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cursor_ai
@cursor_ai30d

Origin, our code hosting platform, is now live. It's fast, easy to use, and deeply integrated with Cursor. Get started by syncing your rep...

MengTo
@MengTo31d

I’m blown away by the quality of the landing pages that Opus 5 can create in Three.js. Prompting it with "orbit using mouse" is enough to c...

naval
@naval31d

Don’t send me the report, just send me the prompt.

NousResearch
@NousResearch30d

Introducing Bot Mode for Hermes Desktop. Your agent profiles become a series of named Bots. Each Bot has its own role, model, memory, skill...

aakashgupta
@aakashgupta31d

Kristen Bell sang Frozen live at Coors Field this weekend and the internet is stunned she can actually sing. The guy dueting with her is the...

Hesamation
@Hesamation30d

This is what it looks like to run Qwen 3.8 27B on a 5090 and get more than 100 tok/s. 6-month-old frontier AI, now running locally on a gam...

balajis
@balajis30d

Network School is back. We’re up and running in the beautiful country of Kazakhstan, which combines high tech, low cost, brilliant people, ...

mattpocockuk
@mattpocockuk30d

If your code sucks, your agent will too. So, software fundamentals matter more than ever. That's why I'm interviewing @unclebobmartin this...

leerob
@leerob31d

Grok @Bot has made a few simple yet powerful technical decisions that I believe make it easy and enjoyable to use. 1. The best UI is none a...

rauchg
@rauchg30d

You can now host your repos in Cursor Origin and deploy to Vercel via Cursor Origin which is itself hosted on Vercel. And unlike GitHub, it'...

GergelyOrosz
@GergelyOrosz30d

Incredible how GitHub’s eng team knows reliability (having zero nines) is their #1 problem for ~6 months now and seemingly not being able to...

gregisenberg
@gregisenberg30d

9 things that took my Claude Code from okay to unreal: 1. Workspace: a repo that explains itself 2. Memory: the files that tell it how you ...

EXM7777
@EXM777731d

if i were you... i'd spend a day or two building a simple Hermes setup right now this is probably the highest leverage play you can make wi...

marclou
@marclou31d

In 2018, I was working 10 hours a day on my SaaS, and it was making $3K/month. I remember my employee friends working 6 hours a day, with h...

gdb
@gdb30d

defenders can see the future, and have a narrow window to uplevel their cybersecurity practices now. key is to uplevel fundamentals and app...

lennysan
@lennysan30d

My biggest takeaways from @OpenAI's Head of Design @iansilber: 1. Designers are the unhappiest people in tech right now, and Ian has a theo...

EXM7777
@EXM777730d

here's the best side project you can build with Claude Code as a content creator: it's a listener agent for your ICP: - monitor reddit, tw...

garrytan
@garrytan30d

GBrain now supports personalized agent generation/onboarding for Codex and Claude Code It'll generate an agent AI-style SOUL.md and instal...

levie
@levie30d

When you hear that data is the new oil, this is ultimately what that looks like. AI has such a thirst for data that we’re entering an era wh...

Teknium
@Teknium30d

Reintroducing Bot Mode for Hermes Agent. Bot Mode is an alternative to sessions , where you have one chat with each agent profile, or "bo...

theo
@theo30d

“[our internal framework] actually bans useEffect outright and only exposes it indirectly through framework-provided hooks. Highly recommend...

Teknium
@Teknium30d

We will have a mobile app I just cannot say when - we still have work to do to get there! https://twitter.com/jumperz/status/208945153779821...

Teknium
@Teknium31d

Upped ChatGPT / Codex Subscription users limits to 900K in Hermes Agent, enjoy! https://x.com/Teknium/status/2089163355261214830/photo/1 htt...

emollick
@emollick31d

Less than two years later, this is the quality of the video of an otter using a laptop on an airplane that I get (with sound) from an open w...

petergyang
@petergyang30d

I think Grok @Bot is a glimpse into the future of personal AI agents. Here's my new tutorial where I show you how to set up 5 useful bots: ...

shreyas
@shreyas31d

“effective AI engineering requires having product sense and understanding business context and customer goals, so you can participate in sha...

levie
@levie31d

Pretty good way to think about the value of AI agents and where the opportunity lies. You have a technology that will tirelessly do all the ...

OpenRouter
@OpenRouter30d

OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol is now half off on OpenRouter! This also applies to batch API, flex, and priority (fast) tiers, giving you as low as $...

awilkinson
@awilkinson30d

Insanely valuable @grok @bot automation: I have an Bee Pioneer AI pin that records my day and then every night at 7 p.m. I have a Grok Bo...

ajambrosino
@ajambrosino30d

I haven’t thought about context windows in months– codex auto compaction is just really good. turn the donut off and don’t look back

andrewchen
@andrewchen31d

Quick observation on why AI has exploded at work, but has been slow to disrupt consumer apps: At work, AI follows patterns and gets rid of ...

AlexFinn
@AlexFinn30d

This is unreal. Qwen 3.8 27b running locally on my RTX 5090 BEATS Opus 4.8 in my benchmarks (funny enough slightly loses to Opus 4.6 lol)...

AndrewCurran_
@AndrewCurran_30d

Anthropic informed investors over the weekend that its annualized revenue run rate hit $65 billion at the end of July, and shared a prelimin...

Teknium
@Teknium31d

Hermes Agent hit 2,500 contributors sometime this weekend. Amazing what the community can do coming together, and we've barely scratched t...

EXM7777
@EXM777730d

Obsidian accidentally built the perfect AI operating system and very few people are using it properly... i legit couldn't stand this app fo...

petergyang
@petergyang30d

My 6 biggest takeaways from @rileybrown on how he uses Codex to run his 1.5M+ follower content business: 1. Remix proven thumbnails with Co...

deedydas
@deedydas30d

Big day for the Menlo portfolio. — Wispr Flow raises $280M led by us at $2B. ~40x YoY rev growth and a total of 60B+ words dictated. — Hig...

signulll
@signulll30d

github was microsoft’s gateway into agentic coding with a huge advantage but that obviously didn’t work out. now the entire platform has a m...

theo
@theo30d

Agreed. Codex is far ahead of the other labs with their remote stuff. That said - I'd argue T3 Code is even further. Project creation, mult...

EXM7777
@EXM777731d

i probably should have never done this... - leaked an internal document from a BIG company in the US - shared the full $2M video production...

eriktorenberg
@eriktorenberg30d

We're hiring again at New Media. Our team does storytelling for our firm and our companies (and in part, our industry) including working cl...

petergyang
@petergyang30d

My comparison of Grok Bot vs. Hermes vs. ChatGPT Work: Hermes: - Pros: Open source and very customizable - Cons: Requires DIY setup on Ma...

emollick
@emollick31d

Its interesting to see the experiments on how to give AI a computer: Codex & Claude Code use your local machine, ChatGPT Work on the web (as...

GergelyOrosz
@GergelyOrosz30d

If you've not built your own AI coding harness by now, are you even a serious tech company?

dhh
@dhh30d

Video backgrounds coming to Omarchy 4.1 for sure. This is sick. https://twitter.com/yamzeight/status/2089340897326469186

WisprFlow
@WisprFlow30d

We just raised a $280M Series B at a $2B valuation to build the future of voice and change how you interact with technology.

shadcn
@shadcn30d

Copper now supports freehand drawing. Hit Cmd + (Right) Shift + Shift to open the editor from anywhere. Draw. Add shapes. Text. Colors. S...

dhh
@dhh31d

Hancore is doing a phenomenal job with the Omarchy community plugins repository! We're now well over 300 plugins. As far now, treat this cod...

a16z
@a16z30d

Travis Kalanick says a leader's job is to find the line between order and chaos: "On one side is order. You have lots of rules, lots of str...

thdxr
@thdxr30d

the opencode embedded webui is so good opencode2 makes it work out of the box

trq212
@trq21230d

all of the recent proc gen art, video editing and 3d game demos recently have made me update towards LLM coding models being better at a lot...

OpenRouter
@OpenRouter30d

New data layer in OpenRouter and our API: Cost per Session Cost per session is a way of assessing the real-world cost of using models, acro...

biilmann
@biilmann30d

Netlify is now a git host. Some data points from million repos created via Drop and Agent Runs with Netlify Source: git clone GitHub: p50 ...

emollick
@emollick31d

I, also, would like more precision around discussions of how AI will cure diseases. I assume it means "a nation of geniuses in a data center...

adamwathan
@adamwathan30d

Really feels like the Cursor team saw the future when they first shipped the agents UI that everyone complained about. Think we're going to...

a16z
@a16z30d

Stripe's Will Gaybrick says AI agents will navigate the internet like hummingbirds, and that's what will make microtransactions work: "If y...

MTSlive
@MTSlive30d

SITUATION DETECTED: Greg Brockman says OpenAI is training its models to write “superhumanly secure code” as part of efforts to help harden i...

shreyas
@shreyas30d

I am increasingly finding the need to buy certain books within Claude / ChatGPT so it can use the book for context when I ask it to. Making ...

aakashgupta
@aakashgupta30d

Grok Bot's App Store listing names the developer as Anysphere. That's Cursor. xAI closed the $60B Cursor acquisition this week and shipped ...

Hesamation
@Hesamation30d

You can chill guys. Permanent underclass won’t be so permanent when you can run Qwen 3.8 27B on a single 5090 at 200 tok/sec. https://x.com/...

jasonfried
@jasonfried30d

One of the underrated pleasures of software design is making things better for people who've already chosen your product. There's a strong ...

businessbarista
@businessbarista31d

GrokBot is an exceptionally good knowledge worker agent. Like most silky smooth product surfaces, it’s hard to point to one feature that ma...

AndrewCurran_
@AndrewCurran_30d

The White House has confirmed to Politico that the AI summit will take place on September 24th.

emollick
@emollick30d

This is smart for both reproducibility and as a way of using AI for science: “AI-generated analyses should be accompanied by multiverse-styl...

steipete
@steipete31d

Was wondering what this new icon in my menu bar is that I didn't enable and that loaded a slow html box. Time for Chrome Lite?

linear
@linear30d

Teams building with coding agents in Linear now ship 6.5x as much as those that don't. That's one stat from a much bigger look at how teams...

jackfriks
@jackfriks30d

i havent developed mobile app side of things for months and then today im patching some bugs and i see claude has a native permission to gr...

a16z
@a16z30d

Stripe's Will Gaybrick: "Build everything" Against an industry that sees agents as a way to cut costs, Stripe is using them to build more: ...

rrhoover
@rrhoover30d

Fun way to nudge early adopters into evangelists. We did this in the early days at Product Hunt. https://twitter.com/kevinefiles/status/20...

petergyang
@petergyang31d

I want to use this feature but I'm paranoid that it'll eat up all my tokens. Is it pretty token efficient?

HarryStebbings
@HarryStebbings30d

I have interviewed 1,000 of the best operators of the last 10 years. Ironically, one of the best I have ever interviewed isn’t actually a F...

thdxr
@thdxr30d

those of you using herdr x opencode2 i assume you turn off opencode's native tabs? can you describe a bit of your workflow if you don't min...

MollySOShea
@MollySOShea30d

BREAKING: Inside Palo Alto Networks ($PANW ) w/ CEO Nikesh Arora (@nikesharora) Rogue agents are just the start. "This is the beginning. T...

stripe
@stripe30d

"We think of Stripe as having inverted its value proposition. We began as a payments company with add-ons. Today, we’re a multiproduct platf...

GregKamradt
@GregKamradt30d

My additions to these: * The "secret" of AGI (if it starts as one) will last 6 months, max * There will be as many AGI algorithms as there ...

mattyp
@mattyp31d

More and more of my workflows are collapsing to chat inside @bot I don’t think chat is THE ideal interface BUT I think it’s the best inte...

petergyang
@petergyang30d

“I’ve never looked at a skill file once.” From @rileybrown: “Ask AI to do a thing using a skill. If it doesn’t do a good job, tell it to c...

alexatallah
@alexatallah30d

Tell your agent to query the median cost-per-session for different models & harnesses! This is a new way to see the true cost of using mode...

etnshow
@etnshow31d

BREAKING: AI video-generation startup Higgsfield raises $400M at $5.4B valuation.

twistartups
@twistartups30d

“Bitcoin is the most efficient market in history. We built the same thing for intelligence.” Const left Google Brain to build something Big...

GergelyOrosz
@GergelyOrosz30d

One reason code reviews will not hold up at many (most?) startups: coding agents (obviously) mean a LOT more PRs. And more verbose PRs. It’s...

amasad
@amasad30d

It’s not enough to scan your code for vulnerabilities; it’s important to try to break them with pen testing. https://twitter.com/replit/stat...

every
@every30d

We're hiring! At Every, we build AI products and write from the frontier. We're obsessed with answering the question: What does great human...

MollySOShea
@MollySOShea30d

With 40 acquisitions & counting.. Palo Alto Networks CEO Nikesh Arora (@nikesharora) shares the biggest mistake people make during acquisit...

MTSlive
@MTSlive30d

SITUATION DETECTED: The National Science Foundation is putting $1.5 billion into foundational research as part of the administration’s push ...

katiekirsch
@katiekirsch30d

i'm having a blast at @a16z - and we're growing the team come be part of the magic! we're also hosting a dinner party this thurs in SF - j...

etnshow
@etnshow30d

BREAKING: Wispr Flow raises $280M Series B, valuing the company at $2B.

emollick
@emollick30d

A thing missing from policy talk over AI is clear description about (1) what uses of AI are good, (2) which uses could be good with the righ...

aakashgupta
@aakashgupta31d

A PBS station won a court order confirming it owns its own archive. It still can't open a single file. Nine PBS in St. Louis stored 70 year...

tdinh_me
@tdinh_me30d

I made a "harness" to generate any kind of building in Machine Assembly style (for use in my game, but can be imported into any threejs pro...

MTSlive
@MTSlive30d

SITUATION DETECTED: Cursor is expanding beyond the editor with a GitHub competitor. Origin Code Hosting is now in early beta, letting paid u...

a16z
@a16z30d

A common thesis is software gets severely commoditized from here on out. Stripe's Will Gaybrick says their data shows the opposite: "It's p...

shiringhaffary
@shiringhaffary30d

NEW: Anthropic hit $65 bil+ in annualized (run rate) revenue in July, up from $47 bil in May. Comes ahead of an IPO expected as soon as this...

googlegemma
@googlegemma30d

At 100 mph, there is no room for lag! Google Developer Experts built a real-time AI Race Coach at Sonoma Raceway. By running Gemma 4 locall...

MTSlive
@MTSlive30d

Epoch AI researcher Campbell Hutcheson on why Elon Musk is the only frontier lab CEO building his own data centers: "@elonmusk is just rema...

MTSlive
@MTSlive30d

SITUATION DETECTED: NVIDIA and OpenAI have locked in a major partnership at SB Energy’s PORTS-Pike campus in Ohio. OpenAI will lease approxi...

MTSlive
@MTSlive30d

Gordian Biotechnology @MartinBJensen proposes Anthropic should just buy a pharma company for $50 billion and run the experiments themselves:...

Rasmic
@Rasmic30d

Legendary timing... idk if they were ready and waiting for github to fumble or they rushed it Either way, I'm happy this is here https://tw...

jasonfried
@jasonfried30d

One of my fav Basecamp 5 features is the thin little reminder that shows up at the bottom of the screen if you have an event coming up in th...

alliekmiller
@alliekmiller30d

Designers use AI more for engineering than for design. Sales uses AI more for marketing than for sales. HR uses AI more for finance than...