Paul Querna

CTO & Co-Founder @ConductorOneInc

[Paul Querna @pquerna]

I believe:

1) Corps will use 100s of different SaaS products (10x-100x from today)

2) New Arch required to enable #1: A fabric between companies, humans, and SaaS

3) Identity is going to become about Automation, Orchestration and Delegation -- the fabric between the parties

[9 Mothers @9Mothers]

"9 Mothers in the YC Spring 2026 batch is a counter-drone defense co for whom bar is zero, there is no viable close quarters defense otherwise! There's no chasm to cross for that."

[Paul Querna @pquerna]

Inflation adjusted Ramen profitability per month:
- Ramen $40
- Health Insurance; $2,000
- inference &20,000

[Russell Smith 🤙 @rhs]

@pquerna Dolphins first

[Paul Querna @pquerna]

We made an LLM to make SVGs but we still can’t talk to dolphins or whales. I’d accept either.

[Paul Querna @pquerna]

i'm feeling like an overconfident LLM today

[Paul Querna @pquerna]

what if i just let Claw use Claude Cowork via computer use, will anthropic shut that down?

[Paul Querna @pquerna]

it feels like a good time to be the nostradamus of post-quantum cryptography

[Paul Querna @pquerna]

success sharding problems: when your sharding scheme started being painful at 1000x the original volume.

[Paul Querna @pquerna]

who is going to launch inference spot pricing and ~60 second async conversation api price reductions first.

[Simon Willison @simonw]

Billing different based on text contained in the system prompt is a really bad look

[Paul Querna @pquerna]

It was all fun and games until the SQLite VACCUM took 12 hours

[Paul Querna @pquerna]

Claude: THE PATH IS CLEAR
Me: we are absolutely not making it out of this alive

[Paul Querna @pquerna]

Calling it now, PowerShell is more token efficient than bash, and someone else will figure this out in the next 3 weeks.

[Paul Querna @pquerna]

Screw Miami, lets all move to Hawaii.

[Claude @claudeai]

How it works:
- 2x usage on weekdays outside 5–11am PT / 12–6pm GMT
- 2x usage all day on weekends
- Automatic, nothing to enable

[Paul Querna @pquerna]

If your leadership team isn’t coding you’re NGMI

[rob @rwitoff]

@brian_armstrong

[Paul Querna @pquerna]

"we could just fork postgres" escalates really quickly when everyone has AI-agents working for them

[Paul Querna @pquerna]

2 days ago prediction: that's going to be an 80,000 line PR
current status: +78,840 −890

[OnlyCFO @OnlyCFO]

“We can’t work with that startup because they are not SOC 2 Type 2 compliant”

“Hey Moltbot, here is my credit card info and all my passwords. Do something cool. Make no mistakes”

[Aaron Levie @levie]

0% chance you can explain the state of AI to anyone outside of this website and not look like this right now

[Paul Querna @pquerna]

the greatest gift to software engineering in the last 3 minutes was the realization you can just make claude deal with bazel.