This July I Was Fired from Simple AI (A Deeply YC Company)
26 Jul 2026 5 min read This July I Was Fired From Simple AI (a deeply YC company) happy Sunday!idk the right term to use. parted ways? happily diverged? supportively forcibly exited? discovered values misalignment?
- ▪26 Jul 2026 5 min read This July I Was Fired From Simple AI (a deeply YC company) happy Sunday!idk the right term to use. parted ways? happily diverged? supportively forcibly exited? discovered values misalignment?
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| Original publisher | Andy's Blog |
| Canonical URL | https://andys.blog/this-july-i-was-fired-from-simple-ai/ |
| Publication time | Sun, 26 Jul 2026 16:14:46 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-07-26T16:28:11.704Z |
| Last seen | 2026-07-26T16:28:11.704Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
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| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
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26 Jul 2026 5 min read This July I Was Fired From Simple AI (a deeply YC company) happy Sunday!idk the right term to use. parted ways? happily diverged? supportively forcibly exited? discovered values misalignment? 3 weeks then slack access was deleted in the middle of my working at 6pm on a Tuesday? abrupt but no biggie."fired" doesn't quite capture the beauty and fun in it. welcome input from Zach or company on the right word. hahaha – he was my manager for the 3 weeks i was on the team.
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