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dhh
@dhh30d

Linux adoption among programmers is about to go parabolic. Any missing app can be recreated easily. The open-source advantage with agents is...

GergelyOrosz
@GergelyOrosz30d

I’ve been using it for ~2 hours and I’m absolutely blown away at how I could automate a bunch of my workflows. Cursor team built a way for “...

claudeai
@claudeai30d

Your Claude in Chrome sessions now carry over to desktop, web, and mobile. Conversations are saved, and your skills and connectors work in t...

Teknium
@Teknium30d

New in Hermes Agent: Have Hermes do an operation or set of operations on a website, and it can watch the api calls made there - then can c...

thdxr
@thdxr30d

11x cheaper than sonnet 35x cheaper than sol 58x cheaper than fable https://twitter.com/opencode/status/2087572432181686748

mattpocockuk
@mattpocockuk30d

Getting more and more convinced that if you understand the "shared language" of your codebase... (i.e. the terms used, the names for things...

paulg
@paulg30d

A lot of founders I talk to are worried about what will happen with AI. So am I frankly. But they're actually better off than anyone else. I...

mntruell
@mntruell30d

Excited to release Grok 4.6. With each release, Grok is becoming a more capable digital colleague. 4.6 is significantly better at difficult...

thdxr
@thdxr30d

deepseek is insanely good at inference - they are hitting 96.56% cache ratio on our heavy traffic second best provider for us is doing 91.6...

dhh
@dhh30d

Fair warning: Omarchy is leaning fully into the future and the age of agents. This is how we truly democratize Linux, bring the malleable OS...

NousResearch
@NousResearch30d

Hermes profiles are now portable and shareable: Run /export to save a profile as a single file with credentials stripped: skills, memory, p...

dhh
@dhh30d

Claude pulls no punches on Spotify: "For a music player, ~1.25 GB resident is steep, and it's all Chromium overhead: the renderer and GPU pr...

deedydas
@deedydas31d

The next few years in SF will be incredible. Many big lab employees will leave . The idea of sailing into the sunset is temporal and will ...

MTSlive
@MTSlive30d

SITUATION DETECTED: Google co-founder Sergey Brin has urged key staff to go all-in on Gemini and catch up to the frontier, including telling...

thdxr
@thdxr31d

here's the boring learning from history outcome of all this AI infra investment: in the 1900s there was a boom in railroads investment a c...

Hesamation
@Hesamation30d

OpenAI has an internal email that if another team is blocking your work, you can snitch on them and the Sam pays them a visit. BASED. https...

GeminiApp
@GeminiApp30d

You can now connect to even more apps in Gemini to get more done. By linking your favorite services to Gemini in your settings, you can eas...

levie
@levie31d

Good post on how to think about FDEs. The key is that FDEs are real and not going away for AI any time soon. The reason this is happening n...

vercel
@vercel30d

We built a software factory for AI SDK. Each step is an agent, and humans merge changes. Four weeks in: ▪️ The factory authors up to 35% o...

dhh
@dhh30d

Agents are just like humans. They'll only skim the top of the instructions (head -40!), then just jump right into the action.

a16z
@a16z30d

Garry Tan says AI enables a single markdown file to act like an employee: "If you really want to tokenmax, you have to use something like H...

leerob
@leerob30d

We've released the model card for Grok 4.6! It goes in-depth on the capabilities of the model across many different evals for coding, engin...

dhh
@dhh30d

Release. The. QUATTRRRROOO!! First release candidate is out for testing. All goes well? We release FINAL on FRIDAY! https://github.com/ba...

antonosika
@antonosika30d

Lovable just raised $400M at a $13.3B valuation to build the business that helps build businesses. Apps built on Lovable now get 900M visit...

a16z
@a16z30d

Garry Tan says we'll see a wave of exceptional older AI-native founders: "There's going to be as many Patrick Collisons as ever, but one me...

zenorocha
@zenorocha30d

how to make your site readable by ai agents: 1. add an llms.txt so search tools stop guessing urls 2. check your server logs, not your anal...

paulg
@paulg30d

The reason they're called vertebrae is that you can't expect Demo Day investors to remember more than about 5 things about you. So you want ...

a16z
@a16z30d

Garry Tan on YC, First Principles Thinking, and Progress in the Age of AI Silicon Valley's advantage is that it gives weird, ambitious outs...

iannuttall
@iannuttall30d

I got sick of wasting time trying to find single word domain names for side projects so I built a command line TUI to search them it worked...

ClementDelangue
@ClementDelangue30d

Let's go! https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B

clairevo
@clairevo30d

I was asked recently what are the top reasons AI stalls inside companies. There’s basically two things 1. People aren’t creative (and they...

OpenRouter
@OpenRouter30d

DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 is live on OpenRouter. @deepseek_ai reports large agent gains over V4 Pro Preview: DeepSWE 62.7 (+49.9), CyberGym 83.3...

steipete
@steipete30d

cli was a year ago. apps maybe 6 months. now it’s services, web, cloud sessions. https://twitter.com/nateberkopec/status/2087387365224685739

dhh
@dhh30d

I had somehow forgotten that we ship a fully-functioning Windows-in-a-VM setup with Omarchy when someone asked about how to run Excel earlie...

a16z
@a16z31d

.@PalmerLuckey says every generation fights the new thing, and no generation fights to bring the old one back: "People are saying, 'Oh my G...

deedydas
@deedydas31d

Changes in H-1B regulations have crushed Indian IT services companies (WITCH), who are down -70% from peak, while BigTech remain steady but ...

dhh
@dhh30d

New native Codex app for Linux looking great on Omarchy. Good job, @OpenAI! We'll have it hosted on the OPR and available for immediate inst...

thdxr
@thdxr30d

we need 1000 B300s who can rent it to us

EXM7777
@EXM777730d

must be genuinely embarrassing at Anthropic HQ right now... you drop the ultimate slop model with Opus 5, then you try to join the price wa...

AndrewCurran_
@AndrewCurran_30d

New reporting from Reuters. Sergey Brin is pushing internally to move DeepMind towards recursive self improvement.

deedydas
@deedydas30d

"Lovable has no moat" is the most common take in the valley, yet… — $500M+ revenue run rate, 7x year over year — 900M+ visits / month to Lo...

AndrewCurran_
@AndrewCurran_30d

As yet unverified DeepSeek V4 Pro benchmarks from WeChat. Seismic if accurate. https://x.com/AndrewCurran_/status/2087568202452926622/photo/...

GoogleDeepMind
@GoogleDeepMind30d

SL2T is our breakthrough sign language-to-text model powering new features for Deaf and hard of hearing users on @Android. Starting with Am...

sundarpichai
@sundarpichai30d

The new Pixel 11 line up is here, designed for Gemini Intelligence and with lots of new helpful features. A few I’m excited about: Rambler...

AndrewCurran_
@AndrewCurran_30d

I think Anthropic has been holding Fable 5.1 back for a counterstrike to a day exactly like today, so it's possible we get the announcement ...

dwarkesh_sp
@dwarkesh_sp30d

My lawyer is obligated to in all but the most extreme circumstances; he will even defend me if he knows I’m guilty. In contrast, the Clau...

marclou
@marclou31d

#1 advice to grow an audience in 2026: Stop using AI. https://x.com/marclou/status/2087366503377392000/photo/1 https://twitter.com/marclou/...

thdxr
@thdxr30d

gpt models are trained to use subagents but they expect subagents to start off with some context from the parent session this is different ...

GergelyOrosz
@GergelyOrosz30d

Up to recently, writing software from scratch was VERY expensive and complicated. And so licensing niche and complex software was a booming ...

dhh
@dhh30d

I get why harness providers don't want the liability, but there's only one way to live with agents and that's full YOLO/BYPASS PERMISSIONS. ...

businessbarista
@businessbarista30d

One of the best founder manifestos I’ve seen. It’s the letter @eglyman and @karimatiyeh wrote to convince people to/not to join @tryramp. ...

thdxr
@thdxr30d

i often tell opencode "lets review this pr in a new worktree" or "make a new worktree and implement x" so i added instructions in my global...

OpenRouter
@OpenRouter30d

Today, we are launching Ori Pi Run Pi directly on OpenRouter. One install, all your OpenRouter credentials, models, and environment set up ...

dhh
@dhh30d

Omarchy Quattro ships with a crash watcher that'll offer to diagnose any issue with an agent equipped with a special skill for tracing probl...

rileybrown
@rileybrown30d

I think GrokBot is behind Codex/GPT Work for a lot of reasons, but I will say, their biggest innovation is personifying the chat sessions. ...

levelsio
@levelsio30d

I switched http://ideasai.com's auto app and landing builder to @xai Grok now Grok 4.6 is apparently as good as Fable 5 (without the const...

signulll
@signulll30d

thanks to anthropic for having me. i got to meet way too many 17 year old high school dropouts who are already in yc. one of them was a che...

thdxr
@thdxr30d

OpenCode does not spawn one process per session which is a bit different than most agents it is a single process so even if you have many s...

leerob
@leerob30d

Grok 4.6 is smart, fast, and cheaper than comparable models! Plus there's double usage for the first week 🚀 https://twitter.com/SpaceXAI/s...

googlegemma
@googlegemma30d

Can a $175 board power an offline robot voice assistant? 🤖 It’s cool to see Gemma 4 E2B powering the Reachy Mini robot entirely locally on...

GergelyOrosz
@GergelyOrosz30d

I asked myself "how does OpenAI move so quickly?" back 3 years ago, and did a writeup back then. How OpenAI worked when they were only 130 f...

dhh
@dhh30d

Omarchy community plugin repository is growing exponentially. Yesterday we started with 40 plugins, today there are 75. Quattro isn't even o...

mustafasuleyman
@mustafasuleyman30d

Our first reasoning model, MAI-Thinking-1, is built from scratch. Now available in Microsoft Foundry. Kudos to the team! More below.

scottwu46
@scottwu4630d

Exceptional team, enormous market, great founder-market fit. Sometimes you just know. Congrats to @moritz_stephan and the whole Hone team ...

dhh
@dhh30d

When setting up Omarchy Quattro, you can choose to just do the installation, but delay the user configuration. Then you can gift a machine t...

dhh
@dhh30d

Fresh greetings on a new Quattro install. I told you we're going all in! (But, sure, you don't HAVE to configure an agent — without it, ev...

businessbarista
@businessbarista30d

One of our ambitions at Tenex is to make NYC the AI capital of America. We know it’s a bit insane, but we believe it’s possible & we’re gon...

omooretweets
@omooretweets31d

This argument gets thrown at consumer / prosumer startups all the time. IMO, it’s almost always deeply flawed. Here’s why: - Products th...

GergelyOrosz
@GergelyOrosz30d

One of my top use cases of Grok Bot: spam filtering in Gmail (Google Workspace). With Grok Bot, I can say things like: "any and all pitches...

marclou
@marclou30d

Shipped from a Chinese taxi ✅ 🖼️ Embedable <iframe /> with live data 📸 Shareable screenshots Thanks for the idea, Sivaram! https://x.com...

rauchg
@rauchg31d

The growth of @aisdk has been astonishing. ~80.5M downloads every 30 days, and growing faster than all AI labs SDKs. Most importantly: open ...

a16z
@a16z30d

There's a $7 trillion pile of unpaid invoices held by US nonfinancial businesses. Full piece on how Stuut is building the solution: https:/...

tbpn
@tbpn30d

🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Cognition CEO Scott Wu spotted playing chess in San Francisco, hours after reports emerged that the AI coding lab is getting f...

rauchg
@rauchg30d

Towards a future of self-maintaining software. Must read of how we balance quality and autonomy for the development of @aisdk, one of the ...

thdxr
@thdxr30d

market is crazy rn i see something that i think is a feature and there's not only 1 company doing it, there are 10

Hesamation
@Hesamation30d

man do I have a big twist for you. (Hint: search where Dario was working in 2019) https://x.com/Hesamation/status/2087460327847772196/photo/...

MTSlive
@MTSlive30d

OpenAI researcher @daveholtz reveals the Kenya small business owners study where giving AI to high performers made them better but giving it...

dhh
@dhh30d

This is how easy it is to install the new @openai ChatGPT Desktop app for Linux on Omarchy. Straight from our @Cloudflare backed package rep...

alliekmiller
@alliekmiller30d

18 two-word AI prompts I'm kind of obsessed with: 1) now what - great for when you've wrapped up a project or big push and you still have e...

jackfriks
@jackfriks30d

my agent just helped me find out 1 user costing me $30/day, running a sync call every ~5 seconds, 24/7 for the last 12 days to sync faceboo...

emollick
@emollick31d

Interesting research suggests caution in determining which AI company is winning by looking at any one source.. OpenRouter seems to show op...

agazdecki
@agazdecki30d

Founders will build with this set up and still never do a sales call:

ClementDelangue
@ClementDelangue30d

Local AI is exploding! Transformers.js, that we've been building @huggingface for the past three years has now become the most popular open...

theo
@theo30d

Live at 3pm. Talking about new Grok and Deepseek models. What else should I cover?

dhh
@dhh30d

Omarchy Quattro is built entirely around @outfoxxedd's amazing Quickshell. It's incredible how efficient it is. Less than 300mb of runtime m...

MTSlive
@MTSlive30d

SITUATION EXPLAINED: How did Grok catch up this fast? • Grok 4.5 scored 56 on the Artificial Analysis index five weeks ago. Grok 4.6 scores...

signulll
@signulll30d

i was talking to someone about good comms + expression & i shared with them this post. i keep referencing it all the time cuz i do this a lo...

petergyang
@petergyang31d

Trying to onboard my parents to ChatGPT desktop app and the separation between Chat, Work, and Codex and the lack of consistency across Chat...

dhh
@dhh30d

Grok 4.6 just dropped, and the Fast variety is pretty impressive. Runs really fast at $4 in/$12 out! Compared to other Fast modes, it's abou...

AndrewCurran_
@AndrewCurran_30d

The Trump administration plans to expand the AI oversight framework to include open models that reach the frontier, including pre-release te...

benln
@benln30d

2x usage inside Cursor and Grok Build for the first week Take Grok 4.6 for a spin: https://twitter.com/spacexai/status/2087562800982077492

vercel
@vercel30d

We migrated the database behind every build at Vercel, one of our most critical services, while it handled 6,000 deployments a minute. The ...

GergelyOrosz
@GergelyOrosz30d

Linux is absolutely blowing up... and not just on Linux, but on Windows. Ubuntu expects to see more Windows users using Ubuntu via WSL than...

AndrewCurran_
@AndrewCurran_30d

DeepSeek-V4-Pro-0813 is up on the API docs page: $0.003625 M/Input $0.87 M) Output https://x.com/AndrewCurran_/status/2087565280457461917/p...

mattshumer_
@mattshumer_30d

AI video's biggest problem is control. You rarely get quite what you asked for. This technique fixes it. Draft in 3JS, generate style with...

businessbarista
@businessbarista30d

My engineers at @tenex_labs have been saying this to me for a while now. And now they're losing their minds about @AmpCode and their Orb p...

thdxr
@thdxr31d

one of my favorite flows in opencode2 is to say "in the background do ...." this is useful when im in the middle of a task but remember som...

deedydas
@deedydas30d

Insane that Levent Alpoge just dropped this cryptic text constructing 12 Hadamard matrices under order 2000. Ironically since Fable refuses...

AmirMushich
@AmirMushich30d

3D black metal logo/ GPT Image [dir. v10] 2-variable prompt system, turns any logo/icon into a tensioned-metal membrane simulation Promp...

iannuttall
@iannuttall30d

Monologue has always been my go-to dictation app over Wispr Flow (I'm in the top 100 users with 660,000 total words) There were a few thing...

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