Michael

MTS @ media @ stuff @ @trygravityai & investor. Most startup problems can be solved w/ 100M views.

[Michael @michael_chomsky]

https://t.co/mcel85kUB7 now outperforms jev and is free

go nuts guys

[Michael @michael_chomsky]

@NKocica @grok do any sandboxes come with perpetual browser infra, or is it better to use kernel/browserbase here

[Michael @michael_chomsky]

thinking of a new startup idea:

obviously servers are good for agents. claude/codex need computers to do things with

what if there was a VPS that could spin up and down very quickly?

you only pay for it when it’s active. i guess I can do this myself with k8s, but that’s a lot of work.

there needs to be a platform that manages all of this for me

not sure why nobody is building this, feels like a pretty obvious play

[Michael @michael_chomsky]

this one is a banger by frontrun

anybody selling data rn is noticing a pattern:

the customers are increasingly enterprises that want to fix their agents

evals are going to be a 100B+ market, because an eval is what makes ai deployable to production yes, but also what lets you hillclimb outcomes, and is also an rl task at the same time

rn the major buyers are frontier labs. but not forever!!

[frontrun @frontrunvc]

ex-@GoogleDeepMind gemini post-training. ex-@mercor.

now they're fixing ai agents in production, and the company has 2 followers: @Convergent_Dev

@OmkarSavant_ and @debnilsur turn production agent failures into evals, then fix them.

flagged oct 15th on @frontrunvc

[Michael @michael_chomsky]

@mdjunaidap there are startups doing this alr??

[Michael @michael_chomsky]

@GabiGrinberg idk about that but i think there’s room for some kind of gateway that routes llm calls to the best/cheapest provider

[Michael @michael_chomsky]

@handotdev this is so sick!!

[Michael @michael_chomsky]

@zacker150 i’ve never heard of them.

@AniC_dev how does this compare to EC2

[Michael @michael_chomsky]

@asmirkn wait didn’t fly kill sprites or smth? i remember they shut down a product

[Michael @michael_chomsky]

@_dylanga i’ll call it box or ship or smth

i feel like ramp would be a perfect customer for this, y’all have an internal token factory that may benefit from it idk

[Michael @michael_chomsky]

@be_arsh oh no I’m literally Cardinal Richelieu

[Michael @michael_chomsky]

@talhaminhaas yes but happened several times now!

[Michael @michael_chomsky]

@hanghuang_ yeah i’ll just wrap AWS. why fix what isn’t broken!

[Michael @michael_chomsky]

@hanghuang_ i think I need to validate it a bit more. my gut says it’s a good idea but i haven’t heard of anyone doing this

i smell latent demand though bc my claude keeps crashing my computer

[Michael @michael_chomsky]

@sunglassesface i was thinking ‘box’ but workspace is better

[Michael @michael_chomsky]

@dimasyro hi dima

[Michael @michael_chomsky]

@katieschwartz interested!

[Michael @michael_chomsky]

@RohanBhanotAI yeah it was

[Michael @michael_chomsky]

Extremely sad to hear Vals is shutting down

Steve is a founder I look up to, and it always felt like Vals was one decision away from PMF.

Not quite infrastructure, not quite a vibe coding platform. Val felt like early Replit yet somehow also a love letter to the Javascript ecosystem.

I can’t wait to learn what’s next for the team.

[Michael @michael_chomsky]

@roland_graser you get it

[Michael @michael_chomsky]

“dad, why are we so poor”

“well son, I was in YC in 2026 and everyone was pivoting to sandboxes in the middle of the batch. I decided that there were too many sandbox companies already

so I kept building my b2b saas”

“dad did you not see the MRR charts? were you not on X or something?”

“i was son, but I thought every MRR chart was going to be the last one. but they kept coming

for months, box, boxes, boat, box (this one by upstash). everybody launch post went viral.

modal quietly got to 1B arr. loveable started making sandboxes for some reason.”

“i hate you dad”

“not as much as i hate myself”

[Michael @michael_chomsky]

@Super_PK_ im personally bullish on vertical agents. they don’t need nearly as many customers to win!