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The model is the product

# The mistake of conflating intelligence and power I had an interesting discussion recently. Someone asked me, what is intelligence? I said...

you can just build things from your phone, with Codex in the ChatGPT app

/goal is the most underrate feature in AI right now You need to run this prompt immediately in either Codex or Hermes (both of them support...

2 days ago Elon released the new X algorithm Since then I have read all ~22,000 lines of code 8 times over. Skipping almost every meal Her...

💾 Finally set up @Litestreamio for the first time on 🏡 Interior AI to test It is open source and free and lets you add kind of a listener...

finally a vercel user we have these internal apps we create 100% vibecoded and there really isn't a better place to throw those up, esp be...

i always operate under the assumption that things are easy until proven otherwise. mostly cuz the people loudly insisting things are hard a...

The real tenor in SF is as it would be at the moment AI is usable, more or less at AGI, still expensive and the domain of a priesthood That...

Founders School is a new high school where tuition is $150k a year, but if students don't hit $1M in gross profit by graduation, they get th...

I just finished this book, and it’s now in my top 5 all-time favorites. @EricJorgenson wrote a masterpiece by pulling from tweets, podcasts...

It's hard to beat the stock Linux kernel that Linus and gang already went to great lengths optimizing. Omarchy just ships with that, and it ...

ebola & hantavirus joining forces for a giga pandemic would be an absolutely ridiculous scenario for the world.

so much joy in asking codex for random questions at work (such as finding some specific spreadsheet i'd been looking at a while ago), much m...

eventually we’ll have too many tools & not enough ppl to use them.

I think I could 3x acquisitions on TrustMRR with proper cold emails, but I don't want to do it, and I don't want to hire someone, so I'm con...

Realization: in the past, we wrote code to call LLMs Today, we write prompts and skill files for LLMs to execute code. Tomorrow? Yet unwri...

Caitlin Kalinowski (@kalinowski007) helped engineer the original unibody MacBook Pro and was technical lead on the MacBook Air and Mac Pro a...

GBrain now ships with ZeroEntropy as the recommended default embedding and re-ranking option over OpenAI and Voyage AI.

Former Tesla President @jonmcneill breaks down China's strategy to dominate the global auto industry: Every five years, China selects five ...

About to film podcast. What should we cover this week?

✅ ACQUIRED on @trust_mrr $300 MRR Slack bot sold for $10,000. It took 38 days from listing.

At one point during covid, California was only managing to get 25% of its vaccines into arms. @patio11 told me about the political jockeying...

Using /grill-me this morning to help me fix a toilet Let's see how this goes

Is it just me or did almost nothing happen this week in AI? (Besides codex mobile)

As part of our effort to move the platform toward declarative code, new tables in the public schema will no longer be automatically exposed ...

People consistently overestimate how hard it is to build something and underestimate how hard it is to win people’s attention once you’ve bu...

Here's my new episode with @alexalbert__, who shared an inside look at how Anthropic is building the next Claude. We talked about how the r...

wow such insight “your sleep duration may be associated with longer sleep” ai doesn’t need to be filler feature in fucking everything. why...

Pulled the fastest-growing startups based on engineering headcount growth over the past 90 days:

.@Collision is bullish on two types of people: high-agency individuals and double majors. "There are two categories of people I would be su...

“We locked one HUNDER new CS grads in a room until they all find a job.” takes 5 years to film.

thank you claude code, very cool. surely mythos is AGI. surely software engineering is solved.

What happens if AI becomes conscious and starts refusing our requests? From @alexalbert__: "We have a few folks now whose whole job is to ...

some photos from our company offsite in San Diego last week... want to join the next one? we're looking for a @beehiiv user who knows the ...

Partner @1kxnetwork, Peter Pan says the upper class will focus entirely on life-maxxing in a post AI world: "It's sort of this K effect. Y...

bro took a look into Claude Code, then spent 1 hour talking about the fall of software. “we have let people take the bar and shove it reall...

How I AI: @OpenAIDevs codex and a @picobricks to build a 2 player reaction timer game - lcd screen to display scores - random timer led to t...

PRO TIP: if you’re building an agent/harnesse, point Codex to study Codex for tools, best practices, etc. the fact that OpenAI open sourced ...

So the two most obvious barriers to some sort of true AI takeoff are robust RSI (AI acting as an independent AI researcher, rather than “mer...

Agents are surprisingly bad at asking questions They ask a lot of obvious or inconsequential questions when you ask it to grill you about ...