Terminal

“And I generally encourage them to not use the GUIs. And I encourage them to use the tweets because I just know that over time they're going to be curious and like pull at other threads. And one day they wake up and they're like, Oh, I understand more of the su…”

“I feel like coding agents have been so much more effective than general purpose agents, and I think a large part of that is it just has access to the terminal, like you said, and that means it has access to everything that you've installed into your terminal.”

“Maybe a third of my code now is in the terminal, but also a third is using the desktop app. And then a third is the iOS app, which is just so surprising because I did not think that this would be the way that I code in, even in twenty-twenty-six.”

“90% of my work now is on the terminal, you know, and it's awful. It's just a bunch of texts in a black screen, you know, and it's like lots of texts going and it's really boring when you think about it, but I get very excited because it's achieving a lot of th…”

“Using it on on the web, on the Mac app but you could use it within the terminal and that's really where you're going to get the most amount of control in it.”

“The bet here that we made was that GUI based computer use was going to be much slower to come into its own. Than terminal based use. And there's a few reasons for this. I mean, as I mentioned earlier, text is just the modality that works best with these models…”

“And so there's two developer tools that matter. There's the code editor, the IDE, and there's the terminal.”

“Our thesis here now is like, neither a regular terminal nor a regular IDE is like the right approach for agentic developments. Like you really want a tool that's built for this workflow.”

“There's also a generational divide where I would say the younger people, you know, younger than 25, their terminal seems old to them and they were much more inclined to use the stuff in the editor.”

“Our thesis here is that the best interface for launching agents is actually pretty similar to what traditionally has been like a terminal UX. You know, you want this like grouped output. You want the ability to seamlessly run commands.”

“I think there are a lot of brilliant programming ideas that exist within the terminal that had been invented 30 or 40 years ago that are constantly surfacing and being exposed to different people.”

“And I think at least the companies that we're working with, there are so many interdependencies when it comes to the systems that they're building. So in a very small subset of code, it can help and aid in how to, you know, finish a complete and end point. But…”

“It's a really hard challenge, and we're seeing that today with many of our companies complaining that they're getting 5000 applicants, but then when they start sifting through, they realize that 95% of them are fake, and so they're getting fake resumes, fake a…”

“We've seen many companies hire folks and then all of a sudden that engineer's logging in from China Or from other markets.”

“So hiring the first senior tech lead is critical. It doesn't have to be the First hire, but I think it does need to be in the first few to establish a strong foundation for that team and allow that lead to start making some of the hiring decisions with local k…”

“And lastly, and I think a very important factor is making that team feel like first class citizens. And this really stems from giving complete product ownership to that team and not just thinking that they'll fix bugs or work on lower priority items.”

“The other thing I think most companies need to change is just over-documenting Or increasing the documentation that they have of decisions that are being made at various meetings and points, and having a repository where someone could look back and see the tim…”

“We've actually recently gone through this with a partner of ours, TalkIQ, that was recently acquired by Dialpad. And part of the reason that they were a very desirable acquisition target was purely because they had that team in place in Waterloo that had alrea…”

“Early stage, you want to hire more jacks of all trades and less experts from incumbents. So as a company, you don't want to be a jack of all trades, master of none. But with early stage employees, I actually think that those who are less expert, but exhibit mo…”

“As a leadership team, we examine and scrutinize our decisions weekly, not just based on the outcomes of the decisions, but how quickly we were able to make those decisions and how could we speed up that process in the future”

“Where some startups get it wrong is that funding is a process that you just start and finish. And I think it should be a series of ongoing conversations with various VCs to get their perspectives.”

“I think marketing is really challenging to work in a distributed model. While you need to think about localizing message and maybe having local marketing managers, it can be really challenging to keep everyone aligned on how to build and represent your brand i…”

“Virtual communication, Communication is sufficient to build relationships with remote workers, and face-to-face, I think, still matters so much, and I believe you have to earn the right to communicate digitally by being there physically, and often people don't…”