i open-sourced the app, although you can make your own quite trivially https://github.com/nichochar/ari

i borrowed the SOUL.md concept from openclaw, but repurposed as TUTOR.md

it uses codex locally so you can use your subscription credits rather than an API key

it's very fun!

Healthy things. For me its riding a bike, which is magical because i) its solo activity so my brain meditates ii) its healthy but no shocks on my knees and body iii) its technology free, no notifications on a bike

my read is that PG is one of the lucky people who was very successful before kids, so he could just put YC in self-driving mode by handing off to the next generation and his life's work still feels meaningful.

I think it's very different if you have not achieved your life's work yet.

these people have ai too. AI increases competition amongst the ambitious, so it doesn't solve the problem

yep all of this resonates

(original author)

this is true for me, wouldn't be remotely possible without my wife.

i really like your framing, this encapsulates the problem very consisely:

> Time is finite. Desire / drive are not. Solve for X

Thank you! That's very kind. It's definitely not an easy equation to solve and is a constant moving target :)

Surprisingly pragmatic and info packed article..

Kudos to databricks, I also find it interesting that such different companies (Stripe, Ramp, Databricks) are all building the exact same internal tools.

I think building companies is going to look more generic in the future because intelligence is an API now.

Thank you for the feedback. We wrote this because after discussing with some of our peer companies, I realized everyone was roughly doing similar things. And I thought it would be good for someone to just systematically write down what those are so that others can try out the techniques if they find them useful.

+1 well written, well paced article. Pleasure to read.

Have you tried measuring Gemini? now that you have the router it should be a simple task. Thanks!