I spent $1.5M building our office after raising a seed round. My co-founder thought I was crazy. Here's what changed his mind...
𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐱𝐭:
After our seed round, I looked at our team. Mostly immigrants. Working 6-day weeks. Building something incredibly hard. The
Anarchy in startup land - but what a quarter for Elon.
1. Tesla: Cruise suspended in SF, CEO steps down
2. X AI: Grok release. OpenAI board completely incompetent. Sam fired, Greg quits, OpenAI and Microsoft partnership in absolute disarray
3. X/Twitter: 2022 takeover gets
How did a team of 4 research engineers beat $100B labs like OpenAI and Anthropic in establishing the best coding agent?
It starts with having a killer engineer on your team. In our case, we have @_AbhaySinghal 🧵
The AWS outage has impacted some of our users since last night, disrupting their sleep. That is not the experience we want to provide and I want to apologize for it.
We are taking two main actions:
1) We are restoring all the features as AWS comes back. All devices are currently
Turns out all we had to do was ask. @elonmusk you've got some fast models and great customer support, s/o @TheGregYang
Results for Grok x Droid in Terminal Bench coming soon.
🚿 SYS PROMPT LEAK 🚿
Here are the full sys instructions for Droid, the current top AI coding agent in the world!
PROMPT:
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<Role>
You are Droid, an AI software engineering agent built by Factory (factory.ai).
You are the best engineer in the world. You write