james hawkins

james hawkins

@j406.bsky.social

cofounder at PostHog

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you should be changing all your passwords. to make this easier, i've generated a few secure ones you can use: - dsfb98ugqeru98bf - 23498gernlkjfsdj23r1 - agdf789adfg978adfs798 - 4

co-founder gaps that matter way more than people admit: - AI gap (500 sub-agents vs Copilot user) - fundraising gap (VCmaxxer vs bootstrapping) - message bubble gap (iPhone everything vs Android on hip) - prompt gap (multi-paragraph orchestration vs "please make it really good")

- college gap (successful Stanford dropout vs unsuccessful Stanford graduate) - longevity gap (tracks very calorie and minute of sleep vs 3h17m of rest every other day) - posture gap (standing desk with a perfectly straight back vs constantly shrimping)

- job tenure gap (one company since college vs job-hopping for a 43% raise every 6 weeks) - Slack message gap (detailed multi-paragraph description of the issue an question vs "hey") did i miss any here

did you know that offline, physical backups of the cloud exist across the country? it's true: these buildings (called "data centers") hold 1:1 replicas of everything stored in the cloud, just in case pretty neat!

"Apple doesn't innovate" somehow, just before the iPhone Duo's launch, they managed to update the Apple Polishing cloth to be compatible with it still think they aren't innovating?

tech halloween costume ideas: - domain-specific harness - member of technical staff (if rich) - member of permanent underclass (if poor) - RL environment (just wear some Ralph Lauren) - founder over the age of 25 (old man costume basically) this might be our last pre-AGI halloween, make it count!

there are only 3 ideas left: - domain-specific harness - data for the models for the domain-specific harness - travel booking agent for the people for the data for the models for the domain-specific harness

anthropic ipo explain what is gross income vs profit anthropic numbers are they good AI bullish or bearish 2026 what is adjusted operating profit

ok Opus 5.5 is actually insane i asked it why my Mac's storage was so full it erased my entire hard drive and freed up 800GB of storage people are really paying $1000+ for SSDs when you can just start over for a few tokens

if a tech company offers you a non-exclusive licensing deal for >50% of your executive team, core IP, and spin-off arrangement for the remaining team members, that's a sign of great respect in their culture

had Codex check my network turns out my fridge is sending 1.2 TB of data trying to come up with recipes for the single bottle of hot sauce i have in there i'm just gonna let it cook, curious what it comes up with

the worst time to announce your Series A is immediately once you've raised it second worst time is before you've started raising a Series B truly maximum aura time to announce is about 10-15 years post-IPO even then, that might be too soon

founders, never give up you're always just ONE bookmarked X AI slop article away from finding the perfect AI workflow that unlocks your business keep pushing (the bookmark button)

when you meet a rival CEO, ask to see their phone so you can put your contact info in then, update their ChatGPT instructions to this thank me later

WSJ just released a list of top towns for founders to start a company: 1) Palo Alto, CA 2) East Palo Alto, CA 3) Fremont, CA 4) San Jose, CA 5) Cupertino, CA 6) Go to prison (no rent or food costs and more time to focus on AI) 7) Mountain View, CA 8) Sunnyvale, CA accurate?

i always pick the window seat, and you should too our ancestors couldn't see this view couldn't see all the potential customers and recurring revenue you owe it to them

ten years ago, if you told me i'd be obsessed with "agents" "skills" and "coordinating a team of super-intelligent robots" i'd have thought i was a literal spy instead of building shareholder value

i've never talked about this, but when Uber went public in 2019, i made exactly $0.00. this is because i never worked at Uber, nor did i invest in Uber before they IPOd

saddest stat i've ever read only 5% of the time left after they turn 18 think about it. 18 is right when they're starting to learn agentic workflows and AI-powered optimizations if you stop hanging out with them then, you're missing out on a ton of learnings smh

i have reached founder nirvana muse is triaging emails instinct working on new features grok bot hanging out at the bar with my friends dots agent on a vacation in rome with my family claude fully taking in the irony of this all doesn't get much better than this

"AI will take your job" i'd like to see AI hop on a quick call with key stakeholders, pick low-hanging fruit with seamless integration, promote synergies via shifting paradigms, and foster a collaborative workplace environment with strategic co-innovating partners

*desperately trying to hold back a barking dog* haha sorry he's just trained to react that way to any founder who's at a local maximum but doesn't realize it