About
Ian Littman has worked as a freelance software developer building systems for various clients and previously held a role at Covie during Y Combinator's S21 batch.
Ian Littman @iansltx
For the record, while I didn't use em-dashes pre-LLM (and you won't find me using them now), I *did* use "footgun" before Claude et al beat it to death. Occasionally "load-bearing" too.
Aug 2, 2026 Β· β₯ 1
Ian Littman @iansltx
Also, I don't ascribe to rhyme or reason Anthropic's fits and starts about Fable allowance inclusion, beyond the fact that they know full well that they'll lose $100/200 subs to OpenAI without Fable instead of capturing API revenue, and subs are actually positive net margin. 5/5
Aug 1, 2026
Ian Littman @iansltx
Which is why everyone is agog about DeepSeek's cache hit pricing on DSV4 Flash, which you could alternately measure as ~$1/GB of cache read. At normal LLM workloads with a high cache hit rate, you're basically only paying for output tokens. 4/5
Aug 1, 2026
Founder at CovieYC S21
Intro paths
Ian went through Y Combinator (Summer 2021) β any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
In turn, Ian can intro founders to Covie's investors below.
Covie's investors Β· 2
Co-founders at Covie
