Surya Dantuluri

I've always been pathologically impatient with the latency between a good idea and a working application.

The applications themselves were almost trivial. At 17 I fine-tuned GPT-2 to power blogs with 12M+ views. At 19 I ran MEV strategies and left school. At 21 I shipped the #1 ChatGPT plugin to a million users. At 22, with backing from OpenAI, I saw that same friction firsthand, inside the Pentagon.

Each was just an exercise in closing that gap. Each proved the same thing: the bottleneck isn't the quality of the idea; it's the soul-crushing friction of translating it into operational reality.

After you run that experiment enough times, you realize building these one-off solutions is a profound waste of time. The necessary work isn't to build another application. It's to industrialize the very process of creation.

The cost of code is collapsing to zero. The entire value of the next decade will be captured by mastering the craft of turning raw code into intelligent, operational systems.

That is the work I am doing now. Building the software foundry.

fan of ⛷️ mountain sports, 🏠 house music, 🥽 spatial devices, types 187 wpm

born in Cupertino, lived in NYC, now in San Francisco

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