Shayan H. 🇸🇪

CS grad | AI Engineer | Micro-SaaS Evangelist.

[Shayan H. 🇸🇪 @shayanhl]

Desire is mimetic, people want what other people want.

[Shayan H. 🇸🇪 @shayanhl]

uv @astral_sh is simply brilliant. Installed it, blinked, and everything was done. Makes one look back on the pip years like a wretched country house weekend that somehow lasted a decade. Jolly good. Pass the gin.

[shafu @shafu0x]

fucking hilarious that HR people think they can judge technical people

[ThePrimeagen @ThePrimeagen]

The last step of any refactor always feels the best.

[Satya Nadella @satyanadella]

https://t.co/vLmiBKTtX3

[Garry Tan @garrytan]

In AI most people are still trying to use old maps on a new territory.

Throw the maps away. It's time to draw new ones. The only way you can do it is walking the land.

[Hubert Thieblot @hthieblot]

Act like you already have the term sheet, and soon, you will.

[Computer ♥ Records @ComputerLove_]

26 years ago.

[roon @tszzl]

rsi is a process that’s been happening at least since the renaissance

[Shayan H. 🇸🇪 @shayanhl]

Delightful. Vague notions are now an adequate substitute for expertise. Progress, of a sort.

[Jared Friedman @snowmaker]

We've always told startups to launch early, but I realized there's a powerful new reason to.
Before you launch, the speed you can build is now mainly limited by your imagination in what you tell AI.
After you launch, the AI can watch your users and make improvements on its own.

[Shayan H. 🇸🇪 @shayanhl]

One has heard wilder things. Not many, but one has

[Junaid Ackroyd @JunaidAckroyd]

Unpopular opinion: you should work at a start up before founding one

[Shayan H. 🇸🇪 @shayanhl]

Don't bill by the hour, dear boy. Tradesmen have rates

[Nicolas Dessaigne @dessaigne]

A founder asked me how to build an AI-services business without it turning into a consultancy. My answer: the whole game is in how you charge.

[Degen CPA @DrewVento]

None of my real good friends are on twitter and I am thankful for that

[Shayan H. 🇸🇪 @shayanhl]

Seventy billion in retail orders, finally, the common man can lose money in zero gravity

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

JUST IN: SpaceX IPO has reportedly drawn $70,000,000,000.00 in orders from retail investors.

[Shayan H. 🇸🇪 @shayanhl]

How terribly kind of them to treat one's modest SaaS subscription as a debutante ball entrance fee

[Marty Kausas @marty_kausas]

Our Anthropic bill is about to jump from $400K → $1.4M/yr.

Not because usage exploded, but because we're about to cross 150 seats.

Past 150 seats you're forced into Enterprise tier. Seats stop including any usage, every token bills at standard API rates. At our current run rate that's 3.5x overnight.

Unfiltered thoughts on AI spend:

1. We should spend tokens to grow as aggressively as possible. But most people (me included) aren't conscious of what they're spending.

2. Visibility comes first. People see their personal number and they're shocked. I accidentally spent $4,000 in 3 days in Claude Code.

3. For engineering the spend is clearly worth it. Pay for the best model, it saves more than it costs.

4. For a lot of other roles it's questionable. Apps nobody uses, skills someone already built. No ROI.

5. Spend limits are coming. We already require approval for more tokens on our support team.

The era of token-maxxing is coming to an end.

[anu @anuatluru]

NEW MEDIA is INSIDER MEDIA

Rooted in Silicon Valley, but really a meditation on the moment. A theory of culture, taste, prestige, of TBPN, Mafia, Feed Me, and why a small audience of the right people beats a massive one of the wrong ones.

Working Theory #100

Essay link below

[Shayan H. 🇸🇪 @shayanhl]

@ArcanesValor @dwlz Exactly, At this scale YC would need to write the check 200 times

[Shayan H. 🇸🇪 @shayanhl]

@ArcanesValor @dwlz Totally, Fabs require a modest $10B and a nation state willing to co sign. YC writes $500K cheques.

[Shayan H. 🇸🇪 @shayanhl]

Capital follows code. Silicon follows conviction, YC still choosing the former

[Dan Loewenherz @dwlz]

Surprised that YC hasn't yet funded a chip or memory fabrication startup.

[Shayan H. 🇸🇪 @shayanhl]

Apparently AI requires slightly more pocket money than anticipated.

[TechCrunch @TechCrunch]

Fresh off bond sale, Amazon borrows $17.5 billion from banks as AI spending continues https://t.co/omc7v6LMNS

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

“Democracy is the theory that tech executives know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.”—HL Mencken, probably