Theodor Marcu
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Coming soon Previously programmer @retool and CS @princeton
Joined April 2012
@bcrypt @trishaepan I had the same issue with them. Crazy to see that it's a common behavior!.
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I spent time building a competitor to Character AI. Some thoughts on the news:.
CEO Noam Shazeer returns to Google
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@letzing The fact that a **french** company complained about political dysfunction in a US state vs Morocco says it all.
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The day has finally come when I can finally say that:. My. Green. Card. Was. Approved. O-1: Thank you for your service, but it's time for a new chapter. So thankful for this country and for all that's there to come. ๐บ๐ธ๐ฆ
๐ซก.
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- Scrappy kid who truly resonates with the use case.- Starts in college dorm with $0, not tens of millions in funding.- Uses latest cheap models, doesnโt fine tune / train anything from scratch.- Figures out product format that can expand from early adopters to mainstream users.
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Prices may be down, but downloads for top crypto/web3 libraries are at an all-time high
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I continue to believe that AI character chat is a Facebook/instagram level opportunity for building a company, but the winner will look more like a new generation zuck rather than a seasoned 10x researcher and engineer.
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The more time I spend in tech, the more I think that distribution is everything
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Cami can now automagically search the internet for millions of users around the world with @perplexity_ai ๐ช.
Starting today, Cami uses @perplexity_ai to access up-to-date online information and provide more accurate responses to millions of users around the world in their native language ๐. Read below to learn more about how this works:
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@wolfejosh It wouldn't be surprising if it's the same old Soviet roadmap that was used in the 60s / 70s.
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The team is *incredible*, but it's hard to believe that they really had empathy or were comfortable with the main use cases today.
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Character AI was early, but that was not enough to win in this category. In hindsight they will be regarded as the eWorld/myspace to facebook/instagram.
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@bcrypt @trishaepan Overcharged compared to what the insurance told me it was going to cost, followed by a 3-4 month wait to get my money back. Had to nudge them a lot to get it back!.
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Interested in DAOs? During the past few weeks I've spent some time researching how crypto will change the way we organize on the internet. I wrote my learnings in an essay on @oneseventwonine. Let me know if you have any feedback or questions!.
You know all those pieces of paper that make up a traditional corporation? They're turning into code. Here's @theomarcu to get you up to speed on DAOs.
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When @balajis first encouraged me to write about DAOs in early 2021, I thought they were really awesome, but I did not expect them to gain widespread recognition until 2025+. Half a year later, @economist features explainers on the front page. Crypto moves really really fast.
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@paulg Back in 2019 you told me to avoid joining Google as a PM and just join a startup instead if I wanted to learn how to build products. In hindsight it was probably one of the best pieces of advice I ever received!.
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@pmarca @that_one_nerdy_ I also couldnโt find anything about โPalpitine Bridge Capitalโ. Is the Sith Lord himself making a comeback in VC bridge rounds?.
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why does everyone have cursor on left and windsurf on right
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@amasad It's never too late! Found this gem a while back and I started reading it for fun. I learned Calculus in Romania which means I was really good at integrals/derivations without actually understanding what it all meant. This book helped a lot with that.
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Been using Devin for the past few months. Excited to see it go GA. Examples:.- Devin as a really skilled data analyst (search the web for topic xyz, create an embedding visualization of this dataset, etc.).- Devin as a bug fixer: "Fix this schema change that's affecting prod".
Devin is generally available today! . Just tag Devin to fix frontend bugs, create first-draft PRs for backlog tasks, make refactors, and more. Start building with Devin below:
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We need more library-like spaces outside of college campuses.
in good things that came out of the pandemic: this cafe in stockholm transformed its basement into a coworking space with focus areas and bookable booths
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Something that resonated with me after learning more about Jensen Huang:. "he finds working relaxing. he'll be on vacation and he'll send more emails". I used to be confused by this when I was young, but now I understand that if you're lucky, working is like doing a very intense.
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@karpathy @mo_baioumy @exolabs_ @awnihannun the most underrated cluster :). reminds me of people using PS3s to create clusters back in the day
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@garrytan Also pretty crazy to see how running red lights is effectively legalized in SF. June 2019 vs June 2023 is a 95% drop.
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@robkhenderson Fascinating. This sounds all too familiar to me. My parents shared many similar stories about farmers moving from the countryside into apartment buildings during Romania's own forced urbanization throughout the Communist regime.
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@balajis Very precious indeed. My parents still tell me stories about how leaving Romania and traveling abroad before the 1989 revolution was considered a privilege reserved for trusted party insiders. The primary goal of the border guards was to keep people in, not out.
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Anyone know a top 1% react native developer who wants to build an app for 1M users (existing, not potential)?. We want to ship something very exciting and would love to partner with someone for 2-4 weeks. DM me for more details ๐.
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Slowly inching towards 300 concurrents now. not sure we'll be able to afford increasing the limit infinitely!
almost 200 concurrent users chatting today. had to scale the deployment twice already. today is a good day for @RizzChatHQ
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Imagine replacing Zoom with avatars that use 1/10th of the bandwidth and enable much faster, near instantaneous communication. Don't stream 30fps @ 1080p + audio. Instead, just download my model and use the audio to animate it.
For those who never seen AI communicate with each other:. 2 AI bots (GPT-3) having a conversation ๐๐ผ
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Our children's minds will be blown when they realize that people wrote software like ubuntu by hand.
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In my experience, the most interesting ideas today are being debated in Signal group chats, not universities, bars, or markets.
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Biggest Llama 3.1 winners:. - Fine tuners like @Teknium1 / @CanXu20 / @thebloke .- Fine tuning startups like @OpenPipeAI.- GPU providers like @togethercompute / @sfcompute .- Devs working on non-sanctioned apps (AI companions).- University researchers.- Privacy-conscious users.
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Today is a big day for @marblewallet :) @johnsangwonsuh and I thrilled to partner with @kzdagoof, @0x1plus, and the @0xcurio team to help push on-chain gaming to the next level :) . Check out and the smooth email onboarding enabled by Marble!.
Today is an exciting day for usโก๏ธWe're proud to announce that we are partnering with @0xcurio to unlock the next level of on-chain gaming. Introducing: a strategy game that enables players to play the role of on-chain diplomats๐.
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One of the most frustrating things about watching old computing videos is how *snappy* everything feels (compared to today's interfaces). This is one area where it feels like we've regressed.
i could watch Susan Kare draw in MacPaint for HOURS
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Crypto culture looks ridiculous until you realize that Hamilton, Madison, and Jay published the federalist papers anonymously under a silly pseudonym.
EXPECTATION: in the decentralized future everyone will be able to participate in the organization of our economy . REALITY:
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It's becoming increasingly clear that data moats will be replaced by "workflow moats" as agents take over. Understanding "how" to do something using data is more important to an agent / employee than where the data is.
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Meet Notion Mail. The inbox that organizes itself, drafts emails, and schedules meetings any way you'd like. The inbox that thinks like you.
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Working on improving the experience of using @Retool apps with Git/source control ๐ . What are the best-in-class source control experiences you've ever encountered out there? Why?.
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Was reading about how the blackbird was designed without the help of a calculator and stumbled upon this picture. This image is the definition of drip
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This is huge. I don't think the world yet understands the significance of having an *army* of engineers at your fingertips.
Introducing Devin 2.0: a new agent-native IDE experience. Generally available today starting at $20. ๐งต๐
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Trying a little โค๏ธ+๐ค experiment. Over the past 2 weeks we built a game using ChatGPT. The goal? Convince the AI to like you. You can talk to Tony Stark, Naruto, or even randomly generated personalities. Check it out at Curious how far ppl can get!
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One thing that Devin can already do and will be a game changer for agentic models (o1/o3/etc):. Interrupts. The ability to interrupt the model during thinking to steer it / use third party tools / instructions can enable incredible flexibility for custom use cases.
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Just imagine if the government used Ramp ๐ฅน.
Imagine a company losing money for 20+ years and failing 7 auditsโCFO fired, right? . Thatโs our government, which spent half its budget deficit on INTEREST. It doesnโt have to be this way. Hereโs how businesses balance profitability+growthโand how government can do the same.
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As models get better at reasoning, I continue to grow more jealous of students today. The access to knowledge and personalized + hyper patient tutors feels on par if not more important to humanity than the invention of the internet itself.
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When I visited Silicon Valley from Romania for the first time, I expected to find a city like San Fransokyo from Big Hero 6 where nanorobots and high-tech were everywhere. Instead, this is what I found:
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Ramp not only saves you money, but also makes you money too now. All while building one of the most impressive businesses in history.
If youโre reading this, your business is probably earning 0.07% on operating cash. @tryramp is now offering 2.5% โ that's 35ร the national average, and much more on investment accounts. And you can switch in a minute!. Legally, we canโt call it โfree money," but you can.
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Is there anyone building for Dall-E? We started using Dall-E to generate images for our website and it's been fantastic so far. No longer need to spend hours on Unsplash to find the perfect image
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this is fire ๐ฅ.
[1 / 5] @windsurf_ai just dropped a GAME CHANGING feature for frontend devs called "Previews". you can point and click to update your web site / app code ๐คฏ. Here's how it works ๐งต
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I'm glad our company believes in the health benefits of freshly squeezed juice
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@patio11 The US healthcare state machine is at the interesting point where it's both:. - well managed enough to support these byzantine processes.- too poorly managed to fix the root issue with the state machine.
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I wonโt tell anyone when the company hits hyper-growth, but there will be hints
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Seeing a lot of self-doubt in crypto rn. I think there are still a lot of strong reasons to continue being excited about crypto. One of the biggest reasons is the user + dev activity on networks like @farcaster_xyz/@desoprotocol/@LensProtocol. None of it is tied to prices!.
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Together has consistently delivered the best inference performance since they launched . Proud to have been an early user!.
The @togethercompute inference team achieved another performance milestone. Now serving 140 TPS on 671B param R1 model, ~3x faster than Azure, ~5.5x faster than DeepSeek API on @nvidia GPUs. APIs @ and chat + web search @
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@Suhail Exploring this angle a little bit with and focusing on fun applications instead of b2b saas. The results are quite fascinating so far! The teens love it.
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Railway helped us smoothly scale to millions of users while shipping extra fast . Thanks @JustJake @Railway.
Railway is really really good. Being able to deploy straight from a Github repo, detecting a root Dockerfile and using that to build, no need for any complex cicd, will redeploy for every push. Simple custom domain setup and env var management. Incredible developer experience.
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@nearcyan seems like a bug. generated images don't get processed the same way imported images do. accidentally made the same mistake with
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This is a sign of the awesome things to come as we infuse intelligence into everything.
I built RPLY to never miss a text again. Staying in touch should be effortlessโRPLY finds your unanswered texts, instantly suggests AI-powered drafts, and syncs across all your Apple devices, meeting you where you already are. Download below.
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Discord > Slack for online communities!. Discord was built for gamers, who meet online first and don't have IRL relationships. This shows up in their product design. Slack was built for companies who wanted a chat client, which assumes all the relationships already exist.
Why are people picking Discord over Slack for community management? For me, it was less to do with the number of community features. The first thing that sold me on Discord is that it has a "Community Server" mode. That made me feel like the product team prioritizes my use case.
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Very proud of @EnoReyes, @matanSF, and the rest of the Factory team! . New autonomous coding agent and a shiny round led by @shaunmmaguire / @sequoia.
THE MACHINE THAT BUILDS THE MACHINE. Today we are excited to announce the latest updates from Factory and the next steps in our mission to Bring Autonomy to Software Engineering. Droids are autonomous systems that solve problems for engineers. Not just in demos. Not just in
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i randomly found about the dwarkesh pod (then called lunar society) when it came out in 2020 and my first episode ever was the one @dwarkesh_sp did with tyler. it's amazing to see this come so far! a fantastic conversation.
Episode with @tylercowen is out. We discussed how the insights of Hayek, Keynes, Smith, and other great economists help us make sense of AI, growth, risk, human nature, anarchy, central planning, and much more. Links below. Enjoy!
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i'm so lucky to work with people like @johnsangwonsuh . it's 8:30pm on a friday night at the office and you'd have to pry me away . so excited for what's coming next.
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@paularambles Is this a real trend? Wondering if the layoffs impacted a few years of new grads pretty badly.
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Today is DAO day! Now DAOs can register as LLCs in the US state of Wyoming. Really excited to see what that means for internet-native organizations.
Tomorrow is DAO day. That's when Wyoming's DAO law comes into effect. And the venerable corporation will never be the same. So it might be a good time to learn what a DAO actually is. This review by @theomarcu should get you up to speed on the basics.
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@mnovendstern @VitalikButerin @mnolangray Reminds me of Richard Hamming's advice to "work with your door open". You may be less productive, but you'll get better clues as to what are the bets you should be taking.
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I'll say this anytime a founder asks: Working with @graceisford and @Lux_Capital has been an incredible journey at every step of the way! We're thrilled to be partnered with them and we can't wait to see what they achieve next ๐.
Thrilled to announce the launch of Lux Capital 8 - our single largest $1.15B vehicle to back the most AMBITIOUS founders solving the world's most pressing problems from first $100K to last $100M ๐ซ.
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One of my favorite hobbies is reading my friendsโ writing before they publish it. Itโs one of the best ways to have a deep and thoughtful discussion with someone about something they really care about.
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Started to maintain a page where I collect interesting learnings I come across that I call "tidbits". Sort of a public bookmark folder. What are your favorite tidbits?
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A bit surprised to see Gas acquired so quickly. Is building consumer social businesses dead?. In 2014 people would talk about how an app like Gas was on its way to dethrone FB. Today? Crickets. What changed?.
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almost 200 concurrent users chatting today. had to scale the deployment twice already. today is a good day for @RizzChatHQ
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Check out this awesome map of the most important DAO-related projects and services from @corbpage. cc @oneseventwonine.
DAOs are generating massive revenue, allocating capital from billion-dollar treasuries & will have their "mainstream moment" this cycle or next. So we've compiled a map of core services (B2D / D2D) that support this new type of org below. Keep an eye on this market! ๐. ๐ช๐๐ค๐
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I took a couple of hours to build bash-gpt to bring ChatGPT to the terminal (based on whatsapp-gpt by @danielgross). I can use it to generate terminal commands, explain them, and also just prompt Chat GPT in the terminal.
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Taking a break from regular tech posting to appreciate this. Reminder: This graph has a log scale.
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I love taking tutorials on things I don't fully understand. Makes me feel like a beginner again and the confidence boost that comes with learning something new is the best fuel for new ideas that are actually good.
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Whoโs building a Chrome extension that lets you autofill security codes from iMessage like Safari does for MacOS / iOS?
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