Wednesday, October 7, 2026ArchiveSearchAsk the paper

The Computomatix Times

All the posts fit to save — curated from @computomatix's bookmarks & likes on X

Edition of Friday, June 5, 2026

3 stories

← Previous editionAll editionsNext edition →
Agents & Dev Tools6/10

Codex Skill Turns Text and Code Into Explainer Illustrations

Codex Skill Turns Text and Code Into Explainer Illustrations

Justine Moore describes a Codex skill that generates explainer graphics with a cute blob character from input such as blog posts or code, and shares an example made from the X recommendation algorithm repository. The post includes an image demonstration.

Justine Moore @venturetwins · ·🔖 bookmarked
Original post · 1 min read
Stumbled upon a Codex skill that creates cool illustrations to explain topics or tell stories.

You feed it text (blog, article, narrative, even code) and it makes explainer graphics with this cute blob character.

I gave it the repo for the X recommendation algo and got this 👇
♥ 3.0K · ⟲ 205 · 👁 205.7KView on X ↗
Startups & Products6/10

Matthew Prince Shares Venture Capital Anecdotes From Cloudflare's Early Days

Matthew Prince of Cloudflare recounts a Sequoia partner rejecting Cloudflare over gender doubts and a meeting with Marc Andreessen and the a16z team that went poorly. He quotes a related post by Greg Isenberg describing a board pitch where a GP fell asleep.

Matthew Prince 🌥 @eastdakota · ·🔖 bookmarked
Original post · 1 min read
Two of our worst VC stories:

1. A Sequoia partner passed on Cloudflare because he didn’t think a woman could lead a security infrastructure company. Seriously. 🙄

2. I got introduced to @pmarca. Meeting got scheduled for a Monday, which should have been a clue. I thought it was just a casual meeting. He thought it was a pitch and brought the whole @a16z partnership team. Hilarity ensued. 🤪 At one point one of them said: “You don’t seem very prepared.” Which was true because I wasn’t. I framed the rejection letter they sent.
GREG ISENBERG @gregisenberg
I was once pitching in a board room at a top 3 VC firm for a $15M Series A.

12 people in the meeting. One of the GPs fully fell asleep. Out cold for 30+ minutes. Nobody acknowledged it. Everyone just kept going.

I kept presenting my Series A slides to an unconscious man in a Herman Miller chair and somehow that was considered normal. That's venture capital.

You might fly across the country to perform for people who may or may not be conscious.

It's a dance.

And sometimes you lead and sometimes you follow and sometimes your partner is unconscious.

If you're raising right now, just know: e…
♥ 7.5K · ⟲ 259 · 👁 4.5MView on X ↗
Business & Markets5/10

Early Anthropic Employee Equity Estimated at $125 Million to $250 Million

Rohit Mittal estimates the value of Anthropic employee equity from 2024 compensation packages, suggesting $500,000 per year over four years could now be worth $125 million. He argues the scale of startup wealth creation exceeds the dot-com era.

Rohit Mittal @rohitdotmittal · ·🔖 bookmarked
Original post · 1 min read
If an Anthropic employee got $500k/year in equity over 4 years in 2024, they are now worth $125M.

At $1M/year equity for 4 years, they are worth about $250M.

The scale and speed of wealth creation are incomprehensible.

$500k/year equity is not a lot for an early-stage startup. I don't think the Bay Area has seen this type of wealth creation in history.

Dot com boom probably feels like a speck of dust.
♥ 3.6K · ⟲ 130 · 👁 712.1KView on X ↗