Evergreen status: Playing long-term games with long-term people.

Token usage on subscription vs credits. Again, I'm glad subscriptions exist. Pay-as-you-go credits seems so much more expensive. Tonight: On ChatGPT $200/mo plan, doing a bit of personal coding this evening. A few threads going with Astra. nothing hectic. Glanced at my weekly limit: 0%, what? Oh wow – I'd hit my weekly limit, and it switched over to using credits: 35,000 credits in past ~day (it would cost $1,400 to buy back 35,000 credits). I hit "reset" (one of my three resets available) to reset my weekly limit, and return to using my subscription. ~3 hours later, I'm down to 59% of my weekly limit again. 🫠 So just now, I've switched all Codex threads from 6-Astra-med to 6.1-Sol-med. I have Claude supervising Codex tonight (Codex is doing the work, Opus 5.5 is adversarial and advising). I just asked Claude to keep an eye on token use (e.g., retire long threads, start afresh). Similar story last May: it took work to run down my $200 usage, so I bought $200 of credits to keep going. "Aaaaaand they're gone!" in a fraction of the time. I'm not even mad - this time when I run out of codex resets, I'll happily be upgrading to the $500 plan. Clankers are cranking out some good shit in fairness.

Bummer I won’t be in town, but RTing because others should Carpe Greg!

Pocahontas introduced me to the ancient Greek philosopher Heraclitus, when she sang, "You can't step in the same river twice; the water's always changing, always flowinggggg…" Well, you can't wake up to the same Stripe twice. The code is always changing, PRs closing… Stripe is constantly evolving. We want to have continuous deployment of our api. We want to be able to react to feedback from users multiple times per day. Obviously AI is making us even faster at shipping (new features products)… but what about reliability? "Everyone in the industry looks to Stripe as the company that sets the bar for reliability", says @bcherny (creator of Claude Code). Today, Stripe boasts 99.9995% uptime for core APIs. The good news is: it's now possible to build new observability, new harnesses, and new kinds of automated scrutiny. @PatrickC says he reckons "AI, on net, will make Stripe quite a bit more reliable." 😮 The full interview, with gems like "shower thoughts get translated to actual existence; I think the returns to being curious have gotten much higher" and predictions for when agent↔agent transactions will be the majority of online payments, is on youtube.com/watch?v=S_lzYIvt…

"What's it like to work at Stripe?" I attempted to answer this with a "show, don't tell". Instead of giving a presentation, I quickly flipped through browser tabs (mainly from that day). It seems these comments resonated: "Demos > Memos" → get out of GDocs, start building! "Prototype as source of truth" (@miles_matthias phrase). @joewalnes' evergreen reminder: get something in front of users quickly, then iterate fast. How Stripe feels more like a small, fast-moving startup than a big, lumbering company. Yes, we love a shared Slack channel with users. We hop on calls to deeply understand our users. We expect fast turnaround times from each other. Ideas can come from anywhere or anyone. Similarly with constructive feedback; we can all highlight even tiny friction, to raise the bar. Use your own product, again and again. ("Moriarty charged a new hire $5 that day to prove Tap to Pay on iPhone works, and kept the money" 🤣 )

Oh fun feature from @snipd_app - speed up speakers by different amounts! In your podcasts, who would you speed up most/least?

I’m a big fan of my Meta Ray-Bans as an ambient podcast/music player (great sound quality). Ears are open. I’m approachable and able to chat comfortably. But there still is sometimes awkwardness if folks recognize them as camera glasses and don’t know for sure that they’re not recording (or about to record). I’ll probably buy these:

This AI-generated office looks cool!

That @dreamer acquisition, eh?

Interesting!

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Thanks for coming! (Godkey is a great name. Lmk if you’ve any Stripe questions as you keep building.)

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