tqbf leaves Fly.io as Simon Willison calls tech's year '100 years at once'
mhmazur · x · 2026-09-26
Cryptography engineer Thomas Ptacek (tqbf) announced he is parting ways with Fly.io to start a new venture with Kurt. Simon Willison amplified the news alongside his own take: the past year in tech felt like "100 years happening at once," with every AI limit collapsing within a month — and today's frontier-model work becoming instantaneous and free within a few years.
More from AGI Musings
- Comment: China leads the AI video revolution while the West argued about AI art — TinfoilTricorn · 2026-11-11
- Sayash Kapoor, Rishi Bommasani and Arvind Narayanan launch AI nonprofit STABL — random_walker · 2026-11-11
- Yacine: Stop reading what labs publish, think from first principles — yacineMTB · 2026-11-11
- "Skipping your 401k over fantasy x-risks means you're innumerate" — inductionheads · 2026-11-11
- Beff Jeffzos: data centers face nuclear-power-style stigma from decel mind virus — beffjezos · 2026-11-11
- Founders quit profitable YC startup, went salary-less for 2 years to warn on AI risk — jeremiecharris · 2026-11-11