Daily Briefing

2026-03-17

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Twitter @cat @_catwu

We now support custom environments when you run Claude Code remotely via http://claude.ai/code, Claude desktop, and Claude mobile apps! Omid Mogasemi: You can now add a setup script in Claude Code on the web & desktop! Use these to automate setup before Claude Code launches on a cloud environment. It’s particularly useful for installing dependencies, settings, configs, etc.

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Twitter @Aaron Levie @levie

One of the hardest jobs in the world right now must be figuring out what colleges should be teaching. The world is yelling at you from every angle that every single job is going to change forever, and you need to prepare all of your students for this. So what do you do? My guess —and note, I dropped out of college so I’m the last person who should weigh in— is that we likely want 75% of curriculum to be about the fundamentals of a particular field, and 25% applied AI skills in that domain (you can play with these numbers a bit). For the 75%, you learn all the same foundational principles of CS, or ME, or psychology, and so on that everyone did before AI. But all of this should be accelerated due to AI as well, so we probably compress the equivalent of masters degrees plus into every bachelors program. In this, we probably want to be teaching and testing on the fundamentals, even if in the real world you only deal with abstractions due to AI, because the only way people will properly wield these tools effectively is to understand how to tell the agent what you want to do, how you know when they’re going off the rails, how to fix what isn’t working, and so on. If you don’t know the fundamentals then no amount of abstractions will save you. Then, the leftover 25% goes into applied ways of working with AI in your particular field. If you’re studying CS, you use AI to build the craziest working software possible. If you’re in media, you’re producing a full film that looks like a blockbuster. If you’re in marketing, you’re figuring out how to do end-to-end marketing campaigns with the modern stack. This combination I think would make students extremely potent coming into the real word. In fact they likely would know vastly more about how to operate in the field in a modern way than existing employees, making them very compelling hires. Just a thought! aria 🪸: I cannot stress enough how absolutely cooked CS, Soft Eng, Comp Eng and basically any tech/IT major is. Literally no one in my cohort bothers to write their own code anymore. People just hand in labs that are fully vibecoded and pass with grades above 90% and the profs do NOTHING

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Twitter @Zara Zhang @zarazhangrui

RT Peter Yang The cost of not tinkering and exploring has never been higher.

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Twitter @Nan Yu @thenanyu

RT John Loeber 🎢 you’re pitching garry tan “so what do you guys do” you start explaining he’s furiously typing . two keyboards. one hand on each. you’ve never seen this before “who are your top customers” you explain. he types. his apple watch is a strobe light of notifications “who’s your competition and why should i invest” you explain that there’s no competition and you are the best and only product in the space “false!” garry jumps out of his seat “i am the competition!” you are speechless “in this meeting, i vibe coded your entire company. and my gstack has already closed your top customers.” you check your phone. your stripe graph shows 100% churn “and look at this” garry shows you his imessage. there’s a text from 35 seconds ago. your top enterprise prospect that you’re trying to close? garry’s AI is trading baking recipes with the CEO’s mom “thank you for playing!” you have no moat. you are not admitted to the YC spring 26 batch. “paula”: garry in his office in his lobster outfit "okay claude... rewrite this but in rust... no wait... rewrite it like paul graham would" "garry you have a yc interview starting in 5 minutes" "one second. claude just one-shotted a distributed system" "garry they are in the zoom"

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Twitter @Kevin Weil 🇺🇸 @kevinweil

I'll put a lot of money on the over, @jpatel41 :) Jeetu Patel: Thanks for the kind words @rohanvarma. The partnership between @Cisco and @OpenAI has been nothing short of fabulous. Especially over the past 75 days. Our team is pretty stoked with the progress being made with the use of Codex. Let’s keep pushing on both sides. Appreciate you

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Twitter @swyx @swyx

RT Math Files log (😅) = 💧log 😄

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Twitter @Guillermo Rauch @rauchg

Every month I periodically see the recycled take that “something better than chat” is coming for AI. That chat is temporary. In fact, I predict the opposite. More of our work and life will happen through chat and voice interfaces of increasingly intelligent agents. 🦞 OpenClaw is the lobster in the coal mine of this. It’s true that as humans we consume with all the senses. When we use our internal company agent at @vercel, it can answer any question in English, but also plot data and richly visualize it. All in the chat medium. You start with any question, and receive periodic reports, much like an enterprise claw, on @slackhq. If the chat is not enough, you’re one click away from more depth and refinement on a web page. I don’t believe web pages are going anywhere. Many will evolve to accept natural language, which is the lingua franca of AI, and stream both text and complex data. We call this Generative UI (eg: http://json-render.dev). And web pages will also be crucial in enriching the conversations that happen elsewhere, whether you’re chatting with your agent on WhatsApp or Slack. We’re building http://chat-sdk.dev to make this universal interface as easy to deploy as possible.

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Twitter @Aditya Agarwal @adityaag

RT Grant Lee There's a hidden tax on every knowledge worker in the world, and nobody talks about it: The design tax. You're a strategist, a sales lead, a marketer. You were hired for what you know. But every meeting, every pitch, every proposal expects you to show up with something that looks like a designer made it. I lived this. Before Gamma, I spent time in consulting and investment banking. I spent more hours formatting slides than the analysis that went into them. When my cofounders and I started Gamma, we asked: what if you never had to be a designer in the first place? Five years and nearly 100 million users later, we've refunded billions of hours of the design tax. Today, we're eliminating it for good with our biggest launch ever. Gamma Imagine — a powerful, AI-native visual creation tool directly in Gamma. Posters, logos, infographics, visuals from a single prompt. On brand, every time. AI-Native Templates. Templates were supposed to save you from design work. Instead you spent the time filling them in. So we completely rebuilt the template experience. Modify a whole deck with a single prompt, with your brand and style intact every time. Gamma Connectors. You're already thinking in ChatGPT and Claude. Now Gamma sits inside the most popular work apps in the world. No more context-switching. You were hired for your ideas, not to resize text boxes. Let Gamma pay the design tax.

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Twitter @Matt Turck @mattturck

RT David Waltcher Thrilled to announce that @FirstMarkCap has led the Series A in @tracebit_com , the company building the category-defining assume breach platform for the AI era, and I am joining the board. Our thesis is simple: prevention and zero trust alone are no longer enough. AI is expanding the attack surface faster than any team can defend it, and the smartest CISOs have stopped asking 'how do I keep attackers out' and started asking 'how do I catch them the moment they're in, before they can do any damage?' That's exactly what Tracebit does, and we couldn't be more excited to partner with Andy, Sam Cox and the rest of the team. cc @Accel / @algovc, @TapestryVC, @MMC_Ventures, and CCL.

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Twitter @Sam Altman @sama

I have so much gratitude to people who wrote extremely complex software character-by-character. It already feels difficult to remember how much effort it really took. Thank you for getting us to this point.

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Twitter @Nikunj Kothari @nikunj

RT Ryo Lu keep struggling when things come too easy, you don’t exercise the brain nor the emotions. ease can feel like progress, but it often skips the reps that actually change you. growth is usually a loop, not a straight line – you take passes. you try, you fail, you reframe. you come back with a slightly better model, a slightly calmer nervous system, a slightly wider range of what you can handle. hardship isn’t the goal. but friction is gold. it shows you where your understanding is thin, where your habits are brittle, where your ego is doing the steering. the struggle is the curriculum. agents are making things easier, and that’s good. but don’t confuse speed with depth. use AI to remove busywork, then spend the saved energy on the parts that still hurt a little: the unclear problem, the uncomfortable conversation, the hard tradeoffs, the things you can’t yet explain in words. instead of putting all your wishes into the black box, actually keep thinking, and seeing things fully. keep the difficulty where it matters. outsource the tedious, keep the meaningful resistance. that’s how we keep learning – and how we stay human while your tools get superhuman.

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Twitter @Ryo Lu @ryolu_

keep struggling when things come too easy, you don’t exercise the brain nor the emotions. ease can feel like progress, but it often skips the reps that actually change you. growth is usually a loop, not a straight line – you take passes. you try, you fail, you reframe. you come back with a slightly better model, a slightly calmer nervous system, a slightly wider range of what you can handle. hardship isn’t the goal. but friction is gold. it shows you where your understanding is thin, where your habits are brittle, where your ego is doing the steering. the struggle is the curriculum. agents are making things easier, and that’s good. but don’t confuse speed with depth. use AI to remove busywork, then spend the saved energy on the parts that still hurt a little: the unclear problem, the uncomfortable conversation, the hard tradeoffs, the things you can’t yet explain in words. instead of putting all your wishes into the black box, actually keep thinking, and seeing things fully. keep the difficulty where it matters. outsource the tedious, keep the meaningful resistance. that’s how we keep learning – and how we stay human while your tools get superhuman.

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Twitter @Nan Yu @thenanyu

AGI Reed: .@linear slackbot got jokes I'm actually pretty curious about the prompting here; safe thing would be to instruct to always demur, eg "Sorry, did you want to create a ticket?", so allowing it a little bit of personality is a choice. how do they dial in the right amount?

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Twitter @Nikunj Kothari @nikunj

ryan gosling vc associate risking it all to 🤝 risking it all to save humanity save a deal project hail mary

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Twitter @Guillermo Rauch @rauchg

Last 6mo of @vercel build & deploy perf ships: ① 𝙼𝚊𝚛 𝟼 - 𝟷.𝟸𝚜 - 𝟹.𝟽𝚜 𝚏𝚊𝚜𝚝𝚎𝚛 🆕 Deployment step now 15% faster ② 𝙹𝚊𝚗 𝟸𝟹 - 𝟼𝟶𝟶𝚖𝚜 - 𝟻𝚜 𝚏𝚊𝚜𝚝𝚎𝚛 Faster deploys with improved function caching ③ 𝙹𝚊𝚗 𝟷𝟺 - 𝟸.𝟾𝚜 - 𝟷𝟸𝚜 𝚏𝚊𝚜𝚝𝚎𝚛 Reduced build times for large projects ④ 𝙳𝚎𝚌 𝟸 - 𝟷.𝟼𝟽 - 𝟸.𝟾𝚜 𝚏𝚊𝚜𝚝𝚎𝚛 Deploy steps are now up to 21% faster ⑤ 𝙾𝚌𝚝 𝟸𝟸 - 𝚞𝚙 𝚝𝚘 𝟽𝚡 𝚏𝚊𝚜𝚝𝚎𝚛 Turbo machines ⑥ 𝙾𝚌𝚝 𝟹 - 𝟹𝟶-𝟼𝟻% 𝚏𝚊𝚜𝚝𝚎𝚛 𝚙𝚢𝚝𝚑𝚘𝚗 𝚋𝚞𝚒𝚕𝚍𝚜 Zero-config Python uv ⑦ 𝙾𝚌𝚝 𝟸 - 𝚏𝚊𝚜𝚝𝚎𝚛 𝚟𝟶 𝚋𝚞𝚒𝚕𝚍𝚜 Faster v0 deploy source file sync ⑧ 𝚂𝚎𝚙𝚝 𝟷𝟼 - 𝟹𝟶% 𝚏𝚊𝚜𝚝𝚎𝚛 / 𝟽𝚜 𝚏𝚊𝚜𝚝𝚎𝚛 Improved build cache restoration ⑨ 𝚂𝚎𝚙𝚝 𝟾 - 𝟹.𝟻𝚜 𝚏𝚊𝚜𝚝𝚎𝚛 Faster v0 deploy package installs Much more to come in 2026

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Twitter @Aditya Agarwal @adityaag

RT James Clift Introducing Durable. The first AI business builder that replaces your 9-5 income. RT + comment “Durable” and we'll build your business for FREE.

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Twitter @Zara Zhang @zarazhangrui

RT Lenny Rachitsky Today I'm releasing my entire newsletter archive (350+ posts) and all podcast transcripts (300+ episodes) as AI-friendly Markdown files. Plus an MCP server and GitHub repo. A few months ago I shared my podcast transcripts on a whim, and y'all built the most amazing things—an RPG game, a parenting wisdom site, infographics, a Twitter bot, and 50+ other projects. Let's see what happens when I give you even more data. Grab the data here: http://LennysData.com. Paid subscribers get all of the data (some 350 posts and 300 transcripts). Free subscribers get a subset. I don’t think anyone’s ever done anything like this before, and I’m excited to give you this excuse to play with that AI tool you've been meaning to try. Here’s my challenge to you: build something, and let me know about it. I’ll pick my favorite and give you a free 1-year subscription to the newsletter. Just post a link to your project in the comments here: https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/how-i-built-lennyrpg. If you’ve already built something, slurp in this new data and submit it, too. I’ll pick a winner on April 15th. Check out today's newsletter post for inspiration on what you could to build: https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/how-i-built-lennyrpg LFG.

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Twitter @Zara Zhang @zarazhangrui

How I build skills: 1. Brute-force a task with Claude Code 2. Iterate until it meets my criteria 3. Get Claude to read this folder, where I pre-downloaded blogs & docs from Anthropic team, and turn what we just did into a skill 4. Eval the skill using skill-creator plugin Thariq: http://x.com/i/article/2033772621536591872

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Twitter @Matt Turck @mattturck

RT Dataiku Yesterday at the @NVIDIA GTC keynote, Jensen Huang recognized Dataiku as one of 19 AI-native platforms helping move models into production. For more on our latest release with NVIDIA: https://www.dataiku.com/press-releases/dataiku-launches-kiji-inspector/

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Twitter @Zara Zhang @zarazhangrui

If you wanna level up in AI, spend an hour every day on tinkering and playing with the models. Build something & have fun with it. Test the model’s limits. Don’t be utilitarian. I guarantee that if you do this consistently for a month, at the end you’ll look back and realize this was the most productive way to spend your time. Not reading about it. Not taking a course on it. PLAYING with it. To quote @steipete: it’s hard compete with somebody who’s just there to have fun

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Twitter @Josh Woodward @joshwoodward

The end of the "one-size-fits-all" response. Last week, Gemini added memory globally. Today, we go further. Everyone can now turn on Personal Intelligence in the 🇺🇸USA across Web, Android, iOS, and Chrome and connect Gmail, Photos, and more. We're moving beyond generic answers and providing personal responses uniquely relevant to your life. More countries coming soon!

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Twitter @Josh Woodward @joshwoodward

I love it too! Harshith: Whoever came up with Cinematic Video Overviews in NotebookLM deserves a massive raise 🫡🫡 It's slowly rolling out to Pro users... I got access yesterday, and it’s worth it The videos are so addictive for me If any Pro user hasn’t tried it, you are missing a lot I think Pro

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Twitter @Aditya Agarwal @adityaag

Is it time??? 👀

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Twitter @Josh Woodward @joshwoodward

RT Google DeepMind How do we measure progress toward AGI? It takes a village – and a bit of healthy competition. 🛠️ We’re launching a global hackathon with @Kaggle to build new cognitive evaluations for AI. With $200k in prizes up for grabs, help us put our framework to the test. Join the challenge → https://goo.gle/4uqOVKK

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Twitter @swyx @swyx

RT Latent.Space 🆕 Claude Cowork, Skills, and the Future of AI Coworkers https://www.latent.space/p/felix-anthropic @felixrieseberg has spent years working at the interface layer, from Electron and the Slack desktop app to now helping build @claudeai Cowork. In this episode, Felix explains why execution is getting so cheap that teams can “build all the candidates,” why Anthropic is betting on local-first agent workflows, and why the future of AI products may belong less to chatbots and more to systems that can actually do knowledge work.

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Twitter @Aaron Levie @levie

The official Box CLI is here. Now you can use Box via Claude Code, Codex, Perplexity Computer, OpenClaw & more as a full cloud file system for agents. Available to all users, including free users with 10GB of free storage. npm install --global @box/cli

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No Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups

The AI Race Is Winner-Take-All

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