stop replacing ai with human devs

San Francisco, CA
Joined August 2010
Madison Faulkner retweeted
I canceled my Claude Max plan for @FactoryAI's Droid. Droid runs Anthropic and OpenAI models in one terminal and somehow the same models perform better than in their own harnesses. Full vibe check for @every here: every.to/source-code/vibe-ch…
brought my 3D video file but no one was even trying to beat the latest weissman score… @TechCrunch @NEA
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Madison Faulkner retweeted
Agents are the New Developer Agents, like Claude Code, feel uncanny. My first time using it, I built a mobile web app that tracked pushups using computer vision. Just for fun, to see what it could do. One hour later (mostly its time, not mine), I had an app that just worked. That gave me goosebumps. For the first time, it felt like software wasn't something I built, it was something building with me. It felt like something brand new. I realized: agents had become the new developer. But software agents don't behave like human developers. Software development tools need to evolve. Agents need a new kind of database made for how they work. So we built it. And we're launching it today. Announcing Agentic Postgres: The First Database Built For Agents. There's a lot of engineering behind this: a new copy-on-write block storage layer, fast zero-copy forks, new Postgres extensions for full text search (BM25) and semantic search, what (we think is) the best MCP server for Postgres ever built, and a new CLI and free tier. I'm very proud of what this team has built, especially in such a short period of time. More here: tigerdata.com/blog/postgres-… Please give it a try. We're just getting started. We’d love your feedback. 🐯🚀 @TimescaleDB @TigerDatabase
Madison Faulkner retweeted
Turns out money can't buy the best agent. Funding raised by #2-5: $80B, $1.0B, $1.5B, $35B Funding raised by #1: $0.07B
The #1 software development agent in the world just topped another benchmark
Last week was a refreshing break from the seriousness of building to gather favorite developers at @modal, @FactoryAI, @getsentry, @elevenlabsio, @browserbasehq, @withmartian, Daytona, @LangChainAI, @weaviate_io, @getmetronome, @TimescaleDB, @OpenAIDevs and more. I came into venture wanting to see exceptional developer-focused saas get more investment. The most brilliant minds in the industry are hard at work building this and it's an honor to support them. thx for co-hosting @auchenberg, @getsentry and @alley_corp
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the droid leader spotted in South Bay 👀@matanSF @FactoryAI
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Our newest investor and former ML engineer @thomastjoshi got straight into the research @ COLM last week
We hosted a group of researchers for dinner at Conference on Language Modeling (COLM). Some takeaways from the conf: #COLM2025 (1) Qwen team planned on scaling training tokens from 10T to 100T, model parameters from 1T to 10T, and context length from 1M to 10M tokens. @natolambert (2) We've learned that distilling larger reasoning models is actually more effective than pure reinforcement learning for small/medium sized models (~32B). @_lewtun (3) Today the most intelligent models remain closed, but this may not matter as much given plethora of training and data techniques employed to get a group of smaller models to outperform larger models on specific tasks such as encouraging collaboration. @jacobeisenstein @adamjfisch (4) We saw the rise of small language models for multi modal tasks. For example, Hugging Face had a paper at COLM which achieves state of the art performance for Vision Language Models outperforming models 300x larger. @LoubnaBenAllal1 @Thom_Wolf
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can someone please build to replace dbt and fivetran? I have never seen such arr growth despite horrible customer reviews. it's time!
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Madison Faulkner retweeted
Thank you so much for joining our AI & Devtools happy hour last night at #SFTechWeek! We had a packed house of founders, builders and investors 💪🛠️✌️ @alley_corp @NEA @generalcatalyst @maddiehfaulkner @getsentry @browserbasehq @modal @FactoryAI @LangChainAI @elevenlabsio @neondatabase @daytonaio @weaviate_io @getmetronome @withmartian
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we're seeing a pattern converging with @OpenAI's open source models curated to match other leading open source models while lagging in performance 6-12 mos behind closed source models. we will see this become standard for the large foundation models and hyperscalers, offering dual open and closed models.
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Yes. This company, product, team are SF's best kept secret. Maybe not so secret now...
Love for @FactoryAI is all over my timeline, with people using it daily and blown away by how good it is. What most don't realize is Factory was pioneering agentic coding before Devin's viral video. IMO, still one of the most underhyped AI startups.
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Madison Faulkner retweeted
@matanSF Congrats on your launch and current raise. Looking forward to continued progress. We don't need just a great solution to write code, or do testing, or other parts of the software lifestyle, we need something more. The whole workflow needs to be redeveloped and rethought with AI in mind. A comprehensive solution is the only one that will stand the test of time. This is a great step on the right direction. @TheChainsmokers
The best agents for software development are becoming the best agents for everything. Droids are the best software development agents in the world, reaching #1 on Terminal-Bench. We have raised $50M from NEA, Sequoia Capital, J.P. Morgan, Nvidia, Abstract Ventures, and other industry leaders including Frank Slootman, Nikesh Arora, and Aaron Levie. Today, Droids are available to anyone, with any model, in any interface: CLI, IDE, Slack, Linear, Browser.
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Madison Faulkner retweeted
Big fan of @FactoryAI! Been using it for my work at @twelve_labs :)
The best agents for software development are becoming the best agents for everything. Droids are the best software development agents in the world, reaching #1 on Terminal-Bench. We have raised $50M from NEA, Sequoia Capital, J.P. Morgan, Nvidia, Abstract Ventures, and other industry leaders including Frank Slootman, Nikesh Arora, and Aaron Levie. Today, Droids are available to anyone, with any model, in any interface: CLI, IDE, Slack, Linear, Browser.
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Madison Faulkner retweeted
Factory are one of the most formidable teams in the AI Coding space and I think the Droid concept strikes exactly the right balance between concerns of engineer replacement and the ill defined expectations of agents. while there is some way to go on SWEBench still, its p clear that most frontier agent labs have moved on, with TerminalBench the presumptive winner this year. Droid has ultra strong results here too. looking fwd to learn more from both at @aiDotEngineer CODE!
The best agents for software development are becoming the best agents for everything. Droids are the best software development agents in the world, reaching #1 on Terminal-Bench. We have raised $50M from NEA, Sequoia Capital, J.P. Morgan, Nvidia, Abstract Ventures, and other industry leaders including Frank Slootman, Nikesh Arora, and Aaron Levie. Today, Droids are available to anyone, with any model, in any interface: CLI, IDE, Slack, Linear, Browser.
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It's an honor to be part of the machine building the machine. Thrilled to lead @FactoryAI's $50M Series B alongside Nvidia, JPM, Sequoia and more. Cheers @matanSF and @EnoReyes 🍾
The best agents for software development are becoming the best agents for everything. Droids are the best software development agents in the world, reaching #1 on Terminal-Bench. We have raised $50M from NEA, Sequoia Capital, J.P. Morgan, Nvidia, Abstract Ventures, and other industry leaders including Frank Slootman, Nikesh Arora, and Aaron Levie. Today, Droids are available to anyone, with any model, in any interface: CLI, IDE, Slack, Linear, Browser.
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Congrats to @sanalabs on becoming a Swedish unicorn! We're so excited for you in your next chapter. 🫡
Workday to Buy Sana for $1.1 Billion as Part of Enterprise AI Push on.wsj.com/3JXUfTk
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Madison Faulkner retweeted
If you're curious about how the latest spatial intelligence model is doing @theworldlabs, check out this new blog! I'm so excited by how much progress has been made in 3D world generation - bigger, more consistent, and forever persistent worlds! Moreover, everyone in the world can view the many many worlds generated by our users! And you can even make your own worlds now by signing up to our wait list to access the model!
Generate persistent 3D worlds from a single image, bigger and better than ever! We’re excited to share our latest results and invite you to try out our world generation model in a limited beta preview.
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