Tracy Wu

Engineer, Angel Investor, prev @meta

[Tracy Wu @trcywu]

This has fueled my whole career.

Told I wasn’t tech savvy enough as a marketer in a startup -> bootcamp to become an SWE -> not taken seriously as a senior SWE at a start up -> interviewed and got into Meta

[Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz]

Turning rejection into motivation to work even harder - and prove that that rejection was unwarranted - is such a powerful attitude.

[Tracy Wu @trcywu]

"What is your comparative advantage as a human? What traits will be scarce? How can you stay a complement to machine intelligence?"

This is the most important question. And you're not going to find out sitting at a desk trawling LinkedIn & tokenmaxxing day in and out.

Travel.

Take an overnight train from Brussels to Prague. Sleep in a 16 ppl/room hostel. Go to the full moon party. Feel Michelangelo's work. Sit in a cathedral without being on your phone. Talk to strangers.

Learn about humanity. Find yourself.

[jasmine sun @jasminewsun]

I've been thinking about the booing at college commencements & wondered: what advice would I give a 22yo for the age of AI?

thinking back to my own graduation into the pandemic, I think the #1 thing is having the right disposition toward change

https://t.co/j15eJyfLqX

[Tracy Wu @trcywu]

@0xHarbinger Lesson is to post what I see and think without overthinking it

[Tracy Wu @trcywu]

I’m sitting in Joe & The Juice.

A homeless man walks in, puts his bag down, doesn’t order a drink, and heads straight for the bathroom. 

30 minutes later, he comes out, sits down, and pulls out his MacBook.

Opens it up to LinkedIn. 

He was just a laid-off engineer in SF.

[Tracy Wu @trcywu]

@CPhikiso For sure. Let's see it!

[Tracy Wu @trcywu]

I've been dragging my feet using voice AI in the office because it felt awkward rambling out loud. But now that I'm WFH I have let loose and my god it's as good as people say!

[Tracy Wu @trcywu]

To all my laid off metamates - don't take the first offer you get unless it's your absolute dream job. Take the time to rest, reflect & strategize on what's next. Let the severance free you.

[Tracy Wu @trcywu]

@Clara_Gold First 12 months is hardest. Then, you'll make your first genuine connection, have a good weekend in wine country (skip napa, go to russian river), eat west coast oysters and this place becomes a bit more bearable. At least until you dream new dreams.

[Tracy Wu @trcywu]

This is a great comparison of model capabilities and shows that @OpenAI has a big marketing problem.

Why is no one talking about Codex GPT 5.4?

[antirez @antirez]

During the last week I executed very long autonomous sessions of Claude Code Opus 4.6 and Codex GPT 5.4 (both at max thinking budget), in cloned directories (refreshed every time one was behind). I burned a lot of (flat rate, my OSS free account + my PRO account) of tokens...

[Tracy Wu @trcywu]

@sarahcat21 Would be very interested!!

[Tracy Wu @trcywu]

@ankurnagpal QSBS

[Tracy Wu @trcywu]

@Clara_Gold Would love an invite! Big fan of what you're building

[Tracy Wu @trcywu]

I was hoping for a new UX that changes the way users can shop with AI. There's an opportunity here to solve problems that every day people face such as
what's my style?
What works best with my body shape? Without the luxury of paying for a stylist.
Who else is building this?

[Tracy Wu @trcywu]

https://t.co/dybtSGMMCD was my top AI startup to watch this year but so far their launch has been disappointing.

I spent some time playing around with the UI today and it's a combo of chatbox & masonry grid for browsing. Nothing innovative.

[Tracy Wu @trcywu]

https://t.co/d36fKUeaGL

[Tracy Wu @trcywu]

I've been feeling burnt out by SF. Worn down by big tech layoffs and the same iterative hot takes about how “SF is back”. I left the country for a month and it made me think about how caught up in the grind we are and why we hesitate to take any real time off.

Link in 🧵

[Tracy Wu @trcywu]

@dibbaa_code @lighthousehq_ @joinodf Yes pls!

[Tracy Wu @trcywu]

Pre-seed round now open because apparently @KyleSPatel and I are Tech Titans in training. Thanks @CallGigiAi

[Tracy Wu @trcywu]

@Glassdoor your contact us form is broken on your website. What's the best way to get in touch and reactive my account?

[Tracy Wu @trcywu]

First week back at work and I feel like I've lived a year.

[Tracy Wu @trcywu]

Will be spending a lot of my 5-9 here @SHACK15sf working on my writing and other creative projects. I want to intentionally carve out time during the week so that I don't look back on the year and wonder where my time went.