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Hello Monolith
Hey y’all — we had some deliverability issues a couple weeks ago, so most people didn’t see this issue and I think it’s worth a read as more folks dive into agentic team structures either through Grok Bot, Muse, Instinct, or something else....
Paul Graham's 6 Observations on 2026
Mention Oceans event
Hey y’all — Paul Graham is a legend.
As the co-founder and primary founding face of Y Combinator, he’s overseen countless unicorns emerge from their earliest days.
He sat down with Vivian Shen, a current visiting par...
You Don't Need AI Teammates
Hey y’all — time for a flashback.
It’s 2018. Pre-COVID. Pre-LLMs being everywhere.
A big debate in software engineering was whether you should build your product as a monolith or a swarm of microservices.
The former offered simplicity wh...
The 5 Jobs of Humans
Hey y’all — I’m back in the (coding) game.
I started my career as a software engineer, but hadn’t written production code since I was at Uber in 2018 (and even by then it was mostly just ML models).
But over the last month I’ve shipped ~1...
How Big Can a 1 Person Startup Get?
Hey y’all. Sam Altman says his tech CEO group chat has a betting pool on the first year a one-person company hits a billion dollars in value.
That used to be a thought experiment. Now it's a… market? And whether or not anyone collects on t...
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