Founder of @Basedash, AI-Native Business Intelligence YC S20 🍊
6 months ago, the internet buried MCP. Garry Tan tweeted "MCP sucks honestly." Pieter Levels called it useless. "MCP is dead, long live the CLI" hit the top of Hacker News. The hottest open-source ag…
In the nation of Shitlandia, it rained shit.
The Perplexity CTO announced at their developer conference this week that they're moving away from MCP internally. Garry Tan tweeted "MCP sucks honestly." Pieter Levels called it useless. The "MCP is …
Imagine you could travel back 50,000 years and explain to a group of cavemen what life would be like in 2026. You'd tell them that food is so abundant that the leading health crisis in wealthy nations…
For as long as software has existed, the user has been a person. Someone sitting at a desk, poking at a phone, or calling an API. That assumption was so obvious it was never really a design principle,…
Last year we hired a design agency to build our marketing site for @Basedash. They did an incredible job. The headline makes it sound like I'm dunking on them, but I'm not. The site was genuinely grea…
There's a popular narrative on X right now that AI can build software so quickly and cheaply that SaaS is dead (or will be soon).
After four long years of grinding, building, fundraising, and hiring, we decided to pivot. I wanted to write down my thought process and timeline because I wish I’d seen more honest pivot stories wh…
A couple years ago, I was obsessed with offline evals. They felt clean. You write a test, you run it every time you change something, and you get a number you can trust. If the number goes up, you shi…
