I used to roughneck in the oilfield, now I build AI for the energy industry. cofounder/ceo @collide_ai
Houston, TX
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I had the pleasure of writing for @a16z on the future of the American oil and gas industry.
This is one of the most critical problems to work on today.
I will share the link in the comments.
Let's build.
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Since Monday morning, I've gotten 90 Anthropic auto-reload receipts in my inbox as of 2pm today. About a third came in after 6pm or before 8am. The latest (earliest?) one was 4:28am.
@FracSlap said no usage limits this week so we can get our shit built... wait until you see what we cooked up π€πΌ
never in my life did I think I would see someone hyping up Pecos, Texas
Drove 1400 miles over the last two days to check out Pecos, TX.
I was 100% right about the potential there. You can just feel it in the air.
That town is going to absolutely explode over the next decade. So much activity and optimism and money flowing in.
Every single thing I see there tells me that itβs *the* place for a young person trying to get rich to go live right now.
Whether youβre doing real estate development or opening a barbershop or starting a restaurant or a bar or an insurance agency, Pecos needs *everything*.
This is sick.
Accelerate.
If you're a company worried about AI agents making mistakes, wait until I tell you about your human employees.
"Can't Claude just do that"
Everyone wants to deploy AI agents in oil and gas.
Almost nobody does the boring part first.
12,000 land and title docs. Scanned, handwritten, never linked.
We turned them into one graph:
- every well tied to its lease
- every lease tied to its tracts
- every answer traced back to the page it came from
The trick is you solve the data problem before the agent ever touches it.
Agents are easy. Trust is the hard part. xitter.cf/FracSlap/status/210611β¦
OpenAI picked off my founding AI engineer last month.
You would not believe how much street cred that has got us in the market.
I love when I hire a software engineer from the coast and I see them rocking a Big Oil hoodie in the office on day one.
We are hydrocarbon evangelists.
Collin McLelland π΄ββ οΈ retweeted
Energy folks in Houston: come have coffee and talk about what AI is actually doing in the field.
AI x Energy Coffee Social at Collide HQ, Thursday 10/22, 8-10 AM CT.
Breakfast tacos are on us.
RSVP: luma.com/collide-i8ja
Just saw a tesla drive itself with no human to the charger.
Then a human came up and plugged in its charger.
We really are just meat suits.
4 bodies have been found in the Houston bayous over the last two weeks.
The annual numbers are up 71% and speculation of a serial killer on the loose continues to increase.
If you want to learn about the financing of data centers, read this.
Chuck ran Kayne Anderson's $6.5B energy fund and draws a lot of parallels between oil and gas financing and data centers.
Spent 20 years watching banks lend against rock on a formula built for a different rock.
Now they're lending $60 billion against chips on a depreciation schedule built for a different chip.
I know how this movie ends. I was in it. Link below to new Old Man Coffee.
Hertha metals closed a $134 million series A to produce high-purity iron and get the United States back to being a domestic producer.
Houston is the future.
I owned some old shitty oil wells in Oklahoma that would produce significantly more energy in one day than the nuclear startups have combined cumatively.
My wells did 6 barrels a day btw lmao.
Good lesson for the energy tourists.
