Tom Preston-Werner

@mojombo

Inventor. Investing @PWVentures. Formerly: GitHub cofounder. Board @HackClub @Ona_hq @MoteHydrogen. Also: Gravatar, Jekyll, SemVer, TOML, RedwoodJS.

United States

tom.preston-werner.com

Joined April 2007

Tom Preston-Werner
@mojombo
Jun 12
Ona (formerly Gitpod) is joining @OpenAI, bringing their secure cloud execution and async agent orchestration tech to further enhance Codex! Five years ago, I sent @jolandgraf a DM on Twitter after seeing how rad Gitpod was for spinning up cloud development environments. It
Johannes Landgraf
@jolandgraf
Jun 11
Article
Ona is joining OpenAI
I always thought selling the company would feel like an ending. Instead, our life's work is getting bigger and more important. Today, we are announcing that @ona_hq has entered into an agreement to...
Tom Preston-Werner
@mojombo
Jun 2
I got a new MacBook Pro recently and the trackpad is being weird: When I two-finger scroll, stop, then release my fingers to scroll again, the content I'm scrolling will occasionally jump (like a phantom scroll input). Sometimes a little, sometimes a lot. Never once had this
Tom Preston-Werner
@mojombo
May 30
It turns out that if you fix tool calling and add a taste layer on top of open models, you can get really good performance for very low cost. @CommandCodeAI is how you do it. Save money. Code more. I predict we'll all be using open models before long.
Ahmad Awais
@MrAhmadAwais
May 30
BIG day for us!! @CommandCodeAI has crossed $1M in annual run rate, 1 trillion tokens of usage, with over 9K customers, just 24 days after our public beta launch. we believe this makes it the fastest-growing coding agent harness for open models. 3rd largest by usage. Command
Tom Preston-Werner
@mojombo
May 28
I turned 47 years old yesterday, so it's time for my traditional reverse birthday present! This year, I'm sending 47 teenagers to Shenzhen, China (the electronics capital of the world) to build hardware at Hack Club's Fallout, our flagship electronics hackathon! Fallout is a
Tom Preston-Werner
@mojombo
May 6
My friends and I got tired of saying "agentic coding" all the time so now we just say "genting". As in, "sorry, I can't come to your party, I'm going to be genting all night." We started saying it ironically, because it sounds ridiculous, but now it just feels normal. LOL