About
Nicholas Bergson-Shilcock is cofounder and CEO of the Recurse Center.
Nick Bergson-Shilcock @nicholasbs
I love programming with AI, but I can easily imagine resenting it. AI helps me spend more, not less, time designing and building things. As a CEO, most of my work isn't writing code, but with agents and some good dev infrastructure, I can now ship bug fixes and new features (and
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Nick Bergson-Shilcock @nicholasbs
The episode came out great, give it a listen: https://t.co/WcxRr9qCAF
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Nick Bergson-Shilcock @nicholasbs
The computer in the Apollo spacecraft had 4K of memory, which is about four LinkedIn posts. The computer I use today has 500,000 times more memory than my first computer, which is hard to wrap my head around. Every order of magnitude has a quality of its own. @RecurseCenter https://t.co/IyAygVqitz

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Founder at Recurse CenterYC S10
Intro paths
Nicholas went through Y Combinator (Summer 2010) β any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
In turn, Nicholas can intro founders to Recurse Center's investors below.
