Sriram

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[Sriram @tsriram]

Someone said londonmaxxing >> tokenmaxxing, how about we get to both in one evening!

We are back with Agents and Money, this time in London on June 3rd!

Agents don't know what anything costs, and that's a problem we need to fix, unless you’d like to one-shot your budget 🙃

The lineup might be all the reason you need to come through:

→ Mara Kiefer from @GitHubNext
→ @bookercodes from @mastra
→ @martinschaer from @SurrealDB
→ Femi Akintoye from @baseten

Food, drinks, and conversations on us!

RSVP here: https://t.co/p9lGlA5Bhc

[Sriram @tsriram]

I'm on the Go plan btw

[Sriram @tsriram]

ChatGPT ads are here 😐

[Sriram @tsriram]

@trueadm Congrats!

ChatGPT migration to Svelte when? 😉

[Astha @AsthaRattan]

Beelieve London'26. What the team built with heart, received with heart.❤️ @MrAkashSharma @tsriram @cbkrish

[Sriram @tsriram]

@kiwicopple @supabase Congrats to y'all!

[Sriram @tsriram]

@fayazara @evanyou How cool is that!

[VoidZero @voidzerodev]

VoidZero is joining Cloudflare.

Our mission stays the same: to make JavaScript developers more productive than ever before. Vite, Vitest, Rolldown, Oxc, and Vite+ remain MIT-licensed. Evan and the VoidZero team will continue leading them.

Cloudflare shares our commitment to open source. Together, we can keep investing in the tooling developers rely on every day, while bringing the Vite ecosystem and Cloudflare’s platform even closer together.

[erika @yeeeerika]

the human spirit was not designed for this many passwords

[Simon Willison @simonw]

Uber reportedly now caps coding agents at $1,500/month per employee per tool - seems sensible to me, but it's also an interesting hint at the value Uber thinks these tools are providing
https://t.co/6YT0lCzPml

[Sriram @tsriram]

Great lineup🔥

Adding one for *tonight*: Agents and Money London by @Chargebee

Practical talks on token efficiency, agent economics & scaling from GitHub, Mastra, SurrealDB, and Baseten.

Free, limited spots. Convene 22 Bishopsgate. Doors open at 5pm.

RSVP: https://t.co/p9lGlA53rE

Who’s heading? 👀

[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!

[OpenAI @OpenAI]

Building apps has never been easier.

With Sites, Codex can turn your work, ideas, and plans into an interactive website or app your team can explore, use, and share with a URL.

Rolling out to Business and Enterprise plans, before expanding more broadly.

[swyx @swyx]

12.30pm today on the @Microsoft Build stream

@NoPriorsPod
x
@latentspacepod
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@satyanadella

Join us! :)

[Ethan Brooks @alt_w_v_g]

My wife mentioned a nice private school over dinner this week
She said the campus was beautiful
I asked what's the tuition
She said we should look at it as an investment in him not a cost
I made a note
She said don't make a note
I said I always make notes
She said this isn't a deal
I said everything is a deal
She closed her eyes

She said we'd discuss it Saturday
I agreed

Saturday 7:02am
She came downstairs in her Saturday robe
Coffee in hand
I had my cargo shorts on

The dining room had been cleared
The projector was on
The analyst was at the head of the table
Quarter zip on, three iced coffees, a legal pad, and two laptops
He had been there since 6:44am

I texted him at 11:14pm Friday
The text said dining room 6:45am bring the model
He sent a thumbs up

My wife stopped in the doorway
She said what is this
I said you said you wanted to discuss it
She said this is not a discussion
I did not respond
She sat down anyway

The analyst stood
He said good morning ma'am
She did not respond
He sat back down
A printed deck in front of each seat
A fourth copy in case

Slide 1 Tuition Schedule
$38,500 per year
Thirteen years
$500,500 nominal
Before escalators
The school has raised tuition 4.2% per year for a decade
With escalators $648,000
My wife said okay
I said I'm not done

Slide 2 Opportunity Cost
Even before escalators
$38,500 invested annually
10% nominal return
S&P long-run average since 1928
By his eighteenth birthday $944,000
My wife said we can afford it
I said I know that's not the slide

Slide 3 Terminal Value at Age 65
$83 million
She was quiet

The analyst slid the sensitivity tables across the table
8% return $31 million
10% return $83 million
12% return $222 million
She did not look

She said this isn't about money
I said it's always about money
She said no it isn't
I said then what is it about
She did not answer

She said you can't put a dollar value on his teachers his classmates his environment
I said I can the analyst already did slide 6
He flipped to slide 6
She did not look

She said the school is the best in the city
I said best is a feeling
She said it produces the best students
I said the students were already the best before they got there

She said our son deserves it
I said our son deserves $83 million

My son walked in
He is five
Dinosaur pajamas
He looked at the projector
He looked at the open deck on the table
He looked at slide 3
He said are we modeling pre-tax or after-tax
The analyst opened a new tab
My wife looked at the ceiling

He said what's the discount rate
The analyst set down his pen
She closed her eyes

He said is this the same return assumption from the 529 conversation
The analyst stopped typing
He looked at me
I did not say anything

She stood up
Sat back down

He said dad can I help
I said yes
He pulled up a chair
The analyst handed him a printout
He started reading

My wife watched him read
She watched him for a long time

She said his name
He looked up
She said do you like school
He said the work is too easy and the kids don't ask questions

She did not respond
She looked at the ceiling
She walked out of the room

The analyst started packing up
He said should I follow up Monday sir
I said no follow up needed

He'll be fine

Sent from my iPhone

[Farza 🇵🇰🇺🇸 @FarzaTV]

Watch me control my computer with just my voice. This is the future of operating systems.

No hands.

GPT-Realtime 2.0 is very, very underrated.

Demo:

[Ajey Gore @AjeyGore]

this is fantastic https://t.co/QZ0U4kBaAu

[Sriram @tsriram]

@kitlangton @thdxr 😂😂😂

[Sriram @tsriram]

Finally starting this.

[Aaron Francis @aarondfrancis]

You've heard of @Cloudflare Durable Objects... but what are they?

What do they enable you to build?
What are the platform guarantees?
What new patterns do they open up?

Good news! I just released a completely free series on Durable Objects!

https://t.co/7Xsf4nZggt

[Daniel @growing_daniel]

Bro it's fine to differ. You don't need to beg

[Sriram @tsriram]

what

[Romain Lacombe @rlacombe]

@Miles_Brundage Ngl the logo kinda gave it away