Garry Tan (@garrytan) started following @surmenok on Sep 26, 2024

RT @srush_nlp: So I'm a "text maximalist." I like other modalities, but not convinced we need them to improve LLM. This result from last w…

RT @taranjeetio: As we gear up for @ycombinator S24 Demo Day tomorrow, we’re still deep in co-working sessions with @mem0ai customers, lear…

i know claudeslop when i see it

it’s kinda messed up all puppers are doggos but not all doggos are puppers

got this msg "celebrities in Korea" lol https://t.co/FTQbGTUsd2

RT @bosmeny: Just kicking off @ycombinator Demo Day! I've gotten to see over the past 3 months how impressive these teams are – today I'm…

A few words on my former colleagues: @miramurati was my role model and a courageous leader - she gave me my best piece of management advice to date (make the decision that is fair, not the one that makes people happy). @bobmcgrewai was the best problem solver I've worked with

While today’s departures are tough, I’m incredibly excited and honored to lead research at @OpenAI alongside @merettm. I truly believe that OpenAI is the best place to work on AI, and I've been through enough ups and downs to know it's never wise to bet against us.

RT @woj_zaremba: o1 paradigm of solving problems with a chain of thought offers new avenues to safety/alignment research. It’s easier to…

The killer app for Meta’s Orion glasses will be face recognition and telling you what to talk about https://t.co/KvyFDhGKTf

RT @tryfondo: 🚀 @weaverobotics launched! Making the first personal robot built for the home "Isaac is the world’s first personal robot tha…

People playing startup house think “build a demo” or “get a first customer” is some sort of check mark in order to join a club or pass a test Do you understand starting a company is do or die? Either your product is something people want or not. We want you to make a great demo

RT @robaiavao: The other night I participated in a debate in defense of Prop D against Homeless Oversight Commissioner @christinevans. Duri…

RT @coffeewithone: Thanks to @ycombinator, I found my people— the kind who stay up late building, hype you up like you’re the next Steve Jo…

Lulu is the Wolf of Memes

RT @Max: It only took 12 years to earn this @ycombinator shirt! https://t.co/jl1ybKSmCL

RT @bnj: “60% of repeat founders who created unicorns the last five years are actually YC alums” Absolute dominance

RT @rakesh_goyal: When someone asks - is @ycombinator really worth it? I tell them it was the best 7% equity I could give and I'd do it ag…

RT @lg: impressive to see so many of these YC demo day companies already have @Shopify as a customer. it's clear the world's best companies…

RT @bubs: Today we made @ycombinator demo day history by being the first startup to say "fart" TWICE! https://t.co/sTZqZYsO9I

Imagine this happening in every type of knowledge work — codegen is just doing it for developers first, but you can imagine every type of market or business will be totally changed as the *smart* thing can just happen 10 times out of 10 and proceed without human-in-the-loop

RT @davecyen: In the last week alone, I’ve met 5 companies in S24 who’ve already hit or are on track to reach $1M ARR by Jan, with the bulk…

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RT @sapitonmix: Each YC demo day is such a huge proof that the US is alive, well, has lots of smart people and by far attract the most ambi…

What does YC give you that even pre-seed firms cannot? It's not about money. The money exists out there. It's actually a place to speed up to startup speed. No place like it.

RT @NielsHoven: Tell me more about how bad capitalism is, it’s so hard to hear you over the noise of this self-driving wheelchair on its wa…

RT @surmenok: Almost every startup at YC Demo Day is building with LLMs. Huge change comparing even with the previous demo day.

RT @chrisfralic: Remembering my first YC Demo day. It was summer 2007 in Cambridge MA and there were 19 companies presenting, and maybe a d…

I also had a live stream where I showed how to use SAM2 for image and video segmentation. https://t.co/jX6rJ2jQHI

I'm also working on maestro - VLM fine-tuning toolkit we support Florence-2 already, and it makes the fine-tuning process soooo easy! not only for object detection but for OCER and VQA as well maestro: https://t.co/XvSemrbaz6 https://t.co/G4tm1ngSYs

RT @ChefGruel: This would be my lunchable line. I’m gonna crowdfund it. https://t.co/YfhkusNmLj

Love Fat Bear Week! Here are some pics of bears last year in Alaska, er, getting fat... https://t.co/sNOa2Cr6pL

RT @Kekomarieee: The entire TL is fake outraged over the execution of an alleged 15x felon. LMFAO. Y’all are never to be taken seriously.

Aggressively gullible people are way too often aggressively rude and hyper-sensitive.

I can't believe @tnachen & I have been running the Open Source Startup Podcast for ~4 years and hit 150 episodes😁 Time flies when you're having fun😉 Check out our episodes with founders from @huggingface @vercel @HashiCorp @supabase @getsentry & more👇 https://t.co/gChZwmMEDh

It’s extremely hard for seed & pre-seed funds to invest in YC companies today Valuation & dilution expectations just don’t work with a seed fund model The program can be great for founders but the new YC investment structure precludes funds outside of multi-stage from investing

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RT @alexdanilo99: Announcing the launch of our infinite canvas for generative UI. - Prompt for any design you want - Reference what you ha…

RT @Bobakkabob37: "In a statement, Lurie expressed confidence he could “overhaul the corrupt bureaucracy” but did not provide specifics on…

RT @rivatez: convincing a bunch of non-technical LA people to support your dumb AI safety bill is not the flex you think it is https://t.co…

Stop the Mission Blight Vote for @Trevor4SF

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You can have a great startup idea, but a great startup idea is like having a great plan for a fistfight. The moment the idea actually touches customers is like the moment you get punched in the face. What matters is what you do at that moment, not the plan.

"If you get the message, hang up the phone. For psychedelic drugs are simply instruments, like microscopes, telescopes, and telephones. The biologist does not sit with eye permanently glued to the microscope, he goes away and works on what he has seen." —Alan Watts

RT @dissproportion: DoorDash went from barely existing outside of major cities 5 years ago to being a human right. Which goes to show that…

RT @war24182236: Today is Tuesday and Glide line is getting long to get your free pipe nothing else no information to Detox are Rehab just…

RT @AravSrinivas: This is how Stan Druckenmiller found ways to invest in Argentina at the beginning of the year. https://t.co/Nzg7RisufH

This is the way https://t.co/JppOloeCby

My founder mode posters now in the wild in the hallways of YC SF https://t.co/IEf6BcN8Pr

San Francisco must fund recovery-first housing that has no drugs in it It is inhumane to force people by de facto requiring people to live in housing that is full of people abusing drugs PSH residents want recovery. Why won’t the city fund it?

You get collegial environments very rarely and when you get to be in them or you get to create them you must be very thankful And you can’t forget what allowed it to come together. It doesn’t come for free or automatically.

We all wish life was like college but I’m sorry to report it is at best high school

Generate. Preview. Ship

Just interviewed a cracked engineer. I asked for his feedback on the interview process. In his words: "I think the interview process had the friendliest interviewers I've ever met. I think fostering such an environment actually helps the interviewee present the best version of

i built an agentic framework at pluto and called tools “tools” and not functions i got asked why we didn’t use openai’s name today our first product using tools launched in march 2023 months before function calling

RT @RuiHuang_art: ep.1 https://t.co/9R3EjcbPt0

RT @markdietrichsf: Connie Chan tells Chinese voters that she represents them, then she turns around and votes the exact opposite of everyt…

RT @NielsHoven: Companies don’t steal wealth, they create it. The vilification of human progress is yet another failure of our educational…

RT @johncoogan: When it comes to productivity, there’s no price that’s too great to pay. https://t.co/XYCW0vl15c

RT @markdietrichsf: More lies from Connie Chan and her shadow org “Fix Our City SF” and their big, frightened union donors. Connie is RUNN…

RT @AndyLapsa: Five years ago today I made one of my hardest decisions: leave a stable and well-paying job to start something from scratch.…

RT @8teAPi: Singularity in sight. Crazy timeline to be in. https://t.co/olrRUWvaiL

RT @10x_er: superintelligence in a few thousand days and you're still contributing to a 401k

RT @bradflora: @NTmoney In fact there are 2 consumer finance companies building on top of stablecoins in the S24 batch. We put out a Reque…

RT @NielsHoven: How many billion-dollar companies were never founded because we spend the first two decades of kids’ lives training them to…

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These trash bloggers trying to keep San Francisco broken are no different than the racist stooges who pasted octopus stickers with my face on it all over the city But guess what, nothing you say will stop me. We are going to accelerate the boom loop https://t.co/uW4jFDKVoZ

Mission Local calls us “big money” but I donated my cold hard cash I earned with my own blood sweat and tears How much are the doom loop losers like Connie Chan and Dean Preston supported by corrupt union payoffs and nonprofits paid by city budget directly from public funds? https://t.co/zmY4mVTfJI

RT @MaxBrodeurUrbas: Since YC ended I've looked at 7k profiles for our founding engineer role The team has started helping me recruit usin…

RT @emissionite: We are fighting for the soul of our City and need to re-establish the norms of civility. There should be no place in our p…

RT @TSFAction: In 2018, Homelessness commissioner @christinevans passed Prop C to raise new homelessness taxes. Today her friend, Jennifer…

RT @KaniKinSF: “Progressives” are more mad at me for calling out Jordan Davis’ racist attacks than they are about her racism. On Friday at…

RT @MarjanPhilhour: Our Chinese community in the Richmond deserves better than @conniechansf's broken promises. She campaigned to dismantle…

$1B ARR and 4x YoY 👀

totally missed the bear sniffing the cursor 🥲 https://t.co/qqGGfBk0wr

The new bear logo animation on Jony Ive's https://t.co/Ky1SE0Vbhz is just 🤌 https://t.co/kn5U9ss2JM

RT @PsycheWizard: https://t.co/ccEShVAKyc

RT @lutherlowe: Great profile of @linakhanFTC tonight on 60 Minutes https://t.co/FpBa55pwAY

Fall Fix Fly

RT @markpinc: True. SF spends more per citizen and more per homeless person than any city in the world. When i opposed Prop C which more th…

RT @bgurley: I am 100% in agreement with @linakhanFTC on this one. Extending patents with bullshit mechanics is not open competition. And k…

RT @TheMarinaTimes: If you’re a D1 constituent this video should prove once and for all that Connie Chan doesn’t care what you think. This…

RT @kane: using more degrees of freedom to accomplish tasks slower is bad engineering https://t.co/avQCCw2vQW

RT @jiholimm: The new bear logo animation on Jony Ive's https://t.co/Ky1SE0Vbhz is just 🤌 https://t.co/kn5U9ss2JM

RT @evelynjunn: Too many people on TPOT mistakenly think VCs supposedly do nothing and simply leech off of surplus value. The vast majorit…

RT @zenorocha: I just published a big update on Bookface. We're giving $20,000 in credits to @ycombinator startups. Fun fact: @resend is…

@qustodio You are down on a weekend and our family was about to play Minecraft and now I can't give my kids more time to do it Their devices are currently bricked because you are down. You had *one* job

Qustodio is one of the worst pieces of software I've ever had to use. Can someone suggest a modern / well maintained replacement? Big plus if it does a bunch of LLM-based smart settings and notifications

RT @markdietrichsf: Just witnessed this smash and grab in my Richmond District neighborhood. The perps fled after chucking their breakfas…

RT @powerbottomdad1: san franciscans: really wish someone would arrest the people breaking my car window... or doing tokyo drift on the ba…

On the Talk Tuah podcast, Hailey sat down with controversial political commentator Han Solo, where he shared his surprising take on the frozen-carbonite-plunge wellness craze. “I actually freeze myself for 30 minutes a day now. Boba hooked me up with a home freezing chamber” https://t.co/k4RD6Wp3ku

They also sell a ‘Roll of Benjies’ for only $3.99, if you don’t want to use a real hundred dollar bill as your inhalation vehicle https://t.co/2DgNT50UJY