JT Wolohan
@jwolohan
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Building the new way to measure and fund data, AI, and software
Washington, DC
Joined February 2008
"You can just do things" is basically the same heuristic as "Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face" except for people who haven't been punched in the face yet.
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Should you start with your easy tasks or your hard tasks? Astro Teller, CEO of *X, The Moonshot Factory*, offers a powerful mental model to give an answer. The metaphor might sound absurd, but it works. If you want to train a monkey to juggle flaming torches while standing on a
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This is not what spreadsheets are good for… Spreadsheets a superpower is they’re flexible and can be used good enough for (1) analysis, (2) presentation, (3) storage by a layperson
prediction re the end of spreadsheets AI code gen means that anything that is currently modeled as a spreadsheet is better modeled in code. You get all the advantages of software - libraries, open source, AI, all the complexity and expressiveness. think about what spreadsheets
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In practice, the ability to “feel” and organization drops off somewhere between 20 and 40 people in my experience. Somewhere in that range, you start needing abstractions and trust
Human orgs are not legible, the CEO can’t see/feel/zoom in on any activity in their company, with real time stats etc. I have no doubt that it will be possible to control orgs on mobile, with voice etc., but with this level of legibility will that be optimal? Not in principle and
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Some hypotheses: fantasy sports ruined everything; 24x7 news ruined everything; cord cutting ruined everything; ???
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Felt like I used to be able to listen to sports talk every day. Not so much now. Feels like now, everything is fake intellectual/insider slop from intellectual-yet-idiot types...
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Understand this: Waymo in DC is not being delayed because the City Council wants a study. Instead, the City Council is asking for a study because they want to delay Waymo in DC.
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Most writers have a hard time making a living writing as is; writing jobs (and skill) have been in decline for some time – this tech is very scary for them Software engineers have been facing down the end of their profession for 60 years
Why do a lot of software people like a tool that can allow them to expend their mental energy on higher order problems, while writers dislike the tool that can replace their output completely? Truly one of the great mysteries of our time
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Love seeing everyone come to many of the conclusions the NLP community dealt with for decades before LLMs "Hey! Let's add this bit of information it should make things go better!" *things get worse* LLMs themselves are, in many ways, a refutation of the very idea of helping
no one has been able to solve ai memory yet. it’s brittle, it’s fragmented, & often times less helpful than not using memory. it’s an incredibly fascinating problem, way more of an art than a science at this point.
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If you're an indie hacker, builder, or developer... I want to know your thoughts. We've been building enterprise SaaS, and we're exploring a dev tool variant Please take our survey and help us! https://t.co/WtVlcfZ4bg Raffling off a $100 Amazon gift card #buildinpublic
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on MCP vs "skills" - MCP was a good (??) model for web-based LLM-system providers to offer a plugin model. It is designed to work in setups where the agentic loop runs on the providers servers. skills are for agentic loops running on the user's local OS.
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I’m losing respect for all the “experts“ that are surprised Gemini was trained on TPUs and not GPUs. Do you live in a cave?
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I don't mind people doing clever math to reach counterintuitive conclusions about shrimp, but if your clever math only leads you to counterintuitive blog posts and never to save the lives of hundreds of people as cost-effectively as possible, I don't take you that seriously.
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Who is working on AI-powered self-documenting systems? 👀 — Would love to contribute if there's something open source
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This is *exactly* how you want the folks running a DevOps product to think. DevOps is all about automation and health and things “just working” – so engineers can enjoy weekends!
My hot startup take is that you should almost never work weekends My even hotter take is that if you are working weekends, you didn't go hard enough during the week or you suck at planning
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Everyone starts at $0/ARR
At our YC demo day in 2023, our “ARR” was $600. 1 customer at $50/mo for the year. so embarrassing. Today, we are cash flow positive, growing MoM consistently, and in awe of what customers are creating. Best of all it still feels like day 1. Keep going.
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At our YC demo day in 2023, our “ARR” was $600. 1 customer at $50/mo for the year. so embarrassing. Today, we are cash flow positive, growing MoM consistently, and in awe of what customers are creating. Best of all it still feels like day 1. Keep going.
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Isn't the world better if, to a first approximation, don't murder AND don't torture? PS. This is a subtweet.
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