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My overriding thought going into 2026:
Problems you thought were out of reach no longer are.
Pick a problem 100x harder than you thought possible to tackle alone, and run with it.
Start now. AI will catch up and make it possible.
Sam Willis
@samwillis
Building sync and streams @databricks & @neondatabase.
Prev co-founder @ElectricSQL.
Started PGlite.dev, co-creator of @tan_stack DB.
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