Ollie Shaw

building Caruso, infra for fund managers.

We administer over $ 150B across private equity, commercial real estate, private credit -

[Ollie Shaw @ollshaw]

@wesbos Unfortunately UNAS still sucks. Moved to Synology + C2 and never looked back.

[Ollie Shaw @ollshaw]

@oznova_ Well done. Any chance of a technical write-up?

[Jaana Dogan ヤナ ドガン @rakyll]

Honestly, I’m working 5x harder since coding agents actually became useful. Weren't these supposed to take software engineers out of the critical path? Now it just feels like every part of the stack needs to be rebuilt, and it has to happen now.

[Ollie Shaw @ollshaw]

@ashleypeacock Interviewed a staff-level SWE who said his team had just started to experiment with letting AI write their PR descriptions, one month ago. Many similar cases, “i can only use CC on my personal projects” etc.

[Mark Hurley @Markjudehurley]

One of Australia's leading fund managers, over $21 billion under management, 25+ year track record. Today they're a customer, live on Caruso.

A huge milestone, and a huge effort across their team and ours.

[Ollie Shaw @ollshaw]

@gamgeevetmed @foundersfund God speed

[Ollie Shaw @ollshaw]

@haakamaujla @github Same here for last 20 minutes.

[Ollie Shaw @ollshaw]

We saw high error rates at particular times today across our services that align with Coinbase. Downdetector (although user report driven and not driven by actual error codes) shows spikes at the exact times we observed. No update from AWS either.

Screenshot attached from ~10hr ago.

[Caruso @getcaruso]

$26 trillion in private market assets, still managed with spreadsheets and manual processes.

We raised $11.2M to build the alternative.

AI agents and fund admin experts, one platform, faster and more accurate fund operations.

[Ollie Shaw @ollshaw]

@cramforce Thanks. You guys are cooking up great stuff

[Ollie Shaw @ollshaw]

@cramforce Just data “residency” requirements from some very large customers.

Our Sydney region for example queries Bedrock running Opus 4.6 in ap-southeast-2 rather than Anthropic directly.

[Ollie Shaw @ollshaw]

@zlwaterfield You can symlink them:

ln -sf https://t.co/TYlxXV1CvS https://t.co/SjWofaZmyK

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

I am unreasonably excited about self-driving. It will be the first technology in many decades to visibly terraform outdoor physical spaces and way of life. Less parked cars. Less parking lots. Much greater safety for people in and out of cars. Less noise pollution. More space reclaimed for humans. Human brain cycles and attention capital freed up from “lane following” to other pursuits. Cheaper, faster, programmable delivery of physical items and goods. It won’t happen overnight but there will be the era before and the era after.

[Simon Willison @simonw]

Quitting programming as a career right now because of LLMs would be like quitting carpentry as a career thanks to the invention of the table saw.

[Ollie Shaw @ollshaw]

@rauchg Congrats to the team on GA.

Very much looking forward to private blobs (https://t.co/EXwC6FqQOy)

[Mitchell Hashimoto @mitchellh]

The "AI uses too much energy" argument is also exhausting. We're seeing the largest slope change in clean energy in US history literally because of AI. In some decades we're going to be sitting on dozens of new nuclear reactors that probably wouldn't have happened without AI.

So, yes, AI is using a ton of energy. But it's also ushering in the greatest growth in clean energy in my lifetime. And thank god it's actually fucking useful unlike crypto trash.

[Ollie Shaw @ollshaw]

@MayorWayneBrown You’re doing a great job.

[Ollie Shaw @ollshaw]

Don’t engage with your insurer until your response has been signed off by Deep Research using o3-mini-high.

[Ollie Shaw @ollshaw]

https://t.co/RgsOG57cGe

[Ollie Shaw @ollshaw]

New Zealand to *finally* offer a Digital Nomad Visa.

NZ does not have a Capital Gains Tax. Non-residents can incorporate a company here and personally pay virtually no tax on sale of shares.

@NomadList @levelsio