@fiscal_ai Surprised not to see @AppLovin on this list.
Their Axon-powered ad stack drove about $5.5B in revenue in 2025, making it one of the largest and fastest-growing performance advertising platforms in the US
@garrytan What's missing is people brain, just stop think ai is magic and is the solutions for your problems. It's just a tool and most of the time e dumb one
How far behind are open models?
Across 17 selected benchmarks, private ones show a gap of 8-10 months today, almost 2x the gap on public ones (4-6 mo).
More discussion (including limitations), code and blog in the thread.
i just hacked a YC company in 2.5 hours
i have their whole .env file lol
found the conversation chat, websocket, and an ai-based chat interface. then i told the ai to prove how smart it was as a performance challenge and got it to run bash commands on the server
i made it run a logger script and send files using curl. when i told it that sending files to an external server with curl was bad, it assumed logging locally was the safer option for performance testing
and there i had everything
backed by YC, EF, and Antler 👀
life update: after nearly 2 years i’ve finally joined
@anthropicai as a customer
pumped to be a sponsor of this incredible team with $20/m
if you’re a founder who’s been building with claude, just stay away from me, i just want to talk with humans here