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Founded isoHunt, WonderSwipe. CTO and AI shepherd. 50/50 product / engineering

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Imagination is more important than knowledge. ~ Einstein My current sabbatical in New Orleans got me rethinking the meaning of work, the universe, everything. We are at the doorsteps of machine super intelligence (ASIs), what will remain are only what’s human. Intuition of the Culture girl in Iain Banks’ Consider Phlebas could out guess Minds a million times smarter than her. What else can we, I do in the coming age? I have 2 ideas. I’ve not been more excited than since I built isoHunt 25 years ago. I’m going monk mode in my cave The vibes must flow. Long live the builders! APPENDIX Vibe coding is akin to the rise of Jazz around New Orleans. What was considered devil music, low class by uneducated self taught musicians breaking all the rules of classical music birthed whole new inventive genres. I believe this will happen to all sectors of knowledge work. Professionals relying on certifications and established processes with no creativity are not going to have a good time I also hate the word artificial in ASI. First, there won’t be AGI, we are the general intelligence. ASI should be rebranded to be more accurately MSI. There’s human intelligence, and there’s machine intelligence. Artificial will be like a racist word. We will coexist like in the Culture
There's a new kind of coding I call "vibe coding", where you fully give in to the vibes, embrace exponentials, and forget that the code even exists. It's possible because the LLMs (e.g. Cursor Composer w Sonnet) are getting too good. Also I just talk to Composer with SuperWhisper so I barely even touch the keyboard. I ask for the dumbest things like "decrease the padding on the sidebar by half" because I'm too lazy to find it. I "Accept All" always, I don't read the diffs anymore. When I get error messages I just copy paste them in with no comment, usually that fixes it. The code grows beyond my usual comprehension, I'd have to really read through it for a while. Sometimes the LLMs can't fix a bug so I just work around it or ask for random changes until it goes away. It's not too bad for throwaway weekend projects, but still quite amusing. I'm building a project or webapp, but it's not really coding - I just see stuff, say stuff, run stuff, and copy paste stuff, and it mostly works.
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Who at CIA did Jensen offend? We don’t want a regime change
How do we sue the board for violating their fiduciary responsibility? I'd join class action lawsuit to preempt the board if they are going to remove Jensen $NVDA is worth materially less near term and long term without Jensen. If Jensen didn't commit treason, keep him
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an actual iPhone clone before Siri AI gets good with iOS 27.3? 👏🏻 Apple got Cooked so long, it couldn't be Tern' Us around fast enough
We switched 10 people from iPhone to Blue. Weeks later, none of them want their iPhone back. Introducing Blue: a phone you just talk to. Tell it what you need, and it gets done. It has all the context, can use every single app, and even triages your notifications. We built it for people who always have a little too much to do. The ones buried in messages, notifications, and to-dos. If that's you, get yours today. Backed by Y Combinator + 70 other VCs & angels. heyblue.com
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that's actually nuts
I used Gemini 4 Carbon to get Windows 11 running on my iPhone Duo! 💻 Unfold the screen and it's a pocket PC, including Antigravity running coding agents on my phone. This is the actual desktop ARM OS running locally with touch controls. Demo + repo below!
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at risk of sounding like ai: define blast radius on what kind of code changes and where reviews have to be automated to keep up with agentic code changes. So 1. humans need to be aligned on what should be careful in not changing 2. agents get similar memo
I love AI coding, but there is a major problem that I truly believe is going to come back and bite us. I'm working on a project now that I understand very deeply. Teams are swarming around it pushing lots of PR's up to merge and review. We've tried to have things in the repo for where agents can and can't touch, but those don't seem to matter to much. What I see consistently is very large PR's that people do not fully comprehend. I see it changing things in the code that shouldn't even be touched by the change that's being put in. Agents trying to be clever by touching core platform capabilities because its "easy" for it to do it. We now have so many PR's pending approval, and 2 of us are trying to work one by one on how we get these safely merged in as fast as possible. We really have 2 options, lock down and prioritize or yolo mode it and hope for the best. There is no way we can keep up with the velocity of code that AI can generate, and AI just isn't good at fully understanding large systems and how they interoperate with one another. I was talking with a friend of mine, and they mentioned they are having the same problem. Their company measures purely on PR count, so there is no incentive to spend time on reviewing and making sure code goes in of quality. So engineers are using AI to write code, and other engineers are using their agents to review and then basically trusting its right. If I were to just blindly yolo all the code in, it would take weeks to unwind things. I have to imagine all big teams are dealing with this same problem. interesting times ahead, as we figure out how to navigate things.
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How do we sue the board for violating their fiduciary responsibility? I'd join class action lawsuit to preempt the board if they are going to remove Jensen $NVDA is worth materially less near term and long term without Jensen. If Jensen didn't commit treason, keep him
BREAKING: Nvidia, $NVDA, is preparing to fire Jensen Huang, its founder and CEO, after allegations of a second affair have surfaced, per WSJ. The board is preparing to meet as soon as today to determine his future.
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i think the X algo is broken on stupid shit trending @nikitabier please come back
5.6M views in 2 hours what is happening on this website?
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no this isn't replacing Slack. Yet xitter.twitterapi.xyz/garyfung/status/211916…
Astute observers will note: Cursor launched a slack, Google Docs, notion & linear/JIRA competitor. This isn’t simply pair programming, it’s trying to replace the entire multiplayer tech company stack. Why use an MCP to load your company context when you can just put it in the agent in the first place?
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hey david, stop bursting software factory people's bubble
this is not a kpi people. its not a flex. 7000 PRs that you havent read adds no value, adds risk, and lacks intent like what are you trying to prove? that you dont care about your software?
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nvidia robots are cooking (chemistry)
Autonomous, uncut, 1x speed. This is GR00T 2 controlling real dexterous hands to perform a chemistry lab experiment (and clean up after itself) end to end. Episode 1 of a new series! I’ll keep dropping real-time robot videos, with none of the “4x” or “8x” labels you usually see in the corner. No one can speed up reality, except Dr. Strange ;)
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so, is Roma 2 the new @linear ?
In 2014, I sold my first company Loom to Dropbox. Today, I’m proud to announce Roma 2.0 (YC F26): the first to-do list for AI agents. Everyone uses a different agent: Claude, Grok Bot, Muse… Until now, none of them could work together. Roma automatically creates tasks and hands them to the right agent. Allowing you and your agents to work together, with shared context. Try it here: roma.app
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queuing Chamath and gang on the liberal rehab tour
Palantir CEO Alex Karp says the company’s products are “essentially progressive.” “I’ve been a Democrat my whole life. I grew up in a far left environment. I know more about being a progressive than almost anybody on the planet, and I absolutely believe Palantir — all of our products are essentially progressive,” Karp said.
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this is a interesting taste test i like Carbon's video editing better for being more stable, highlighting with motion only where appropriate
Fable 5.2 vs Gemini 4 Carbon. we gave both the same raw clip: our founders’ first pitch, two weeks into the company. “why don’t we make Cursor for video editing?” same prompt. left: Fable 5.2 right: Gemini 4 Carbon which one would you ship?
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- the safety cult will start disbanding after ipo liquidity event - openai, xai, meta ai, google deepmind, deepseek, qwen. All signs of intense competition and there can be a plurality of god tier ai in the long run - fake news - cool capex, is that supposed to be a flex?
Interesting remarks Anthropic made in a meeting with the sell side: - Anthropic has the stability and the better talent that open source lacks. - The AI market is winner take all. As long as we execute properly, we will take all of it. - The contract with SpaceX will not be extended beyond the middle of next year. - Developing Opus 5.5 cost more than $10 billion.
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The remarks are unverified second-hand notes from a Barclays analyst call on Anthropic meetings, not official statements. Poster corrected $10B cost to full Claude 5.5 family; filings show SpaceX deals extend to 2029 but terminable after early 2027 on 90 days notice. x.com/jukan05/status… fourweekmba.com/ai-anthropics-… sec.gov/Archives/edgar…
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obsessing, virtue signaling technicalities, when they have fundamental product problems when $SHOP stock tanked because revenue shrinking. Their bread & butter is smb stores going online, but why when AI can now create simple bespoke stores direct with Stripe payment and cut out the middleman? the zig & zag of technological disruptions, bundling & unbundling unexplored territory: distribution. Help small shops with really interesting, unique merchandize get discovered. Social commerce is the new meta
Something wrong with Shopify writing the fourth article about their migration, obsessively repeating the "12 weeks" mantra, without adding any new info. Sings of deep internal political trouble, IMO. Don't trust them anymore.
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tui in gui, or gui in tui? or perhaps tui is the new gui > Rust app implements TerminalEmulator over libghostty, alacritty_terminal or anything else and provides a TerminalEmulatorFactory nice.
NSH v0.5.0 发布! - TUI:基于 Ratatui 的终端后端,让 NSH 应用也能运行在终端里。同时新增 Terminal 组件,可在应用中嵌入终端。 - 桌面应用:支持多窗口、系统托盘、全局快捷键、单实例、系统通知、URL Scheme 和文件关联。 - 发布与更新:支持应用自更新、签名 OTA 更新,以及发布到 TestFlight 和 Google Play 内部测试。 - 长列表与性能:优化聊天式列表、滚动时的表格布局、视图创建和运行时内存占用。 - 文本与编辑器:支持读取选区的文本、Markdown 和 HTML;RichEditor 支持 HTML 导入导出,并改进流式 Markdown 展示。 - WebView:支持获取脚本执行结果,以及使用摄像头和麦克风。 - 体验细节:改进输入法、文本选择、键盘导航和无障碍支持。 感谢 60 位这个版本的贡献者! github.com/longbridge/nsh/re…
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now that the dust have somewhat settled where did @OpenAI models go on the pareto frontier? Terra 6.1 barely hung on in middle of that almost horizontal line. And note that x-axis on cost is exponential here notable efficient corner bumps: - Deepseek 1017 (max) - Gemini 4 Carbon (high) - Claude Fable 5.2 (xhigh) arena.ai/leaderboard/code/we…
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OpenAI, if you’re going to release something to address this mogging, it’s about time
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UBE, or universal high income. Or there’ll be civil war as MSIs destroys jobs faster than created xitter.twitterapi.xyz/garyfung/status/210844…
overheard from friends talking about AI in China, and it’s very alarming - AI short films went massive in China market because of how good the video models are now - the first wave of people who mastered using AI to generate short films and comics made quite some money because they could produce a lot more content than traditional workflows - but within just a few months, everybody and their mom could make equally good short films because all the expertise could be written in a markdown file - when everyone’s more productive, no one actually has an advantage and it’s a race to the bottom. very quickly it became impossible to make money, and everyone’s busier than they were without AI - the only one making money now is companies like bytedance who owns user demand and distribution. they sell ads to creators who pay to get traffic, and eventually ad spend became 80% of those creators’ operating expense, while AI tokens is less than 5% so what are the problems here? 1. there’s no moat if you are creating anything with AI if a human is really good at something, and it’s hard to find more humans who can do the same, they can leverage the scarcity of their skill to get paid very well but if AI is good at something, it will be infinitely replicated, so there’s no scarcity hence you can’t really expect a sustainable business by creating anything with AI 2. more creators created more content people actually liked. that’s a good thing but the economical benefit of that all got absorbed by the distribution platforms there’s a famous chinese poem 遍身罗绮者,不是养蚕人 - it basically says people who dress well aren’t the people making dresses. that’s exactly what’s happening here if our society doesn’t figure out a better way to distribute wealth, AI will help billionaires become trillionaires while average people become more exhausted than ever
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> When to use Carbon vs. Argon? Why would anyone still use argon at same price?
Gemini 4 Carbon Developer Guide 🧑‍💻 Wrote down tips to get started with Carbon: 🤔 - When to use Carbon vs. Argon? 💭 - Set thinking levels based on the task 🎯 - Set clear goals 🔄 - Use build and verify loops Read the full guide 👇 aistudio.google.com/learn/ge…
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