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San Francisco
Joined February 2022
Bet on yourself!
Ben Horowitz's message to early-stage founders on betting on yourself, the doubts that do the most damage, and why fear means you're doing it right: "Your job is to make your bet pay off. You believed in yourself enough to do it. There are gonna be many times when you question that bet and you question that belief, but that gets you nothing." "The doubts are gonna be there. Ignore the doubts. The worst doubts aren't the ones people put on you. It's the ones that you put on yourself. Every entrepreneur has them." "I spent a lot of time with Mark Zuckerberg when he was 22 years old and he had a tremendous doubt about whether he was gonna make it." "It's not what you feel. It's what you do. You're gonna feel scared. If your guts aren't boiling, you're not even trying at this thing." @bhorowitz w/ @speedrun GP @andrewchen
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Seems like the paths are starting to meet. @inferact's Woosuk just posted that vLLM is isolating model-specific code and considering moving more of the stack to Rust, the same direction as Resin. Everyone is building in Rust. - @vllm_project already added a Rust frontend - @sgl_project's prefix cache core is Rust too vLLM or SGLang, who gets a Rust scheduler first? xitter.cf/woosuk_k/status/211454…
Same kernels, different paths. vLLM and SGLang both run DeepSeek's open kernels. Both land within a few % of DeepInfer. But the work they highlight is different. vLLM found the cost was in the experts, not attention, so it spread experts across more GPUs and balanced the load. SGLang spent its effort on reducing memory traffic and kernel launches. Both are talented teams, and the whole ecosystem benefits. If you work on inference, would you tune an engine like these, or write your own runtime as @ekzhang1 did with Resin? xitter.cf/ekzhang1/status/211451…
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Same kernels, different paths. vLLM and SGLang both run DeepSeek's open kernels. Both land within a few % of DeepInfer. But the work they highlight is different. vLLM found the cost was in the experts, not attention, so it spread experts across more GPUs and balanced the load. SGLang spent its effort on reducing memory traffic and kernel launches. Both are talented teams, and the whole ecosystem benefits. If you work on inference, would you tune an engine like these, or write your own runtime as @ekzhang1 did with Resin? xitter.cf/ekzhang1/status/211451…
Alright I finally have more to share on my personal project! Resin is a runtime for building fast LLM inference engines. The idea is to make all the generic parts of inference reusable, and leave only the model-specific forward pass + kernels to be written for each architecture / hardware target. To build an engine: 1. Import Resin's core. 2. Have an agent write a forward pass for the model you’re interested in, for your specific hardware (GPU or TPU or AMD), any kernels you want. Then, boom, you have a standalone inference engine. — I've been hacking over the past month (early post: xitter.cf/ekzhang1/status/208950…), and recently this week I got a lot of features + parallelisms working, inspired by DeepInfer. For DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash, it's nearly as fast as DeepInfer (within 5-10%), while being self-contained and supporting other models, plus metrics + HTTP server + prefix cache. Yesterday I wrote a skill for authoring models and put Codex to work on it overnight. The agent built a GLM-5.3-Flash engine with MTP, reaching up to 60,000 input tok/s and 16,000 output tok/s on B200 (EP4). So far inference "vibe coding" has not been very reliable or successful. I think it's because people start from scratch each time and reinvent lots of tricky things on the scheduler and server layers. But with a shared core, we can automate lots of inference work. The tricky bit is writing a fast forward pass. But Resin turns that into a standalone engine by just importing a library, and it becomes a verifiable goal for the AI. Code: github.com/ekzhang/resin
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"the bitter lesson for search is to grep over a filesystem, just like how google works" - rich sutton
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A lot of KOL deals in China look like this: send the draft first, skip the ad label. With global creators it backfires, and it makes me sad for the R&D team. @elshayib_ posted the doc, and an amateur PR move killed a good model's momentum. The researchers and engineers put countless nights into this model, and launch week is now about a marketing doc. It also makes every positive review suspect. The "test" result was written before anyone tested: "Kimi cooked Opus 5.5/Astra, $XX vs $XX." To my friends at Chinese AI labs: do the right thing and follow best practice. Pay creators, let them label it, and let them say what they actually think, bad parts included.
That's how Kimi AI are promoting their new model Kimi K3.1 pro and I know all the influencers working with them and none of them are honest,I have posted about it myself but I didn't join this and never used their templates that they provide. PROPAGANDA, I have more to share it's f**cked up I'm gonna have follow up for this
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super important honest advice to founders. if you are working on a dead end, get out. you don’t owe that to anyone, including investors (who regularly forgive and experience failure, and ideally care more about you doing your life’s work than a subpar outcome)
Foursquare was acquired last month. The outcome was disappointing. It's taken me a while to write this, but I think I'm finally done grieving it. Here are some thoughts on our final years, an effort to honor the team who helped build & maintain FSQ's legacy, and my attempt to finally get some closure. teendrama.substack.com/p/som…
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I’m think we’re all very, very lucky to have super competent operators like Dane and the CF team for times like these. Thanks for your communication and efforts here. You’re doing the lord’s work 🙏🙏🙏
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supabase would charge ~$33,000/month to sync 100gb live to 1,000 concurrent users. convex ~$27,000 i'm doing it for $9 on one cloudflare durable object 🧵
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The definitive guide to SF coffee shops: Which ones did I miss or underrate? Fully expect to get roasted for this 😉☕️
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Always faster, never satisfied.
Cloudflare is now the fastest provider in 74% of the 1,000 largest networks around the world, up from 60% in April 2026. cfl.re/3VjxTBn #BirthdayWeek
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introducing 𝚌𝚕𝚎𝚏: our first models trained by @cloudflare's workers ai team. today, we're releasing two fast and accurate decision models that top the benchmarks for quality and latency. use them hosted on workers ai or grab the weights from @huggingface, because we open-sourced it too. blog.cloudflare.com/clef-dec…
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State of the art encryption should be free and easily available to everyone. We’re investing to make that reality.
Twelve years after launching Universal SSL, Cloudflare is applying to become a certificate authority. By combining an established root, an ACME-first approach, and Merkle Tree Certificates, we are building a post-quantum CA for the open web. cfl.re/4AFIczO #BirthdayWeek
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Terrible time to be working for controlling micromanagers
This has never been more true. The opportunity cost of endless planning and contemplation just went way up. Agents allow you to just try vastly more stuff, so let them, and you'll learn way more, way faster.
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I made a techno remix out of a song I recorded with an acoustic guitar in 2011, and asked Opus 5.5 for a music video with a JavaScript-forward art style. (It’s DDR optimized. Anyone else here plays DDR and is interested in steps?) 🧵
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Agent maxxing.
i have 30 AI subscriptions: - 17 @ChatGPT Pro 20X - 7 @DevinAI Max - 5 @claudeai Max - 1 @cursor_ai Ultra (via @bot) i'm rocking 39 terminals today in @zeddotdev - 28 Devin with SWE-2 (free+unlimited on the Max plan) - 11 Claude Code with Opus 5.5 - (many subagents inside each) hope you're having a great weekend too
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After 15+ years at Cloudflare, I am taking some time off to recharge and look for my next adventure. Please apply if you'd be a great fit to lead an amazing team of Trust & Safety professionals who are helping to make the Internet better every day. linkedin.com/jobs/view/44685…
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Same thing as we always do: make the best tech available for everyone for free.
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Got similar answer from an Anthropic researcher at their first Build Day back in 2024
i met with deepseek team 2 years ago in china and asked them if they were going to train other models. they said they only want to push the frontier of research and think media gen is unserious and only for entertainment media gen in and of itself is a gigantic billion dollar market (e.g., disney), but funny how the research camps split. i'm sure anthropic has similar mentality given their LLM focus
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