Reflections from San Francisco

Notes and thoughts to the self:

• The bay was beautiful. I'll never forget the sun rising over the water during my morning runs, or the sun setting beside the Golden Gate Bridge with the sound of waves crashing on the shore.

• Nurture your constants: Our worlds are consumed by material possession and extrinsic motivators. It all could disappear tomorrow. Grounding yourself with nature, and with yourself, is paramount to any other task. Who are you if everything was taken away? Nurture your constants.

• The Vercel GTM team: People will often make remarks about Vercel's high bar for hiring. I was able to see that first-hand after meeting my cohort in person. They're all uniquely talented, in extremely impressive ways. The technical wit of the engineers in my cohort was stunning. We had some incredible conversations about the future of tech and software, among many other things. Grateful to be surrounded by such sharp people.

• The future is agentic -- and agents will democratize software. But we don't know exactly how this will manifest.

• The position of robotics in this revolution is underestimated.

• AI and productivity at scale: AI and agents have rapidly increased code output, but pushing that code to production is slow because of CI/CD processes that were built for the previous era. So, teams are seeing that production-grade output often hasn't kept pace with AI adoption. This is an interesting bottleneck that Vercel solved early.