Paul Buchheit

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[Paul Buchheit @paultoo]

There is a deeper truth which I struggle to fully articulate:

Truth is a story.
Narrative shapes Truth.
Truth flows from Narrative.

"That's not true", your story says, "I have facts!"

But facts alone are meaningless. The Narrative determines which facts are relevant and reliable, provides the context and meaning, labels the heroes and villains, and declares what is accurate information and what is harmful misinformation.

And so we are ruled by stories, Narrative.

All of our most divisive issues are ultimately a war of narrative. We may argue over facts, but the real conflict is narrative, and the struggle for who controls The Narrative.

These narratives are unavoidable. We can't make sense of the world without them. But we can become aware of them, stepping back from the conflict to realize that both sides are each working from within their own narrative bubbles.

The path to peace is not in domination, one narrative wiping out all others, but in understanding.

We can develop a meta-narrative that recognizes and integrates all other narratives, not as true and false but more like species of bacteria, spreading, competing, mutating, colonizing minds, sometimes helping and sometimes harming. We must understand that those colonized by one or the other narrative are generally unaware, to them it is simply the truth.

This meta-narrative brings awareness, and with it some degree of freedom. We can choose our narratives. We can change our narratives. And through this process of awareness, integration, and refinement, all narratives are transformed.

This is the beginning of Alignment.

[Dave Messina @DaveMessina]

@paultoo and @daltonc’s approach to Series A makes so much more sense than the traditional founder-unfriendly process. Highly recommend.

And they fund bio/health too! like @andromedasurg from our portfolio

[Hunter Leath @jhleath]

Thank you to everyone who came out to Archil's inaugural hackathon last night at the Casco offices. We had some awesome builders show up and work on the future of agent coordination, swarms, undo logs, and more.

Congratulations to our winners [more in thread]!

[Dalton Caldwell @daltonc]

We just opened up applications for the latest Standard Capital Series A funding cycle!

Apply by December 1, hear back by December 11.

[Dalton Caldwell @daltonc]

We recently led the Reflex Series A.

Reflex began as an open source python library for building web applications in python, and their open source rep has since grown to ~30K Github stars.

The founders of Reflex noticed that a number of enterprise customers started using Reflex organically, and so over a year ago they started offering paid enterprise features.

Fast-forward to today, and AI is obviously changing the fundamental nature of the software industry, and Reflex is fully focused on being the platform that allows any enterprise to create and maintain their own custom software stack in-house rather than buy SaaS from vendors.

This vision sounds like the right one, which is why @Standard_Cap chose to back @getreflex!

[Casco @getcasco]

We’re excited to announce Casco has just achieved FedRAMP 20x Class A certification.

Our adversaries can run cyberattacks against government cyberinfrastructure 24/7, so our national cybersecurity should be 24/7, too.

Learn more about our government capabilities at https://t.co/OABVWSt41P. 🇺🇸

[Hunter Leath @jhleath]

i'm sorry to do this again. tl;dr -- archil hosts spark for 3x less and 3x faster than databricks

to reiterate: the problem with commercial open source is that organizations did this because they *assumed* it would be much much harder to self-host than run on their cloud.

why was it so much harder? the *data infrastructure* required to run this kind of cluster was extremely difficult to build. archil has made it very very simple to get high-performance shared storage across lots of nodes, therefore making data analytics cheaper and simpler than before.

our seed pitch deck 2 years ago specifically called out spark as one of the workloads that we wanted to optimize for, and it turns out that we've done that now!

check out the guide to run serverless spark on archil here: https://t.co/embxLSzwer

[Dalton Caldwell @daltonc]

Some news: Standard Capital led the @getreflex Series A!

Reflex is already used by 30% of the Fortune 500. Enterprises can stop paying for SaaS and replace *everything* with customized software powered by Reflex.

This is the future of enterprise software.

Welcome to @Standard_Cap, Nikhil and Alek!

[Hunter Leath @jhleath]

tl;dr -- archil hosts clickhouse for 50% less than clickhouse.

traditionally, "commercial open source" meant that the provider open-sourced a worse version of the product, to disincentivize people from self hosting. frequently (as with clickhouse here), the OSS version requires local disks and doesn't work with s3.

unfortunately for these folks, archil has solved the problem of using s3 as a local disk. so, you can use open-source clickhouse with s3-backed data and save 50% of your clickhouse costs

DM me if you want some credits to move your clickhouse workload to Archil

guide here: https://t.co/OhD4J521NM

[Adam Cohen @adambcohen93]

Today we're open sourcing Weave Checks, to help you enforce the code principles you care about (without a human reading every line).

By running an agent against every PR, Weave Checks ensures it meets criteria you define in Markdown files. Each Markdown file is a single code quality standard you want to uphold.

The agent checks that the standard is upheld and leaves a review comment if it's not. It self-resolves once its own comments have been addressed.

Top Weave Checks seen we've setup:

1. No tautological tests
2. Over abstraction
3. Defensive programming
4. Dead-code paths
5. Intermediate variable cleanup

Let us know what you think!

https://t.co/aRmq4BQ3Da

[Kevin Gee @kevg1412]

Larry Page on the importance of tackling ambitious challenges and making big bets

[Y Combinator @ycombinator]

Weave (W25) helps engineering teams understand whether their AI coding tools are actually making them more productive. Its models measure the work humans and agents produce and compare that output with AI spending.

The company recently raised a $13.5M Series A led by Standard Capital and launched Weave Router, which selects models for different coding tasks.

In this fireside, @WorkWeave co-founders @adambcohen93 and @AndrewChurchiII join YC's @snowmaker to share how the company evolved alongside the rapid rise of AI coding, from measuring the impact of tools like Cursor to helping teams build software factories that can work autonomously.

They explain how the best engineering teams are learning to measure the real output of their agents, spread the habits of their strongest AI users, and optimize for a future where much more software is written without a human at the keyboard.

00:00 — Optimizing AI Coding With Weave
04:02 — Getting More From Your AI Budget
08:39 — Measuring Work Beyond Lines of Code
12:30 — From AI Adoption to Optimization
16:47 — Measuring AI ROI and Coaching Engineers
20:16 — Building Software Factories
25:38 — The Future of Model Routing

[Matthieu Hafemeister @matt_haf]

Excited to share that @Concourse_ai agents can now write to your finance systems!

Our agents already run finance workflows end to end. Now our customers decide exactly what their agents are allowed to change.

Most finance workflows end with someone updating the system of record, like marking an invoice paid, adding a memo, fixing a field.

It’s small, manual work, and our customers tell us it piles up by month end. Now, agents can handle that part too.

Teams can now write back to their systems like NetSuite, Stripe, Quickbooks and Salesforce.

Before an agent changes anything, it shows you the exact change, asks for permission, and awaits for approval.

Finance teams already work this way, with one person preparing a change and someone else signing off.

Now the agent can be fully autonomous, and do the prep while the team handles the review.

Each team sets its own rules: who approves, how long they have, and what happens if nobody responds.

For our customers, that means spending fewer hours devoted to data entry, and maintaining the control process they've always had.

[Lee Edwards @ledwards]

I just learned yesterday that the fund created by the small business healthcare mandate (that you have seen in restaurant bills for almost 20 years):

- has almost no claims
- except when used for fraud
- has accumulated $1B since 2008
- has earned zero interest

Half of San Francisco thinks the government that created this should run a bank.

[Artie @artie_labs]

Artie now runs Apache Kafka for you on AWS.

You pay AWS’s price for the infrastructure plus 25% on the brokers, and that’s it. Three r8g.large brokers with 1 MB/s in and 500 GB retained come to $436 a month, compared with $1,110 for the same cluster on Amazon MSK.

Once your cluster is up, our engineers are on call for it. Artie Managed Kafka replaces failed brokers, rebalances partitions, grows disks before they fill, moves older data to S3, and rolls out upgrades one broker at a time.

Last night a streamer tried running Kafka himself, live. By 3 AM his disks were full, a broker was on fire, and the partition reassignment had four hours left. Someone in chat told him to “just use managed.” Chat was right.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Yeah, much easier to cool in space.

~1300 W/m^2 is easily achievable for an aluminum radiator pointed away from the Sun, as it is mostly just seeing cosmic background radiation at ~3 degrees above absolute zero!

Solar panels generate ~250 W/m^2, so you should expect them to have ~5 times the area of the radiator. Most of the mass of the satellite is solar panels.

[Mike Solana @micsolana]

no more gaslighting from former libs who made their bargain with the devil. there is only one relevant "authoritarian" political faction in america. it is the DSA. if you are supporting or enabling the DSA, you are an authoritarian.

[Joscha Bach @Plinz]

AI is coming for econ. Artificial intelligence will force a major push against the endemic (often ideologically or financially motivated) fraud in the social sciences and life sciences

[Flo Crivello @Altimor]

Not meant in a snarky way: there is something deeply interesting about how much of leftist ideology rests upon lies / factual inaccuracies. Indicates something about the adversariality of our information environment. Truth is a tax on virality.

[Isaac Saul @Ike_Saul]

As I was saying.

According to The New York Times: Not only is Daniel J. Sullivan in Alaska running solely to confuse voters, the top Democratic candidate in the state was involved in recruiting Dan Sullivans for this very purpose.

Totally corrupt, unethical, and condemnable.

[Paul Buchheit @paultoo]

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