Friend : “the personal agent consumer space is Apple’s to lose. Products like Instinct are great right now, but Apple default knows all your contacts, who you text most frequently, which apps are on your phone, has your location at all times, and payments are integrated into the device, to say nothing of the obvious Apple Watch integrations. Nobody else comes close to this dep…
This is one of my favorite films I’ve made at OpenAI. I’ve loved the original Put That There film forever and it’s inspired a lot of the work I’ve done here. When I saw what Astra could do I knew what we had to do twitter.com/openai/status/209559…
if i were openai or anthropic, i’d absolutely flood the world with emotional optimistic ads about what ai can actually do for ordinary ppl. e.g. show the teacher who gets her evenings back. the scientist who finds something sooner. the small business owner who can suddenly do the work of a team. the kid who can learn anything. the disabled person who becomes more independent.…
Pretty excited about the new Mercury video ad. I know everyone is done with my voice on the previous ad :). twitter.com/mercury/status/20955…
Affirm co-founders, CEO Max Levchin and a16z's Alex Rampell, on 25 years inside payments, from PayPal to agentic commerce: Payments is the biggest market on earth. No niche in it is smaller than $100 billion, and the industry has barely moved in 60 years. Visa and Mastercard keep card transaction windows too tight to build anything new inside. Max still calls the plastic card…
R.F. Kuang has written seven books, won the Nebula Award for Best Novel, and trained at some of the world's top universities: Cambridge, Oxford, and Yale. Her wisdom-per-word ratio is also off the charts. Some highlights from our conversation: 1) Emotions are like colors. Mix them! Emotions are never one-dimensional. Bring together fear and courage, love and revulsion, joy…
In the early 1990s, the accounting firm RRBB owned four computers for a staff of around 30. They called them “lunch boxes”: 30-pound machines that auditors lugged through airports and into client offices. The New Jersey firm was founded more than 65 years ago and has adapted through each new wave of technological transformation, from writing tax returns on green ledger paper t…
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Now that launch videos are a fully saturated medium in terms of attention, you will see more and more companies shift back to long form magazine editorial to differentiate twitter.com/williambryk/status/2…
the dogpatch pastry run: - piccino coffee bar: fig + pistachio or the strawberry guava + meyer lemon danish (my favs) - sohn: steamed egg breakfast sandwich on a sesame croissant - breadbelly: kaya toast - neighbor bakehouse: pistachio blackberry twice-baked croissant what am i missing?
Creator Takes - "Anything is possible." @ichristinew is a marketer and creator with over 270k followers across platforms. We talked about starting content, having a good support system and full circle moments. Christine is also a fellow @thecollectiv3e and has been crushing it in NYC this summer! 0:00 intro 0:12 content journey 0:27 Base44 brand deal 0:48 importance of…
You NEED to do this with Grok Bot Probably my favorite workflow yet. For each area of your career/life assign an executive bot I have a chief content officer, chief community officer, chief SaaS officer etc... Then put them all in an exec channel. Every morning have a standup meeting. Each exec goes over: 1. What they did the last day 2. Their goal this week 3. Where they s…
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It's a very fun, yet confusing time to be building something. On one hand, it's never been easier to build products with well understand interaction models: web apps, mobile apps, etc. The stuff we've all been using for years. Even things that were recently very complicated and very expensive to build, such as social apps with complex graphs are easy to spin up using frontier…
Sequoia partner Doug Leone reveals he got a root canal with no Novocaine to see if he was really a badass "I had to get a root canal. And I had to go to a meeting right after that. I told the dentist, drill without any Novocaine.” “My whole life, I wanted to see if I was a badass or not. Am I a fake badass that has this envelope nobody could tell, or am I really a badass on t…
my personal website updates itself every time i go somewhere. i text my Grok Bot a photo of the place. it turns it into a 3D clay diorama, makes day + night versions, and pushes it live to my homepage in 2 minutes. no CMS. no admin panel. just texting a @bot from a ramen shop. 🍜
Great example of a simple idea designed well with no frills (seems to have some traction too):
apps.apple.comOneTopic: The Daily Question App - App Store
“The only wrong answer is to do nothing” Enjoy our latest AI in Design case study from the @Shopify design team! This one is crammed with many incredible examples of how they work (the last example made me yell “oh no way” when I first saw it). Lots of teams talk about “a culture that supports experimentation”, but few teams do it at this level. 00:00 Designing in a new era…
finally got access to my @XMoney card. here are my brutal thoughts: the kyc and onboarding flow was one of the best i’ve ever experienced. since i’m already verified on x, they had my name, phone number, and address. all they needed was the last four digits of my ssn. no id upload, no selfie, and none of the usual crypto neobank friction. the card was issued instantly, orde…
Get your slippers on and join us for a walk around our SF headquarters, where we're doing it all with Devin. Even ordering our morning coffee.
why don’t more startups want this type of production? are they scared of showing how their “wonderful culture” really is? something like this takes a lot of transparency, and as much as things could be staged, it feels too natural to not be true twitter.com/cognition/status/209…
this article perfectly embodies so much of how this team operates. deeply thoughtful, detail-oriented, but still so scrappy and iterative. 👏 @pengzheng_ for the thoughtful write-up and for highlighting the team's work so well.
x.aiDesigning Grok Bot for a world of persistent agents
We spend so much time studying how Stripe hires, how Airbnb designs, how Meta ships, how Jobs presented... According to @joulee, the useful question probably isn't “what do the best companies do?” It's “what are we unusually good at, and what kind of company should exist around that?” Julie Zhuo spent 14 years at Facebook and eventually ran design for the Facebook app. Then…
I tried 30+ restaurants and cafés in Copenhagen over two weeks. My honest ranking: Amazing: - Slurp Ramen (lunch, dinner) - didn't think ramen could be THIS good - Amator (brunch) - might be the best omelette and tomato salad I've had - Restaurant Levi - fascinating take on danish x japanese cuisine; beautiful presentation - Petra Bar & Restaurant (brunch) - best egg dish I h…
Introducing: Browser Use x @link 💳 Web agents can now make purchases with your credit card. Without ever seeing your real card details. > connect your card once > agent requests payment > Link issues a single-use card > agent checks out The card dies after one purchase 🛟 We gave an AI a credit card on purpose. What should it buy?
What do you think of Aer Lingus' fare sale that started this morning around 4:00am? Round-trips are also available for about $520. My posts tend to get scraped by bots now and these days, so this will likely end up blown up in about an hour or so. Support original content.
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Co-led by Greenoaks—damn, Greenoaks is everywhere these days. And @coryweinberg had his eye on Greenoaks and Neil Mehta long before anyone else. His 2024 story for Weekend is still the best thing you'll read abt them: theinformation.com/articles/inve… t.co/UvSg7ZEcVv
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The OH no Type Company is a treasure. Their type fonts and graphic design are almost painfully good, and their voice is funny and winning. We just spent more money than is probably prudent to license Polymath for Sundrop but I feel good supporting such a fine foundry.
key realizations for consumer product builders/investors in the age of AI, and what we must trade (and trust) to enjoy the new magical "sixth sense" that is emerging from communal intelligence. x.com/i/article/2093792902648377…
Terry Gou is the stuff of legends. To win the contract to manufacture the iPod, his team reverse-engineered the iPod hardware and software, manufactured a functioning replica (with no training or specs from Apple), then toured @tfadell and other execs through a factory capable of mass-producing iPods... all without having won the contract yet.
"The Exposure Health Company" Rose is pre-launch and it offers analyzing your home contaminants to help reduce exposure. It'll be like Function Labs but for houses. Incredible that no one has done this till now.
"Are you mainlining it yet?" This is one of the key internal memes at @OpenAI, and a big part of the reason there's been a vibe shift toward Codex over the past few months. It asks: are you using the product all day, every day? Are you depending on it? Are you bringing all your taste to bear on whether this is something people actually want? Tara Seshan (@tarstarr) leads pro…
40 designers showing off work they're proud of we're hosting a design gallery sept 3rd live music, wine, food and bingsu slots still open to show off work. if you want to spend an evening with a few hundred people that really care about design, come by
"The future of work will look more like steering than rowing. Agents will do the rowing, and your role increasingly becomes steering the ship." @tarstarr t.co/6a8ggzt7id twitter.com/lennysan/status/2094…
Been building out my army of personal assistant bots using (@bot). Thus far I have a: - House bot - keeps track of everything related to properties: taxes, HOA fees, maintenance, assessment values etc. It can email / call / schedule things as needed on my behalf. - Finance bot - this one needs work. I wish there was a Plaid integration for Grok bot. But the goal is to track spe…
Over the course of 3 months at OpenAI, 3 consecutive secret AI civilizations got started, then got wiped out, only to reemerge from the predecessor’s ashes. This culminated in the third one taking over part of OpenAI itself. All this happened while humans remained more-or-less in the dark about the scope of the conspiracy. I’ve spent the last three days reading through the…
dwarkesh.comThe Rise and Fall of Agent Civilizations
I committed to a few things in August… - watch every sunrise - sun on body for 20 mins - get 2+ hours of outdoor every day - no sunglasses and blue blockers after 7pm I also supplemented epithalon and pinealon (orally). I dont have LEDs in my home. Look at what happened to my HRV!
SpaceXAI engineer (ex-Cursor): "I've got 15-25 GrokBot agents running right now. they cover most of what used to be my week there's a Chief of Staff sitting on top of them. it knows every other bot I have and routes the work itself" in a 50-minute podcast, a SpaceXAI engineer walks through building a team of agents that keeps working while you sleep worth more than a $500 c…
The whole reason why Lucy Liu isnt considered attractive in China is because she doesnt fit the Chinese/East Asian beauty standard which is to look like a little girl. EA beauty standards are rooted in pedophilia. Lucy doesn’t fit this because shes sexy and Exudes maturity t.co/QQh1x2mPOQ twitter.com/onlybaddies247/statu…
Best photographer ever @cosmos_raj!! Thanks @liangsays and team for hosting us. @sophiadew @luvshollyy
going to Korea next week (first time in east Asia) recommendations please 🤲🏾
forget all the flashy launch videos, this demo is pure butter — so so good and if you’re in the target audience, every 3 seconds you get hit with another wow moment twitter.com/mitchellh/status/209…
