cofounder/ceo @usevesta. advisor @cognition.
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im assuming that for the next 24 hours, like half the internet is not really secure bc of this php thing. they did everything right too; diffusion is just hard
last week with our announcement, a16z also put out my favorite podcast i've ever done, with @kimberlywtan. we talked about some fun things like why people should still buy saas, but we've been friends for a very long time so we got some good banter in as well
wonder full is indeed the kind of punny ai model name i'd expect from the guy who posts sloth butts all over my feed
our agents are going to originate a trillion dollars of mortgages in the next 5 years.
today, we're announcing the latest step towards that goal, our $30m series b led by conversion capital, with a16z and three of our customers participating. revenue is up 12x this year, and about 40% of the tasks on vesta are already automated.
i wrote more about our progress and ambition here: vesta.com/blog/vesta-raises-…
if there was any doubt before that we had hit agi (there wasn't), i hope these 90 math results remove it lol
weird how some companies are valued on ebitda, some on revenue, and soon some will be on how long their slack history is
"ai systems are software, they do not have rights, feelings or innate motivations"
safety is an engineering problem, not some black magic mind control on models. we don't "align" felons' brains to prevent people from getting hurt; we just don't let them buy guns.
trying to think of something clever to say about cog crossing 1b but honestly, no notes. congrats to an amazing team
12 hours of pressing enter is still artisanal software development
I am done with this shit. It is over. The state of engineering right now is horrible. It has been half a month since I started a new role at a big company. Nobody knows anything here. The specs, code, tests, PRDs, tickets, resolution of those tickets, reports, etc., everything is made by Claude Code. Nobody on my team likes this. They are being forced to ship as much as they can. I have heard multiple times from higher management that pushing code is not a bottleneck, so why are we slow? People are working 12 to 13 hours a day just to press enter. Nobody is reading anything. Humans in corporate are doing nothing on their own. Everyone, literally everyone, from an L1 to an L7 engineer here is doing the same thing. Talk to Claude. There is no sense of victory. Nobody is resolving bugs. In reality, nobody is thinking anymore. Everything is done by LLMs. It is so soul-sucking. I would not mind it, to be honest, if we were at least given the time to check out the code and see what is going where. But no, the goal is to just ship. No matter what happens.
jev is sick, but my favorite part is that using this architecture to get to agi would prevent agi from writing linkedin slop
glasswing this, daybreak that, but good old opus got these guys into openai
