn]

Paul Graham famously said you should write like you talk. Which is why LLMs are so awful at writing. They don’t talk.

[Jacob Young @jryio]

@jarredsumner @rustaceans_rs /goal post to twitter about the blog post until i hit critical mass followers