Tom Blomfield (@t

Tom Blomfield

5,400 posts

Tom Blomfield

@t_blom

Partner at @ycombinator Cofounded @gocardless and @monzo

San Francisco

Joined December 2011

Tom Blomfield
@t_blom
Dec 29, 2024
The problem with Europe is that they’re unironically proud of this shit.
European Commission
@EU_Commission
Dec 28, 2024
It’s time for THE charger. Today, the USB-C becomes officially the common standard for charging electronic devices in the EU. It means better-charging technology, reduced e-waste, and less fuss to find the chargers you need. #DigitalEU
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Tom Blomfield
@t_blom
Mar 30, 2025
Software engineers are highly-paid farmers, tending their crops by hand. We just invented the combine harvester. The world is going have a lot more food and a lot fewer farmers in very short order.
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Tom Blomfield
@t_blom
Mar 2, 2025
It's shocking to see how badly the big tech companies are fumbling AI.
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Tom Blomfield
@t_blom
Apr 12, 2019
Hey @askhalifaxbank 👋 It's great to see your updated brand identity, but it looks like you forgot to update couple of things. The card in the photo still displays the @monzo BIN (5355 22) and the name of one of our staff members... 😉
Tom Blomfield
@t_blom
Feb 20, 2025
Grok 3 feels like talking with an adult. Claude is still lobotimized.
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Tom Blomfield
@t_blom
May 1, 2025
Season 7 of Silicon Valley
Roy
@im_roy_lee
May 1, 2025
im hiring 50 interns in san francisco for @trycluely. $50/hr. + founding engineers cluely .com/careers
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Tom Blomfield
@t_blom
Nov 15, 2024
An uncomfortable truth: a small minority of people are dramatically smarter and more effective than average. Most folks have never seen these people operate first-hand. It's both awe-inspiring and humbling. These people aren't always particularly "relatable" or "electable", so
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Tom Blomfield
@t_blom
Oct 22, 2025
I try to talk to Gen Z like they’re adults but they say lowkey in every other sentence and it makes me crazy.
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Tom Blomfield
@t_blom
Feb 21, 2025
I worry that "AI is going to make doctors/lawyers/whatever more effective" is just cope. It's only true over a 1-3 year time horizon. AI is going to steamroll all knowledge work in the next 10 years.
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Tom Blomfield
@t_blom
Oct 11, 2024
Why doesn’t the UK have more startups? Capital is fixed, technical talent is world class, tax incentives are great, visas mostly fine, university IP problems seem like they’re getting fixed. Free healthcare and social security net in the UK is a huge advantage that should make
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Tom Blomfield
@t_blom
Mar 10, 2025
Cursor blew my mind for about 3 days. Then it started getting confused as my codebase got larger. I switched to Windsurf 20 mins ago. It handled the larger codebase easily. Since they're both VS Code forks, the learning curve was zero. These tools are amazing but they have zero
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Tom Blomfield
@t_blom
Mar 5, 2025
Before very long, we’re going to be able to give an LLM the login details to a complex SaaS application and the AI will clone it end-to-end. Plus import your data for free. My bet is that this happens in under 12 months.
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Tom Blomfield
@t_blom
Oct 12, 2025
Hearing from a lot of good founders that AI tools are writing most of their code now. Software engineers orchestrate the AI. They are also finding it extremely hard to hire because most experienced engineers have their heads in the sand and refuse to learn the latest tools.
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Tom Blomfield
@t_blom
May 15, 2025
Imagine if Elon had just stuck with building rockets and self-driving cars and humanoid robots and brain implants. Top 5 human of all time. Instead he had to go and buy a social network and fuck everything up.
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