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head barista @rootvc (seed deep-tech/AI/Devtools) hobbies -- ☕️🍕🤖🚜🛠🔪🍸🔥

San Francisco, CA
Joined April 2010
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AI-first aircraft development: parametric geometry generated at scale without failures, Physics AI models reporting lift and drag across a wide design space, and multi-objective optimization to get to the most performant aircraft. All in minutes instead of weeks or months.
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I don't think anyone should attend Web Summit
hey @WebSummit I’m not interested in attending any summit featuring this speaker
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Oh good, I can run Doom in a terminal in @zeddotdev.
The question "can it run doom?" is answered for OpenTUI. @muhammed_aksam did it.
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Replying to @donmcgowan
Don, your article is a laundry list of flawed arguments: You conflate aggregate risk (total volume) with relative propensity (rate), arguing the majority’s larger absolute crime count negates the minority’s higher density, which is Base Rate Neglect. You employ the Nirvana Fallacy to dismiss signals lacking "perfect" demographic controls and commit the Genetic Fallacy by attacking the source rather than the math. Your selective rejection of per capita stats for crime, while accepting them for GDP, constitutes Special Pleading.
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May I fork you?
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"Let's Get Technical!" Have wanted to do this episode with @rootvc 's Lee Edwards (@ledwards) for awhile A good story of a non-traditional path to venture (Lee was an engineer -- still is). Root Ventures just raised $190 million for its 4th fund!
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Really excited to announce Root Ventures Fund 4, our new $190M seed fund supporting technical founders working on hard problems with up to $5M at any stage with “seed” in the title. We are so grateful to @EricNewcomer for perfectly capturing our vibe in his article below: 👇
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jfc @kane’s OpenAI custom instructions is literally just his entire personality.
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It's finally here. Zed is available on Windows. Built from scratch, and rendering at 1 million pixels/millisecond. Download it today 👇
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Codex is now live in Zed 🚀 The most requested Agent integration is finally here. The best agent deserves the best UI – try it in Zed today ✨
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I was wrong Zed is S-tier. Elite
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🧵🚀Excited to announce Volition "Power Search" the 1st AI-powered search engine for industrial components! It searches the whole internet + our 49M product catalog, with UX better than Google, Amazon, and the major AI tools. Thread here + try it out! govolition.com/power-search
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Excited to announce @zeddotdev’s Series B led by @sequoia. Have loved working with @sonyatweetybird, who shares Nathan’s vision for the ground-up reinvention of IDE. Read more about that, and DeltaDB, which Zed is also announcing today. Even more soon… zed.dev/blog/sequoia-backs-z…
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If you're tired of Cursor's BS pricing, check out @zeddotdev I can't stress enough how buttery smooth it's to use — it's not built on shoddy Electron but on raw Rust. And with the new AI Agent update, it's a heavenly feeling to use ☁️
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Replying to @nathansobo
@nathansobo is here to make the case for software craftsmanship in the era of vibes! "As software engineers, we should measure our contribution not in lines of code generated, but in reliable, well-designed systems that are easy to change and a pleasure to use." zed.dev/blog/software-crafts…
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"It would be crazy not to use Dusty. Dusty enables me to help the entire team building a house do a better, faster job." -- Josh Lewis, COO of FrameTec. They're transforming the way they work together with their partners. dustyrobotics.com/customers/… #FieldPrinter2 @FrameTecUSA
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🚀 Zed v0.184 is out! We're working to improve the accuracy of our autocompletions. Starting with today's release, you should start to see more relevant suggestions prioritized near the top, and we will continue to improve our completion matching going forward.
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The Zed Community team (@notpeter and @MyDeathMachine) sat down with @mitchellh to discuss the complexities of managing issues and pull requests in large open-source projects like Zed and GhosTTY. Check it out! youtu.be/si-aVdcnj5U
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