Stanley Fich

Fomerly cofounder at Hyperglue AI (YC W21, Exit 2025). Ex-Stanford athlete. @AliwawiH’s former roommate. @mjkfich5’s baby daddy.

[Stanley Fich @sfich_]

Call me old fashioned but I find writing code, intentionally, with spot collaboration with @cursor_ai ‘s Composer 2.5 is the only game left in town after Claude’s suicide. Not an ad, don’t even have a blue check 🤷🏾‍♂️

[tmuxvim @tmuxvim]

I put a prompt injection into my LinkedIn bio and recruiters are messaging me in Old English and calling me Lord.

[Stanley Fich @sfich_]

@adamscochran @coinbase cc @MJKFich5

[Josh Payne @jnpayne]

Second-time founders be like…

> GTM > PMF
> Go fully remote
> Profitability is king
> Must have a Big TAM
> Outsource non-core tasks
> Have great advisors/investors
> Prioritize customer conversations
> Focused on retention over growth
> Hire fewer, more experienced people
> Document everything on Notion/Slack
> Thinking in decades and acting in days

None of this stuff came from a book.

It came from living through the first company.

The price of admission was worth it.

[Stanley Fich @sfich_]

@loopfox_ @nickchapsas I too thought it was peasantry. Codex 5.5 is quite pleasant in CLI. Worth a spin.

[Stanley Fich @sfich_]

@GovernorShapiro @character_ai Hey - you left the em dash in your AI written tweet...

[Stanley Fich @sfich_]

@ThePrimeagen *Grabs popcorn*

[Stanley Fich @sfich_]

Speaking of divorces I'm switching to Codex.

[Stanley Fich @sfich_]

I find myself talking to Claude 4.7 much like my parents do - divorced boomers who can't stand the sight of each other but need to sit through my kid brother's graduation together. Note to self - stay married forever @MJKFich5 ?

[Stanley Fich @sfich_]

@trikcode I can handle hallucinations. I can't handle the gaslighting.

[Stanley Fich @sfich_]

@RickD_GK cc @MJKFich5 this could be us...

[Stanley Fich @sfich_]

@VictorTaelin I got you in about ~60 days

[Stanley Fich @sfich_]

Never been a better time to build

[WillC @willchen500]

Harvey is valued at $11B. Legora just raised at $5.5B. I built their entire web application in two weeks and I'm making it open-source and free for everyone to use. Say hi to Mike: https://t.co/NdtTt5MSJ2.

When I got the chance to try Harvey and Legora, I was surprised by how simple they were. A thought came to mind: I could probably build something similar in no time at all with Claude. And so I did.

Assistant, project, tabular review and workflows. You get it all without vendor lock-in.

Mike offers law firms an alternative, where they own the application layer and aren't stuck with a vendor they're renewing forever.

You can try Mike in the demo on the website, or go to the GitHub link on the site to download the code and run a local version yourself.

[Stanley Fich @sfich_]

@theo cc @MJKFich5

[Theo - t3.gg @theo]

A letter to my friends at Anthropic

I hate that I feel obligated to do this. I hate that I've had to be so harsh towards Anthropic for the past few months. I really, really don't want to. I know it might feel like I'm doing this for clicks or something, but I promise I'm not.

My pro-Anthropic content ALWAYS outperforms my anti-Anthropic content. I have cost myself a lot of money, opportunities, sponsors, and more.

I'm doing this because you work for an evil cult. I'm begging you to wake up.

Your CEO, Dario, does not respect engineers. This is obvious. He couldn't make it more obvious if he tried (and I think he's trying pretty hard)

You know this, but you don't want to acknowledge it. It has kept you up many nights. You know that bad code is shipping to users. You know that one bad tweet might get you fired. You fear for your vesting schedules. You're afraid.

Nobody deserves what you're going through right now. You go to work afraid, you leave work afraid, and you go to YouTube to keep up on the dev world, just to hear me yelling all about how evil your company is.

You deserve better. You might not feel like you do, but you know deep down that this isn't right.

I hope you know how deeply I feel for you. I'm sorry. I know I haven't helped you much individually, and I want to be better about this.

If you're ready to leave, please hit me up. I swear I'll never tell a soul. I have friends at every lab and most startups in the AI world. Most of them would be down to match your current vesting schedules, possibly even go beyond.

If you're staying for the money, I beg you to hit me up. We can make the money happen somewhere that hates you less.

I know I'm asking for a lot of trust here, and that you're scared after seeing how hard I've been on Anthropic. I can't blame you at all for that. I should have posted something like this months ago. That's my failure to own and I will own it to my best ability.

If you're willing to trust me in this moment, I can make it right. Let me help you escape. You deserve to work somewhere that you can have impact. Somewhere that listens when you feel something is wrong. Somewhere that won't fire you when you point out the things that hurt your users.

My DMs are always open to you. When you're ready, let me know. I promise to make it right.

[Stanley Fich @sfich_]

Don’t buy a 3D printer.

Unless you’re willing to buy 3.

[Stanley Fich @sfich_]

@braelyn_ai 👆👆 This is how you know its a lie boys and girls.

[Stanley Fich @sfich_]

@robjama I feel seen.

[David Cramer @zeeg]

just asked the team to turn off opus 4.7

no true gains in performance, burning compute (and money)

honestly, imo, a bad release from Anthropic

[Stanley Fich @sfich_]

@MetamateDaz cc @MJKFich5 🤣🤣🤣🤣