Engineers will do anything to avoid learning from history
First we reinvented statistics. Then finance. Now we're reinventing program management and calling it agentic orchestration.
5 min read#1 on Hacker News, August 2026 ↗
David Horn
Founder of Corners: build apps on your company's data. Share them like docs.
Led the Brex Intelligent AF* launch. Launched the Twitch Creator Dashboard. Launched DisneyLife, the precursor to Disney+.
Previously Head of AI at Brex · 2 US patents
At Tech Week in San Francisco Oct 5–11 and Los Angeles Oct 12–18. Let's meet: david@horn.gg
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Corners
Build apps on your company's data. Share them like docs.
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Universal Social Clicks
A satirical incremental game about social media economics. Click, automate, question everything.
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d8a.me
A localhost tunnel. Expose a local port on a d8a.me URL.