Lena Hall✓

New generation of ladies who are gossiping about distributed systems, FP, pragmatic architecture, chaos engineering and fast data analytics.

things that are underrated: 1. bootstrapped profitable founders

some recent patterns I’m seeing talking to founders and business owners - founders open sourcing their products - startups pivoting from b2b saas to hardware, biotech, or media/marketplaces - more extreme polarity of optimism and doomerism

When anyone can build anything, how do you make something people actually choose? At AGNTCon I talked about why building something great is only half the job. My favorite part is always the conversations afterward. Grateful I got to share the stage with @techgirl1908 and @sarah_edo. One of the things I talked about is public signal. What people actually understand and remember about your product. We have so much content now, but how much of it actually helps people understand what we’re building? AI summarizes and remixes your content, leaves out important details, or exaggerates small things until customers start hearing promises you never made. And somehow, genuinely different products end up sounding exactly the same. So if your product isn’t converting, maybe you don’t need more content or better distribution. Maybe you need to understand what people are actually hearing about your product, and whether that’s what you intended. This is one of my favorite problems to help teams solve, so let’s chat!

POV: rehearsal before a big keynote #agents #agents #agents

RT @lenadroid: Come with me to AGNTCon! 🤍 Excited to see you there ✨

everyone is building RL environments for agents who’s building the ones that force humans to stop thinking like mid-level engineers and actually generate novel ideas? we need RL playgrounds for adults to stretch novelty and creativity

novelty search, for humans you throw away the traditional goal metric and exclusively reward the agent for doing something that has never been done in the archive before

Ok, finally got to try Gemini Argon It’s so FAST

False alarm, OpenAI employees can relax. The spy girlfriends have new targets.

NEW: The Tesla Roadster *literally* does a flying kickflip over the entire Tesla fleet 🔥🔥🔥

AGNTCon by @AgenticAIFdn next week! San Jose / SF Come say hi I’m keynoting!

Or in her eye ✨

My favorite kind of person is the curious nerd with a sparkle in his eye.

The last moat is you. Not speed, not distribution. Anyone can build anything now. The only thing that can’t be copied is how much you care about something, what you choose to make, and what makes you you. So what do you want to make?

Distribution is not a moat. Execution is not a moat. Brand is not a moat.

Unboxing my new Surface Ultra! 😍 NVIDIA RTX Spark N1X chip 6,144 GPU cores 20 CPU cores 64 GB unified memory 1 TB SSD Nightfall color @Microsoft @msdev @nvidia @NVIDIARTXSpark @reelful

Delightful, excited for this! @MilksandMatcha and @vivianmshen did some magic ✨

WTF is a SOTA Wife? SOTA Wives is a podcast exploring the unfiltered side of Silicon Valley. We built it as an antidote to the performative polish of tech Twitter. Brought to you by @MilksandMatcha x @vivianmshen. Episode 1 goes live on Monday, 12th October at 9 AM PT on everywhere you get your podcasts 💙

Just look at this beauty What’s the word for if?

I will just leave this here 💚 Jensen said that software engineering has already changed - engineers are either building AI and improving models, or using AI to build things. That means the notion of what a personal computer provides needs to change. Builders will use local models, cloud agents, and hybrid, without even thinking about the complexity behind it. Some of the big announcements: 💚 Surface Laptop Ultra: A new NVIDIA-powered laptop capable of running 120B+ parameter AI models locally. 💚 NVIDIA RTX Spark PCs: A new generation of Windows laptops and compact desktops designed for personal AI agents. 💚 Surface RTX Spark Dev Box: A dedicated desktop machine for local AI development. 💚 NVIDIA DGX Station for Windows: A deskside supercomputer designed to run models as large as 1 trillion parameters. 💚 Microsoft Execution Containers: Secure, OS-level infrastructure for agents that operate continuously on your computer.