Linus

lost to wonder | engineering @thrivecapital

[Linus @thesephist]

https://t.co/r3z1DhicuN

[Akshay Kothari @akothari]

We're finally shedding the .so (thank you Somalia!), and using the .com for @NotionHQ. And for this beautiful moment, I want to share a fun story:

Back in 2018, I had just joined Notion, and one of the first things @ivan asked me to do was figure out how we could own https://t.co/BxoFvc83VG. I had never done a big domain purchase before, so I reached out to a few domain brokers to understand the landscape. We tried different brokers, kept things anonymous, and attempted to surface a price the seller might consider.

A year went by… nothing. Meanwhile, it was pretty clear this was only going to get more expensive as we grew. We needed a different approach. A fellow founder connected me to a broker who took a very different tack. Less transactional, more long-term relationship builder. He spent months getting to know the domain owner. Turns out owner was a fellow entrepreneur in the west coast… and a huge Grateful Dead fan.

So we figured, why not get creative? Something beyond just price. So I called up our investor Ronny Conway and asked if there was any way he could help set up a private meeting between the domain owner and the Grateful Dead. Ronny is one of those people who somehow makes impossible things possible. A week later he calls me back: “New York City. Halloween. 15 minutes after the concert. Done.”

The broker went back to the owner with an offer: some cash, some equity, and a private meeting with the Grateful Dead. That got his attention. He didn’t take the band meeting in the end, but he did lean into the equity (great call, in hindsight). We shook hands, and a few weeks later, the deal was done.

I’ve been waiting years for the day we move our product to https://t.co/BxoFvc83VG. Looks like 2026 is finally the year. Safe to say I’m unreasonably excited about this update!

[Steve Ruiz @steveruizok]

love seeing tldraw's canvas sdk get absolutely maxed by replit team. Proud infra dad

[Linus @thesephist]

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[Cursor @cursor_ai]

We're hosting an event on June 16th in San Francisco.

Compile is a one-day event that brings together engineers, researchers, designers, and builders of all kinds to discuss the future of software.

https://t.co/8YERlPFooL

[Linus @thesephist]

We have yet to build a truly personal computer.

[Linus @thesephist]

Human Interface Guidelines, Apple.

[Linus @thesephist]

A humanist view of the computer user, and a presumption that computers should enhance our abilities!

[Linus @thesephist]

@samaysham @ThriveHoldings good teaser

[Linus @thesephist]

I really appreciate the lessons and technical ideas @samaysham & team were able to share about their tax agent system, which learns from production traces to self-improve via detailed tracing tightly integrated into deployment + an autonomous AI engineer.

[Samay @samaysham]

At @ThriveHoldings, we built a product with @OpenAI to automate tax prep for the 30+ accounting firms we own across the country.

This season, it processed 7k+ returns. But what I think is more interesting is that the product meaningfully self-improved as accountants used it.

[Matt Webb 🌸🌼 genmon.fyi @genmon]

I read the Unix source code a while back (Lyon’s) and it seems to me that all of personal computing is the extrapolation of three structs: user, inode, and proc

[V @atonal440]

Car, fashion, house: all contemporaries. Architecture was the vanguard of modernism, in part because the materials to instantiate the vision were the most advanced in that field.

[Linus @thesephist]

@manosaie 💚

[Linus @thesephist]

complement to work are context, expertise, and coordination

[Linus @thesephist]

@GabriellaHach @Dessn_ai @pietrobezza @betaworks @eminimnim Congrats team! :-)

[Linus @thesephist]

@theombl Proprietorrrrrr

[Linus @thesephist]

Searching for the right context in a sea of information is such a timeless problem in our field. I'm excited to talk about some of the approaches we've learned and benefited from at Thrive next week at @AICouncilConf :-)

[Pete Soderling @petesoder]

Most teams building AI agents are reaching for bigger context windows. @thesephist thinks they're solving the wrong problem.

Hear more from Linus, Head of AI at @thrivecapital, at @AICouncilConf next week — and get a preview in our Q&A here:

https://t.co/sDEaft0ygY

[Linus @thesephist]

Genesis
https://t.co/YdlgGVEbeE

[Linus @thesephist]

this is your chance to build ideas you don't even know today that you're capabale of having

[Neal Agarwal @nealagarwal]

I’m looking for the first full-time developer for https://t.co/nprGVKUWBn!

You’d work with me on making new web projects and games for the site. Preferably in nyc

If anyone is interested or has leads dm me or email [email protected]!

[Goodfire @GoodfireAI]

Introducing Silico: the platform for building AI models with the precision of written software.

Silico lets researchers and engineers see inside their models, debug failures, and intentionally design them from the ground up.

Early access is open now. 🧵(1/10)