Personal update: I'm taking a leave of absence from YC to join Anthropic. I'll be working with @NotTomBrown on the compute team.

Powerful AI has the potential to improve the life of every human on earth and, as we enter the early stages of recursive self-improvement, availability of compute becomes one of the most important issues to solve.

I'm excited to get started 🚀

Honestly, has this ever worked?

Big consultancies are responsible for some of the most egregious tech delivery failures in modern times.

I'm so fed up that we can't build good public-service apps.

https://twitter.com/charliehrysmith/status/1494023615616008193

I've repeatedly been tempted to go and offer to help build stuff like this myself.

But then I remember the ridiculous government bureaucracy and decide to preserve my sanity.

Companies like Deloitte are awesome at navigation bureaucracy, managing competing stakeholders and winning complex bid processes.

It's a shame they totally suck at actually building stuff people love to use.