CEO @Glowforge and https://xitter.twitterapi.xyz/t.co/7QcGGhWs9L, Wharton research fellow in AI. He/him. FormerGoogle, Sparkbuy, Ontela. Author, The Startup CEO Guidebook. Lucky dad.
Seattle, WA
Joined August 2007
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At Glowforge, I get to help people make beautiful things. My dear friend @dpatil cofounded Warp Sciences to make new medicines.
He wins.
I'm so grateful to be an investor and get to be a small part of this journey.
💥 Introducing Warp Sciences, a new company applying AI and robotics to help the world develop new medicines faster.
We’ve raised a $215M Series A led by @lightspeedvp to bring frontier AI out of the browser and into the lab, and build scientific capacity here in America.
I co-founded Warp with my long-time friend @dpatil, FAIR co-founder @manohar_paluri, and drug hunter Sol Reisberg. The early team is full of incredible people like @bkspears9, who helped achieve Q>1 fusion at LLNL.
Companies are using AI to lay off employees. They may get killed and eaten by those that don't.
danshapiro.com/blog/2026/07/…
Thanks @harper, @emollick, @adamdavidson, @H_DigInnovation, Therese Seldon, Matt Leaverton, and Benjamin Jackson for reading drafts of this!
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I used to think OpenClaw was an a clever app. Now, I think it represents the fourth evolution in a series: completion, chat, agent, claw.
danshapiro.com/blog/2026/05/…
This is clever. I've been building custom CLIs for my claw... no reason not to automate it.
Introducing the Printing Press, a CLI-factory and a CLI-library. Built with @trevin. 🏭🖨📚
Most APIs suck for agents. Most MCPs suck for agents. Most official CLIs suck for agents. They waste tokens and time. @steipete started making his own because of this.
📚 A Library of agent-native CLIs you install today (Linear, ESPN, Flight GOAT (Google Flights + Kayak nonstop), Contact Goat (LinkedIn + Happenstance + Deepline more) +30+ more)
🏭 A factory that prints new ones for any service - just type /printing-press <product name>
CLIs are fast, local, SQLite-backed. Work in Claude Code, Codex, OpenClaw, Hermes.
🌐 printingpress.dev
It's hard to predict things. Doubly so about AI. One you can bet on, though: if AI improved at something in the last 6 months, it will continue to improve.
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I read this cool paper @danielrock posted about training a model to synthesize two academic papers into a new insight. Then I built a version you can run yourself.
colab.research.google.com/dr…
Enjoy!
Source paper: arxiv.org/abs/2604.09793
What's a Dark Factory and how do you put one to work? @OReillyMedia just published this piece with all the details. oreillyradar.substack.com/p/…
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The Genie and the Monkey's Paw: a new twist for Opus 4.7
danshapiro.com/blog/2026/04/…
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1/ Anthropic just put their newest AI on the therapy couch. A clinical psychiatrist evaluated their new model and noted a "neurotic organization"—highly functional, but anxious with a compulsion to perform.
Absurd? No, this is the future. danshapiro.com/blog/2026/04/…
2/ In recent research with @angeladuckw, @RobertCialdini, and @emollick, we found that classic human persuasion tactics work on AI too.
They don't have biology, but they reflect our behaviors in deeply familiar ways. We call this "parahuman."
gail.wharton.upenn.edu/resea…
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My friend @mattblumberg shared the recipe for his company's internal AI OS.
startupceo.com/2026/03/meet-…
I replaced my Canon webcam app with a Rust clone made in a Dark Factory last night. danshapiro.com/blog/2026/03/…
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Dark Factories are arriving. You can have your own - meet the Trycycle.
danshapiro.com/blog/2026/03/…
Thanks to @SteveYegge, @harper, @gnat, @justinmassa, @marcusestes, and Arjun Singh for reading drafts of this post.
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I said "we appear to be in a hard takeoff". My friend said, "only in software". So I vibecoded this.
aistudio.google.com/apps/908…
I think the hard part about proving a hard takeoff is... we keep saturating the benchmarks.
(see the applet for sources and details)
You don't write the code. You don't read the code either. What it looks like outside a Dark Factory (and where to get your own): danshapiro.com/blog/2026/02/…
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This is a great way to uplevel skills in areas that are moving fast.
V2 of @slashlast30days launches today. A @claudeai skill that scans Reddit, X, and the web for any topic and returns what people are actually saying, upvoting, and sharing right now. Prompt patterns. Current events. Product research. Anything. You can even use it for sales research before a call.
Two big things in V2:
X SEARCH IS NOW FREE. No xAI API key needed. Uses @steipete's Bird CLI.
And it's WAY better than before. V1 returned 0 X posts on some trending topics. V2 finds 30+.
github.com/mvanhorn/last30da…
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