David Shu

But interns have done that too. That happens. And then as you're writing the question for it, imagine I'm talking to a smart person who knows nothing about what I'm doing and they need some background. And that gets me really far with the current frontier models. And so that would be my general piece of advice that I think applies to any programming.

But interns have done that too. That happens. And then as you're writing the question for it, imagine I'm talking to a smart person who knows nothing about what I'm doing and they need some background. And that gets me really far with the current frontier models. And so that would be my general piece of advice that I think applies to any programming.

I think you're, I think you might be onto something with being nice to models. Uh, I caught myself being pretty curt with models a few months back. Uh, and, uh, you know, discussing this a lot, uh, with Josh, he mentioned, uh, You know, the conclusion we came to was, you know, one of the challenges of not being nice to models is it sort of trains you to not be nice to people. Yeah.

I think you're, I think you might be onto something with being nice to models. Uh, I caught myself being pretty curt with models a few months back. Uh, and, uh, you know, discussing this a lot, uh, with Josh, he mentioned, uh, You know, the conclusion we came to was, you know, one of the challenges of not being nice to models is it sort of trains you to not be nice to people. Yeah.

You're using all of the same tools. And so it might just be good for you to be nice to models.

You're using all of the same tools. And so it might just be good for you to be nice to models.

I mean, I think you're right. It doesn't help the computer. I say please and thank you to the models now so that I remember to say please and thank you to humans. That's it. It's purely, you know, I don't want to get into the habit of... You're training yourself. Exactly. It's all about training me. That's fair.

I mean, I think you're right. It doesn't help the computer. I say please and thank you to the models now so that I remember to say please and thank you to humans. That's it. It's purely, you know, I don't want to get into the habit of... You're training yourself. Exactly. It's all about training me. That's fair.

do you do for brex how does brex leverage retool and why have they stayed with you all these years so what's really interesting about brex is that they are a extremely operational heavy company and so for them the quality of the internal tools is so important because you can imagine they have to deal with fraud they have to deal with underwriting they have to deal with so many problems basically they have a giant team internally basically just using internal tools day in and day out so they have a very high bar for internal tools

do you do for brex how does brex leverage retool and why have they stayed with you all these years so what's really interesting about brex is that they are a extremely operational heavy company and so for them the quality of the internal tools is so important because you can imagine they have to deal with fraud they have to deal with underwriting they have to deal with so many problems basically they have a giant team internally basically just using internal tools day in and day out so they have a very high bar for internal tools

And when they first started, we were in the same YC batch, actually. We were both at Winter 17. And they were, yeah, I think maybe customer number five or something like that for us. I think DoorDash was a little bit before them, but they were pretty early.

And when they first started, we were in the same YC batch, actually. We were both at Winter 17. And they were, yeah, I think maybe customer number five or something like that for us. I think DoorDash was a little bit before them, but they were pretty early.

And the problem they had was they had so many internal tools they needed to go and build, but not enough time or engineers to go build all of them. And even if they did have the timer engineers, they wanted their engineers focused on building external facing software, because that is what would drive the business forward. The Brex mobile app, for example, is awesome.

And the problem they had was they had so many internal tools they needed to go and build, but not enough time or engineers to go build all of them. And even if they did have the timer engineers, they wanted their engineers focused on building external facing software, because that is what would drive the business forward. The Brex mobile app, for example, is awesome.

The Brex website, for example, is awesome. The Brex expense flow, all really, you know, really great external facing software. So they wanted their engineers focused on that as opposed to building internal CRUD UIs. And so that's why they came to us. And it was awesome. Honestly, a wonderful partnership. It has been for seven, eight years now.

The Brex website, for example, is awesome. The Brex expense flow, all really, you know, really great external facing software. So they wanted their engineers focused on that as opposed to building internal CRUD UIs. And so that's why they came to us. And it was awesome. Honestly, a wonderful partnership. It has been for seven, eight years now.

Today, I think Brex has probably around a thousand Retool apps they use in production. I want to say every week, which is awesome. And their whole business effectively runs now on Retool. And we are so, so privileged to be a part of their journey. And to me, I think what's really cool about all this is that we've managed to allow them to move so fast.

Today, I think Brex has probably around a thousand Retool apps they use in production. I want to say every week, which is awesome. And their whole business effectively runs now on Retool. And we are so, so privileged to be a part of their journey. And to me, I think what's really cool about all this is that we've managed to allow them to move so fast.

So whether it's launching new product lines, whether it's responding to customers faster, whatever it is, if they need an app for that, they can get an app for it in a day, which is a lot better than, you know, in six months or a year, for example, having to schlep through spreadsheets, et cetera. So I'm really, really proud of our partnership with Brex.

So whether it's launching new product lines, whether it's responding to customers faster, whatever it is, if they need an app for that, they can get an app for it in a day, which is a lot better than, you know, in six months or a year, for example, having to schlep through spreadsheets, et cetera. So I'm really, really proud of our partnership with Brex.