Founding Engineer's Journey: From Startup Risks to AI Innovation
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Books
- "O'Reilly Rust Book" - Mentioned as a resource for learning Rust, with the team reading it daily to understand the language better.
Videos & Documentaries
- Not explicitly mentioned.
Research & Studies
- Not explicitly mentioned.
Tools & Software
- Rust - Programming language chosen for performance and speed of development in the Warp terminal.
- TypeScript - Initial programming language used for the Warp terminal before it was scrapped.
- Git - Version control system learned during a Facebook internship.
- Google OCR - Open-source library used for optical character recognition.
- Bluetooth protocol - Technology used for a receipt splitting app during a Facebook internship.
- Kafka - Messaging queue system used for data pipelines at Robinhood.
- Cloud Code - AI coding tool used within an IDE.
- Vim - Text editor used by an engineer who also utilizes Cloud Code.
- Cursor - IDE that integrates AI coding tools.
Articles & Papers
- Not explicitly mentioned.
People Mentioned
- Michelle Lim - Founding software engineer at Asar and Warp, now founder at Flint.
- Zach - Founder of Warp, former principal engineer at Google and former CTO at Time Magazine.
- Alok - Another founding engineer at Warp.
- Nathan Sobel - Inventor of the Adam editor, started Zett, and had significant Rust experience.
- Mark Zuckerberg - CEO of Meta, whom the podcast guest met during a Facebook internship.
Organizations & Institutions
- Asar - Previous company where Michelle Lim was a founding software engineer.
- Warp - AI startup co-founded by Michelle Lim (initially named Denver).
- Flint - Michelle Lim's current startup building autonomous websites.
- Meta - Company where the guest interned.
- Slack - Company where the guest interned.
- Robinhood - Company where the guest interned.
- Nuuo - Autonomous vehicle company where Michelle Lim's co-founder ran teams.
- Cognition - Mentioned in relation to their "Dents" pages and comparison pages with Cursor.
- Google - Mentioned in relation to Zach's previous role as a principal engineer.
- Time Magazine - Mentioned in relation to Zach's former role as CTO.
- IBM - Mentioned as an enterprise client of Slack.
- Disney - Mentioned as an enterprise client of Slack.
- Bloomberg - Mentioned as a partner selling news to Robinhood.
- Airbnb - Mentioned as a company where Linear's founders experienced hypergrowth.
- Coinbase - Mentioned as a company where Linear's founders experienced hypergrowth.
- Uber - Mentioned as a company where Linear's founders experienced hypergrowth.
- Google Wallet - Mentioned in a comparison of development time for payment methods.
- Google Pay - Mentioned in a comparison of development time for payment methods.
- Ramp - Company that uses Linear.
- Clay - Company that uses Linear.
- OpenAI - Mentioned as a safe alternative to joining early-stage startups.
Courses & Educational Resources
- Facebook University - Program for underrepresented individuals new to computer science, involving a two-week bootcamp.
Websites & Online Resources
- Hacker News - Platform where the guest wrote blog posts and answered questions for Warp.
- Twitter - Platform where the guest created and wrote tweets for Warp's company account.
- YouTube - Platform where the guest started a company channel for Warp.
- Discord - Platform where the guest started a company channel for Warp.
- GitHub - Platform where feedback was filed for Warp.
- Statsig.com/pragmatic - Website for Statsig, a platform for feature flags, analytics, and experiments.
- Linear.app/pragmatic - Website for Linear, a project management tool for high-growth teams.
Other Resources
- The Pragmatic Engineer Deep Dives - Mentioned as a resource for lessons from being a founding engineer.
- Autonomous vehicles - Used as an analogy for autonomous websites.
- Agent-to-agent protocol - A new protocol being built by Flint for agent interaction.
- Agentic web - A concept where agents interact with each other instead of relying on traditional search engines.
- Sack2 reports - Compliance reports mentioned in the context of enterprise sales.