°Meks

Whats next?

[cocktail peanut @cocktailpeanut]

POV: Claude users

[°Meks @Mf_bc_]

Tl bring me a hackathon so I can win $20k in Claude credits 🫶🏾

[Ben Pouladian @benitoz]

Today Dario admits that Anthropic only planned for 10x growth but got hit with 80x instead

Internally called a “success disaster”

Their compute effectively is off by a factor of 8x or more

Now do the outages, rate limits, nerfed performance make sense?

We need more compute!

[°Meks @Mf_bc_]

@nic_detommaso very true, do you mind I see how you compose both your invest memos and IC memos?

[°Meks @Mf_bc_]

gpus go brr fr

[Xavier Gonzalez @xavierjgonzalez]

Parallelizing nonlinear RNNs is gaining traction!

More efficient than transformers; more expressive than linear RNNs.

My PhD thesis provides an intro guide to the math (Newton's method) behind the parallelization.

Great as a quick-start if you want to explore this new field!

[°Meks @Mf_bc_]

This would’ve prevented the awkward silence after my second“tell me about your valuation” . 👍🏾

[Ruben @rdominguezibar]

Just built a VALUATION TOOL for founders💰

and it might be the most useful thing in your data room

ACCESS IT HERE: https://t.co/VAyVQSmFyW

[Harry Stebbings @HarryStebbings]

I love the quote:

The work you do in private is the work you are rewarded for in public.

Forget all the plaudits, the countless early mornings, late nights, and all-nighters these guys pulled doing a daily show. Daily show is insane!

Created a new category.

Did it with flair and personality.

Made a boatload of cash.

Mahalo @johncoogan @jordihays @WillManidis awesome work and you deserve this.

[°Meks @Mf_bc_]

@lilyyang169 Community

[Amodu David @BoluwatifeAmod]

Global funds writing $50M checks into US SaaS but asking African founders to prove unit economics at pre-seed, different rules clearly.

[°Meks @Mf_bc_]

@lukas_m_ziegler Better than CNN

[°Meks @Mf_bc_]

@zhuokaiz Stellar summary of Q1

[°Meks @Mf_bc_]

Not enough action from German VCs in the CEE

[°Meks @Mf_bc_]

@android_poet Solid flow, you mind sharing the Logic?

[°Meks @Mf_bc_]

Truly
That’s why I tell people to https://t.co/JKvYffr57S to hire smarter and test applicants actual skills

[Ishaan Sehgal @ishaansehgal]

Looking at hiring for my startup and something feels off

The resumes are impressive, I know

But I continue to notice that credentials are:
1. Completely disconnected from shipping ability
2. A lagging indicator from the pre-AI era
3. Optimized for interview prep, not building
4. Worse predictors than a quick product demo

Nobody is better positioned than the kid who just ships

This past week another FAANG engineer couldn't debug their way out of a paper bag with Cursor, and in fact made me incrementally more bullish on hiring based on GitHub activity instead of pedigree

[°Meks @Mf_bc_]

@oelma__ Absolut

[°Meks @Mf_bc_]

@benln 😂 does building ever really end ?

[°Meks @Mf_bc_]

@ishaansehgal I’ll give it to you, an engineer in your pocket is an interesting concept

[°Meks @Mf_bc_]

You worry too much about dying then you will be killed