CEO of Augment Code (Series B, $252M raised) discusses future of software engineering and the importance of incremental gains from AI. “We're trying to augment software engineers to make their lives easier, to deliver a 5x or even a 10x productive software engineer.”
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Cora AI Platform Now Open: Join the Waitlist Today
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If you want to try Cora, sign up on the waitlist below. We’re onboarding new people every day and prioritizing Every paid subscribers—if you want to jump the waitlist, make sure you subscribe if you haven’t already: https://
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New Email Client Built With Cursor and o1 Reaches 10k Signups
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We built a totally new email client with almost 10,000 signups in less than 3 months.
— Dan Shipper 📧 (@danshipper) 15 janvier 2025
Here's an inside look at how we did it, with Cursor, o1, and o1 Pro: pic.twitter.com/UPSrXZeCjeWe built a totally new email client with almost 10,000 signups in less than 3 months. Here's an inside look at how we did it, with Cursor, o1, and o1 Pro:
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Cora: AI-Powered Email Client Built in 3 Months
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Building an email client used to take many years and millions of dollars.
— Dan Shipper 📧 (@danshipper) 15 janvier 2025
But @Every’s @KieranKlaassen built Cora—a totally new way to manage your inbox with AI—in just 3 months. He even shipped the original MVP of the product in a single day—something that just wasn’t possible… pic.twitter.com/9qmlOvCv5KBuilding an email client used to take many years and millions of dollars. But @Every
’s @KieranKlaassen built Cora—a totally new way to manage your inbox with AI—in just 3 months. He even shipped the original MVP of the product in a single day—something that just wasn’t possible -
AI Networking Opportunity at Davos World Economic Forum
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I'll be in Davos next week as part of the Unicorn program at the World Economic Forum Let's meet if you're interested in leveraging/building/discussing AI!
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Unpredictability at Early Stage: Why Planning Has Limits
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no matter how well you plan you can literally never predict anything. You can promote an experiment to a company later if it works and if you’re sure. All assurance at the 0-1 stage is a lie. Nobody knows
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Protecting Innovation: Small Teams Need Freedom from Billion-Dollar Pressure
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you can always promote an experiment to a company if it works but putting the pressure of being a billion dollar whatever on a tiny team trying to try something new is not good and that’s how we kill innovation. Sometimes the things that work are random
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Startups as Experiments: Reclaiming Innovation Through Risk-Taking
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the difference between a startup and a company is that a startup is supposed to be an experiment that may or may not work. It gave people the freedom to try new things without too much worry of failure. Somewhere, we lost that and people stopped trying new things to avoid
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Startup Wins Tech Innovation and AI Product Awards
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Kicking off 2025 with exciting news! We’re finalists in @theCUBE
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Next agentic role: empowering startup workforce with AI agents
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agents will help empower smaller startups to do more EAs are a great first step toward this "agent workforce" whats the next role to be made agentic?
