Alex Graveley, the guy behind GitHub Copilot, showed me how I’d been thinking about agentic coding wrong. He used pen and paper. Alex dropped by our Mission Street office on a Tuesday. I told him we had about a week of work left to get self-serve working. “No. That should take 4 hours.” He pulled out a sheet of paper, wrote down ten steps, and handed it to me. That was the plan. ...
A Time Capsule of Startup Interviews “Founders at Work” by Jessica Livingston is a chronicle of startup stories, mostly from startups in the 80s and 90s. The book consists of a series of interviews between Livingston and the founders or early employees of various startups. It feels similar to tuning into a podcast from a decade or two ago, reminiscent of modern equivalents like “How I Built This” or “The SaaS Podcast”. With 32 interviews, the book offers a fascinating peek into the early days of several notable startups. Livingston, as one of the founders of the famous startup incubator Y Combinator, is well-suited to act as the interviewer. ...