History is defined by top players pursuing good quests. Today, we are in a crisis. Silicon Valley's best — our top operators, exited founders, and investors — are almost all on bad quests. @traestephens and I write about quests in @PirateWires https://t.co/uJSiqQKvjL

super excited to release SWE-grep and SWE-grep-mini! SWE-grep-mini achieves extreme inference speeds of >2,800 TPS: 20x faster than Haiku 4.5 while beating Sonnet 4.5, Opus 4.1 & GPT-5 on our CodeSearch eval our vision: make agentic search as fast as embedding search. the

We should choose good quests.  Ones that lead to prosperity for the American worker and a stronger nation.    AI shouldn’t be about frivolous pursuits that further fracture our attention and connection to humanity.  We are a great nation with serious challenges, amongst them the

We asked @traestephens about his "Good Quests" essay with @markiewagner. "Lots of super talented former entrepreneurs took the route of Big Head in Silicon Valley (HBO show) to rest and vest." "That feels like a moral failure of tech. Founders operating on God Mode should focus

A little over two years ago, @markiewagner and I published an essay in @PirateWires entitled "Choose Good Quests" that blew up way more than I was expecting. I was also surprised that more than a few readers were able to read between the lines to see the theological

Choose Good Quests @markiewagner

A manifesto for founders in tech: Choose Good Quests, by @traestephens and @markiewagner "There are certainly bad quests that are hard, and (a few) good quests that are easy." Read it here 👇🏻

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@elonmusk @paulg Agreed 100% @markiewagner @micsolana @PirateWires https://t.co/ug7p3nY4iA

This is a poetic post by @traestephens and the @PirateWires team This one is personal for me as Trae and Peter backed my last company @Expanseinc I feel like I can’t post this without calling out the obvious, that I became a VC Now the least I can do is back hard, good quests

If ChatGPT is Pong for LLM, this is at least Space Invaders level🤯 - Facts extraction - Automated "Database" creation and population for quantitative questions - Recursive Q&A for qualitative questions 👏@markiewagner @yasyf

One of the more polished open source tools we’ve seen!

Check out the repo here: https://t.co/VmYoPrXXbk And the docs here:

To answer a query, we pick the best of three methods. The first two methods use LLMs to create and populate a "database" with relevant metrics to answer a question. The last method uses recursive summarization, summarizing sets of facts to eventually answer the query.

it’s like this is the grammys of being an unhinged manic young person

Excited to share that I will be joining this year’s class of Thiel Fellows! So many of the people I respect and look up to have gone through this program. I’m honored to be joining that lineage — thank you to the fellowship for taking the bet on me https://t.co/U0RVCunNis

Hands down the most important article I’ve read in years. Incredible job by @traestephens.

2. Choose Good Quests by @traestephens & @markiewagner https://t.co/emvEEDusWg

tech is facing a crisis of bullshit. important to ask yourself "am i really making the world a better place rn, or am i just building another SaaS company on a beach in bali." from @traestephens and @markiewagner: happy thanksgiving, choose good quests.

For our best players, these quests are difficult. But for everyone else, they are nearly impossible. Therefore, there is a moral imperative for our best players to choose good, hard quests.

From planes and power plants to medicine and light, the achievements of those men and women who embarked on good quests built the modern world. Are you on a good quest now? Be honest.