Thank you Sarah, my pleasure to come on the pod! And happy to do some more Q&A in the replies.
sarah guo: Caught up with @karpathy for a new @NoPriorsPod: on the phase shift in engineering, AI psychosis, claws, AutoResearch, the opportunity for a SETI-at-Home like movement in AI, the model landscape, and second order effects
02:55 - What Capability Limits Remain?
06:15 - What
Thank you Sarah, my pleasure to come on the pod! And happy to do some more Q&A in the replies.
sarah guo: Caught up with @karpathy for a new @NoPriorsPod: on the phase shift in engineering, AI psychosis, claws, AutoResearch, the opportunity for a SETI-at-Home like movement in AI, the model landscape, and second order effects
02:55 - What Capability Limits Remain?
06:15 - What
nihal
New York is about to make a massive mistake. The NY State Senate is advancing a proposal to decouple from federal QSBS (Section 1202) — the tax provision that lets startup founders exclude gains on qualifying exits. If this passes, founders would owe 10-13% in combined state and city tax on exits that are tax-free at the federal level and in nearly every other major tech state. Even worse: it's retroactive to January 1, 2025. This comes right as the federal government just expanded QSBS benefits and New Jersey moved to full conformity. New York wants to go in the opposite direction.
As a seed investor in NYC who has backed hundreds of companies, I can tell you: founders are mobile. If New York becomes one of the most punitive states for startup exits, the best founders will simply build somewhere else — and the jobs, tax revenue, and innovation will follow. NYC has built something special over the last two decades. This proposal puts it all at risk for a short-sighted revenue grab.
If you're a founder, investor, or anyone who cares about the NYC tech ecosystem — please sign the TechNYC open letter before Monday below 👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾
Keep building, NYC 🗽
It is quite ridiculous how agile you have to be with your AI agent stack right now. Whatever you spent 6 months perfecting 12 months ago probably is already out of date and you’re better off doing a reset than trying to resuscitate it architecturally.
And what’s interesting is that for every jump in progress that eliminates one part of the stack, generally a new capability becomes possible that you need to build new scaffolding for.
For instance, probably lots of RAG pipelines have had to adjust because of context windows have improved dramatically and you can now just using agentic search due to improve tool use. But that same improved tool use means you probably need to be supporting code execution with sandboxes so the agent can handle more complex work.
So one capability gets bitter lessened, and a new one opens up altogether. This is the cycle we’re going to be in for years. If you don’t have the speed and agility to deal with it, probably going to be in a tough spot.
Matt Carey: every new model generation you see the pinch of the bitter lesson.
harnesses, pipelines, rules which previously felt important now hold you back from innovating.
what took months of grind for you is now just a prompt away at ½ the cost.
look for it and you will see. Both large
Coconut Tree City 🥥🌴 (threads: @yinyang_yo_)
Lau's getting her license back in three years and quickly transferred her real estate to some LLCs to alleviate the level of compensation she'd have to pay out
A whole family was killed. This is not justice. She deserves more than just probation and a 3-year license suspension
KRON4 News: A driver who killed a family of four, including two babies, at a San Francisco bus stop was sentenced to probation. Mary Fong Lau (seen here walking through the courthouse today) dodged jail and prison time.
Lau, 80, was speeding when her Mercedes SUV plowed into a West Portal
Nimish
easily the biggest referral campaign by any ai tool
also replit's agent 4 is actually pretty good, especially their multi agents feature
dm for referral link
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Kane 謝凱堯
Not only probation—the woman who killed four people with her car will get her license back thanks to progressive judges in @SFSuperiorCourt.
Criminals in SF are given infinite chances at the cost of everyone else.
KRON4 News: A driver who killed a family of four, including two babies, at a San Francisco bus stop was sentenced to probation. Mary Fong Lau (seen here walking through the courthouse today) dodged jail and prison time.
Lau, 80, was speeding when her Mercedes SUV plowed into a West Portal
Understand the universe
Jeffrey Emanuel
This is truly the most alpha I can give people. If you can get this loop going for yourself and your use case, it doesn’t take many iterations before you can start doing really extraordinary things.
Jeffrey Emanuel: It's also so powerful to take learnings from agent sessions where your custom CLI tools are used by agents and then feed them back into the skills the agents use to help them operate those tools.
This is sort of "in-context recursive self-improvement" if you will, cyborg style:
$100 in Codex credits for college student in U.S. and Canada:
OpenAI Developers: Meet Codex for Students.
We're offering college students in the U.S. and Canada $100 in Codex credits.
Our goal is to support students to learn by building, breaking, and fixing things.
http://chatgpt.com/codex/students
Almost every AI power user I know is MORE stressed and busier after using AI, not less
What people thought AI would do: 10x productivity so that we can finish work earlier & relax more
What it’s actually doing: 10x productivity so that we end up with 20x more things to do cos of the sheer possibilities
Armin Ronacher ⇌
“If someone 50 years ago planted a row of oaks or a chestnut tree on your plot of land, you have something that no amount of money or effort can replicate. The only way is to wait.” https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/3/20/some-things-just-take-time/
ChatGPT helped Sid find cancer treatment options after doctors said there was nothing left for him to do:
Sid Sijbrandij: Looking forward to speaking at OpenAI Forum in a week on how I leveraged ChatGPT to find cancer treatment options after doctors said there was nothing left for me to do.
https://forum.openai.com/public/events/virtual-from-terminal-to-turnaround-how-gitlabs-co-founder-leveraged-chatgpt-in-his-cancer-fight-k3m7gks1bt
still early.
but clearer now.
http://cursor.com/glass
Ryo Lu: @ericzakariasson i have a mock like this
(but less glassy 🤠)
Peter Yang
Claude Code with Figma MCP is an incredibly underrated combo for AI design.
My next guest Felix showed me how to go:
→ From Figma design to app in 10 min
→ From app back to Figma to create editable vector components
He also showed me how to build beautiful 3D animated websites like the one below.
📌 Subscribe to get our full tutorial tmr: https://www.youtube.com/@peteryangyt?sub_confirmation=1
Claude Code with Figma MCP is an incredibly underrated combo for AI design.
My next guest Felix showed me how to go:
→ From Figma design to app in 10 min
→ From app back to Figma to create editable vector components
He also showed me how to build beautiful 3D animated websites like the one below.
📌 Subscribe to get our full tutorial tmr: https://www.youtube.com/@peteryangyt?sub_confirmation=1
I just bought $5k of Figma
Very bullish on SaaS adapting to AI, their stock is getting crushed rn, and @zoink isn’t gonna miss
💥Susan Dyer Reynolds🗞️
Monday, 3/23 at 9 a.m. in Drug Diversion Court, Department 18 of San Francisco Superior Court, Thea Brenda Hopkins, out on bail and linked to violent attacks on two elderly Asian women, one fatal will be considered for mental health diversion. https://thevoicesf.org/asian-elder-death-and-assault-land-in-diversion-court/
It's working guys. This is exactly what I built for myself and what you can have for you now.
It's also free and open source and you can fork it and make it your own. I don't want to hear the hate. This is a gift!
Vox: spent an evening running the full gstack sprint on a real feature. /office-hours → /plan-ceo-review → /plan-eng-review → build → /review → /ship.
three things stood out:
/design-consultation analyzed my existing site, found inconsistencies, proposed updates to my design
I underestimated how powerful Opus 4.6 with 1M tokens is. Even last year we were absolutely hitting context limit problems constantly. 1M tokens means you can do much more complex analysis entirely in context. Claude Code is so much better.
This is the worst it will ever be.
Charlie Holtz
You can now quick start a repo with gstack initialized!
Conductor will automatically:
- setup gstack, install skills
- create a new repo
- kick off /office-hours
I'm sure OpenAI has good reasons but from what I've seen hiring more people (especially 2x the size of the company in less than a year) doesn't actually make companies move faster.
Polymarket: BREAKING: OpenAI reportedly plans to nearly double its workforce to 8,000 from 4,500 by the end of the year.
This was one of the “markdown IS code” moments for me
Vox: @garrytan the part that surprised me most was claude detecting codex running on the same machine and offering to hand off for review. didn't configure it. it just figured out there was another AI available and asked if i wanted a second opinion. i was literally about to set that up
Michael Bloch
QSBS isn't a loophole. It's the only tax break in America that requires you to have created something from nothing. New York is about to eliminate it. Here's why that should matter to everyone, not just founders.
cc: @nihalmehta @dhaber @juliepsamuels @davidu @zachweinberg @Trace_Cohen @yrechtman @WillManidis @mattturck @mansourtarek_ @brexton @BillAckman @packyM
Michael Bloch: http://x.com/i/article/2035368950171664385
Tibo
Do people like this? We don't do this for codex because it exists to help you and it's important that you remain the owner and accountable for your work without AI taking credit. At the same time it does mean that you can't trace how popular codex is among repos.
Yuchen Jin: I noticed something interesting:
Claude Code auto-adds itself as a co-author on every git commit. Codex doesn’t.
That’s why you see Claude everywhere on GitHub, but not Codex.
I wonder why OpenAI is not doing that. Feels like an obvious branding strategy OpenAI is skipping.
It's my birthday and on my birthday I want to recognize all my haters.
Haters do the best marketing. Love your haters.
1M context window feels like an upgrade from Opus 4.6 to 4.7
Visiting Shanghai / Hangzhou for 2 weeks in early April. Was born there but haven’t been back in over a decade.
Any good tech scenes to check out?
swyx
Re @thsottiaux @jasonkwon posting poll to quantify -
Should Codex add attribution to itself in your commits, like Claude does?
LinkedIn launched in 2003
YouTube launched in 2005
Twitter/X launched in 2006
(Facebook 2004, Insta 2010, Snap 2011 etc)
Network effects create massive long term staying power.
Unclear yet if the AI era can build its own strong flywheels (data loops etc)
jack: just setting up my twttr
gpt-5.4 for frontend:
Sherwin Wu: If you put in the thought and intentionality required for it, you actually get pretty great frontends from GPT-5.4! Check out some best practices here:
https://developers.openai.com/blog/designing-delightful-frontends-with-gpt-5-4
I guess I am basically building gstack into what Claude in Chrome MCP was supposed to be
Chrys Bader
introducing AlphaClaw Apex 🐺
a native Mac app for managing multiple OpenClaw VPS instances from one dashboard.
some of you are already setting up OpenClaw for clients as a service. Apex is built for you.
deploy to Hetzner VPS in one click. monitor all your instances. manage configs, updates, spend, and health from a single UI. no SSH needed.
everything you know from AlphaClaw, now across a fleet:
📅 Google Workspace OAuth & pubsub wizard
⏱️ Cron calendar view and cost-saving insights
🖥️ Remote node setup wizard
🔄 Auto-backup to GitHub
📊 Token usage & cost analytics built in
🧱 Prompt hardening reduces agent drift
🩺 Drift Doctor analyzes your prompts and workspace for drift
💬 Telegram multi-topic workspace setup wizard
📂 Full file browser, editor, and terminal no SSH needed
🐕 Per-instance watchdog and crash recovery
🛠️ Manage env vars from the UI
🔑 Manage model keys & OAuth visually
🪝 Webhook creator & inspector with replay & debug
⬆️ One-click updates, no redeploy needed
📦 Import existing setup from GitHub
if you're thinking about offering managed OpenClaw as a service, this is the ops layer you've been missing.
setting this up is so fun, need to figure out a way to stream the dev process without getting instantly owned
Thariq:
Tim Linnet
Re @garrytan thank you.
Just another random guy using gstack. It’s useful!
Helps me make faster decisions. Called me a 7/7 founder, whatever that means - seems like my project actually has some legs :)
Chinese Twitter said that /office-hours in gstack was not hard enough on founders, so I made them harder
Garrett Lord
Handshake is buying your company's real codebases, salesforce exports, internal databases, ERP dumps. We anonymize everything. The stuff that's not on the internet is what we need. We're buying across ~100 tools.
If your company has messy operational data sitting around, we want it. DM me or g@joinhandshake.com for a quote
