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125 trending tweets • May 8, 2026 • Archived daily snapshot
Top Tech Twitter posts from May 8, 2026, ranked by engagement.
Just gonna leave this here. https://chatgpt.com/codex/switch-to-codex/
how many times are you guys gonna build this
Chain of thought monitors are a key layer of defense against AI agent misalignment. To preserve monitorability, we avoid penalizing misalign...
The problem with "suicidal empathy" is that they are neither suicidal (they happily gather power/status/money for themselves) nor empathic (...
David Reich is back. He and collaborator Ali Akbari just published a paper that overturns a long-standing consensus about human evolution —...
The most dangerous thing you can do right now is NOT use the latest AI tools. Period. Every day a new company is laying off thousands of pe...
I've been driving GPT5.5 on low reasoning for the last week+ and it's very good, very efficient. Haven't been tempted to reach for Opus at a...
There is no longer a way to answer the phone on my phone.
Codex installs spiked last week Charts of the Week: https://www.a16z.news/p/charts-of-the-week-it-was-a-good
every single ai product: "we've built revolutionary tech that changes your life using artificial intelligence so say you have a spreadshee...
Ardent (@ArdentAI) let's you clone any Postgres DB <6s at TB scale so coding agents can test their code and engineering teams can ship fast ...
i've had a major shift in how much i use opencode in the past month it's tricky to articulate but seeing someone use it 10x more than made ...
the fundamental workflow of a coding agent is you start a chat and then you talk to it every coding agent is trying to win users so they ma...
i flew united recently to see why ppl on here thought it was a premium airline. - flight delayed. - no star link & the wifi they did have d...
Paul Graham and Jessica Livingston have been role models for me since I started reading PG:s blog 10 years ago. Had a sunny walk in Stockho...
Unfortunate optics for Coinbase to have an hours-long outage when customers could not trade, a few days after their CEO said how non-technic...
Another $6000 payout 👀 X revenue share is officially paying me more than YouTube Adsense
The Basecamp 5 pull request is quite the whopper. It's going to be so good sharing this with everyone. What a phenomenal upgrade.
I found the cleanest UI libraries out there to help you and me ship something that looks fresh Repeat after me: "NO MORE AI SLOP" Enjoy bu...
"Suicidal empathy"
Outside of Coinbase, did any other major service have a 8-hour outage? I’ll be honest: did not notice anything else. Want to make sure I di...
Jeff Bezos still remembers the exact homework problem that ended his dream of being a physicist. The trick his classmate used to solve it is...
How can I make shadcn/ui better for you? What do you need?
a founder has three jobs. everything else is serious amounts of noise. 1. you have to tell the story. roughly in three registers. first inv...
AI is going mobile incredibly quickly Charts of the Week: https://www.a16z.news/p/charts-of-the-week-it-was-a-good
The London-New York Axis of Cope. 🫣
Notebooks in Gemini bring organization to complex tasks. Take the grad school application process: With notebooks, you can gather your tran...
Starting a new project shouldn’t mean rebuilding your setup from scratch. Experiment: init from an existing project (local or remote) and b...
a little project i've been hacking on: http://di.gg bugs expected. more topics soon.
We're entering a new era of software where a single person, working with AI agents, can build products that previously required entire teams...
Update on the AI executive order: discussions are still ongoing, but a senior White House official who was granted anonymity told Politico t...
Remember that fun era where everyone from Replit to Vercel was trying to train their own models? I’m happy that’s over
SP500 is up 16.5% in 40 days. Imagine selling at the crash in March.
.@GoogleAI's subscription bundle is arguably the most successful consumer subscription in history. They bundle Gemini, NotebookLM, Nano Ban...
AI is making me obsessed with language Taking abstract business processes and naming them is INSANELY powerful for aligning AI with how you...
In the future, you’ll be able to accomplish a goal by just giving Claude an outcome and a budget. That’s the direction Anthropic is buildin...
Tech is now 55% of all business investment in the US! Charts of the Week: https://www.a16z.news/p/charts-of-the-week-it-was-a-good
Startup School is coming to Paris! 🇫🇷 Hear from founders like @lxbrun of @amilabs, @oliveur of @datadoghq, @kiwicopple of @supabase, @jam...
Conductor (@conductor_build) is a Mac app that lets you run multiple coding agents at the same time. Create an isolated copy of your codebas...
the art of modern life now is knowing which parts of the “science” to ignore.
When the CEO of Coinbase said "non-technical teams are now shipping production code" I assume it's things like marketing now makes copy upda...
it’s entirely likely now that once ai collapses the cost of the software layer (which is almost there), the creative layer & perhaps differe...
Every time Google Maps gives you directions, your phone does this. 14,671 streets searched to find a single 2.3 km route across Naples. It's...
High conviction signal to join a startup is seeing a VC join one of their portfolio companies full time. They have all the inside informati...
AI makes it a lot easier to conduct layoffs
🚨 friday job drop. we're on pace to double revenue in 2026 → come join us @ @beehiiv... Product Marketing Manager 💰 $120K - $160K + Equit...
It's YC day! Builders are launching on Product Hunt right now for a shot at catching @gustaf's eye and landing a @ycombinator interview 👀 ...
Happy Friday! 🎉We’re officially 11 days away from I/O (but the launches keep rolling in). Here’s what happened this week: — The @googlehea...
✅ ACQUIRED on @trust_mrr $500 MRR Polymarket wrapper sold for $4,000. The startup is 2 months old. It's also the first acquisition for a ...
Come celebrate after Google IO with the DeepMind team in SF on May 21st :) Lots to look forward to!! Link in 🧵
We have a few extra stickers from Code with Claude! Grab some if you want https://www.stickermule.com/give/5DCYpto
here is the new CSS Border shape API this is going to unlock so many sick new designs
Heart, full.
This guy literally breaks down how to use Claude Code like an expert
BREAKING: TBPN and @Airbnb are in early partnership conversations around a livestream from a blimp flying from LA to SF. Details from @bche...
Introducing the Built for Moms contest, in partnership with our friends at @WisprFlow, to celebrate everyone who builds for the moms in thei...
gpt-image-2 has a thinking layer that researches the web before drawing you don't need to explain the whole scene in a visual prompt, try t...
i made this app 2 years ago for my fiancee and it just gets random sales every month now maybe i should turn it into a mobile app and do ma...
These talks have been going on for some time. Intel has now reached an agreement to manufacture chips for Apple devices.
if Anthropic ever prices you out of the Max plan there's a $0 path you should consider TODAY... Hermes is a great personal assistant but it...
Recruiting pages are typically a wall of text with a boring form at the end. But what if you could apply for a role using an API instead? ...
Date pickers SUCK We fixed them and competed to see who could build the best modern date picker https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JUx-8KkR...
Boris Cherny runs Claude Code at Anthropic. He just told CNBC that six months ago he stopped writing code by hand. He prompts Claude, Claude...
So many things about AI infra and AI adoption today reminds me of Cloud adoption in the 2010s. Cloud is assumed to decrease business costs ...
Customer service hiring is now outpacing the overall job market Charts of the Week: https://www.a16z.news/p/charts-of-the-week-it-was-a-goo...
Greenland just signed away the last 50.5% of the largest heavy rare earth deposit in the Western world. The yellow box on this map shows whe...
I have always found it charming that the fourth, fifth and sixth derivatives of position are snap, crackle, and pop. Because I could, I aske...
Call centers aren't dead yet Charts of the Week: https://www.a16z.news/p/charts-of-the-week-it-was-a-good
Just dropped GStack v1.28 GStack Browser can now download items, and run in headed configuration mode with anti-bot detection in using Xvfb...
Last night we invited San Francisco's sales leaders to YC to hear from the startups building the future of AI in sales. @MamizukaAkira (VP ...
AI made it 10x faster to write code. It didn’t make it 10x faster to ship products people actually use.
I realize that “Mythos as hype” means two different things to different groups. For insiders, it means “Mythos was not a magical step-change...
This shit is the best I carry a knife and it always frays my jeans on the pocket. I cover it with a nylon patch and it lasts forever. I a...
Solo Founders Podcast success story: - listener discovered startup through the show - DM’d the CEO - hired Are you a solo founder lookin...
FULL INTERVIEW: @Airbnb CEO @bchesky joins TBPN to discuss recent earnings, founder mode, the future of consumer AI, marketing, and more. 0...
Professions with guilds or membership associations are going to get different AI policy reactions than those without The Bar & the AMA will...
Airbnb's @bchesky says that Barbie's Malibu DreamHouse had a higher ROI than any ad they've ever done. "Doing kind of crazy, slightly unhin...
BREAKING: Airbnb Co-Founder & CEO @bchesky will be live on TBPN today at 1p PT
.@bchesky says AI is the biggest opportunity for creative people in his lifetime. "I'm really worried that an entire generation of designer...
v0 can now run terminal commands, which means it can: • Spin up a browser session to test interactions • Look through your commit history to...
OpenAI shipped a plugin so Claude Code can call Codex... i've said it before and i'll say it again, running two coding agents simultaneousl...
every tui i've seen posted on here in the past few months has been built with opentui
“Code is fashion now.” AI made code cheap to produce, remix, and replace. So if you work with agents, @heyitsnoah says the leverage is givi...
The Replit 10 Buildathon Winners https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1aJbdbvRoeoKX
Vibe coding works… until your agent confidently builds the wrong thing. Write specs first. Keep your agent aligned with what you actually w...
By order of Anthropic, let it be known throughout the land: HTML hath dethroned Markdown. God save the Context Window! https://twitter.com...
UFO Disclosure GENE-26.5 Advancing Robotic Manipulation Neuralink's Robo Brain Surgeon Magrathea raises to make Magnesium from Seawater Aalo...
Intel ❤️ Apple, Brian Chesky Joins, WNDR Leaks, Trial Reporting https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1YGNrZdAEApGw
the future is roughly capabilities awaiting their native paradigm while being temporarily housed in a familiar one.
Airbnb's @bchesky says there's still a massive opportunity in consumer AI, if only because almost every AI company is an enterprise/ coding ...
The executive order is all coming down to what President Trump decides. From the report: 'Even if the White House ultimately decides to rej...
apple feature request: Make dictation via the stock keyboard not suck iOS dictation is so bad when there’s open source models that are 10x ...
The Multi-Agent Architecture That Actually Ships https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ow1we5PzK-o What does a multi-agent coding system look li...
I started doing a bit of tech coaching for a few friends Typically PMs or CEOs that don't have an engineering background but now thanks to ...
someone analyzed all 5000+ accepted papers at ICLR 2026, and it's a good signal who's pushing the research of AI: > China has surpassed the...
Let AI Write The Prompt That You Will Use To Create The AI. It's very meta but these machines know how to talk to each other. You will n...
added another thing to my social scheduler (http://post-bridge.com) today: post summary mails! anytime your post gets posted you can get an...
Where code meets culture. Vibecon lands in NYC June 17–18 — two days dedicated to the people building the future of creative AI. Early bir...
"A generation of management teaching taught us CEOs should trust their people and get out of the way. But I don't think 'trust' and 'getting...
"Enterprise makes a lot of sense until everyone does enterprise." @bchesky says we're going to see a massive revolution from enterprise to ...
Twitter trends by date use UTC day boundaries. This archive highlights the top Tech Twitter posts from May 8, 2026, ranked by weighted engagement across likes, reposts, replies, and bookmarks.