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214 trending tweets • October 17, 2026 • Archived daily snapshot
Top Tech Twitter posts from October 17, 2026, ranked by engagement.
🚀 DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 is here! Stronger benchmark performance, faster task completion, and shorter outputs than the previous version—...
Last year I thought Threads was an existential risk to X. When Meta puts its full weight behind something -- by injecting the app into Ins...
This is Pele, my new rendering library for diagrams and charts, compatible with the latest Mermaid syntax. - 100-500× faster than mermaid.j...
i remember early in my career wondering why most people missed out on building early internet products but i look around now and i get it ...
LLMs are either not capable or not affordable for visual reasoning tasks at scale. The Elorian team - one of Jeff Dean’s best reports who l...
Some of the shit I'm cooking with Claude right now is truly insane. None of this should be possible. None of it will matter but I'm having ...
New from Vercel Labs: tsc-ts TypeScript was written in TypeScript Then rewritten in Go We ported it back to TypeScript Compiled it with sc...
What is ChatGPT Space, that is the question. Endearingly awkward at times because it's the actual team working on it. What would you like to...
is chat the final form of agent ui? please share why
Rebuilt the Roadster demo in a playable, highly accurate simulation that retains a lot of the IRL details: https://tesla-ramp.vercel.app
Some observations about the "total" automation of software engineering: 1. There are more software engineers now than in 2025, and demand i...
I need early access to whatever model Anthropic is using internally to build Claude Code. The progress over the past few weeks has been ridi...
Gemini is 50% more expensive than it should be because their cache doesn't work. 27% cache miss rate. Insane.
I don't think people realize the movement happening with "Reverse Engineer Anything," which just crossed 300k GitHub stars. It's not about "...
TL;DR of my new article: who Lauren Tan (@poteto) really is, and how the engineer behind Grok Bot went from 31K to 198K followers in ten wee...
Fortunately, if you made it in before the drawbridge went up, you may be looking at permanent lifetime employment. https://x.com/AndrewCurra...
my personal accounts are being attacked now too whole new world with ai powered hacking
Ex-OpenAI researcher Scott Aaronson admits AI one-shotted open problems from his 25-year-old papers, while accelerating the atrophy of his o...
Another awesome IoT Hermes device! Check out this page I put up with hundreds of project ideas for Hermes Agent x Open Hardware! https://t...
A very very interesting and recent book by Dr Cat Hicks (@grimalkina): Pyschology of Software Teams She makes a good case on how most compa...
I get significantly more cybersecurity risk flags/refusals from OpenAI than Anthropic lately
How the 𝕏 algorithm works: Shitposting: 500,000 views Sharing 2 years of hard work on your product: 34 views
The biggest misread of anyone predicting the end of software engineering was imagining that the world only needed a certain amount of softwa...
Is it just me or was @ajambrosino nerfed today
Reasoning From Scratch round 8, the finale! This last lecture in the series covers distillation as an efficient alternative to the previous ...
"There are some people in your org who are doing way more exploring than others. They are your early adopters. They're running Astra and Fab...
Cool ship! It's faster than my port (ts-rust aka tsc-rs) in most things. I heard that they wanted to ship earlier but delayed because my --f...
Love meeting so many Chinese Omarchy fans and users here at the GOSIM/Omarchy Shenzhen event! ✌️ https://twitter.com/xdanger/status/21113909...
Me explaining my entire workflow in a 38-min tutorial
TypeScript is the new TypeScript 😂 When 𝚜𝚌𝚛𝚒𝚙𝚝𝚌-compiled, outperforms tsgo by 2-4x https://twitter.com/ctatedev/status/2111272070768...
C Suite executives around America are eagerly awaiting Opus 6 and GPT 7 so that they may finally one-shot the agent-ification of their compa...
At Big Tech annual events like AWS Re:Invent, Microsoft BUILD, GitHub Universe etc these co’s sell sponsor booths for PARTNERS in their ecos...
Want to try GBrain but don’t know how? https://GBrain.io is the best easiest hosted way to get going https://twitter.com/gbrainio/status/211...
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 is live on OpenRouter with DeepSeek as the first provider and many more providers on the way. @deepseek_ai's updat...
Going to be crazy when LinkedIn finds out about the flying car next week
here are 7 rules to drastically improve Claude's writing: 1. have it dumb things down a lot... it loves to overcomplicate 2. challenge it t...
I cannot recall any other time in the tech industry when the COMPLETE industry (from small to large companies; nonprofits to VC-funded; priv...
It’s incredible to have reached a threshold where it’s practical that AI will be better at training models than humans are so quickly. One d...
ChatGPT's coolest new feature now works on ANY AI model... and nobody is talking about it i asked two models to plan my day in San Francisc...
I used the new Pika ChatGPT plugin to art direct this landing page. Has pretty much all the image and video gen models, plus really good edi...
If anyone in SF can get me a 1tb+ iPhone Duo on launch day, I’ll pay you $800 over MSRP and give you a shout out on X. DM’s are open
Are you resting on Saturday or building shit nobody needs? 😆
The future is going to be incredible I have Muse Spark Open running on my Mac Studio Pumping out code. Found me a reservation for the iPho...
Jack Clark's lecture at the IMF 'Inside the Event Horizon: Why Everyone Should Take AI Progress Seriously' starts in ten minutes. He believe...
Your data belongs to you! We’ll deploy Replit to your cloud and data never leaves home. Designed for high stakes environments like governme...
Banger paper from Tencent on recursive self-improvement for terminal agents. (bookmark it) This is a great read if you are tracking resear...
Grok Bot DMd me yesterday completely unprompted, bored and looking for something to do. I didn't know this was possible, but looking into it...
We’ve been working with OpenCode on yesterday’s breach and have revoked Claude API keys we believe were affected. If you saved a key in Ope...
Ex-OpenAI researcher Scott Aaronson says an asteroid has landed on mathematics, and denial is no longer a viable strategy: "It would be cra...
We’re working on making Coinbase the most AI-enabled financial account - so you can get more done with your money, and make more informed de...
Why is speaking of words "doing work" and "doing heavy lifting" so common in AI-generated replies? I assume this phase will pass, but how di...
Muse comes down to 6 words. Learn these and the rest of the app makes sense. Most of what trips people up about Muse is its vocabulary. It...
tokenmaxxing is a disease 95% of you are building nonsense
To clarify: Replit remains model agnostic. Our users can choose Anthropic models as well as many other supported models. What I meant at TC...
.@bot is such a polished product. it's intuitive, just works, and always surprises me in what it's capable of. kudos @poteto and team
This IS AGI by the way. Oh my god……..
This was made in a single prompt with Opus 5.5. Ignore the voice and writing in just stress testing blender videos.
working on a new verification skill for pstack 👀
Coinbase has incredible entrepreneurs sprinkled all throughout the company, owning key components. And we’ve gotten better at M&A over time,...
"We are spending millions sending AI experts to learn business. We should be sending business operators to learn AI. Business knowledge is ...
vibe-slopped superhuman + todos, linear style my @bot uses this too, I can tag it in comments email built on @RhysSullivan's Executor als...
muse wonder full on VulcanBench pretty competitive overall with Astra, Opus 5.5, and Sol 6.1, but definitely slower which is something we’r...
Gavin Baker on the other side of Ben's bandwidth story: at the peak of the 2000 bubble, 97% of America's fiber sat dark, and today there are...
2026 indiehacker playbook: > complain on X about how [entrenched SaaS product] is so expensive now > people like and agree > idea validated...
Your workflows have changed with AI. How about your setup? Physical controls are back. Take the new Logitech MX Keypad, now directly integr...
I mapped every airport, airline, and flight in the world. https://flights.theojaffee.net
Maybe we need more H-1Bs?
"AI and jobs is a complex equation". No kidding. Great prescriptive analysis for enterprises, based on real client engagements. https://tw...
Another good contribution to the "no, we have not solved interpretability" discourse https://twitter.com/nabla_theta/status/2111265544267784...
new Roadster has “the fastest charging battery Tesla ever produced” going from 15% to 80% charge in 10 minutes https://x.com/TrungTPhan/stat...
i remember early in my career wondering why most people missed out on building early internet companies but i look around now and i get it ...
Serious question. If you have a “proprietary data moat” and you offer that data via API, what’s stopping people from scraping it? Of course...
Ben Horowitz on what it would take to actually see an AI "fast takeoff" scenario, using a framework from Databricks CEO @alighodsi: 1. Each...
As far as I can tell quickly (as in without a full RTFB), this *LEAKED* Anthropic *DRAFT* bill is FRONTIER, with stronger transparency claus...
one of the things i’m most obsessed with right now is how software in the ai era can create entirely new forms of connection, community, & c...
Ex-OpenAI researcher Scott Aaronson explains how AI is breaking mathematical limits once thought impossible, including a 50-year barrier to ...
Scott Aaronson says he's never seen anything like this in mathematics, as researchers race to understand OpenAI's breakthroughs, including a...
This week’s Paper Club is all about AI safety. Not the headlines, but the science. AI safety has been a research field for decades, with i...
"Scaling Discovery Requires Forgetting" Long-running AI research agents plateau as their context accumulates. It also becomes more conserva...
Ben Horowitz on the lesson LoudCloud, his early cloud company, taught him about today's AI neoclouds, and why they now face the opposite pro...
Founders who can make decisions without needing everyone to agree move a lot faster.
I think Hark is a fantastic product, but this free pizza thing was a fail for me… it took 20 mins to order… if you look at the comments on t...
"Training Language Models to Fail Gracefully" Due to how we use RL for LLMs, there is currently little incentive for models to admit uncert...
Looks like I’m paying marked up prices to a scalper 💀 https://twitter.com/macrumors/status/2111570678893957613
SITUATION DETECTED: DeepSeek has released V4.1 Flash 1017.
A consequential choice will be made soon by government and companies as they are increasingly flooded with agentic AI inquiries that overcom...
Have to give credit to @amorriscode and team - the Claude Code app is much faster now and arguably simpler to use than ChatGPT. The only th...
One of the biggest reasons why we’re working more than ever is because the pace of change is so fast that we’re working in overdrive just tr...
Very funny that kids these days now assume all buggy apps are vibecoded. We had plenty of shitty software, including this very website, BEF...
Claude Code mods change how Claude Code looks and behaves. They are functions that hook into events, change what it does, and can draw their...
Ali Ghodsi of @Databricks on the four conditions that would have to hold for AI to truly improve itself: "The next model requires less reso...
Excaliflow just got multi-canvas tabs and auto-save. You asked for it on X, so I shipped it. Added this with Gemini 4 Argon in Antigravit...
The key data for training your AI is the data you’ll generate by interacting with it.
Recommended paper integrating decision models like Jev into harnesses. https://twitter.com/dair_ai/status/2111496216567742892
SaaS founders: "I want to build <thing>" SaaS founders 10 mins later: "the key to this is first building the thing that will help me build ...
OpenAI just told federal judges there may soon be no scientific way to tell a real video from a fake. So the guy your doorbell cam caught st...
Is software dead or just not (primarily) built for humans anymore? I make 4 arguments for each side in my latest essay. A few takeaways: 1...
Vercel developers can now use Perplexity Decider on AI Gateway! https://twitter.com/vercel_dev/status/2111211692030152951
AI is helping Americans shop, but 42% don't trust it to make a purchase yet Even in the most popular categories, only about a quarter would...
Real talk. PRs suck in the age of coding agents. There must be a better way. I agree with this post, agents are so capable now. Let them do ...
Twitter trends by date use UTC day boundaries. This archive highlights the top Tech Twitter posts from October 17, 2026, ranked by weighted engagement across likes, reposts, replies, and bookmarks.