Rish

Sucker for physical and mental torture. Building Spot AI, investing via The Explorer Fund, writing at

[Rish @rish_gpt]

Evolution is a giant trial and error game, lots of bets placed and only few successful or lucky ones forwarded to next generation. It’s power law, scientific method, and market theory at insane scale. #evolution

[Rish @rish_gpt]

Everyone's measuring AI by how many people it replaces. Wrong lens. The steam engine ran a factory off one giant shaft. Electricity let every machine run on its own. AI is doing that to the company. The org chart is the last thing to find out.

[Rish @rish_gpt]

Is this every chat right now?

[Ben Springwater @benspringwater]

Introducing Sabbath:

A modern app for an ancient practice.

Shipping in July. Reply here for early access.

[Rish @rish_gpt]

@benspringwater @LGAjots Count me in

[Rish @rish_gpt]

We live in a crazy world

@OpenAI launches product at end of 2022

2023: $2 billion
2024: $6 billion
2025: $20 billion
2026: $40 billion+

Problem - your biggest competitor @AnthropicAI has done almost ~$40 billion just this year.

No one could have predicated this during the market crash of early 2022.

[Rish @rish_gpt]

@paularambles @lizziepika @Wilhelm_Willie This tells you everything you need to know

[Rish @rish_gpt]

@paularambles Alta plaza, Alamo square park, lafeyette - all much better in almost every way possible.

[Rish @rish_gpt]

@garrytan @JTLonsdale How do you even live in sf without this

[Rish @rish_gpt]

If you are doing 9-9-7 from anywhere else but here, I don’t know what even to tell you.

[Rish @rish_gpt]

It’s simple - if you in 20s - ( founders of corgi - I believe are ) - that’s the only truth to believe - work your asses off 7 days a week, sleep in office etc. it doesn’t gaeuntree success - but you are young, and your energy is your superpower.

In your 30s - you should have learnt how to step of the gas and use your experience / network at leverage but still have muscle memory to go I. Hard mode during important times - at least 20-30 percent of the time.

[Rish @rish_gpt]

@garrytan Also Marc is too old and probably hasn’t figured out some of the best talent is not in pac heights or Russian hill anymore but Hayes valley and Potrero/Yc mix. But I do agree that A and B are only right choices here :p

[Rish @rish_gpt]

Sf dating is fine, lots of great women. But NYC density makes it far mor easier.

[Frank Lee @frankdotlee]

was enjoying a coffee today and overheard a first date that exemplified why dating in sf is cooked 🤦🏻‍♂️

> couple walks in, does light intros
> girl immediately asks guy what he does for work
> guy is a founder, currently fundraising, applying to yc, figuring it out
> girl completely drills him on his product, how much he’s raised, employee count, roasting his thesis
> guy seems fairly uncomfortable, still obliges, shares context, but tries pivoting to non-work topics
> girl continues re-pivoting back to critiquing his startup
> poor dude never gets a chance to learn or share anything personal about each other
> girl seems unimpressed then politely ends date

single straight dudes in sf: if you’re serious about dating, stop fighting statistics and just move to nyc 😄

[Rish @rish_gpt]

I don’t even know how or why anyone will chose anything but A or B.

Vacation - A, live - B.

Reminds of me our chat @akothari

[Garry Tan @garrytan]

Damn I am an E guy through and through

[Rish @rish_gpt]

In a post abundant world - we are going to realize the luxury of less is more in all aspects.

[Nico Acosta @acossta]

@levelsio cars too. Nothing beats a Toyota in quality (failures per million)

[Rish @rish_gpt]

Can you go on a run in San Francisco without posting this selfie, no you cannot

[Rish @rish_gpt]

Rave tickets in sf are going full SF

[Rish @rish_gpt]

Walmart pays its head of AI 2x what it pays its CEO. The role is one year old. The job isn't shipping models - it's redesigning how every function operates around them. Same shift industrial engineers caused in 1910 and product managers caused in 2005. Most companies still don't have one.

[Rish @rish_gpt]

I trust founders who have changed their mind in public more than ones who haven't.

[Rish @rish_gpt]

@shcallaway @sazabi The category most teams confuse with AI observability is "agent debuggability" — you can have perfect traces and still not know which prompt change broke production. The first tool that makes regression testing on agent behavior boring will eat half this market.

[Rish @rish_gpt]

@swyx Vertical wins when the customer's data is the moat. Horizontal infra is fungible. You can swap inference providers without telling anyone. Vertical players accumulate proprietary signal every quarter no API call can replicate. That's the bet, not GPU-cost arbitrage.