Nick Molnar

CTO @xmtp_. Prev @brexhq, co-founder of @Wantering (acq. 2015).

[Nick Molnar @nickmolnar]

Reminds me of the good old days when I could take a 45 minute Uber across LA for $6 because they wanted to crush Lyft.

[SemiAnalysis @SemiAnalysis_]

Recently, we purchased one of each Anthropic/OpenAI subscription plan and randomly ran long horizon coding tasks until we exhausted the weekly limit. It's widely believed that a $200/month plan maxes out at ~$2000/month worth of tokens (assuming API pricing). However, we found that the subscriptions are actually far more generous. (2/4)

[Nick Molnar @nickmolnar]

@thdxr @raincoaster Tokens are free. Guac still costs $2.50

[Nick Molnar @nickmolnar]

@TrungTPhan Drove by an around-the-block line on Robson Street last night.

You think the people sleeping on the street are buying to keep? Or does everyone believe they can flip for $5k?

[Nick Molnar @nickmolnar]

@ClaudeDevs You lost me at the Agent SDK.

Fine, we shouldn't use CC subscriptions for Github Actions. They're non-interactive and probably unoptimized for caching.

But why are you penalizing me for using your product interactively via Zed vs your CLI? Same calls, same use-case.

[Utpal Nadiger @utpalnadiger]

agent sandboxes need lambda ergonomics with ec2 semantics.

[Ara Ghougassian @araghougassian]

seattle is just temu vancouver

[Nick Molnar @nickmolnar]

On group chats

“They are rarely discussed by mainstream media outlets, because, unlike public platforms like Twitter and Reddit, which provide endless content mining opportunities for eager journalists, there is nothing to write about with group chats. Occasionally, a piece about group chats finds its way to The New York Times or The Atlantic, but these stories are usually quaint and rosy, reflecting on the joys of drinking wine with one's college girlfriends, or keeping in touch with old colleagues, rather than how they will reshape the online social web.”

[Nick Molnar @nickmolnar]

After 14 hours of coaxing Claude, feels good to pick up a paper book. Finished off Antimimetics by @nayafia

Some of the more memorable quotes:

[Nick Molnar @nickmolnar]

On vibes:

“defining them more precisely - a community platform; a mentor matching network; a happiness score - inevitably destroys their essence.”

[Nick Molnar @nickmolnar]

Cloudflare Workflows is such a slept on product. Whole categories of problem disappear if you can use it.

You think you need a queue, database, and distributed tracing. What you actually need is a way to safely retry failures and debug when something breaks halfway through.

[Nick Molnar @nickmolnar]

@heynavtoor The real power move is to never set up WiFi on the TV, and connect to an Apple TV for entertainment.

Nothing good has ever come from a TV software update.

[Nick Molnar @nickmolnar]

@GergelyOrosz Idk. I do a lot of work these days where I kick a task over to a cloud agent and give feedback through normal code review tools. For something like that I want stacks and small PRs.

[Nick Molnar @nickmolnar]

I've had a guy in my DMs trying to get me onto his podcast for a few weeks.

On the surface things looked legit. Followed me from a 10 year old X account, put me into a group chat with other real looking industry folks. Still smelled fishy. Premise was a Capital One podcast for crypto builders. In 2026???

Googled him again this morning and of course the whole thing is an elaborate social engineering scam.

Many thanks to @Ben_deWaal for taking apart the exploit and publishing detailed findings.

Stay vigilant. The North Koreans are everywhere.

https://t.co/7SGOzLv6Cf

[Nick Molnar @nickmolnar]

@shcallaway Oh god. You’re going to put the money into even more animations on the homepage, aren’t you?

[Nick Molnar @nickmolnar]

This is what AI and robotics should feel like. A house full of magic objects that come alive when you’re not looking like Beauty And The Beast.

Not sure this thing can actually fold laundry, but I want it to be real and good enough to use.

[Aaron Tan @aaronistan]

Introducing Lume.

A lamp that does your chores.

Order now. Shipping this summer.

[Nick Molnar @nickmolnar]

@danrobinson That can’t be true

[petebray @petebray]

@lessin "How interesting, I thought, that this local chef's hobby involved salt, the same seasoning technique that the inventor of the Big Mac had repurposed."

[Antonio García Martínez (agm.eth) @antoniogm]

Shouldn’t we be doing this over the many complex smart contracts that secure billions onchain?

How is there not a single crypto company involved?

@AnthropicAI ?