keith

i like computers, coffee, mountains, running.
building database @pinecone. frmr @qualtrics, @primevideo

[keith @keithcorbs]

keith forever

[keith @keithcorbs]

this is a good thought to keep in mind, that often times while things feel broken internally, or things feel behind, 99.xx% of users are generally happy

but still urgently fixing for the small percent as long as there’s still time and space to think

[Nikita Bier @nikitabier]

Every morning, the moment my eyes open, I wake up to 40 unread Slack messages that effectively say:

“If you don’t fix this in the next 5 minutes, the world will implode and the app will cease to exist.”

[keith @keithcorbs]

summer games fest is about to be lit

[Walmart Canada Gaming @WalmartCAGaming]

We Are Walmart Canada Gaming

[keith @keithcorbs]

he’s saying the quiet part out loud — it’s not just a word, it’s an adverb

[Mo @atmoio]

there's a single word used in AI writing that quietly tells me you used AI.

i would share what it is but then you'll stop using it

[keith @keithcorbs]

great read

[Will Manidis @WillManidis]

https://t.co/aHOHtb1rcW

[keith @keithcorbs]

this is all so tiring and unnecessary. you forget to build a Life, which is the most important contribution we can all make on this tiny blue planet

[Harry Stebbings @HarryStebbings]

"If you are not working 7 days per week, you are going to lose".

Corgi Insurance is the most intense workplace culture in startups.

- The company works 7 days per week.

- Founder (@nico_laqua) lives and sleeps in the office.

- He built a cafe in the office because there was no local cafe that was open 24/7.

- 2/3 of the first 30 team members have the Corgi logo as a tattoo.

Today I went behind the scenes with Nico, who has used this culture to scale the company to a $2.6BN valuation in just two years.

My condensed notes below:

1. If You Are Not Working 7 Days Per Week, You Are Going to Lose:

Whatever you can get done in 5 days, you'll get more done in 6 and 7. If you are trying to solve the world’s hardest problems, a standard 5-day workweek will not cut it.

2. Work Trials Repel the Mediocre:

Corgi forces candidates into mock work trials over the weekend. If seeing a full office on a Saturday scares them, they don't belong. True intensity acts as a natural filter to attract killers and repel clock-watchers.

3. Lead from the Front Lines

You can’t demand 7-day weeks while sitting on a yacht. Nico sleeps 3–4 hours a night on a mattress inside the office. If you want your troops to bleed, you have to be in the trenches with them.

4. Culture Only Means One Thing: Winning

Forget superficial jargon like "hackers" or "ex-founders." Strip away the corporate fluff. A great startup culture is aggressively optimized around one single word: Winning.

5. Lifespan vs. Victories

Building something world-historic requires radical sacrifice. When asked if he'd rather build a trillion-dollar company and die at 50, or fail and live to 80, the answer was easy. "I would rather measure my lifespan in victories."

6. Reject the Comfort of "Quiet Quitting."

If you are operating in a hyper-growth environment and your days off happen to be Saturday and Sunday every single week, you are quiet quitting. To win, you must deliberately bypass the off-ramps of personal comfort and low volatility.

Corgi isn't for everyone—and that’s exactly the point.

[keith @keithcorbs]

software eng has always been mages practicing wizardry, but now tokens are mana and everyone is faster to conjuring spells

but the craft still needs to be studied

[🎭 @deepfates]

The new thing in San Francisco is no longer chief of staff or MTS. It's wizards. Everybody's got to have a wizard. If your company doesn't have a wizard and a 10,000 year cosmic plan you're ngmi. At some top startups each C-Suite exec has a wizard of their own

[keith @keithcorbs]

stealth drop of best new slack feature of the year?

[keith @keithcorbs]

@MarcJBrooker I remember encountering a UUIDv4 collision across teams in a data pipeline until we investigated further to find out it was a bug

[keith @keithcorbs]

@rfkenmore @SperrysandNikes I love my Moscot lemtosh sunglasses

sadly had a pair stolen, grieved for a bit, then bought the exact same pair after a period of acceptance

[keith @keithcorbs]

cannot contain my excitement this will be within walking distance

[Gus Saltonstall @GusSaltonstall]

Radio Bakery, the immensely popular Brooklyn establishment, will open on the Upper West Side in 2027 at 463 Columbus Avenue, between West 82nd and 83rd streets.

[keith @keithcorbs]

we've been building on all fronts at @pinecone and have a lot to share this week

full-text search, new regions, and a new paradigm to reduce token usage

https://t.co/VEhVXIiIwm

[Pinecone @pinecone]

What happens when the primary users of AI aren't humans, but agents?

This week: A new language, new engine, new marketplace, new economics, and new reach.

The agentic era needs its own infrastructure category. Our CEO @ashashutosh Founder @EdoLiberty on what it is and what comes next.

With perspectives from @Box, @llama_index, @LangChain, @Teradata, @ThoughtFocusTec, and @UnstructuredIO.

https://t.co/jHeyQI8g8z

[keith @keithcorbs]

feeling so much better getting back to running routine + this perfect weather

the journey to nyc 2026 begins

[keith @keithcorbs]

@dieworkwear it’s linkedin-posting, and easy for LLMs to write

[keith @keithcorbs]

@andruyeung we've been building in NYC for a while now

[keith @keithcorbs]

may is the month of low latencies

these type of graphs never get old

[keith @keithcorbs]

just a few things we've been building 👀

[Pinecone @pinecone]

Something's coming. Launch week May 4.

[keith @keithcorbs]

@rileycollins__ Lords is completely slept on, the scotch egg is a supreme dish

[keith @keithcorbs]

@_dylanga even at 6 for us, I was very surprised we were 0.2% of affected PRs, let alone yours at ~10%

[Dylan O'Sullivan @DylanoA4]

mandatory Ursula K. Le Guin quote

[keith @keithcorbs]

@akshat_b this was insane to stumble upon by pulling main and not finding code merged in earlier that day…

thought I was going mad seeing the commit diff vs the PR diff