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Collison: Stripe modeled its internal project tracking tool on Shopify's GSD
“No, we took inspiration from GSD, your system, as we built out ours similarly, and having a centralized internal source of truth for projects that are going on is, Surprisingly helpful, and it feels like it shouldn't be, but it is.”
Collison: Stripe Atlas is not a major revenue generator for Stripe
“When we built Stripe Atlas for incorporation, there was no amazing projections behind that, that one day this would be a giant business. It's not a giant business for us by any kind of revenue metric, But we think it's very valuable because people start their …”
Wu: Cognition strongly advises users against giving Devin production database access
“So we pretty strongly recommend that people using Devon don't give it, you know, prod database access, for example.”
Wu: Cognition evaluates AI models using an internal 'junior dev' benchmark
“From our perspective, we have a lot of benchmarks internally. You know, the biggest is one that we call junior dev, which we might need to upgrade to senior dev pretty soon, but it is basically the ability to do a variety of just random real world junior dev t…”
Wu: Cognition's core engineering team grew from 19 to 30-35 post-Windsurf
“With Windsurf, obviously, the team count has grown a lot, but actually, you know, with core engineering itself, it hasn't actually gotten all that much bigger. It's gone from 19 to something in the range of like 30 to 35.”
Wu: Cognition reached out cold to Windsurf leadership on Friday evening
“We reached out to them cold that evening, and got to meet the new Windsurf leadership, you know, Jeff and Graham and David that evening.”
Pieter Levels discloses he is an angel investor in AI editor Cursor
“I've been starting to invest, and every time I invest, I feel like bad, because I feel like a faker, you know, but like I invested in Cursor, for example”
Vogt: Early Bot Company prototype cleaned 48 of 49 toys in 30 minutes
“Several months ago, one of our early prototypes, we had, we would do this thing where we just like dump a basket full of kids' toys in a room and say, hey, robot, clean this up. There's like, 49 toys on the ground, and over the course of like 30 minutes, it to…”
Collison: Stripe runs a weekly all-hands segment dogfooding its dashboard
“We do at our, like, little weekly All Hands Weaver recurring segment of Just Walk the Store, where we, like, click around in the dashboard together, and we're tripping over, like, why is that modal there, and that's a bit confusing or whatever, just so we're, …”
Narayan: Strongly Recommended Atomico Hold Its Equity Stake in Stripe
“I remember when I was Atomico, we were figuring out what to do with the state that Atomico had in in, in, in, in Stripe. And my strong recommendation was a big hold.”
Bridge was founded just before the Terra and FTX collapses
“20, 20, 23 is when we launched our APIs. 2022 is when we start, Sean and I started the company. And raised money, and then immediately after we raised money, Terra Luna happened, and then the whole space was nuked, and then FTX happened, and it was nuked again…”