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acossta

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About acossta

Co-founder & CEO at BrainGrid.ai | Ex-product lead @ Twilio

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    I’d missed that. Thank you! https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x9z8no4

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    Ask HN: What happened to the movie "Pirates of the Silicon Valley"

    It seems that it disappeared from the internet. As if there was an active effort to take it down. Anyone know what happened?

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    Comment #46970830

    We dogfood our own product to build itself. The post walks through the actual workflow: a one-liner becomes a structured spec with acceptance criteria, the spec becomes implementat…

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    Show HN: BrainGrid – The AI Product Planner: Structure Your Ideas for AI

    Hi HN, I’m Nico, one of the co-founders of BrainGrid. We built this after spending the last year building software almost entirely with AI coding tools like Claude Code and Cursor.…

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    Comment #46859102

    Crazy it's only been a year since Karpathy coined the term.

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    Comment #46470543

    Built this out of frustration. AI can write your code, but it doesn't know your brand. We added /brand.json and /brand.txt to our website - structured files that define how we soun…

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    Comment #46356891

    I ran into a recurring problem when working with LLMs and coding agents: it is surprisingly hard to consistently communicate a product’s brand. When we rebranded BrainGrid, I wante…

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    Comment #46207217

    Author here . I grew increasingly frustrated by the mess coding agents made with the design system, so I took a crack at creating a tighter structure with AI agent instructions in …

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    Comment #45340348

    Another one https://discuss.ai.google.dev/t/urgent-huge-cost-increase-fo...

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    Comment #45340334

    Some more reports https://discuss.ai.google.dev/t/sudden-increase-in-charges-o...

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    Comment #45339823

    We are getting hit with exactly the same at a much greater scale. 260K in our case. Exactly the same issue. When you create Gemini Flash Cache with a TTL of 1 or 3 hrs, it creates …

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    Show HN: Captan – Open-Source Cap Table Management CLI

    I built Captan ( https://github.com/acossta/captan ), a tiny open-source CLI tool for managing startup cap tables. Instead of juggling spreadsheets or paying for expensive SaaS cap…

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    Comment #45070043

    Interesting deep dive into how Adobe built a streaming ingestion layer on top of Apache Iceberg to handle massive volumes of Experience Platform data, addressing challenges like th…

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    Comment #45053469

    The Eclipse Foundation just opened up its Theia AI platform and an alpha Theia IDE that let you bolt the LLM of your choice into your workflow and actually see what it’s doing. You…

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