Kshitij Grover

fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy // CTO @useorb (hiring!). powering billing for @vercel, @glean, @fal, and a ton more. cs/philosophy @caltech.

[Kshitij Grover @kshithappens]

launched our new brand today. pretty stoked with how this homepage animation turned out.

[Orb @useOrb]

Building AI infrastructure means building systems that can scale alongside the product.

Tom Wallenstein, Staff Software Engineer at @youdotcom:

“We needed a scalable and flexible billing and metering system that lets us move fast today and keep moving as we grow and things change. Orb gives us exactly that, one system that serves engineering, analytics, and RevOps alike.”

[Dan Loewenherz @dwlz]

On initial glance, AI blows our minds. But after repeated use, it disappoints. This pattern with new model releases has proven itself over years: they seem smart until we spend enough time with them. Then we notice all their warts.

Capabilities seem mind-blowing when first demoed, but fall short after weeks/months of exposure.

Why is this?

[Kshitij Grover @kshithappens]

calling it first: corgi is the yoapp of the ai wave

[Orb @useOrb]

Teams monetizing with Orb:

Replit
Vercel
WRITER
Supabase
Glean
Fal
LaunchDarkly
Factory
Baseten
Turbopuffer
Fireworks AI
Momentic

+ many more

[Kshitij Grover @kshithappens]

the road to jira is paved with good intentions

[Orb @useOrb]

At AI infrastructure companies, pricing is part of the product.

Sid Shanker, Engineering Manager at @baseten, helps the team launch new models and hardware without turning monetization into a bottleneck.

“We launch new models and hardware constantly, and pricing them is half the product decision. Orb lets us move at the speed of our roadmap and prioritize delivering value to our customers.”

[Kshitij Grover @kshithappens]

these guys are the real deal! congrats on the launch and we are excited to power this team @useOrb

(also s/o to one of the best product feedback givers in the game @jordanalexmeyer)

[Kushal Byatnal @kushalbyatnal]

Over 1 billion PDFs are created every day, but your agents still can’t read them reliably.

Today we’re releasing Parse 2.0, the most accurate document parsing API in the world.

Extend already processes millions of pages daily for leading AI teams like Brex, Mercury, Opendoor, Flatiron Health, and hundreds of others. Now, its even better.

Parse 2.0 is SOTA quality on RealDoc-Bench, our open source benchmark that measures agent success rate on real world docs that agents actually encounter in production.

We trained Parse 2.0 on 1M+ pages of the hardest documents seen in production. Here’s how it stacks up:

- #1 in healthcare, real estate, logistics, and financial services
- 95.7% agent Q&A accuracy on 581 docs (next best: 92%)
- 0.847 F1 on layout (next best: 0.759)

Give it a try today and build production-ready document agents with Extend.

[Kshitij Grover @kshithappens]

i’m hosting my db on An open source DynamoDB-compatible adapter with pluggable storage backends

[Martin @martin_valchev_]

Where are you hosting your database?

- Supabase
- Neon
- Firebase

[Kshitij Grover @kshithappens]

the correct answer is @matt_levine. imagine admonishing a company over securities fraud (everything is securities fraud)

[Kshitij Grover @kshithappens]

if there were a kitchen nightmares for software startups who would gordon be?

[Kshitij Grover @kshithappens]

if there were a kitchen nightmares for software startups who would gordon be?

[Kshitij Grover @kshithappens]

@andrewqu the most iconic rebrand of 2026 is "important" → "load bearing"

[Kshitij Grover @kshithappens]

every vendor → vendor escalation involves a datadog screenshot. you can't escalate without showing datadog. canonical proof of problem

free alpha: datadog should build inline cross-vendor tracing with at-mentions. would overtake slack connect overnight

[Kshitij Grover @kshithappens]

@lalizlabeth @tryramp we should collab with our design team!

[Kshitij Grover @kshithappens]

definitely thought this was going to be about politics before I saw the photo

[Arian Agrawal @AgrawalArian]

Spotted next door to @southpkcommons NYC

A cow in the middle of Manhattan

[Kshitij Grover @kshithappens]

@almoggavra the secret is (always) s3 and p99 engineers

[Kshitij Grover @kshithappens]

@nygrlnla yeah, a few weeks ago an AZ got hot.

[Kshitij Grover @kshithappens]

it's 2026. anthropic is printing money. github is down. installing dependencies is a dice roll. the rocket company is going public. the rocket company is buying the coding company. github is down. there's a thermal event in us-east-1. login with google is unsafe. $100M is not enough in sf anymore. github is down...

[Kshitij Grover @kshithappens]

@maynkag what's your sense of the upper limit capability right now of AI-in-prod? curious if there are boundaries you think we'll cross in 6mo, 1year, etc

[Kshitij Grover @kshithappens]

@bernhardsson @generalcatalyst @Redpoint congratulations to you and the team!

[Kshitij Grover @kshithappens]

I love to see companies and customers excited about stuff like this. it's technically tricky + product clarity challenging + interacts with a *ton* of surface area

[Dane Knecht 🦭 @dok2001]

More on the way!

[Kshitij Grover @kshithappens]

@dalexeenko this is awesome to see, congrats!