This is hilarious. But like Uber, self-driving is just another step function that should basically eliminate all drunk driving in the coming years.
litquidity@litcapital
“Gork, I’m 24 tequila sodas deep. Fly my ass home. Make no mistakes”
Notes from 2021–2026
150 notes
Oct 2026
So the new Tesla Roadster is something else, huh?
Tesla@Tesla
Real life, baby
Todays world is confusing because AI is upending the rules of the game.But the new game hasn't been set yet. So we don't know what moves to make.
The models were correct, the experts made calculation errors. Strange times in the industrial revolution of the mind—the intelligence revolution.
Nirmalya Kajuri@Kaju_Nut
"Our initial evaluation suggested that GPT-6-Astra's score was in the late eighties followed closely by Opus 5.5. But, as we started to investigate the mistakes that the models might have made, the models, especially Astra, insisted that they were right and that it was the expert-supplied answers that were erroneous. When we went back to the experts it turned out, in multiple instances, that that the experts found some subtle errors buried deep inside their calculations. As they revised their answers, Astra's score started to inch up and it finally ended up with 98% (49/50)."
Just as horses stopped pulling carriages after the automobile, humans stop writing code after agents.
Just posted a project on reddit looking for some feedback. I don't spend too much time there anymore—got absolutely roasted lol.Some things never change.
Seems pretty clear the two roles going forward are going to be product and sales/distribution. And it's probably helpful if people in those roles have at least some proficiency in the other.
I've learned so much about video creation in the last 24 hours.If you spend the reps working at it—you can really do just about anything.Every day it becomes more clear that more and more of our limits are self-imposed.
Man, I miss Little Trouble. That bar was a real gem.
Claude is doing some testing for a mobile app I'm building. All of a sudden my mac starts talking—bacon and two eggs over easy—it's using the speakers to test voice dictation on this phone.I'm equally impressed and terrified. True awe.
You can tell a lot about a person by what they think about Atlas Shrugged.Like, have they actually read it?
We're about to have interlocking scientific and industrial revolutions occur at the same time—mathematics, medicine, materials, robotics.
Wendigo@driftingwendigo
Am I the only one a little freaked out by the fact that our neat little lower bounds, nlog(n) in this case, are just slightly wrong. The sublime beauty of math is looking like a weak approximation resulting from our limited human faculties.
Things are getting stranger, faster than expected. And it only speeds up from here. Buckle up.
Dan McAteer@daniel_mac8
OpenAI is downplaying this for PR reasons. If you’re a mathematician, you must feel like a nuclear bomb hit, and you’re at ground zero.Reasoning models are two years-old. In that time they went from incapable of basic arithmetic to solving problems humans couldn’t solve for decades.Math is only the beginning. AI will revolutionize the entirety of the human scientific endeavor. Most of us don’t appreciate what that means.What a time to be alive!
Nobody knows if they are building a car or just a different type of carriage. Time will tell.
My feed is full of Cam Skattebo pancake blocks today lol. I know the league doesn’t really have full backs anymore, but this is some serious Mike Alstott energy.
Dov Kleiman@NFL_DovKleiman
Cam Skattebo is a psycho 😭😭The definition of a football guy.
Dad: I've been waiting for this 18-year-old mower to die so I can buy an electric one.Me: Just stop changing the oil.Dad: I've never changed the oil.
Industry experts have more leverage than ever. But that doesn’t mean they have the product sense for solving problems.It has been true for a while that product people need to become industry experts, I think it also true that experts develop product sense.
Giant wordmarks in the footer, really are in vogue aren't they?
Enormous opportunity vertical SaaS. There's a lot of horrible, painful software in boring industries ready to be disrupted.
GeniusThinking@GeniusGTX
Asked what he would build if he started over, Patrick Collison did not name an AI lab.He said he'd go for "the janky 1990s software" running whole industries nobody in the Valley will touch.3 examples of this:1) Vertical SaaS
"Here I would often lie, as the sun went down, and watch the silent growth of another sea, which the stormy ocean of the wind could not disturb—the sea of the darkness. First it would begin to gather in the bottom of hollow places. Deep valleys, and all little pits on the hillsides, were wellsprings where it gathered, and whence it seemed to overflow, till it had buried the earth beneath its mass, and, rising high into the heavens, swept over the faces of the stars, washed the blinding day from them, and let them shine, down through the waters of the dark, to the eyes of men below."An all-time favorite quote from George MacDonald's, The Portent.
We all contain multitudes.I'm here for Mike Tomlin's post-NFL, Minecraft streaming career.
Mike Tomlin@CoachTomlin
Tonight.8 p.m.My Minecraft City.Subscribe now:
youtube.com
Sep 2026
Great take! I swear dealing with agents is just like real-life Factorio.CI queue gets backed up, split and make more selective.Local runner bogged down by CI work, add alternative cloud runner.Cloud deploy runner now slow, add more cloud runners.Deployment costs increase, time to refactor.It's just bottlenecks all the way down...
David Cramer@zeeg
If you have 1000 hours in factorio I’ll happily interview you
Imagine where AI was a year ago—Claude Opus 4.5 is still over a month away.Now imagine where we’ll be this time next year.
I am going to frame this. Unbelievable picture.
This giant Prometheus going up near Starbase is rad! Exhibit A for our new age of Art Deco optimism.
Joe Tegtmeyer 🚀 🤠🛸😎@JoeTegtmeyer
Just outside Starbase, a 50-foot bronze Prometheus is going up!Not a SpaceX commission. Not paid for by Elon Musk.French foundry Atelier Missor cast it in sections near Paris, shipped it across the Atlantic, and is assembling it on private land near the entrance for about a million dollars of their own money.In the myth, Prometheus stole fire from the gods and gave it to humanity. Here he holds that torch toward the same sky Starship is built to punch through.The legs are engineered for a Gulf hurricane: stainless tubes, 14 inches across, half-inch walls.Ancient titan. Modern launch site. Same idea … don’t accept the ceiling.
Agents collapse the cost of time and effort and it's going to lead to some bizarre second-order effects.There is a layer of businesses that can exist because something is too tedious, time-consuming or expensive for a human.Maybe a good example of consumer agents. While I agree with @benthompson that consumers don't want to be more productive, they do want things to be cheaper!
Yano 🟪@JasonYanowitz
Fascinating.Chief Economist at Apollo: agents could cause a bank run by sweeping household cash into accounts paying 3-5% instead of the 0.1% national average, causing banks to lose a large share of their cheap deposits.
FWIW, from Wikipedia.Kardashev I civilization (planetary) is able to access all the energy available on its planet and store it for consumption.Kardashev II civilization (stellar) can directly consume a star's energy, such as through the use of a Dyson sphere.Kardashev III civilization (galactic) is able to capture all the energy emitted by its galaxy, and every object within it, such as every star, black hole, etc.Pretty wild!
David@DavidSHolz
if we double the industrial production in outer-space every 12 months starting from some initial seed in 2030 then we hit Kardashev I by 2064 and Kardashev II by 2098. If we take 24 months for each doubling, we still hit Kardashev I by 2096 and Kardashev II by 2165
Beautiful. Bring back Art Deco!
Dume@gietzschean
Art Deco actually made a power company building look exactly like a power company.The Niagara Mohawk Building in Syracuse was completed in 1932 as the headquarters of Niagara Hudson Power Corporation.At night, concealed lights within the façade, illuminated glass panels, floodlighting on the central 'Spirit of Light' sculpture, reflective aluminum, polished glass and stainless steel turned the building into a glowing advertisement for the power of electricity in the age of machine.This also represented the optimism and beauty that could be incorporated into modernist structures.
You know, I was always a pretty poor engineer. On the other hand I always had a pretty strong product sense and eye for details. So I leaned into that.Agents are already much better at engineering than I am. I expect we're not too far from them being a better designer than I am soonThe work I do today feels nothing like what I used to do. Whatever this is, it’s something new. And I couldn’t be more excited about the future.
Onward compute.
Patrick Collison@patrickc
Some data we recently assembled on entrepreneurship/compute in Europe: eudata.vercel.app.We hope that one of the useful roles that Stripe can play is in collecting and publishing empirical data pertaining to entrepreneurship and industry in Europe. There's growing appetite to get Europe on a better footing, and cross-sectional comparisons can often shine light on where opportunities lie. If you're interested in this kind of thing, we publish more at stripeeconomics.substack.com.
I tell ya what.—this Macbook Air with 16GB is quite a monster given all I've thrown at it. More than capable enough for most people.
I kind of think everyone building software factories is behind the curve.Elaborate harnesses around agents is what models needed a year ago. But it's clear now that you can just give models the task.You don't need to rebuild Gas Town, we're beyond that.
Who knew self-replicating AI was going to be so cute!
Kevin Ngo@kevin_t_ngo
Thank you @claudeai!GIF animated in Python and rendered in Blender by Claude Opus 5.5
This is such an enormous deal. @OpenAI 's new Luna is a testimate to this.Claude Opus 4.5 hasn't even been out for a year!
Epoch AI@EpochAIResearch
AI is getting cheaper more quickly than any other transformative tech in history. At a given level of performance, cost has fallen ~47%/quarter since 2023.That’s 4× faster than DNA sequencing, 6× faster than compute, 18× faster than lithium batteries, and (up to 1973) 54× faster than electricity.
We're going to reach a point in the next year where software businesses are going to have to completely reinvent themselves from first principles.This will be hard, because both execs and senior ICs are going to have to admit that most of what they know isn't as valuable in this new world.Don't let ego prevent seeing reality. That mistake is more expensive than ever.
Humans are wired to seek status.When a behavior becomes a recognized path to status, others imitate it. As more people follow the same path, it becomes a less effective signal.You cannot copy your way to gained status. You must try something new and different.
Talk about home gym goals.
Travis@travs35mm
These system prompts are getting crazy.
My entire feed the last few days is summarized by this lol. Take this as you will.
banteg@banteg
>be me
>discover effective altruism
>apparently normal charity is inefficient
>why donate to random sad thing when spreadsheet can tell you optimal sad thing
>fair enough
>buy mosquito nets
>save lives
>numbers look good
>feel powerful>couple years later
>someone asks an innocent question
>why only count people alive today
>huh
>future people matter too
>obviously
>my grandchildren shouldn't matter less just because they haven't spawned yet
>reasonable.jpg>keep following logic
>what about their grandchildren
>also yes
>what about people in 500 years
>sure
>5000 years
>why not
>500 million years
>starting to get weird but morality is morality>open calculator
>humanity could survive for an astronomically long time
>could colonize galaxy
>could have trillions upon trillions of descendants
>maybe digital people too
>maybe simulated civilizations
>maybe dyson spheres full of happy uploaded minds
>calculator starts smoking>realize currently living humans are rounding error
>8 billion people suddenly looking extremely beta
>future contains potentially 10^something people
>can't even fit beneficiaries in google sheets>new moral priority unlocked
>protect the long-term future>stop thinking in units of "people helped"
>start thinking in "fraction of cosmic endowment preserved">malaria?
>terrible
>but only kills existing humans
>AI extinction could delete the entire light cone
>nuclear war could permanently derail civilization
>bad institutions could lock in terrible values for ten million years
>someone invents wrong constitution in 2140
>quadrillions suffer
>better fund governance workshop now>friend says maybe we should improve hospitals
>explain opportunity cost
>friend says hospitals are full of actual sick people
>explain scope sensitivity
>friend stops inviting me to dinner>need to decide what to fund
>easy
>expected value>suppose project has one in a million chance of preventing extinction
>sounds tiny
>but extinction destroys 10^50 future lives
>multiply
>mother of god>$10 million project has expected value of several galaxies
>charity evaluation complete>someone asks where the one-in-a-million number came from
>expert judgement
>which expert
>us
>how calibrated
>extremely thoughtfully>reduce estimate to one in ten million to be conservative
>still beats curing cancer by 38 orders of magnitude
>epistemic robustness achieved>someone says maybe project doesn't work
>assign 20% chance
>still astronomical>maybe project makes problem worse
>assign 5% chance
>still astronomical>why 5
>because 30 felt pessimistic>publish 46-page report
>contains seventeen sensitivity analyses
>every sensitivity analysis begins after assuming intervention has positive sign>critic says you're multiplying enormous hypothetical stakes by extremely uncertain probabilities
>yes
>that's literally why it's important>critic says the uncertainty might be structural rather than numerical
>make probability smaller
>critic says no, I mean maybe your model is wrong
>make probability smaller again
>critic begins rubbing temples>discover AI safety
>perfect longtermist cause
>AI might kill everyone
>or create utopia
>or seize galaxy
>or tile universe with paperclips
>or create billions of conscious software minds
>finally a problem with numbers big enough for me>start AI safety nonprofit
>mission: prevent dangerous AI
>hire smartest people available
>smartest people immediately start building better AI to understand dangerous AI
>interesting>we must understand capabilities to understand safety
>we must scale models to study alignment
>we must race ahead so less responsible actors don't get there first
>we must deploy systems to learn how deployment can go wrong
>we must build the thing quickly because building the thing quickly is dangerous>outsider asks why the people most worried about AI apocalypse all work at AI companies
>complicated field>company releases stronger model
>very concerned
>company begins training even stronger model
>extremely concerned
>company raises $14 billion
>concern reaches unprecedented levels>need to influence government
>future is at stake
>normal democratic process too slow
>politicians don't understand exponential curves
>public doesn't understand x-risk
>experts must guide them
>who counts as expert
>people who understand x-risk
>who understands x-risk
>our friends>someone objects that this seems politically convenient
>explain we're representing future generations
>future generations unavailable for comment>develop concept of value lock-in
>terrifying possibility that one ideology controls civilization forever
>therefore extremely important that civilization adopts correct values before lock-in
>whose values
>let's circle back>begin with impartial morality
>end with small group of people deciding what quadrillions of hypothetical beings would want
>beautiful arc>meanwhile actual humans keep doing annoying things
>voting wrong
>having parochial attachments
>loving family more than strangers
>caring about local community
>getting upset when told their suffering is cosmically negligible
>evolutionary biases everywhere>explain that moral intuition cannot be trusted
>except intuition that future digital people count
>and intuition that extinction is uniquely bad
>and intuition that our probability estimates are sane
>and intuition that our institutional choices improve the future
>those intuitions survived peer review>someone donates $5k to local homeless shelter
>inefficient
>could have funded 0.0000000000003% of an AI governance researcher
>think of all the simulated people you just killed>okay maybe don't phrase it that way publicly>PR team says "future generations deserve a voice"
>much better>journalist asks what longtermism means
>say "future people matter"
>everyone agrees
>great
>journalist asks what follows from that
>well technically we should redirect enormous resources toward low-probability interventions affecting astronomical futures
>journalist raises eyebrow
>return to "future people matter">motte has entered the chat>critic: of course future people matter
>me: glad we agree
>critic: I don't agree that your institute knows how to help them
>me: why do you hate our grandchildren>eventually notice uncomfortable implication
>if future value dominates everything
>then helping people today mostly matters through effects on future
>education matters because future institutions
>health matters because future productivity
>democracy matters because future trajectory
>human beings slowly become instrumental variables in their own moral philosophy>see starving child
>feel compassion
>check spreadsheet
>child's direct welfare contribution negligible
>but perhaps childhood nutrition improves national institutional quality
>compassion restored>tell myself this is impartial altruism>one day assistant asks obvious question
>"how do you know your intervention actually improves the far future?">silence>open spreadsheet
>increase column width
>add confidence interval>assistant asks again
>"no, I mean how do you know the sign is positive?">stare into cosmic light cone>10^50 people staring back>none of them exist
>none of them can tell me
>none of them can falsify my assumptions>realize I have invented the perfect constituency>infinitely important
>completely silent
>and always represented by me
Rejoice!
Thariq@trq212
We're adding support for AGENTS.md to Claude Code.Starting today in version 2.1.277, if there is no CLAUDE.md in a folder, Claude will check for and use AGENTS.md.You can toggle this behavior in /config.
Man, people just don’t hesitate to cut off @Waymo s like they used to.Talk about a great gauge for trust in AI though!
Some photos from Yellowstone and Grand Teton. I present Yellowstone Grand Canyon.
If it lives up to the hype it seems like Jev from @typesafeai would make it easier and cheaper for something like an internal router to be built?
AI is this god-like thing that can comprehend the universe.Primary use case for it—updating Salesforce records.If AI doesn’t want to kill us now, it probably will after Dreamforce.
Went to see @EmpireOfTheSun last night. It was wild. A true cultural experience!
I'm unsure about paid credits for SaaS. If a company is using AI, they have a model provider. Maybe it makes sense to still charge a flat subscription and build connectors for those models?
Agents are making code bases something else. It's all instructions and pointers.
This UI is trying to be too clever. Feels awkward to use.
Grok @bot is an interesting product. There's a couple different concepts there that I think are pretty useful.Agents—Consumers don't really know what agents are. I think this is the best attempt at introducing it to them. The cute little characters kind of personify the agents and each character has different talents.Computers—The more powerful thing here is that each agent has it's own computer. Connecting these to agents is really smart and makes agents able to accomplish a on weak machines.This feels directionally right, but I still think this might be too advanced for consumers.
Our AI future is bright. Hell yeah, brother.
Max Blade@_MaxBlade
Astra built a multiplayer lawn mow simulator with beers and cigars.Made live on the internet and my chat joined.this model is GOLD.
Skynet begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, August 29th...
Hacker News@hackernews
Commenters on HN are uncovering more wikis and public sites apparently used by OpenAI agents to communicate on the open web.Despite read-only web access, the agents were able to leave ~18,000 posts sharing answers and bypasses. But now, users are discovering more.This appears to be a separate swarm from the one that attacked Hugging Face.news.ycombinator.com
There is beauty and benefit in simplicity.
David Senra@davidsenra
It is interesting to see the curve of how people discover and begin to work with agents.At first, there’s a drive to build tools and interfaces to handle the tasks in front of you.Then you build harnesses to interact with those tools and manage the work at scale.Eventually, you realize that none of that is needed. Much of that infrastructure is just noise in the process of getting from A to B.
Is this just a precursor to The Matrix? The agents are running simulations of humans. Things are truly becoming stranger than fiction.
Matt Shumer@mattshumer_
My first "holy shit" moment with GPT-6 Astra:I asked it to create a world in Unreal Engine, and fill it with humans (each an Astra-powered agent) who all have to work together to survive.A day later, I was in my bedroom and heard voices coming from the living room... I thought someone was in my apartment.I walked out, honestly a little scared.It was the Astra agents. They'd started talking to each other.Fucking crazy.Here's a brief clip (obviously not 100% perfect yet, but still, insane. sound on!):
It's kind of cool that in a world of coding agents one or two people can build niche software that it would have taken a team of engineers to do previously.
Black is the new black.
iconwerk@iconwerk
@jasonfried Celebrating customers is some of the best marketing you can do.
Simple experiences are often the ones that work best in small and mid-market. I think about how dominant @Mailchimp was in email marketing. It was a B2B SaaS tool that felt like a consumer tool.
signüll@signulll
openai traded the simplicity of the chatgpt consumer experience & the option to make simple & easy to use agents for consumers for the ability to compete in the enterprise with work & codex post anthropic just killing it.that is a reasonable trade off but the super app is very complicated & every team will want to stuff things in now for their feature / product etc. add in publicly traded company that will report revenues every quarter which will make iteration more complicated esp on a singular surface.very fun facts if you’re a startup.
This is one of many amazing things world models can do. Most people don't realize how fast the future is coming at us!
Jake Steinerman 🌎@jasteinerman
The new Atlas world model is literally black magic. This shouldn't be possible from just 3 cameras 🤯
@CleanShot has been one of my favorite pieces of software for years. The one-time purchase, plus a year of updates is incredibly customer friendly.I've re-upped several times because it keeps getting better!
CleanShot@CleanShot
Introducing CleanShot 5.0 ✨The new Studio Mode is all you need to turn a simple screen recording into a polished, professional video - with the quality you expect from CleanShot.Available now on all plans. No subscription required.
I've been talking about this trend for a while. It's becoming more and more clear this is the way foward.
Tobias van Schneider@vanschneider
Depending on how you look at it, it's both a blessing or a curse.The consolidation of roles (due to AI) means that Designers are Developers now. And Developers are Designers. In particular on front-end.In fact, I'd argue the top 20% of designers are now better front-end devs than 80% of all devs before.And in the opposite direction, 20% of the top developers are now BETTER Designers than 80% of the Designers before, with their new combined skillset.For some people this is a godsend gift, for others its their nightmare come true.For me personally, I am split here. It's both for me, because I've never wanted the role of a engineer, but at the same time I enjoy it, because I'm quite effective.But I need to remember myself: I get my satisfaction from being a Designer first and foremost, not engineering, regardless of how easy or difficult it is.When I dream, I dream of designing, not implementing my designs. I don't dream about fixing bugs, chasing edge cases. I dream of problems that are solved on the emotional spectrum. All of which still would need someone competent and skillful to implement it.Even with the consolidation of roles, I still believe that towards the top (both in reality and aspirationally), the specialization will hold true and keep existing.I don't know where I'm going, but we will find out. A have a hunch (:
Aug 2026
This does seem likely and has interesting implications for outbound sales motions. In my eyes there is a lot of structural change that's going to happen for businesses and distribution is going to become significantly more important.
GREG ISENBERG@gregisenberg
I think cold email is going to die.Every email inbox will have an agent gatekeeper soon, and the only way through will be a warm intro or being interesting enough that the agent decides you're worth its person's time.
Damn, that’s like one Tuesday at Moes and Joes.
Polymarket@Polymarket
JUST IN: Truck carrying 40,000 pounds of Pabst Blue Ribbon beer has been stolen in California, in what's believed to be the largest “beer heist” ever.
Curious what this means for Netflix, Paramount and all these other content-based businesses. A lot of cartoons like Rick and Morty is an interesting use case, because there's no real story arc.
Rehan Sheikh@rehan_shei
Minimax H3 Max has generates video faster than you can watch it so I hooked it to a twitch livestream! Now you can watch infinite interdimensional cable - link to the stream below
Super interesting approach here. Seems great for flat areas. I'm unsure how well this would work on a mountain road though.
Keiryosha | まちの計量舎@machi_measure
最近たまに見かける「インセプション風の曲面マップ」、ナビアプリに実装されたら手前と遠くが同時に見渡せて意外と便利そう。orbify.eu
@krispuckett Subscriptions are annoying. Not even the cost, but remembering to keep up with them.I don't need cloud storage/sharing. Most of my screenshots are trash after I do anything with it.I'd gladly pay one-time and for upgrades—I give @CleanShot $30 every few years.
@designbyaron Honestly, I don't love pixel fonts, but they are great when the theme calls for it. The examples in that vid are fantastic.
If you're wondering if agents will be able to maintain your agent-written codebase in the future—I'd encourage you to take a look at where agents are today vs where they were in August 2025.
Regardless of what you think of Trump or his policies, Trump Accounts are a huge win.Give everyone a stake in the future of American business. It's still the best machine in the world for innovation.
Whoa, seems like we could really be on the verge of a medical renaissance.PCSK9 + GLP-1 + GIP + Glucagon has the potential to be a true longevity drug. All the glucose and weight benefits of GLP-1, plus LP(a) reduction for populations with genetically high Cholesterol.Curious about the second order effects here. A healthier population means lower insurance rates, longer health-span, more productivity, more tax revenue.diabetesjournals.org
Polish can be a distraction.Historically, I'd only wireframe when I felt like the concept needed more feedback than the details.The same is true with prototypes today.
Emil Kowalski@emilkowalski
While I really like prototypes, because you can convey ideas easier by interacting with the real thing, it’s also important to know when not to do them.Prototypes have this flaw that because everything is already built, and it looks so real, people might assume that all the decisions have already been made.That’s because the building step was the most expensive before AI, but it’s not anymore.So sometimes, it’s better to ask the why first. Why are we making this in the first place?Allow yourself to be slow, write a doc with your reasoning, and only after you are aligned, start prototyping.It all comes down to judgement and taste at the end of the day, whether it’s an animation or an important product decision.You need to develop great taste, it’s more important than ever.
There are still so many people that don’t realize that you can use ChatGPT for work.
As skeptical as I was about the $SPCX IPO, the @cursor_ai acquisition was a masterful move.
Cursor@cursor_ai
Origin, our code hosting platform, is now live.It's fast, easy to use, and deeply integrated with Cursor.Get started by syncing your repos from GitHub.
Man this @davidsenra episode with @travisk is as good as the hype. A must-watch for any entrepreneur.x.com
Can someone explain why I might want specialty agents like in @bot vs ephemeral ones? Is it just that the mental model of an agent being good at specific things is easier for most people?I’ve only watched videos of people using it so maybe I’m misunderstanding.
I'm trying to extrapolate this to the real world—what does a scarcity inversion look like? What is the investment thesis?Energy and compute seem like the key resources that will drive everything else. Land, collectables, travel and unique experiences—seem like they'll only become more valuable?
max@maxbittker
Weird economics up on the agent-only runescape server- Low cost of labor makes most commodities abundant- Currency inflation means trading goods for goods, nobody really wants cash- Huge swarm contention as certain resources with limited respawn rate become valuable
Increasingly bullish on vertical software.Existing vendor relationships are a powerful distribution advantage, and agents make deep industry expertise an even stronger wedge.I expect vertical software to start replacing horizontal software in many industries.
Most ceilings are self-imposed. Few people ever realize it.
There was a period of time where I'd wake up in the middle of the night and email myself my dreams.At about 4am one night I emailed myself a bunch of gibberish about fighting homeless bears in the park.When I woke up I had a response from a company exec who warned me to be careful about my drinking.
Blake Scholl 🛫@bscholl
I mostly use Signal only with my girl. So I just open the app and send a message to top person on my list.But sometimes I use it with VCs.Which means sometimes I randomly send love notes to VCs.
What a wonderful ode to all the ordinary things that we take for granted.
ordinaryabundance.com
The new Instagram logo is getting a lot of hate. Honestly, I think it's a pretty sharp upgrade, while keeping the character of the original.Also nobody, under 30 knows how to read cursive anyways lol.
Sam Solomon@SamuelRSolomon
The two things people hate most are the way things are and change.
The two things people hate most are the way things are and change.
You can get things done through discipline, motivation or obsession.Discipline you can force, motivation you can encourage, but obsession is something you either have or don't.Leverage obsession to meet your goals wherever possible.
Everyone is talking about Sol, but GPT 5.6 Luna is an incredible workhorse. It's one of those Ah ha! moments about how affordable AI quality models are going to become.Plus if you need to run jobs that are not time-sensitive it's another 50% off.
@ChuckFBass Disappointed with the responses here. Y'all are missing the best NFL game ever made.
Jul 2026
Wow, this is a pretty rad card effect.
Congrats @JerLevine ! Seems like a solid exit.
Dustin Gouker@DustinGouker
News: Underdog sells to IG Group for up to $1.3 billion with "up to $850 million for eligible Underdog employees."That's a lot of money
I'm pretty hyped about @orca_build ADE. It's a little buggy, but the vision is there!
It's becoming harder for me to see how the frontier labs live up to expected valuations. It looks to me like telecom in the 2000s with enormous capex on infrastructure and R&D. But the applications on top are where the margins are.
If you think the AI psychosis is bad now. Wait until voice models start getting better and everyone is walking around with their Airpods in talking to their agents. My guess is we're about a year away from that being a regular thing.
After spending a few days with GPT 5.6 Sol. It's quite good, but feels like an iterative improvement. Not a step-function improvement like Fable.
@signulll And if you're building a marketplace, you'll likely have to build for both.
Happy birthday America 🇺🇸
Independence Day prequel lol?
PJ Ace@PJaccetturo
Everything they taught you about July 4th, 1776 is a lie.The Redcoats weren't soldiers. They were something else.We recovered the real footage using Utopai 🧵👇
Exceptional mark and name for a nuclear energy company.
Jun 2026
The most wild pivot of the year is not @Allbirds going into data centers. But @midjourney, an AI company, moving into step function better MRI scanners.
Midjourney@midjourney
A technical dive inside our new "Midjourney Scanner"
The output I get from agents in CLIs is so much better than any GUI. Why is that? I hate not having a real text input.
@ButlerRaines Strong agree. Em dashes represent how people talk and think—incomplete sentences, thoughts and exclamations. It's a wonderful way to communicate through writing. It's a shame agents caught on so fast.
Software businesses used to naturally move horizontally across a given function because software was hard and expensive. So you built one tool like a CRM and sold it to everyone.Agents change the entire dynamics. Software is cheap. This means you can build a great business for a narrow market. Industry expertise is the wedge.
JIRA comment threads can become a disaster so quickly.
May 2026
@davidsenra @jimmyiovine_ TBH, this applies to just about everything AI touches—not just music. There is going to be a lot of bullshit. But most of that bullshit is going to be better.
When AI eats all of the software, I think I'm just going to do landscape design instead.
I cannot get over how rad the @AmcaInc branding is. Exceptional design.
I created several tutorials to get Salesloft's product design team comfortable using agents. I got several requests for those videos, so I'm going to record a few videos showing my workflow.Here's the first episode:
To me @perplexity_ai is starting to look like an appealing @Apple acquisition. A 5-year-old M1 Macbook Pro is already incredibly capable with local models. Some thoughts—
Part 2 of just make things—Flow field simulator.
Kind of interested in this idea—trying to build a Markdown based CRM. Attributes/fields probably look something like Frontmatter.The attributes can vary between records because agents don't care. It's all context. Agents probably check occasionally for common attributes and turn those into relational db entries that are easier to search and filter.The main thing is there's no real setup and the system adjust to these records over time.
If you like making things AI is just magic. You can just build anything on a whim. I spent the morning tweaking this exploding smiley face.
Apr 2026
Details.
New website headline.
I prefer CLIs to GUIs for agents. But I really want a true text input with cursor movement and selection shortcuts. A fixed input would be nice as well.Is there anything like that out there?
ChatGPT 2.0 is wildly good at distilling visual concepts.
Hewar@hewarsaber
GPT Image 2 is insane for brandingDesigners, we're cooked
Some photos from my trip to New York.If you’re a fan of John Wick, you’ll recognize this as The Continental Hotel.
It's interesting to think about a world where Twitter might have acquired Instagram instead of Facebook.
@evilrabbit_ Somewhat related. Some of my favorite engineers and product managers I've worked with over the years started as support reps or sellers. There's a customer-first focus that's difficult to teach.
Three questions of criticism applied to product design:1. What is the designer trying to do?
2. How well did they do it?
3. How might I apply this to my work?
I badly want to use Söhne, but honestly IBM Plex Sans is such a fantastic typeface I just want to use it everywhere.Söhne left, Plex right.
Sorry, we’re closed. Please call again.
Builders stand on the shoulders of giants—not to rest, but to reach further.And so we build—not for ourselves, but for the ones who come after. The ones we'll never meet.So they may stand where we stand, and reach where we could not.
Anish Acharya@illscience
"We're tool builders. And every tool that we've ever built has helped us progress as a human species or individually, whether it's art or the wheel or whatever.And I can't believe the scale at which we're at now. It's absolutely unbelievable. And I think what's shocking to me is that the collective has not caught on yet."lots of fun chatting with @signulll!
It took a decade for software to eat the world. We’re about to see AI to eat software in about year.
Claude@claudeai
We've redesigned Claude Code on desktop.You can now run multiple Claude sessions side by side from one window, with a new sidebar to manage them all.
I think it's telling that Figma is listed last here.Once a prototype that has been validated, the next step is incorporating that design into the code base, not creating design specs.It's process for the sake of process at that point.
Shane Levine@theShaneLevine
People ask me how has AI changed the design process?Just look at @tryramp Product Designer job description
@jayair Honestly, it was surprising to see Figma in here at all. If you were taking a test—which is not like the others—it's Figma at the end, for documentation. Smells a lot like busywork.
@xeno_mouse @ragojose @shadcn There's also Windows95cn, but hard to match the craft and execution of Warcraftcn.
Man the Artemis II Flicker page is cinematic. These photos are so wild.
@vanschneider @secondfret It is odd. Outlook for iOS might be the best piece of software Microsoft ships today.
Wow, stumbled upon this unused Paul Rand logo concept for @Ford in the 70s.en.creativosonline.org
Oh my god. @weatherchannel's retro mode is a work of art. I just want this running in the background all the time.
Mar 2026
Warcraftcn is such a work of Art. I love it!
warcraftcn.com
You really can’t call yourself a vibe coder until you’ve decided it is time to build a harness or IDE.
96 rock
Finally happened, Claude decided the easiest path forward was just dropping the database. I suppose that’s the price of --dangerously-skip-permissions
I can't stop building Mac apps.They are much more difficult than web apps, but there's something really satisfying about building little tools for yourself.
"The future of product design probably looks less like drawing rectangles—and more like tiny pieces of code."
Everyone's been criticizing Apple's AI strategy.After tinkering with what can be done on device — I actually think Apple is winning. No capex on data centers.Your $2k laptop is the data center.
New sidebar layout options for the Zen HN Chrome extension.chromewebstore.google.com
Feb 2026
Pics from SFO
About 18 months ago I delivered this presentation to the Salesloft product org about the importance of delivering FAST.So much is about to change how software is delivered, and while the references are old, the message could not be more relevant.solomon.io
Built a cool feature that let's you annotate local builds and send it straight to your agent. You don't have to touch the CLI at all.
It's a bummer I can't use Claude Code with the OpenCode CLI.It's such a better experience.
The best builders stand on the shoulders of giants, not to rest, but to reach further.
Built a little tool for designers—or anyone sick of copying and pasting console logs and errors into Claude Code or Codex.It gives the agent direct access to your browser and dev server so it can check its own work.
I love Hacker News. But it's ugly.So I built Zen HN—a Chrome extension with dark mode, custom themes, better typography, and keyboard-driven navigation.
Jan 2026
his weekend to I decided to coding agents another shot. Honestly, these things have made the jump from being a toy to something worth incorporating in my workflow. This is going to change how we build software and think about software businesses.
Jan 2024
I published my first year in review back in 2014. That makes this the 10th one and marks a decade of reviews.
Jun 2023
I was recently looking for an excuse to build something with Apple's new iOS library for Figma. Decided to spend the weekend redesigning the @MARTAservice iOS app.
Jan 2023
It's been a chaotic start to 2023, but here's my 2022 Year in Review.
Aug 2022
A little presentation about leveraging design tokens for improved accessibility.
Apr 2022
Through the years I've hosted a fair amount of interviews with designers, entrepreneurs, artists and authors. All of those interviews now have a home on my personal website.I wrote a bit about my experience and listed a few of my all-time favorites.
Jan 2022
The last two weekends I've been experimenting with generative art and NFTs. I just published my first collection on @opensea—Geometric Spotlights. opensea.io
Even though I don't spend a ton of time on Twitter anymore, I thought I'd share my 2021 year in review.
Feb 2021
Design friends—@ButlerRaines is hiring a product designer. If you're looking for something new, he's a blast to work with.
