Thomas Stöcklein

[Thomas Stöcklein @TStocklein]

@leopoldasch Herzlichen Glückwunsch!

[Thomas Stöcklein @TStocklein]

@paulg No ads in my ‘05 645Ci :-)

[Jon Erlichman @JonErlichman]

"Ease is a greater threat to progress than hardship.”

~ Denzel Washington

[Casey Neistat @Casey]

$599 is a crazy deal for an entry level laptop. id rather my kids have one than an ipad. great product

[Chamath Palihapitiya @chamath]

https://t.co/P9JHd9VuNW

[Chamath Palihapitiya @chamath]

China added more solar capacity in 2025 than America has installed in its entire history.

That's the most important energy chart you'll see today.

And 2025 was also the first year when small-scale distributed solar pulled in more investments than utility-scale solar farms globally.

Considering that the U.S. has hundreds of GW stuck waiting for grid connections, the conditions are aligned to start putting solar + storage on every American home.

My research team put together a Deep Dive on solar, if you want the full breakdown.

Here’s the link: https://t.co/NppxPJDM1s

[Thomas Stöcklein @TStocklein]

What I’m reading this week:

#CareerGrowth #SiliconValley #vc #VentureCapital

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

It is hard to communicate how much programming has changed due to AI in the last 2 months: not gradually and over time in the "progress as usual" way, but specifically this last December. There are a number of asterisks but imo coding agents basically didn’t work before December and basically work since - the models have significantly higher quality, long-term coherence and tenacity and they can power through large and long tasks, well past enough that it is extremely disruptive to the default programming workflow.

Just to give an example, over the weekend I was building a local video analysis dashboard for the cameras of my home so I wrote: “Here is the local IP and username/password of my DGX Spark. Log in, set up ssh keys, set up vLLM, download and bench Qwen3-VL, set up a server endpoint to inference videos, a basic web ui dashboard, test everything, set it up with systemd, record memory notes for yourself and write up a markdown report for me”. The agent went off for ~30 minutes, ran into multiple issues, researched solutions online, resolved them one by one, wrote the code, tested it, debugged it, set up the services, and came back with the report and it was just done. I didn’t touch anything. All of this could easily have been a weekend project just 3 months ago but today it’s something you kick off and forget about for 30 minutes.

As a result, programming is becoming unrecognizable. You’re not typing computer code into an editor like the way things were since computers were invented, that era is over. You're spinning up AI agents, giving them tasks *in English* and managing and reviewing their work in parallel. The biggest prize is in figuring out how you can keep ascending the layers of abstraction to set up long-running orchestrator Claws with all of the right tools, memory and instructions that productively manage multiple parallel Code instances for you. The leverage achievable via top tier "agentic engineering" feels very high right now.

It’s not perfect, it needs high-level direction, judgement, taste, oversight, iteration and hints and ideas. It works a lot better in some scenarios than others (e.g. especially for tasks that are well-specified and where you can verify/test functionality). The key is to build intuition to decompose the task just right to hand off the parts that work and help out around the edges. But imo, this is nowhere near "business as usual" time in software.

[Thomas Stöcklein @TStocklein]

Wishing everyone in my network a productive and successful week!

📍Oakland, CA
#shotoniphone #coffee #networking

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

SpaceX has acquired xAI, forming one of the most ambitious, vertically integrated innovation engines on (and off) Earth → https://t.co/3ODfcYnqfg

[Thomas Stöcklein @TStocklein]

"As you start to walk on the way,
the way appears.”
- Rumi

Clarity doesn’t come before action.

It comes FROM action.

[Peter H. Diamandis, MD @PeterDiamandis]

You should start thinking of your body as hardware and your habits as software. 

Update them daily.

[Thomas Stöcklein @TStocklein]

@elonmusk “The 600 series had rubber skin. We spotted them easy, but these are new. They look human... sweat, bad breath, everything.”

[Thomas Stöcklein @TStocklein]

@NWischoff Congratulations 🎉

[Thomas Stöcklein @TStocklein]

@RobinhoodApp Yes 🙌

[Thomas Stöcklein @TStocklein]

#apple #appleanniversary #swe

[Thomas Stöcklein @TStocklein]

Lead with authenticity: People follow genuine conviction, not polished facades.

Empower your team: Give smart people autonomy to execute.

Communicate clearly: Ambiguity kills momentum.

Admit mistakes: Transparency builds trust.

Challenge groupthink: Encourage dissent to sharpen decisions.

Hire for grit: Resilience trumps pedigree in tough times.

Delegate effectively: Focus on what only you can do.

Inspire through action: Show, don’t just tell.

Manage energy, not time: Prioritize what fuels productivity.

Stay humble: Arrogance blinds you to opportunities.

[Thomas Stöcklein @TStocklein]

@nivi 👀

[Thomas Stöcklein @TStocklein]

"Do not follow where the path may lead.
Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
The future belongs to those who dare to dream beyond what's already been done and have faith in their own direction."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson