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patrickc
@patrickc30d

I love agentic coding harnesses, but they shouldn't be primarily terminal-based. The terminal is great for quick and precise commands, but i...

dhh
@dhh31d

Eventually I'll make Omarchy for mobile too. Once you've tasted the power of a fully malleable OS on the desktop, it's only natural to want ...

AndrewCurran_
@AndrewCurran_30d

Stripe has finalized an agreement to acquire OpenRouter for more than $7 billion, according to a report from Bloomberg. This is more than fi...

dhh
@dhh31d

Words to work by: "There's no speed limit... The standard pace is for chumbs." https://sive.rs/kimo

gregisenberg
@gregisenberg30d

Running list of AI agent ideas to make you more productive and more money: 1. The onboarding rescue agent. Watch PostHog for any new signup...

AlexFinn
@AlexFinn30d

You NEED to be building loops with Grok Bot. They’re incredible It feels like Grok Bot was purpose built for looping more than any other ag...

dhh
@dhh31d

Next version of Omarchy will integrate Voxtype and the default agent, so you can just speak the changes and enhancements you want made to th...

levelsio
@levelsio30d

I liked this chart so much I had to recreate it I flipped the axis so that top right is best (tip by @marckohlbrugge and @daniellockyer) ...

EXM7777
@EXM777730d

i'm about to leak an internal document from a BIG company... it details the exact process they're using to produce multi-million dollar AI ...

dhh
@dhh31d

I'm on an airplane to see Lex for the podcast tomorrow, I have 70mbit internet in the sky, and I can continue working with my agents to impr...

dhh
@dhh30d

WOW! Maybe we should make this the start screen?? Actually, yes. Yes we should. I'll find a way for this video to run as a video desktop one...

thdxr
@thdxr30d

we've been working to figure out how to get deepseek hosted at near the previous price this is not easy. there are dozens of providers clai...

theo
@theo31d

Kinda wild to see Dario blaming social media algorithms for hurting the public reputation of their text generation algorithms

emollick
@emollick30d

A long annoyance with X is that you can't export your bookmarks, all you can do is scroll & scroll & scroll. So I asked GPT-5.6 Sol in Code...

AndrewCurran_
@AndrewCurran_31d

Rare Dario post! This confirms the WSJ report that Anthropic is leaning heavily into healthcare. 'Anthropic is ramping up its efforts very ...

Teknium
@Teknium31d

The capabilities tab in Hermes Agent Desktop got a big upgrade. Now you can: - Scope the entire set of skills, tools, and MCPs to a profil...

mattpocockuk
@mattpocockuk30d

I have tried this a few times But the overhead of understanding the diagram (and fixing slop) is huge for complex systems Consistent domai...

AndrewCurran_
@AndrewCurran_31d

Any new model released after August 2nd 2026 must make its generated text detectable under Article 50(2) of the EU AI Act. OpenAI has public...

alliekmiller
@alliekmiller30d

Truly epic AI weekend workflow ⬇️ Requires: phone, headphones, ChatGPT mobile app, OpenAI paid subscription, auto mode, somewhat aggressiv...

aakashgupta
@aakashgupta30d

Stripe just paid over $7 billion for a company doing an estimated $50 million a year in revenue. A 140x multiple sounds insane until you loo...

EXM7777
@EXM777730d

i just open sourced the workflow behind $2M AI video productions... i built 7 skills that run the pipeline end to end, built for Seedance 2...

trq212
@trq21230d

it says a lot that the creators of three of the most iconic web frameworks: django (@simonw), flask (@mitsuhiko) and rails (@dhh) were so AI...

dhh
@dhh30d

Your operating system should be more fun! We'll be shipping Toybox > Liquid Explosion in Omarchy 4.1. It needs a little refinement, but this...

dhh
@dhh30d

Damn. Omabot was working too well, too fast. So now it's gotten blocked by @github 😂. Our infrastructure really isn't built for the age of ...

petergyang
@petergyang30d

Ten minutes of talking gives Riley 80% of the diagrams that he shares in his videos. From @rileybrown: “I use @WisprFlow for everything. I...

amasad
@amasad31d

The argument that “AI structurally centralizes power” because it’s currently compute hungry ignores 125 years of super exponential growth in...

deedydas
@deedydas30d

Made a lil website that takes a "mood" and turns it into a whole experience: a playlist of songs, ambient noise and a looping video backdrop...

marclou
@marclou30d

It’s still crazy to me that I vibe coded a marketplace that helps founders get acquired for 5 figures while I sleep. 149 acquisitions in 8 ...

MengTo
@MengTo31d

I’m starting a new video series where I give feedback and commentary on how to avoid AI slop. First up, I’m sharing my thoughts on Google’s...

simonw
@simonw30d

Here’s my review of Qwen 3.8 27B - I can't remember the last time I've had this much fun playing with a local model that runs on my own comp...

amasad
@amasad30d

18x improvement in intelligence per joule in 16 months. https://x.com/amasad/status/2089069905375351169/photo/1 https://twitter.com/avanika1...

petergyang
@petergyang30d

“The moat is quality over a long period of time." Here's my new episode with @rileybrown, where he showed me how he uses Codex to run his e...

Hesamation
@Hesamation30d

“I don’t live in EU, why should I have my AI output watermarked?” because EU law basically says: you can generate a text in your cozy SF ca...

levie
@levie30d

AI spend is nowhere close to hitting any walls. Obviously this data is weighted toward engineering-centric companies, with the top 1% spendi...

a16z
@a16z30d

Right place, right time: many neoclouds spent years mining crypto, then AI showed up and turned their power rights, data centers, and GPUs i...

mvanhorn
@mvanhorn31d

How to install last30days on Grok Bot. I recommend giving it its own bot. https://twitter.com/mvanhorn/status/2088000182164259228

thdxr
@thdxr31d

every LLM provider has the option of advertising cheap sticker prices but their cache ratios can be bad so your effective price is higher ...

hwchase17
@hwchase1730d

totally agree! here's how we architected deepagents to enable this deepagents runs connected to a "backend". this backend needs to expose f...

emollick
@emollick30d

Its hard to imagine, even if you ignore literally everything else associated with AI, that Google AI Overview alone would not profoundly cha...

dhh
@dhh30d

This is amazing! 3088 custom themes that are integrated with a browser hook, so you just find a wallpaper you like, clik the link, and your ...

iannuttall
@iannuttall30d

I got so tired of "Claudish" or agent speak backscroll that I now have a hook script that checks if the response is > 3 paragraphs and just ...

levelsio
@levelsio31d

Can I do Litestream on 170GB Photo AI's SQLite DB? Cause AI says it might be bit too big for it?

Teknium
@Teknium30d

Sessions should load a lot faster in Hermes Agent Desktop now

Teknium
@Teknium30d

Packaging up Bots Mode for Hermes Agent Desktop for release right now, stay tuned https://twitter.com/demi_hl/status/2089081592350450035

Teknium
@Teknium31d

Qwen 3.8 already bringing incredibly dense intelligence to the masses in Hermes Agent https://twitter.com/spydenator/status/2088905597538472...

dhh
@dhh31d

Omarchy development will become increasingly automated, but the final decision to merge stays human.

paulg
@paulg30d

There's a pervasive myth that "tax policy changes" are the reason economic inequality is growing. Actually it's because technology makes it ...

MollySOShea
@MollySOShea30d

Travis Kalanick (@travisk) is one of the world’s best fundraisers $18B+ raised across › Uber (2009–17): ~$15B w/ @emilmichael (~$68B peak ...

iannuttall
@iannuttall30d

You can create you own Grok Bot style SVG mascot animations with this free OSS tool. Not mine. Just thought this was great! https://bloub....

MTSlive
@MTSlive31d

SITUATION DETECTED: Dario Amodei said today on X that Anthropic is ramping up its efforts very quickly in biology and medicine and hopes to ...

mattpocockuk
@mattpocockuk30d

One benefit of being a primarily "user-invoked" skill set is that we get rid of a whole category of errors You never need to worry about: ...

emollick
@emollick30d

The benchmark for non-verifiable domains is often the opinions of humans. That is how we determine whether writing or an idea or a pitch is ...

levelsio
@levelsio30d

The cool thing about AI is it's letting people add their own little flavor of creativity to all their projects You'd never make this by han...

agazdecki
@agazdecki30d

Startup founders who can learn how to take a punch in the face without losing any optimism have a huge advantage.

HarryStebbings
@HarryStebbings30d

Kids are making 20-30K doing clips for us. "The kids are making bank nowadays doing UGC for brands that will pay them a percentage of ad s...

shadcn
@shadcn30d

Been testing a new feature for Copper. Took me a weeks to get the UX right. Launching soon. https://twitter.com/shadcn/status/20825193751947...

emollick
@emollick31d

o3-mini (very obsolete) in an agentic loop made good exam questions: "In one of the largest field studies of AI-generated questions to date...

Teknium
@Teknium30d

Well, this was wrong. The actual server-side max for codex subscriptions is just 360~K. That said, raised the ctx window to 350K in Hermes ...

dhh
@dhh30d

Would be funny to add a "Liquid Crazy Corners" feature to Omarchy that gives you the insane, random radii aesthetics of a modern mac... Lemm...

HarryStebbings
@HarryStebbings31d

"Paid is the easiest way to validate that you have PLG, that you have a product that can scale in any way, shape, or form. You can refine m...

HarryStebbings
@HarryStebbings31d

"There are the core three of any acquisition engine: Meta, Google, and lifecycle. You can scale to your first million, $10 million ARR just...

MTSlive
@MTSlive30d

FULL INTERVIEW: @sophiadew sat down with @poteto and @roshan_s from Cursor on Grok 4.6, agents that fix their own bugs, and how an engineer'...

signulll
@signulll30d

the coolest part about posting here is that every time i post someone gives me a good book rec. so i created an ai agent that listens to my...

HarryStebbings
@HarryStebbings30d

"You probably need at least 400 to 500 new creatives a month. Otherwise, you're going to get outcompeted. Once they do that, they create th...

adamwathan
@adamwathan30d

Started playing with @bot this week, first problem I'm using it to solve is automatically picking my lunches from Factor every week because ...

nateliason
@nateliason31d

Agent simulation consequences is going to be an important field of study https://twitter.com/maxbittker/status/2088471897956630576

Prathkum
@Prathkum30d

Anthropic is so quiet these days!? 👀 They literally didn’t predict that people wouldn’t care about Fable as much as they expected. Launch...

tbpn
@tbpn30d

BREAKING: Stripe agreed to acquire OpenRouter for more than $7B, per Bloomberg

rauchg
@rauchg30d

We ran evals on GLM 5.3 cybersecurity capabilities. It's the new open frontier. Given its lower costs, I expect this to be a boon for defen...

HarryStebbings
@HarryStebbings30d

How to crush answer engine optimization and rank #1 in ChatGPT "The most important thing is YouTube, Reddit, and the social narrative. You...

aakashgupta
@aakashgupta31d

Police can run your license plate through a network of 120,000+ cameras, and most agencies require no warrant and no suspicion to do it. For...

tdinh_me
@tdinh_me30d

Can someone help me rig and animate this model? I need "fly" animation and "dive" animation. I can pay for your time via Wise/Paypal 😄 htt...

agazdecki
@agazdecki30d

An app telecom business making $3.4M a year is wild! Offers international calling, eSIM, virtual numbers. Has 2M+ monthly users across 200...

aakashgupta
@aakashgupta30d

Roblox banned Chris Hansen live on stage, mid-demonstration, sitting a few feet from the Attorney General suing the company over child safet...

Hesamation
@Hesamation31d

Dario’s response doesn’t really say much he hasn’t said before, but a few parts stood out: ON THE PUBLIC DISTRUST OF AI: “ordinary people ...

lennysan
@lennysan30d

Designers are the unhappiest people in tech. I sat down with @OpenAI's Head of Design @iansilber to talk about why—and why he still thinks ...

vasuman
@vasuman30d

Six AI debates: 1. Frontier models get cheaper vs. more expensive 2. The world is underinvested vs. overinvested in compute 3. The gap be...

Hesamation
@Hesamation30d

But I don’t live in the EU. Why is the AI Act watermarking my stuff? https://x.com/Hesamation/status/2088994322414715235/photo/1 https://twi...

aakashgupta
@aakashgupta30d

We already have candidate drugs designated for 1,079 rare diseases. Patients can actually get one for 392 of them. Four decades separate tho...

danshipper
@danshipper30d

used fable to vibe code an app that visualizes and groups everyone who applied to come to Thesis we live in incredible times where detaile...

AndrewCurran_
@AndrewCurran_30d

With text watermarking in the news so much lately, there may be some interest in Google's October 2024 paper on SynthID. Source: https://ww...

aakashgupta
@aakashgupta31d

Grindr's CEO says his stock trades at a 25% discount because straight portfolio managers are too uncomfortable pitching a gay hookup app to ...

julianweisser
@julianweisser30d

One of the things I recommend is that founders do not set a price for their seed. Instead, let the funds make a bid. You do not know what ...

Prathkum
@Prathkum31d

Feels like the last couple of days have pushed usage of Anthropic and OpenAI models down a little. Qwen 3.8, GLM 5.3, DeepSeek V4 Pro. Ope...

aakashgupta
@aakashgupta30d

LeBron built a $725 million Hollywood company so he'd never depend on someone else's distribution. This weekend he launched his new show by ...

Prathkum
@Prathkum30d

There is a new type of poster booming on X. Quote posters. They just feed articles from Anthropic, OpenAI, and other big AI companies into...

aakashgupta
@aakashgupta30d

Managers lose 16.5 hours a week to coordination. In Parallel benchmarked 247 of them across five countries and got to 400+ hours a year spen...

sariazout
@sariazout30d

so far today instinct has: -purchased movie tickets for my kids + their friends. when i needed to add one ticket it easily found the closest...

petergyang
@petergyang30d

Codex is for figuring out your kid's after school schedule from your inbox. My wife is impressed 😅

alxai_
@alxai_30d

Both of these are right! This isn't a commodity market. It's a labor market, the wage is XP. In RuneScape, raw materials are also ticket...

blader
@blader30d

it feels like we've at least reached the singularity for ai tooling in that the number of new tools, techniques, products being launched eve...

danshipper
@danshipper30d

i am also skeptical of the centralization of power hypothesis it comes from Lewis Mumford in 1964 who argued: "from late Neolithic times i...

creatine_cycle
@creatine_cycle30d

is AI-generated writing actually good? "what are you comparing AI writing to?" - @signulll "are you comparing it to perfectly written pro...

Hesamation
@Hesamation30d

🚨 OpenAI quietly shut down the team responsible for assessing if its frontier AI models could have catastrophic risks. another safety team ...

bentossell
@bentossell30d

are they primarily terminal based? most are apps too https://twitter.com/patrickc/status/2088978205546017219

every
@every30d

CONFIRMED: @NatalieFratto, founder and creator of @chartsncrafts, is speaking at Thesis, our inaugural conference on work and AI. In 30 day...

every
@every30d

CONFIRMED: @agarfinks, senior writer and editor at @FortuneMagazine, is speaking at Thesis, our inaugural conference on work and AI. Allie ...

jposhaughnessy
@jposhaughnessy30d

OSV (@osvllc) Field Notes #34 https://newsletter.osv.llc/p/osv-field-notes-34

levie
@levie31d

AI spend is nowhere near hitting any walls. Obviously this data is weighted toward engineering-centric companies -with the top 10% of compan...

every
@every30d

CONFIRMED: @emmettshine, founder of Little Plains, is speaking at Thesis, our inaugural conference on work and AI. Emmett has cofounded fiv...