scott susanto

@nova_ai

[scott susanto @susantoscott]

@EmmaQian_ @nova_ai @chemistry @Accel @conviction this is massive

[Emma @EmmaQian_]

I'm thrilled to announce @nova_ai's $40M funding across a Series A led by @chemistry and a Seed led by @Accel, with participation from @conviction and SAP's venture arm https://t.co/UuQkPJw9H0.

[scott susanto @susantoscott]

@Sammy_Sidhu @CRV @felicis @ycombinator @M12vc @Citi this is incredible guys 🔥🚀

[Sammy Sidhu @Sammy_Sidhu]

Today we're announcing that Eventual has raised $30M in Seed and Series A funding from @CRV and @felicis as well as @ycombinator, @M12vc and @Citi and others.

The AI era needs data infrastructure built for AI, not retrofitted.
🧵

[scott susanto @susantoscott]

@danialasaria @lovable prompts go wild wtf

[Danial Asaria @danialasaria]

I just hacked multiple @lovable 'top launched' sites

Wait—what?

In less time than it took me to finish my lunch (47 mins), I extracted from live production apps:
💰Personal debt amounts
🏠Home Addresses
🗝️API keys (admin access)
🔥Spicy Prompts

Screenshots in thread 🧵

Not as a hacker - as a curious dev with 15 lines of Python.

This isn't a breach story (I reported it), this is a wake-up call.

Be cautious which 'vibe coder' you trust with your personal data.

[scott susanto @susantoscott]

@kamathematic @chrispramana stagehand is amazing, but if ur:
- trying out browser agents for the first time
- don’t want to complicate auth
- want the full glory of running surf in ur local machine

then surf is a great place to start. but more to come that stagehand doesnt have in the coming weeks

[scott susanto @susantoscott]

@multivitaman @chrispramana honest answer: totally unoptimized atm. each task is in the $2-4 range using 3.5 sonnet, and we’re poc-ing the general ability of surf as a browser agent.

deepseek v3 changes everything however, stay tuned for that 🐋

[scott susanto @susantoscott]

@arj_shiv @chrispramana thanks for the signup! with dom only we’re defering to modern a11y practices to condense the dom - so yes, adversarial websites will be a pain. that said, if your workflow includes one of these and a screenshot solves it, do let us know!

[scott susanto @susantoscott]

@itsKarad @chrispramana opentable demo: $2.23
gmail->amazon demo: $4.17
(variable between runs)

but given API prices dropped 2 orders of magnitude in 2024, I expect these numbers to drop further this year.

however, if u have a specific workflow u wanna optimize for, we could def push it down :)

[scott susanto @susantoscott]

just wanna thank these 2 cardboard guys for all the code they wrote for my repo

[ChrisPy @chrispramana]

Operator’s really cool but slow so we built a better one over the weekend

[scott susanto @susantoscott]

@chrispramana "Surf go to github and build a new feature for surf"

[scott susanto @susantoscott]

or just join the waitlist https://t.co/g9JueJZAVW 🏄‍♂️

[scott susanto @susantoscott]

we built a small prototype of @OpenAI operator for fun; here's what it got for @WilsonLimSet's early birthday gift 🤭

Surf is completely free for the first 1,000 users, comment if you're not on OpenAI's $3k/year plan and I'll add you to the list :)

[scott susanto @susantoscott]

@WilsonLimSet @firecrawl 🔥🔥

[scott susanto @susantoscott]

@chrispramana can someone make this real this would be crazy useful

[scott susanto @susantoscott]

next level… certainly the superior scott 👀

[Jack Burlinson @jfbrly]

In case you were wondering just how cracked the team @cognition_labs is...

This was the CEO (@ScottWu46) 14 years ago.

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

# automating software engineering

In my mind, automating software engineering will look similar to automating driving. E.g. in self-driving the progression of increasing autonomy and higher abstraction looks something like:

1. first the human performs all driving actions manually
2. then the AI helps keep the lane
3. then it slows for the car ahead
4. then it also does lane changes and takes forks
5. then it also stops at signs/lights and takes turns
6. eventually you take a feature complete solution and grind on the quality until you achieve full self-driving.

There is a progression of the AI doing more and the human doing less, but still providing oversight. In Software engineering, the progression is shaping up similar:

1. first the human writes the code manually
2. then GitHub Copilot autocompletes a few lines
3. then ChatGPT writes chunks of code
4. then you move to larger and larger code diffs (e.g. Cursor copilot++ style, nice demo here https://t.co/u8ueY0mGxZ)
5....
Devin is an impressive demo of what perhaps follows next: coordinating a number of tools that a developer needs to string together to write code: a Terminal, a Browser, a Code editor, etc., and human oversight that moves to increasingly higher level of abstraction.

There is a lot of work not just on the AI part but also the UI/UX part. How does a human provide oversight? What are they looking at? How do they nudge the AI down a different path? How do they debug what went wrong? It is very likely that we will have to change up the code editor, substantially.

In any case, software engineering is on track to change substantially. And it will look a lot more like supervising the automation, while pitching in high-level commands, ideas or progression strategies, in English.

Good luck to the team!

[scott susanto @susantoscott]

sick im a pottery master now

[scott susanto @susantoscott]

looks like I'm not crazy for wanting to build AGI, one repo at a time

🔥 flamethrower is officially in #BackdropBuild https://t.co/AOLNDnR7bA

can't wait to build shit