Garry Tan (@garrytan) started following @xitijpatel on Oct 6, 2024

Muscle relaxers aren’t OTC in the US? https://t.co/SqoCTOKybp

Met a bunch of @ycombinator W24 and S24 founders this week. I’m really glad the batches are back in-person, and the Dogpatch area looks amazing. I’m really excited to see these amazing young founders excel.

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New Post on the Forbidden Website! Some people think AI is in a bubble. I don't think so. I think that the level of capital investment in AI can scale up another 100x. In fact, I'll argue: bubbles don't even really exist. https://t.co/NHUVuu6bEQ

With Stacy @pavlyshyna_st on YC Alumni reunion https://t.co/hfTInczu5N

Waymo crushed bus in SF in front of YC Alumni party 😄 and blocked whole street https://t.co/hrmXlqdwiM

Hung out with some customers and friends today. Thanks @ycombinator https://t.co/UEFR7wCdF2

RT @svpino: We are about to see 10x faster code reviews. (By the way, I haven't seen step 3 below implemented before in a code review tool…

ordering door dash three times in one day is peak gluttony

I want to do a PhD so bad but I feel like I would drop out after a month

waymo just caused a deadlock situation with a bus door in front of the yc reunion afterparty entrance https://t.co/B2Zg2Z4rB7

that’s crazy, i think i’m doing a lot of things wrong now after the @alexandr_wang talk at the yc reunion “micro-management is just management” “over-caring is just caring” “cut the ‘delegation’ bullshit and care about every single detail”

RT @AlecStapp: Reminder that the Sierra Club is very bad https://t.co/tE5kjEDXoQ

RT @awilkinson: I've spent the last two days playing with Replit and my mind is blown 🤯 It reminds me of the first time I used WebFlow, bu…

RT @snowmaker: "You are the upper bound on how much people in your company care." This one really stuck with me.

RT @snowmaker: https://t.co/bkzxHhRzIz is one of the generational AI companies. Here's some wisdom @alexandr_wang dropped at the YC reuni…

RT @ycombinator: 2024 YC Alumni Reunion was a blast 💥 https://t.co/dwDHI8pX1o

RT @snowmaker: Amazing to catch up with so many alumni at the YC reunion today. Energy was incredible. https://t.co/Zcs1nW3VXc

God bless medicine and everyone who works in the medical field

RT @rohanpaul_ai: You can Crawl entire website with Claude 3.5 or GPT4 with @firecrawl_dev 💯 Its open-sourced and code in github - Turn…

RT @bobmcgrewai: Terence Tao on what math looks like after o1... https://t.co/hv4FmSuydV

RT @sahir2k: TIL goat group (which owns GOAT, Flight Club, Grailed and alias) is a YC company https://t.co/1uKilvmQPe

RT @luismariogm: 1,000 founders just got vaccinated against ‘manager mode’ at @ycombinator https://t.co/I4dO0q6wzu

RT @dsaezgil: “What people call micro-management is just management. What people call over-optimism is just optimism. What people call ov…

RT @dsiroker: “You are the upper bound for how much anyone at your company will care.” - @alexandr_wang to other founders at the YC reunion

RT @ejzim: One piece of evidence for @johnloeber’s thesis. At @ycombinator alumni day today, I learned that my peers are growing revenue wi…

I’m so sorry to miss all of you at the YC Reunion today. There is a family medical emergency I have to attend to. Please pray for healing and recovery for my mom. 🙏

Excerpt from: Why Vertical LLM Agents Are The New $1 Billion SaaS Opportunities https://t.co/2rtlFM8lAs

One bad experience with an AI agent and users give up, and often they never return. How do you get LLMs to hit 100% accuracy? https://t.co/cqB5g3iIEI

RT @nadavwiz: It’s only 2pm and I spoke to like 73 new @ycombinator founders so far ❤️‍🔥 https://t.co/4aWuXVRUvn

RT @gabor: I’m at the @ycombinator Alumni Reunion in SF today, please say hi! https://t.co/qhDi09axwx

RT @RobDance_: My best career advice: https://t.co/WV0xAqfKWW

RT @garrytan: Correcting the record for Continue and PearAI *Important: https://t.co/20MWT1L3B4 is a standalone extension to VS Code and n…

RT @ycombinator: Correcting the record for Continue and PearAI https://t.co/bMrPq6yWqN

I couldn’t be more excited to share our latest AI research breakthrough. We call it Meta Movie Gen and it’s a collection of state-of-the-art models that combine to deliver the most advanced video generation capability ever created. Check it out: https://t.co/K4IxAVPO3y https://t.co/HawreKeavy

Looking forward to tomorrow … 👀

This post left me struck w dissonance all day. I agree w @mwseibel that VCs dismissed PLTR as a consulting shop bc of the hands-on approach required to serve large enterprises But success via the unpopular path builds unique moats/capabilities. I fear YC underestimates these

Congratulations to my friend/biotech legend @rtnarch & the ARCH team. There’s noone who better exemplifies the values of entrepreneurialism, principled contrarianism, courage, and patriotism that we respect at @8vc - that’s why we love working with them ! https://t.co/BedxBloSfI

RT @garrytan: Correcting the record for Continue and PearAI *Important: https://t.co/20MWT1L3B4 is a standalone extension to VS Code and n…

RT @continuedev: Continue is the leading open-source AI code assistant, already having tens of thousands of users, nearly 200 contributors,…

RT @Suhail: how to be a beast founder: move to sf get up, write code sell users at 9am-4pm help team at 4-5pm work out eat dinner w the…

Never forget

PSA for whoever needs to hear it: 140% Net Dollar Retention is great, you should be able to raise a venture round on that kind of stat

RT @bgurley: I have a balanced view wrt FTC and @linakhanFTC. Urge you to listen to this fantastic (& efficient) podcast on @NoPriorsPod. S…

Back in the day, when I was young, I'm not a kid anymore, but some days I sit and wish I was a kid again

RT @paulg: 12 yo is thinking of ditching his current Animal Crossing island and starting over. He's done this several times before. He says…

RT @incitafusio: Extreme wealth+ideology+luxury beliefs have been much more destructive to SF than any other factor. While Lurie takes endo…

Amazing case study in the different parts of America meeting, of course probably through Craigslist

You would be surprised how much money goes to expense accounts for political consultants I understand that the machinery has to eat, but you would be amazed how much you can get done without consultants It’s like you can just… do things

RT @Twolfrecovery: Support for permissive harm reduction policy is crumbling. Why? Because giving more drugs to drug addicts is always a ba…

Ankle monitors make the city and its citizens more unsafe if the sheriffs can’t actually keep track of serious offenders while they are walking around on the street Pour sugar on the ground and you get ants. Of course you can’t allow ankle monitors if the courts take away the https://t.co/EA0dDNwYVM

Max Szabo is a Chesa-stan who loves virtue signal and making our city unsafe He is Daniel Lurie’s *spokesperson* If you knew that, and care about public safety in our city, you would know you can’t rank Lurie higher than 3 https://t.co/snIemIYwk7

Jake Heller from Casetext drops some alpha leaks about how to build the next billion dollar SaaS startups with LLMs TLDR: Don’t rawdog your prompts https://t.co/GRur8C7HZy https://t.co/iBeH8bmTNc

Don’t rawdog your prompts! Write evals! Watch the full episode on The Lightcone https://t.co/GRur8C7HZy

What’s the secret of Casetext making GPT-4 work as a legal associate with zero error and hallucination? Write evals and test prompts like test driven development. If you have error or hallucination you haven’t broken it down into small enough pieces. Vertical SaaS meets LLMs https://t.co/wjmh3WcD0b

RT @peteweishaupt: MEI, the un-DEI In a recent a16z podcast, Alex Wang, the founder and CEO of Scale AI, says hiring the best person for t…

How I designed the Palantir Logo

You could probably make a pretty penny using o1 and evals/workflow to write custom evaluators for every one of these Might be a good Request For Startup even...

Regarding politicians and their claimed influence over worldwide macro economic cycles, I often see confusion between causality and correlation.

RT @expo: 📍@TinyBasejs is built for a local-first world. In this blog post from the seafaring father of TinyBase, @jamespearce, you will le…

Realtime Whisper Large v3 Turbo Demo

RT @rohanpaul_ai: MIT's "Mathematics for Computer Science". A 1048 page available for Free. https://t.co/9dvSRzfQsM

Time in market beats timing the market

RT @levie: One thing that sets AI apart from previous platform shifts, like mobile or cloud, is that it’s a wide open space for new UX para…

RT @kimmonismus: That is the important sentence: "We used novel synthetic data generation techniques, such as distilling outputs from o1-p…

RT @rohanpaul_ai: Call Center industry is so DONE. The official @OpenAI Real-time Pricing is $0.06 per minute of audio input and $0.24 per…

RT @Save_SF_2024: Do you ever feel powerless in the face of 34,000 #SanFrancisco city employees? Overwhelmed by 16,000 non-profit workers?…

Haha I took this photo for them!

So email me if you want to donate and come out Saturday night

San Francisco is full of insane politicians who actually have real power like the President of the SF Police Commision who openly supports drug dealers Disband and reform the police commission under a mission to serve public safety above all else.

This evening I ran into a startup founder visiting San Francisco from Utah, on the street next to Dolores Park, It was their first time and they'd never seen the city from 20th & Church, so I made them walk with me a block to show them my favorite spot in the world https://t.co/OmzYfcFZol

RT @ycombinator: Correcting the record for Continue and PearAI https://t.co/bMrPq6yWqN

Correcting the record for Continue and PearAI *Important: https://t.co/20MWT1L3B4 is a standalone extension to VS Code and not a fork of VS Code which was misinformation reported by TechCrunch We support https://t.co/20MWT1L3B4 and thank the founders for their grace and

RT @brettdg: So excited to be working with @kapa_ai ! Honestly been hard to keep up with all they accomplish between our meetings. https://…

RT @dsiroker: Just walked into the @ycombinator office to hang with @koomen and this automatically popped up in the lobby based on face rec…

RT @ycombinator: 🏡@usebramble (YC F24) is an AI-backed real estate brokerage that provides end-to-end homebuying services for a simple flat…

RT @zachcoelius: One of the leading candidates for supervisor in my district in SF (D9) said at a debate last night: “The majority of Amer…

RT @paultoo: A lot happens in 25 years https://t.co/gAKpVp8GEa

RT @t_blom: YC is coming to London! Looking forward to seeing you in November. Sign up with the link below to attend.

People don’t understand how deranged San Francisco politics is You think you do but you really don’t

RT @ycombinator: Startup School is coming to London! And we'll be joined by special guest Paul Graham! If you're a student or recent grad…

RT @markdietrichsf: And the crime hits keep coming in the Richmond District….. This beloved small business surely didn’t need another $7k…

RT @slow_developer: OpenAI researcher Noam Brown says: 'Strawberry' was simply an internal code name. it coincidentally links with the pop…

RT @slow_developer: 🚨 OpenAI CEO Sam Altman predicts agent-like AI will soon get closer to AGI capabilities " We have achieved level 2 rea…