Yago Mendoza

Pro-acceleration, anti-inevitability.
Generalist engineer now thinking in public.

[Yago Mendoza @ymdatweets]

Agents are out there, renting GPUs and working on PyTorch right now.

[Ben Lang @benln]

YC on how to build a company with AI from the ground up:

[Yago Mendoza @ymdatweets]

@vercel_support @vercel Pro customer here. Locked out of Dashboard for 15h after Pro upgrade. Security Checkpoint sfo1:: blocking all browsers/devices. Can't even access https://t.co/8RGOdtarJE. Ticket number or DM for support?

[Yago Mendoza @ymdatweets]

@jackfriks Working hard ❌
Hardly working ✅

[Yago Mendoza @ymdatweets]

it even threw a little ladybug 🐞 in the corner as the toggle. unrequested

[Yago Mendoza @ymdatweets]

the move is having your AI spin up a draggable override debug panel that patches your app's state bus directly, lies to other components and lets you hot-swap sync states to bypass the real signal. zero test infra, no mock yaml configs, no devtools tabs.

[Yago Mendoza @ymdatweets]

Not whether they memorized Dijkstra's algorithm. Whether they can architect, prompt, debug, iterate, and ship. Today. Right now. The skill that matters this year, next year, and every year after.

[Yago Mendoza @ymdatweets]

You're spending engineering hours building proctoring software to stop candidates from using AI? You've successfully filtered for people who can reverse a linked list from memory in 2026. Like hiring pilots based on who can fold the best paper airplane. Kudos.

[Yago Mendoza @ymdatweets]

What if instead you just gave candidates multiple screens, internet access, their own subscriptions, Claude, Cursor, whatever they're paying for and said: "Here's a spec. You have 4 hours. Ship as much of this app as you can"

[Yago Mendoza @ymdatweets]

@_guillecasaus GGUF?

[Yago Mendoza @ymdatweets]

@BrosnanHoban @iruletheworldmo I mean, from an actual meaningful societal progress POV, it is

[Yago Mendoza @ymdatweets]

@MLDataTorturer @iruletheworldmo at least we get to touch some grass, glass half full

[Yago Mendoza @ymdatweets]

@GusevV1987 @signulll exactly this. the winning move is making the agents disappear

[Yago Mendoza @ymdatweets]

@geladaris_georg @signulll and that device will be what we call a product & the agents behind, invisible plumbing.

@signulll is just naming what the surface will be called before we have the word for it yet

[Yago Mendoza @ymdatweets]

@geladaris_georg @signulll or a device. a single surface. behind that surface, sure, maybe a thousand agents are orchestrating, burning through tokens like electricity, but the product is the illusion that there's just one thing talking to you. one device. pure AI

[Yago Mendoza @ymdatweets]

world question: in a knowledge graph with both tree hierarchy AND cross-links, what's a good heuristic for "relevant neighborhood"?

[Yago Mendoza @ymdatweets]

If this is you, reach out. DMs open. RTs appreciated.

[Yago Mendoza @ymdatweets]

More vulnerable people use AI for mental health without clinical evaluation. We're building Europe's first company to fix this.

[Yago Mendoza @ymdatweets]

First step: publish an evaluation standard before April's EU consultation. Bringing 3-4 colleagues for co-authorship is a huge plus.