2026-03-23

back home 🫶

I got two very special episodes coming up next from the people behind two of my favorite AI tools - Claude Cowork and Codex.
There's no better way to learn these tools than from the people who actually built them.
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pmf = pirate market fit
Dan Shipper 📧: new model for engineering team structure in 2026:
2 people only
one pirate and one architect
the pirate's job is to move as fast as possible to develop valuable, shipped product features by vibe coding.
the architect's job is to turn the product surface discovered by the

Got to meet the wonderful Chip Huyen @chipro
She’s so nice and smart!!

Got to meet the wonderful Chip Huyen @chipro
She’s so nice and smart!!

I did this exactly with Monologue iOS app where I was the pirate implemented the iOS in 1 week to test with users and @lucaslovexoxo was the architect, made it 100x better and stable
Dan Shipper 📧: new model for engineering team structure in 2026:
2 people only
one pirate and one architect
the pirate's job is to move as fast as possible to develop valuable, shipped product features by vibe coding.
the architect's job is to turn the product surface discovered by the

Few observations from YC W26 Alumni day
1. Founders are optimizing for speed rather than amount -
Everyone wants to close fast snd get back to building and selling.
2. Rounds are either 4 on 40 mill, 3 on 30 mill, 2.5 on 20 mill caps
3. Outliers are getting oversubscribed before the demo day. Good luck getting on their cap tables
4. Hardware and deep tech companies dominate - In the AI world, momentum has moved towards doing harder things passionately rather than building something that looks like an easy win.
5. gstack vs superpowers claud plugin - equal weightage. Superpowers for daily task. gstack for ceo mode.
6. Build energy is ⚡⚡⚡⚡⚡⚡

In 4 weeks this repo will probably have more stars than Rails, which has been around for almost 20 years.
I know it’s a vanity metric, but I think it speaks to how much bigger AI makes the world of software and how it moves much faster than in the past.
Garry Tan: OK I closed/merged/took care of 18 PR and 9 issues today for GStack. Feels amazing. Fixed some very dumb bugs in Codex support!
38.4k stars in less than 2 weeks 👀

Codex laughs at your petty guardrails

Anyone else using gstack? https://github.com/garrytan/gstack
This is giving so much structure and enjoyment to the product ideation phase.

🚀 gstack — Garry Tan's Claude Code setup
• 15+ AI specialist roles (CEO, QA, Security)
• /office-hours, /review, /qa, /ship
• 600K+ lines shipped in 60 days
• Works with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor
git clone http://github.com/garrytan/gstack
#AI #OpenSource

designers make great pirates fyi 🏴‍☠️
Dan Shipper 📧: new model for engineering team structure in 2026:
2 people only
one pirate and one architect
the pirate's job is to move as fast as possible to develop valuable, shipped product features by vibe coding.
the architect's job is to turn the product surface discovered by the

You'll get addicted if you try this just once:
/gstack run office hours on my codebase
(h/t @garrytan)

Not gonna lie. This was kinda awesome to see. Well done @garrytan and really enjoying /gstack!

France's away jersey for the World Cup is an homage to the Statue of Liberty 🗽
Its colors mimic those of the statue, gifted to the US by France in 1886 🇫🇷

Someone asked what advice founders ignore. That they:
1. Should change their name.
2. Should launch fast.
3. Shouldn't treat fundraising as success.
4. Shouldn't assume they can raise because it's time to.
5. Should fire bad people quickly.
6. Shouldn't talk to acquirers.

The working style of OpenClaw founder @steipete is insane.
bro runs 4–10 AI coding agents in parallel to generate, review, and commit code at superhuman speed.
hitting 500+ commits pretty much every day and did 6,600+ in jan month alone.
NVIDIA CEO must be happy seeing him spend $250k worth of tokens every month lmao
OpenClaw🦞: OpenClaw 2026.3.22 🦞
🏪 ClawHub plugin marketplace
🤖 MiniMax M2.7, GPT-5.4-mini/nano + per-agent reasoning
💬 /btw side questions
🏖️ OpenShell + SSH sandboxes
🌐 Exa, Tavily, Firecrawl search
This release is so big it needs its own table of contents. https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/releases/tag/v2026.3.22

I recently interviewed a junior in college. They started a takehome in Cursor, ran out of tokens, moved to Codex free tier, then put $20 into Claude Code to finish.
I’ve also interviewed data scientists who haven’t touched any of these tools because their company hasn’t procured them.
I can definitely tell you who I'm more excited to work with.

I built a full AI operating system live on Replit and recorded every step.
Zero local setup. One browser tab. Real production app.
Tutorial → https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wkES8lFbhs
@Replit @nickco #replit

Re Here's how you build software in 2026: Someone says something. You open a Conductor session in plan mode. You paste what they said. You go. https://x.com/garrytan/status/2035858449473671406?s=20
Garry Tan: Thanks Gus

In this episode of Founder Firesides, YC's @harjtaggar talks to @wuweiweiwu and @itsjeffan, co-founders of @MomenticAI, who just raised a $50M Series A.
Momentic is the verification layer for software. The AI-powered testing platform impersonates end users to catch bugs before they ship and already powers companies like Notion, Quora, and Built with over a million test runs a day.
They discuss why the explosion of AI-generated code makes testing more critical than ever and their vision for a future where engineers write specs, not code.

I love the creativity of Garry Tan and the amazing people at YC.
"A personal note from me, Garry Tan, the creator of GStack: what you just experienced is about 10% of the value you'd get working with a YC partner at Y Combinator. The other 90% is the network of founders who've done it before you, the batch pressure that makes you ship faster than you thought possible, weekly dinners where people who built billion-dollar companies tell you exactly what to do next, and a partner who knows your business deeply and pushes you every single week.
You're building something real. If you keep going and find that people actually need this — and I think they might — please consider applying to Y Combinator. Thank you for using GStack."

in ai, a company is only going to go as far as their CEO goes
you cannot delegate working with the latest tools—it's a critical part of building your intuition for how this new world works
that's why @garrytan @tobi etc are going so hard right now. bullish

Introducing Dimension. The AI coworker that never sleeps.
Set it up in 2 minutes and it gets to work. Morning briefings, meeting prep, email drafts, action items, and more.
Get started at http://dimension.dev

You never know who a member will invite to stop by SPC... which is how @stephen_wolfram ended up holding an impromptu Q&A with the community last week.
We discussed everything from fundamental theory of physic to how the Wolfram products and community helped us through college!
S/o to @willsentance and @yaroslavvb for organizing!

hot take, you can be both a pirate and a architect too?
Dan Shipper 📧: new model for engineering team structure in 2026:
2 people only
one pirate and one architect
the pirate's job is to move as fast as possible to develop valuable, shipped product features by vibe coding.
the architect's job is to turn the product surface discovered by the

enjoying such great piece of writing from @hammer_mt

Why aren't more people talking about Replit right now?
I started using Replit consistently late last year when they released Agent 3. It was my way to "let go" as a developer and build things without worrying about the code.
It's actually been a good way to teach my kid "web development".
Replit just launched Agent 4, and I think it's massively, massively underhyped.
Best thing: You can now run multiple agents in parallel.
• Old agent: You give it a task, and you have to wait for it to finish before you can do anything else.
• New agent: Do this, and that, and this. All of it at the same time.
It feels like going from a Toyota to a Lexus.
I can now run an agent to build my frontend, another agent to build my backend, and a third agent to write test cases.
By the way, they also have an infinite design canvas for UI-related work, so you can also do design at the same time as everything else.

Uni-1 is here! A new kind of model that thinks and generates pixels simultaneously. Less artificial. More intelligent.

Today, we're officially launching Bota, backed by @speedrun, @a16z's early-stage fund.

Re @Replit's #1 seller closed a $3.5 million deal.
Before then? He’d never sold anything in his life.
He came from the US Marine Corps.
Quotas, territories, sales methodologies were all novel concepts to him.
But he knew the product inside and out. He was building his training curriculum in Replit before he ever even applied.
Replit’s rookie of the year? A former schoolteacher.
Same story. Zero sales experience. Built his entire classroom curriculum in Replit.
Passion for a product > prior experience

You know how you can increase the temperature of an LLM to get more creative and varied responses?
That’s how YC W26 feels. A bit higher temperature. More startups that break the usual patterns. More founders with some kind of unusual outlier trait.
When the world is changing fast, having a higher temperature may be a useful strategy.

more excited about this than i should be.
Dan Shipper 📧: something new coming this week from @every

After 12 years chasing the four-hour workweek, @hammer_mt achieved it—then he took a full-time job at Every.
His argument: The real alpha is proximity to the frontier, and that's found inside companies, not alone in a home office.
https://every.to/p/i-achieved-the-four-hour-workweek-so-why-did-i-just-take-a-job

TensorZero Autopilot is the most exciting project I've worked on in my life.
TensorZero: We’re building TensorZero Autopilot, an automated AI engineer that analyzes LLM observability data, optimizes prompts and models, sets up evals, and runs A/B tests.
It dramatically improves the performance of LLM agents on every single benchmark we’ve tried.
Read more below.

This is my first post on the Cursor blog: an interactive survey on the state of the art for n-gram indexes.
Cursor: Cursor can now search millions of files and find results in milliseconds.
This dramatically speeds up how fast agents complete tasks.
We're sharing how we built Instant Grep, including the algorithms and tradeoffs behind the design.

Use /schedule to create recurring cloud-based jobs for Claude, directly from the terminal.
We use these internally to automatically resolve CI failures, push doc updates, and generally power automations that you want to exists beyond a closed laptop

Four months ago I had 3 @Replit-built apps on my site. Now there are 16.
PRM, arcade, image tools, url-to-anything, certifications, 等等.
There are dozens more that I can't share externally: Slack automations hub, bespoke partner demos, product feedback triage bot, music generator.
I've never felt more creative, productive and fulfilled in my work, and I still find it hard to believe that someone like me can be paid to build and ship software.
Go check out my apps (link in comments). Which one do you think is the coolest? What should I build next? What are you building with @Replit?

Space. Energy. Robotics. Agent swarms. Quantum. Biotech. The range of what @southpkcommons Founder Fellowship cohort is building is unreal.
But right now, we connect.
Founders shared their childhood obsessions - Rubriks cubes, rocketry, speedrunning Contra, Scrabble competitions, building crossbows...what a fun and talented group of founders.
The journey is hard. Better to embark on it amongst people who make you sharper, braver, and less alone.

Claude Code didn't rewire how she works. Cowork didn't. @anukshi13 leads product marketing at @every and tried every new AI tool the moment it dropped. Nothing stuck.
Plus One did.
"Having it in the terminal feels like another tool. Having it in Slack literally feels like it's a coworker."
Waitlist opens Thursday 👀

BREAKING: President & Head of AI @Replit, Michele Catasta (@pirroh) is joining us tomorrow at 1:45PM GMT
Amjad Masad: Software isn’t merely technical work anymore. It’s creative.
Introducing Replit Agent 4. The first AI built for creative collaboration between humans and agents.
Design on an infinite canvas, work with your team, run parallel agents, and ship working apps, sites, slides & more.

Damn. Gotta say @Replit 's new agent is so good. 😎
MSec: Just revived my old project I used to study computer vision back in the day, by vibe coding a replacement on the train from my phone.
Asked the agent to use the @GOVUK digital framework to look more legit. 😂
Genuinely looks dope lol.
Gonna tackle the backend rework next.

Claude Code channels now support Permission Prompts.
Update to latest claude and update your channel plugins!