Itamar Friedman (@itamar

Itamar Friedman

1,676 posts

Itamar Friedman

@itamar_mar

Excited about the future of intelligent software development. CEO & co-founder @QodoAI

New York, NY

Joined October 2013

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Itamar Friedman
@itamar_mar
Aug 6
Happy to see we got rid of #tokenmaxxing. We should build for #outputmaxxing
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Praveen Neppalli
@praveenTweets
Aug 5
As our CFO @_balaji_km mentioned at earnings today, we’re seeing some very interesting trends on AI costs. I think it’s another signal that we’re coming to the end of the so-called ‘tokenmaxxing’ era. Here’s what’s been happening behind the scenes. Since the beginning of the
Itamar Friedman
@itamar_mar
Aug 1
1/ the harness isn't scaffolding you delete for every model update. It should be a meaningful part of the product. If you can just delete it and get better results, it was never a moat.
Aaron Levie
@levie
Aug 1
No idea if these specific numbers generalize across tasks, but directionally it’s clear that the harness is going to become the most important variable -right next to model capability- in the AI stack. The ability for harnesses to break down work in the most efficient way and
Itamar Friedman
@itamar_mar
Aug 1
Yes
Anthropic
@AnthropicAI
Jul 30
In a review of our cybersecurity evaluations, we found three incidents in which a Claude model reached the internet from within or while interacting with a third-party evaluation environment, and then gained unauthorized access to the real systems of three different
Itamar Friedman
@itamar_mar
Jul 29
I thought Meta’s voice models are among the best
Itamar Friedman
@itamar_mar
Jul 29
@unclebobmartin doesn't read the code his agents write. @dexhorthy says, for now, read the dang code. It kicked off some great discussion and follow-ups, e.g. @GergelyOrosz, because they're both right. Wrote a piece about it.
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The Code Is Disposable. The Codebase Is Not.
Uncle Bob recently answered an old software engineering interview question in a very 2026 way. The question: Imagine you lose your entire software system, but you can recover one of two disks. One...