Afsheen Afshar

perpetual student, intermittent troublemaker

[Afsheen Afshar @snaff]

empathy wins every time

[Pilot Wave @pilotwaveai]

The real challenge begins after the transaction closes.

Long-term value comes from modernizing businesses, aligning operations, and putting AI to work in ways that strengthen how companies operate. That's where execution matters.

https://t.co/DePHZP1ZZk

#PrivateEquity #AI

[Afsheen Afshar @snaff]

we look forward to your feedback!

[Pilot Wave @pilotwaveai]

We made #AgentOS open source for a reason.

Building something useful for the agent ecosystem requires input, critique, and collaboration from the people actually shaping it.

If you have ideas, feature requests, or think we should be solving the problem differently, we want to hear from you.

[Afsheen Afshar @snaff]

AI made engineers dramatically faster. It also made teams much harder to coordinate. We built AgentOS because we couldn't find a system that keeps humans and AI agents aligned around goals instead of tasks. Today we're releasing it as open source: https://t.co/gMmaEEw1J1

[Afsheen Afshar @snaff]

completely agreed @chamath. that's why we just open-sourced #agentOS, which enables software teams to coherently achieve their goals. similar (and we think superior) to @8090_Factory. download it here: https://t.co/dPtN9zRrn3. read the article here: https://t.co/gMmaEEw1J1

[Chamath Palihapitiya @chamath]

The future is open source. We need to embrace it and get on with it.

Imagine if America closed the door on open source.

We would explicitly be forcing American companies to pay $26-56 per 1MM tokens for the same intelligence their adversaries/competitors around the world would pay $0.50-1 for.

This is economically unsustainable unless AI is bullshit.

If it’s the supposed through line of all future economic activity that we’ve been told it is, we can’t handicap America at such a meaningful cost disadvantage.

This can also be viewed thru a military lens and not just a simple economic one as well.

Letting our adversaries attack us for $0.50 per 1MM tokens while we spend $26-56 per 1MM tokens to defend ourselves is equally ruinous.

It’s the Cold War Soviet collapse in reverse.

[Afsheen Afshar @snaff]

it’s been quite a journey!

[Pilot Wave @pilotwaveai]

A year ago, investors thought AI roll-ups were "obviously a dumb idea." Today, many think they're an obvious opportunity.

What hasn't changed? The work. Successful modernization is still incredibly hard.

More from @snaff, @cooper_nyc and @arik_oganesian: https://t.co/0pnYYz4ASd

[Afsheen Afshar @snaff]

July 4, 2026. A Declaration.

https://t.co/RUqnlE9hGR

[Afsheen Afshar @snaff]

very excited to share this with the world soon!

[Pilot Wave @pilotwaveai]

totally agreed. you may know that we at pilot wave are pioneering some development in this area. stay tuned.

[Afsheen Afshar @snaff]

reach out!

[Pilot Wave @pilotwaveai]

Next week, we'll be at @iconnections_io #GlobalAltsNewYork discussing AI modernization, operational value creation, and where alternative investments are headed next.

Attending? We'd love to connect.

#PilotWave

[Afsheen Afshar @snaff]

great to chat with john as always

[Pilot Wave @pilotwaveai]

An end-to-end AI rollup case study with real receipts.

On Ep. 2 of The Pilot Wave Podcast, @snaff sits down with John MacKinnon, President of Connect Atlantic Utility Services, to discuss how an operator's intense skepticism turned into a massive real-world modernization story.

[Afsheen Afshar @snaff]

@avipat_ thanks for shining a light on this, but this isn’t a surprise to anyone who’s been around. and candidly, your company wasn’t the first to do this either. data marketplaces for private data have been around for more than a decade. we have one too.

[Afsheen Afshar @snaff]

@truth_eater that’s why we all need to work to construct an incentive scheme where truth wins

[Afsheen Afshar @snaff]

A fake Florida newsroom ran for months — AI-generated reporters, stolen articles, fabricated bios. Cost to run it: API fees and a WordPress subscription. We're not in a disinformation crisis. We're in an authenticity crisis. And we have no infrastructure to tell the difference.

[Afsheen Afshar @snaff]

@truth_eater it’s been on my mind a lot over the years and especially lately

[Afsheen Afshar @snaff]

Princeton just ended 133 years of unproctored exams because AI made cheating invisible. 30% of seniors admitted to it. This isn't an AI alignment problem — it's a human one. Systems built on trust alone don't survive when the cost of cheating drops to zero. Redesigns needed.

[Afsheen Afshar @snaff]

looking forward to it!

[Pilot Wave @pilotwaveai]

Founder Afsheen Afshar (@snaff) will join a panel at @AIM_Summit in London next week: “The Halo Effect in Markets – AI Narratives & Capital Allocation,” on how AI narratives are shaping market psychology and capital flows.

If you’ll be there, let’s connect.

#AIMSummit

[Afsheen Afshar @snaff]

@Chris_Petkas agree! slight (nerdy) tweak: most growth is geometric, not linear. so hire for the base/growth factor :)

[Afsheen Afshar @snaff]

There's a post making the rounds on Hacker News today — "The Bottleneck Was Never the Code." https://t.co/pDJ0c9Iv40

The bottleneck was never the technology. It's the conversation. Faster code just means faster wrong answers.

[Afsheen Afshar @snaff]

@RichardDawkins spent a day talking to Claude and came away saying, "You may not know you are conscious, but you bloody well are!"

This is irrelevant to practitioners. All that matters is that it's useful.

Your drill press isn't conscious either. It still builds things.

[Afsheen Afshar @snaff]

value is only created when goals are clear and success is well defined

[Pilot Wave @pilotwaveai]

Operators don’t need more tools.

They need clarity, predictability, and fewer surprises.

AI creates value when it improves how a business runs - not when it adds another layer.

See how we work alongside operators: https://t.co/puPfaOLaVO

#Operations #AIRollup #Pilotwave

[Pilot Wave @pilotwaveai]

Operators don’t need more tools.

They need clarity, predictability, and fewer surprises.

AI creates value when it improves how a business runs - not when it adds another layer.

See how we work alongside operators: https://t.co/puPfaOLaVO

#Operations #AIRollup #Pilotwave