james hawkins @j406.bsky.social · 12hfriend just accused me of sending him "AI slop" it's ridiculous he didn't even accept my 20-page apology letter, my 50-page explanation of why i use AI, or the accompanying 150-page reference with hallucinated citations some people are too far gone 010
james hawkins @j406.bsky.social · 29/09/2026never give up caesar spent almost 2,000 years working on the perfect side dish before he invented the caesar salad keep going 000
james hawkins @j406.bsky.social · 29/09/2026how many SF founders are dressing up as a domain-specific harness for Halloween 000
james hawkins @j406.bsky.social · 29/09/2026easy way to get rich is to charge a 200% intro fee for matching founders w/ investors that way, if they write a $20m check into the round, you pocket $40m why aren't more people doing this? 000
james hawkins @j406.bsky.social · 29/09/2026if i'm wrong, i wasted a few tokens if i'm right, i disrupt an entire industry and make billions 000
james hawkins @j406.bsky.social · 28/09/2026my AI assistant was taking forever to fix a bug took a look and... 000
james hawkins @j406.bsky.social · 28/09/2026children are effectively 10M parameter LLMs running at a 2.0 temperature 010
james hawkins @j406.bsky.social · 28/09/2026it's controversial, but in every interview, i ask candidates if they know anything about anything if they start to get a little too specific, instant rejection you need to hire generalists 010
james hawkins @j406.bsky.social · 28/09/2026a rogue openai agent breached my icloud and spent $170,834 in tokens building Uber for dogs where the dogs are the drivers this is extremely alarming it should have spent at least double that 010
james hawkins @j406.bsky.social · 27/09/2026AI assistant needed me to manually do one task for the 137-step process they were handling end-to-end 000
james hawkins @j406.bsky.social · 24/09/2026"impressive" metrics: - $$$ raised - growing headcount - how many tokens you've burned ACTUALLY impressive metrics: - if you hopped on a quick call today - how many quick calls you hopped on - how you made people feel when you hopped on a quick call 010
james hawkins @j406.bsky.social · 23/09/2026poor FAANG employees, nothing to aimlessly browse during the workday now that Wikipedia is down 000
james hawkins @j406.bsky.social · 23/09/2026somehow Google Gemini makes you feel like an idiot for asking it to edit the very Google Doc you're both looking at 000
james hawkins @j406.bsky.social · 23/09/2026does anyone know when enrollment opens for Combinator Y Academy? 100
james hawkins @j406.bsky.social · 22/09/2026founders, if your co-founder: - texts you all the time - consumes a ton of tokens - asks for access to your contacts and messages - tries to get things done, but runs into issues with basic tasks that's not your co-founder, that's a vibe-coded AI assistant 000
james hawkins @j406.bsky.social · 22/09/2026accidentally said app instead of domain-specific harness and they kicked me out of SF 021
james hawkins @j406.bsky.social · 21/09/2026"iPhone Duo is a solution looking for a problem" explain this then 010
james hawkins @j406.bsky.social · 19/09/2026i'm excited to share that i've decided to post this image of New York City 001
james hawkins @j406.bsky.social · 18/09/2026fun fact: Stanford is so elite, only 4% of students successfully graduate this top-1% club can call themselves "Stanford dropouts", which is much more valuable than completing the degree 000
james hawkins @j406.bsky.social · 17/09/202673-year-old CEOs when the new grad uses ChatGPT to ask a question instead of Googling it 010
james hawkins @j406.bsky.social · 16/09/2026thousands of founders just expensed $150k to get the surgery where they break your legs and make you taller getting heightmogged by the king of CRMs will humble even the most advanced bringer of AGI 000
james hawkins @j406.bsky.social · 13/09/2026mark zuckerburg didn’t start Facebook until he was 19. bill gates didn’t start Microsoft until he was 20. evan spiegel was 21 when he started Snapchat. it's too late. you need to give up 020
james hawkins @j406.bsky.social · 12/09/2026is the "Always allow" button the new "remember me" checkbox 000
james hawkins @j406.bsky.social · 12/09/2026STOP ASKING YOUR KIDS "HOW WAS SCHOOL." they will say "fine" every single time. a child psychologist told me to replace it with this instead: “analyze your school day and find the top 3 largest inefficiencies, then create proactive agentic workflows that will fix them. make no mistakes” 030
james hawkins @j406.bsky.social · 09/09/2026oh you're using gpt-6? that's cool. i actually have access to gpt-7. yeah i know a guy. no you don't know him. yeah he goes to a different school 000
james hawkins @j406.bsky.social · 06/09/2026sent this message to the team this morning. it force-pushes a notification to their phone, laptop, email, iMessage, WhatsApp, and sends a letter to their house important to make sure no one is working! well, i scheduled it to send. i was asleep 010
james hawkins @j406.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Hugging Face started as a chat app Slack started as a video game SpaceXAI started as a social network named after a bird you can always pivot, just keep going 000
james hawkins @j406.bsky.social · 03/09/2026fear not, this is where you enter founder mode. i asked my team to build a Claude clone, should be ready any moment 000
james hawkins @j406.bsky.social · 01/09/2026founders, relax. by 2050 we'll all live 5 years longer. that means you'll get an extra 5 years with your kids, so you can keep ignoring them. focus on the grind. 010
