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Alex MacCaw
@maccaw
Fallible optimist. 👨🏻‍🎨 Building @reflectnotes 💰 Investing earlgrey.capital 🤓 Founded @clearbit
Austin, Texas
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    Alex MacCaw
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    Oct 2, 2025
    As a senior software engineer, I can tell you that we’ve crossed a threshold in the last six months with Gemini 2.5, GPT-5, and more recently, Sonnet 4.5. I don’t really code anymore. I prompt and supervise. I’m still needed, because the AI can drift into strange tangents. But
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    Alex MacCaw
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    Oct 11, 2022
    This is pretty mind-blowing: a podcast that is entirely generated by artificial intelligence where Joe Rogan interviews Steve Jobs. podcast.ai
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    Alex MacCaw
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    Jul 30, 2025
    You can now get on a flight, go fully offline, and chat to a GPT4 level model on your MacBook Air at 42 tokens a second. Insane.
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    Alex MacCaw
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    Jun 1, 2023
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    Alex MacCaw
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    Feb 2, 2024
    Always worth remembering.
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    Alex MacCaw
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    Apr 6, 2023
    The "SF is not that bad" narrative that is getting peddled just blows my mind. Go walk around the place - it's nuts.
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    Alex MacCaw
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    Aug 22, 2022
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    A comic book.
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    Alex MacCaw
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    Aug 22, 2022
    It's fascinating what's happening on the Midjourney Discord forums. Here's some highlights:
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    Alex MacCaw
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    Aug 2, 2020
    One shock to me in moving to New Zealand is there is no Amazon. My mind hadn't even considered that a possibility.
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    Alex MacCaw
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    Mar 22, 2024
    What I'd love is an E-Ink phone that can play Spotify, order an Uber, display basic Google Maps, but it's completely and utterly dull to use.
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    Alex MacCaw
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    Jun 28, 2023
    a16z's pivot from crypto to AI is truly a PR masterclass.
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    Alex MacCaw
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    Feb 3, 2021
    Hear me out... onlyfans, but for venture capitalists.
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    Alex MacCaw
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    Jul 25, 2025
    I suspect generalized reasoning was solved just a few weeks ago and it flew completely under the radar. HRM, a new arch, reportedly has SOTA results on ARC-AGI 1 & 2 benchmarks with only 27 million parameters and ~1k training examples.
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    Alex MacCaw
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    May 9, 2024
    Two weeks ago we released Reflect on Apple's App Store - it’s been a disaster. Initially, we used TestFlight to distribute our iOS app, which worked well and allowed us to quickly iterate and ship updates. However, there was a cap on the number of users we could have.
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