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Jared Friedman

@snowmaker
18 posts
2026-02-27
Software engineering changed more in the last 3 months than the preceeding 30 years. Everything about running a software company needs to be rethought from first principles.
2026-02-27 View on X
@karpathy

AI coding agents made a huge leap forward since December, completing complex projects with minimal oversight, meaning “programming is becoming unrecognizable”

2026-02-26
Software engineering changed more in the last 3 months than the preceeding 30 years. Everything about running a software company needs to be rethought from first principles.
2026-02-26 View on X
@karpathy

AI coding agents made a huge leap forward since December, completing complex projects with minimal oversight, meaning “programming is becoming unrecognizable”

It is hard to communicate how much programming has changed due to AI in the last 2 months: not gradually and over time in the …

2026-02-12
A lot of people are surprised to hear that YC partners code. Garry not only manages the content for Garry's List, he built the entire web app himself with Claude Code.
2026-02-12 View on X
Mission Local

YC's Garry Tan launches “Garry's List”, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting “moderate/pragmatic” political candidates and pro-growth policies in California

New operation is part-PAC, part-blog, part incubator for Silicon Valley politics — and latest entry in big-money network

2025-06-19
Thought provoking points from @karpathy at AI Startup School today. Made me see LLMs in a whole new light. [image]
2025-06-19 View on X
Y Combinator on YouTube

Andrej Karpathy's talk on “Software 3.0”, with LLMs enabling programming via natural language, the decade of agents, LLMs as “fallible people spirits”, and more

Andrej Karpathy's keynote at AI Startup School in San Francisco.  Slides provided by Andrej: https …

2025-01-27
Lots of hot takes on whether it's possible that DeepSeek made training 45x more efficient, but @doodlestein wrote a very clear explanation of how they did it. Once someone breaks it down, it's not hard to understand. Rough summary: * Use 8 bit instead of 32 bit floating point
2025-01-27 View on X
VentureBeat

How DeepSeek outpaced OpenAI at a fraction of the cost: open source, pure reinforcement learning, no supervised fine-tuning, and building on DeepSeek-R1-Zero

DeepSeek R1's Monday release has sent shockwaves through the AI community, disrupting assumptions about what's required to achieve cutting-edge AI performance.

Lots of hot takes on whether it's possible that DeepSeek made training 45x more efficient, but @doodlestein wrote a very clear explanation of how they did it. Once someone breaks it down, it's not hard to understand. Rough summary: * Use 8 bit instead of 32 bit floating point
2025-01-27 View on X
Bloomberg

DeepSeek's iOS app tops the App Store's Top Free Apps chart in the US, beating ChatGPT, stirring doubts in Silicon Valley about the strength of the US' AI lead

- App's lower-cost model upends premise for AI spending boom  — Stocks of chip gear makers ASML and Advantest plunge

2024-12-12
This is one of the most promising places to find startup ideas right now.
2024-12-12 View on X
Simon Willison's Weblog

Gemini 2.0 Flash LLM early impressions: spatial reasoning performance is impressive, and its new streaming API is one of those “we live in the future” moments

Huge announcment from Google this morning: Introducing Gemini 2.0: our new AI model for the agentic era.

This is one of the most promising places to find startup ideas right now.
2024-12-12 View on X
Bloomberg

Google debuts Gemini 2.0 and plans to test the model in search and AI Overviews, saying it enables “agents that can think, remember, plan, and even take action”

Company expects AI assistants will follow its users around the web  —  Google debuted a new version …

2024-09-13
Since Xi's crackdown, if you raise VC in China and your startup fails, the government seizes your house. Not exactly surprising no one wants to sign up for that. [image]
2024-09-13 View on X
Financial Times

Sources paint a bleak picture for startup founders in China; IT Juzi report: only 1,202 startups were founded in the country in 2023 compared to 51,302 in 2018

Venture capital finance has dried up amid political and economic pressures, prompting a dramatic fall in new company formation X: @carnage4life , @tonytassell , @michaelxpettis , @...

2024-04-06
One of the mega trends in this YC batch is the wave of consumer AI companies. Consumer was stuck in the doldrums for years, but AI has brought it back in a big way. Here are the 21 consumer AI companies that launched today. 🧵
2024-04-06 View on X
Fortune

Some investors say YC's winter 2024 batch was stronger than in previous years, noting consumer AI as a key trend; YC says ~50% of this batch is working with AI

2024-04-04
(21/25) Sonauto (@SonautoAI): AI music creation. Give it lyrics and a style to emulate, and hit “Generate” — out pops a professional-quality song with your custom lyrics.
2024-04-04 View on X
TechCrunch

A look at some exciting startups from day one of YC's Winter 2024 Demo Day, including those using AI for creating music and helping lawyers review documents

out pops a professional-quality song with your custom lyrics. Britton Winterrose / @bwinterrose : irl YC demo day was just as incredible as i hoped it would be founders, new friend...

It's YC Demo Day! I sat down with @garrytan, @mwseibel and all the YC group partners to film this video about the W24 batch. ... actually, no I didn't, I just made it using @toinfinityai. The companies in this YC batch are inventing the future. [video]
2024-04-04 View on X
TechCrunch

A look at some exciting startups from day one of YC's Winter 2024 Demo Day, including those using AI for creating music and helping lawyers review documents

out pops a professional-quality song with your custom lyrics. Britton Winterrose / @bwinterrose : irl YC demo day was just as incredible as i hoped it would be founders, new friend...

One of the mega trends in this YC batch is the wave of consumer AI companies. Consumer was stuck in the doldrums for years, but AI has brought it back in a big way. Here are the 21 consumer AI companies that launched today. 🧵
2024-04-04 View on X
TechCrunch

A look at some exciting startups from day one of YC's Winter 2024 Demo Day, including those using AI for creating music and helping lawyers review documents

out pops a professional-quality song with your custom lyrics. Britton Winterrose / @bwinterrose : irl YC demo day was just as incredible as i hoped it would be founders, new friend...

Today @toinfinityai made history with the first completely AI-generated YC demo day presentation. Here's their full demo day video, featuring @lina_colucci's AI clone. [video]
2024-04-04 View on X
TechCrunch

A look at some exciting startups from day one of YC's Winter 2024 Demo Day, including those using AI for creating music and helping lawyers review documents

out pops a professional-quality song with your custom lyrics. Britton Winterrose / @bwinterrose : irl YC demo day was just as incredible as i hoped it would be founders, new friend...

2024-03-22
Having the Reddit alien ring the bell perfectly captures the irreverent spirit of the Reddit community - and its founders.
2024-03-22 View on X
Bloomberg

Reddit closed up 48%, at $50.44/share, in its NYSE debut, valuing the company at ~$9.5B on a fully diluted basis, just shy of its $10B valuation in August 2021

even for y'all. Rat King / @mikeisaac : apparently Reddit's IPO included the first bell-ringing carried out by a “non-human entity” — in this case, the alien Snoo [image] Trevor Sc...

“Reddit the site (and now app) is such a fundamentally useful thing that it's almost unkillable. Which is why, despite a long stretch after Steve left when the management strategy ranged from benign neglect to spectacular blunders, traffic just kept growing. You can't do that...
2024-03-22 View on X
Y Combinator

Reflecting on Reddit's history: Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian pitching a food app, wanting to use snoo.com, and seeing traffic explode after Reddit launched

“Reddit the site (and now app) is such a fundamentally useful thing that it's almost unkillable. Which is why, despite a long stretch after Steve left when the management strategy ranged from benign neglect to spectacular blunders, traffic just kept growing. You can't do that...
2024-03-22 View on X
Bloomberg

Reddit closed up 48%, at $50.44/share, in its NYSE debut, valuing the company at ~$9.5B on a fully diluted basis, just shy of its $10B valuation in August 2021

even for y'all. Rat King / @mikeisaac : apparently Reddit's IPO included the first bell-ringing carried out by a “non-human entity” — in this case, the alien Snoo [image] Trevor Sc...

2024-03-14
I've noticed I reliably wait 20 minutes for a Waymo rather than wait 2 minutes for an Uber - I suspect that says a lot about the future prospects of the two products.
2024-03-14 View on X
TechCrunch

Waymo plans to debut its Waymo One robotaxi service in LA on March 14, gradually onboarding from a 50K+ waitlist, and in Austin commercially by the end of 2024

Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch :