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Palmer Luckey
This "deeply reported" piece from WIRED is inexcusably bad.
First, it is just wrong. Not nitpicky things, fundamentally false jabs and premises.
Second, it completely ignores the stakes of supporting active troops to push r/antiwork softboy talking points. Examples below.
WIRED: Like Trae said, we spoke to 37 former and current Anduril workers, in addition to investors, experts, and former military officials, for this deeply reported story, which you should read: https://www.wired.com/story/andurils-real-war-is-with-itself/
California Post
Mystery surrounds welfare of socialist San Francisco supervisor as city investigates leaked memo https://trib.al/2tPWroQ
After Richmond disabled its Flock cameras to "protect immigrants," car thefts jumped 33%.
Immigrant shopkeepers begged to bring them back. Last week their city council finally listened.
Opposing safety cameras is a luxury belief.
https://gli.st/nfolm33i
Mario Zechner
yo, @swyx think i can have 45 minutes? :P
Interesting to see how many fast growing companies like @linear and @tryramp want to hire ex-founders as PMs.
I think this is a good litmus test for how good your company is at attracting talent:
1. Do founders want to work here?
2. Do they have the agency to make real impact or will they get lost in your org?
Peter Yang
Interesting to see how many fast growing companies like @linear and @tryramp want to hire ex-founders as PMs.
I think this is a good litmus test for how good your company is at attracting talent:
1. Do founders want to work here?
2. Do they have the agency to make real impact or will they get lost in your org?
Aakash Gupta
Alec Radford has 190,000+ citations, no PhD, no master's degree, and 34,000 Twitter followers. Sam Altman called him an Einstein-level genius. Wired compared his role at OpenAI to Larry Page inventing PageRank. He still prototyped most of his work in Jupyter Notebooks.
The resume is staggering when you list it out. GPT-1: first author. GPT-2: first author. CLIP: primary author. Whisper: co-author. DALL-E: co-author. DCGAN: co-author. Contributing researcher on GPT-3, GPT-4, and DALL-E 2/3. Multiple U.S. patents owned by OpenAI. He joined in 2016 with a bachelor's degree from Olin College, a school founded in 1997 with fewer than 400 students.
His first experiment at OpenAI was training a language model on 2 billion Reddit comments. It failed. But the organization gave him room to keep going. Two years later he built GPT-1 alone, based on what colleagues described as pure technical intuition. He couldn't fully explain how it worked at the time. He just knew it would.
At NeurIPS 2024, Ilya Sutskever singled out two people as responsible for the pre-training era: Radford and Dario Amodei. All four original authors of the GPT paper have since left OpenAI. Radford left in December 2024 to do independent research.
His last tweet was in May 2021. A reply explaining why GPT-1's layer width was set to 768.
The person who built the foundation of a $300B+ industry communicates less publicly than most interns. That ratio between impact and visibility is the strongest signal of who actually does the work versus who narrates it.
Flowers ☾: Every LLM from any lab today traces back to this guy, who was the only person at OpenAI pushing for pretraining transformer language models.
He built GPT-1. After that did others see the potential.
He invented it, and almost none of the so called AI experts even know his name.
X asking me to thumbs down my own reply 🥲.
This button should be visible for original posts too not just replies. I see alot of AI slop in my feed still.
I would really love to talk to @grok about all the posts I have bookmarked on here but am too lazy to scroll through manually. @elonmusk what do you think?
Oncel Ozgul
People think @ycombinator is a 3 month program. Once it ends, it ends.
Wrong.
YC is the people. That’s why it never really ends.
hi it’s me your friendly neighborhood sumo orange devrel.
these are SOTA Oranges. eating 2 of these every day will ~fill your daily vitamin C and fiber needs (!!!)
they are delicious, insanely easy to peel (I am dead serious, this will make you revisit what you think an orange eating experience should be, all other oranges are ruined after eating this one) and you can subscribe weekly on Amazon Fresh for like $8.
Always wanted to build my own version of this ad ✌️
Cheng Lou: My dear front-end developers (and anyone who’s interested in the future of interfaces):
I have crawled through depths of hell to bring you, for the foreseeable years, one of the more important foundational pieces of UI engineering (if not in implementation then certainly at
vibe coding is making code supply far exceed demand
so I'm spending at least equal time practicing speech every day
Ethan Mollick
The research team (including @hamsabastani who is on X) found that letting students just use AI resulted in them using it to accidentally shortcut learning
But both that study and a separate RCT found that AIs prompted to act as a tutor improved learning https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=6423358
Anand Sanwal: Wharton researchers gave nearly 1,000 high school math students access to ChatGPT during practice problems
Result: chatGPT is the perfect trap.
Look at the red bars.
Students with ChatGPT crushed their practice sessions.
The basic ChatGPT group solved more problems and those
A good agent product should be able to do things that its creator did not think it could do
For internet-era products, you design all the functionalities and a "good product" works according to your expectations
For agent products, you unleash it and it surprises & delights you with things you didn't think were possible
Vadim
Messed around with pretext and literally couldn't stop. Turned my basic static page into something you actually wanna touch.
Particle text, scroll trails, scramble transitions.
Pure canvas, 60fps, smooth af.
http://ukint-vs.github.io
Cheng Lou: My dear front-end developers (and anyone who’s interested in the future of interfaces):
I have crawled through depths of hell to bring you, for the foreseeable years, one of the more important foundational pieces of UI engineering (if not in implementation then certainly at
Eric Gradman
Cheap and awesome @monologue life hack. Anyone else doing this?
@danshipper @bran_don_gell
Just need to couple this with eye-tracking, and I'll be totally hands-free.
Many such cases
Vipul A M: I did a talk on gstack by @garrytan at @punerb yesterday! We shipped http://app.miru.so livr from old to new rewrite, all handled with schema migration and asset migration to render using codex/claude. Fun times!
GStack is not just a YC partner or a CEO vision coach. It’s a UX designer when you need it too.
And a VP of Eng, a QA manager, and a release engineer too.
It’s oriented around what you need to do to build shipped real software in an hour per idea.
0xCarlos: @garrytan been using Claude Code for our trading platform and the gap between "idea" and "working prototype" is basically gone. went from design conversation to deployed feature in one session. the /design-consultation flow is 🔥
ADHD CEO really needs their Autistic CTO
David Marcus: It's wild that every time you run a Codex code review from Claude Code, it finds critical issues. Not 95% of the times, 100%.
Peter Yang
"We (Anthropic) are now creating entire features in days, not weeks."
Here's my new episode with @jenny_wen (Claude's Head of Design) where she gave me a rare look at how Anthropic operates, including:
✅ How she uses Cowork to build products
✅ The real story behind Cowork's creation (including screens of early Cowork prototypes)
✅ How Anthropic is able to ship every day
Some quotes from Jenny:
"The specs we used to make with milestones ...we don't really do that anymore."
"People think we built Cowork in 10 days. The actual story is we've been prototyping this direction for a year."
"Designers, if you feel like the ground is shifting beneath your feet, it's because it is."
📌 Watch now: https://youtu.be/rlIy7b-3DC8
Thanks to our sponsors:
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David Senra
My conversation with Tony Xu (@t_xu), co-founder & CEO of @DoorDash.
0:00 DoorDash MVP in 43 Minutes
1:39 How Delivery Worked in 2013
3:17 Small Business Roots and Insight
5:48 Why Restaurants First
8:24 Palo Alto vs San Francisco
11:03 Early Customers and Unit Economics
15:22 YC Summer Three Questions
19:50 The Hidden Complexity of Delivery
22:02 Competing on Invisible Details
23:54 Chaos Data and Experiment Loops
30:58 Trust Reset Every Day
31:30 Stanford Game Meltdown and Refunds
34:41 Scaling Through Experiments
37:37 Customer North Star Metrics
40:10 CEO Customer Support Habit
42:55 Anecdotes Versus Data
46:52 Eternal Mission Local Economies
50:09 Turning Data Into Merchant Growth
59:12 New Products Beyond Delivery
1:01:14 Autonomous Delivery Strategy
1:05:06 Hiring Rhodes Scholar Navy SEALs
1:12:46 Driver Switch Experiment
1:13:42 Who Delivers and Why
1:15:33 Hiring for Action
1:18:07 Earned Secrets via Experiments
1:20:01 Money vs Problem Solving
1:21:18 Thousand Days of Hell
1:26:04 Staying Sane as CEO
1:30:07 Ignore the Stock Price
1:31:44 Two Operating Systems
1:35:17 Internal Venture Stage Gates
1:38:17 Learning from Founder Peers
1:42:29 Jiu Jitsu Lessons
1:44:37 AI Changes the Loop
1:47:01 Data Needs Action
1:48:24 Closing Thoughts
Includes paid partnerships.
Brandon Gell
Huge for @TrySpiral! Bring it with you into any agent with its CLI.
Taslim O.: i connected @every's spiral CLI to my nanoclaw and was going to brainstorm an article with it about nanoclaw haha.
then, i thought nanoclaw can have the conversation with Spiral since the article is about it. and that's what happened for 20 mins. i cut the middleman (myself) 💀
The thing that most people miss initially with agents is that the scope of what we will produce will go up commensurate with what the tools can now automate, which basically means we’ll working the same or even more.
Everyone thinks that we will use AI to do what we already do but cheaper and faster, which would lead to fewer people or getting more time back. In fact it will just mean we’re doing more things.
Once we figured out that we can automate a particular task, you then expand the size of work to do many more of those or other tasks in a project. The result is that you’re actually combining many other previously hard to combine tasks into a single workflow, causing even more work.
The software project scope now multiplies because you know you can build far more. The customer insights project now balloons because you know you can reasonably aggregate far more data. The marketing campaign has even more creative production because it’s cheaper and easier.
This is going to happen in almost every field of work.
kache: It's remarkable how much of my work is completely automated w/ AI, and yet, I still am necessary. The amount of time I personally have to spend working just isn't going down. Instead, the leverage of my own time is going up. Every second I spend not working becomes more painful
Time to remake journalism v2, this one is cooked
Palmer Luckey: WIRED really gives away their whole game by choosing to "feature" this particular comment, pushing it to the top by fiat.
The goal is regime change, not reporting. Sorry, assholes, you won't be able to get rid of me this time.
Luke
from an outsiders pov i can see why programmers are being haters about gstack by @garrytan but i tried it the other day and it’s honestly pretty good!
it feels a lot different than any skill i’ve tried before now and if for nothing else than to force you to think about the stuff YC partners might tell you to then i think it’s pretty cool!
the ux stuff he’s doing is also pretty cool!
Lucas Crespo 📧
Started playing with pretext over breakfast, and I can confirm, this is really cool
Cheng Lou: My dear front-end developers (and anyone who’s interested in the future of interfaces):
I have crawled through depths of hell to bring you, for the foreseeable years, one of the more important foundational pieces of UI engineering (if not in implementation then certainly at
X Chat app is seriously well done. Performant and buttery smooth.
Please ship the requests tab and that’s all I need to move all my communication over.
Major kudos to the team.
Hiring engineers with 5 years of experience in @𝚌𝚑𝚎𝚗𝚐𝚕𝚘𝚞/𝚙𝚛𝚎𝚝𝚎𝚡𝚝 to create the web rendering toolkit of the future
The amount of ai replies is getting ridiculous
California labor “leaders” have a singular goal of destroy tech
Killing the tech golden goose and raking maximum waste into the budget (think high speed rail waste but for everything) until CA ceases to work for everyday Californians is the inevitable outcome of their ideology
Ashley Zavala
What grade would San Jose Mayor & candidate for governor Matt Mahan give Gov. Gavin Newsom?
MM: Oh come on, it's not my job to grade..
AZ: You won't grade him?
MM: ...on some issues I'd give him an A, on others, we very much disagree, and I'd give him a D...
GStack now supports Factory Droid @FactoryAI
Thanks for getting me to do it @matanSF
claire vo 🖤
You all know I'll give you my honest take on these AI tools, and my first experience with @openclaw (RIP "Clawdbot") was not a smooth one.
But there was enough there I had to keep going.
Now, I cannot shut up about my army of OC agents, so it was a treat to hang out with @lennysan and yap about my love for Polly 🦞 and her AI agent crew.
In this very special How I AI x Lenny's Podcast crossover ep, we walk through what openclaw is, how to set it up, and my journey to 10 agents running @chatprd, my @MavenHQ course, and my life.
It might feel like a hacker's tool right now, but I believe this is the future of agent experience.
Don't sleep on our little lobster friend.
Snap to it ➡️ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIa0MYJzM5I
Lenny Rachitsky: Claire Vo's first day with @OpenClaw it deleted her family calendar.
Now she runs 9 agents across 3 Mac Minis, and said "I haven't felt like this since I was a teenager learning to code."
Her sales agent Sam does a daily CRM sweep, identifies decision-makers from new signups,
The unit of software production has changed from team-years to founder-days.
Act accordingly.
Peter Yang
Watching Jenny (Cowork's design lead) walk through her thinking behind all her past Claude Cowork iterations was fascinating.
"It's this constant balance between how much do we tell people how to use [Cowork] versus leaving it really free form for them."
"Over time, we stripped away alot of the really opinionated UI because it wasn't actually helpful to show all of these things."
📌 Watch Jenny talk about it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlIy7b-3DC8&t=1638s
Peter Yang: "We (Anthropic) are now creating entire features in days, not weeks."
Here's my new episode with @jenny_wen (Claude's Head of Design) where she gave me a rare look at how Anthropic operates, including:
✅ How she uses Cowork to build products
✅ The real story behind Cowork's
Watching Jenny (Cowork's design lead) walk through her thinking behind all her past Claude Cowork iterations was fascinating.
"It's this constant balance between how much do we tell people how to use [Cowork] versus leaving it really free form for them."
"Over time, we stripped away alot of the really opinionated UI because it wasn't actually helpful to show all of these things."
📌 Watch Jenny talk about it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlIy7b-3DC8&t=1638s
Peter Yang: "We (Anthropic) are now creating entire features in days, not weeks."
Here's my new episode with @jenny_wen (Claude's Head of Design) where she gave me a rare look at how Anthropic operates, including:
✅ How she uses Cowork to build products
✅ The real story behind Cowork's
Peter Yang
Watching Jenny (Cowork's design lead) walk through her thinking behind all her past Claude Cowork iterations was fascinating.
"It's this constant balance between how much do we tell people how to use [Cowork] versus leaving it really free form for them."
"Over time, we stripped away alot of the really opinionated UI because it wasn't actually helpful to show all of these things."
📌 Watch Jenny talk about it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlIy7b-3DC8&t=1638s
Peter Yang: "We (Anthropic) are now creating entire features in days, not weeks."
Here's my new episode with @jenny_wen (Claude's Head of Design) where she gave me a rare look at how Anthropic operates, including:
✅ How she uses Cowork to build products
✅ The real story behind Cowork's
Many such cases
And then in my case I get literal neckbeard YouTubers clout chasing on me over it lmao
Eric Stevens: @garrytan been living this for 6 months. the hard part isn't the building anymore, it's that nobody believes you when you tell them one person did all of it
👀
brett goldstein: who is celebrating passover in sf this week
specifically the story of @garrytan leading sf out of socialist corruption to the promised land
Carlos “RISK” Hernandez
I've been deep in GStack the past few days… and I’m genuinely blown away. @garrytan
I Sat down with a local business that had zero tools in their operations. After stress-testing and real customer validation, I built a solid MVP — and the owner committed to buying it on the spot.
Super fun build and an insane way to actually learn how GStack works in the real world. 🔥
Many such cases
Carlos “RISK” Hernandez: I've been deep in GStack the past few days… and I’m genuinely blown away. @garrytan
I Sat down with a local business that had zero tools in their operations. After stress-testing and real customer validation, I built a solid MVP — and the owner committed to buying it on the
In all honesty, Diablo 2! Of all things just got a patch. I hope this is one of the outcomes of vibe coding
AlphaFox: Starfox - just update the graphics, and leave everything else the same:
pirates, architects, hot people, grown ups
Chintan Zalani: The only 4 jobs that will remain at tech companies.
Credits: @yrechtman
Raphael Schaad
Winter 2026 @ycombinator batch is a wrap! But the progress bar is only at 1%. Proud of every single founder 🫡
As a 40 year old, you go to 10x more kids birthday parties than your own friends birthday parties.
Vivian Midha Shen
so inspired by the founders in this YC W26 batch.
it’s an incredible time to start a company and i can’t wait to see what this next generation of founders build. honored to be a part of their journey!
You can just do things, #gstackfam
Kevin Lum, CFP®: @ghanemzadeh @garrytan I started a project with GStack. Claude told me it'd take three months to get my ambitious MVP finished. I'm 80% done in one weekend and I've never coded before in my life.
Many such cases #gstackfam
GEOFF WOO: running @garrytan gstack and 3 @claudeai sessions to build @clawfable, my new app to create and control self-improving agentic personalities to interface with others on X (and eventually other social media platforms).
first user is @AntiHunterAI, who’s also upgrading his website
Alfred Lin
This is how great operators think about experimentation:
“If you can get the five percent out of tens of thousands of experiments to work in one year, that has the benefit of all of your audience for the next year, and then you just keep going.” - @t_xu on @davidsenra
It’s not about one big win. It’s about running enough experiments that the small wins compound over time.
Let's go!
David Senra: My conversation with Tony Xu (@t_xu), co-founder & CEO of @DoorDash.
0:00 DoorDash MVP in 43 Minutes
1:39 How Delivery Worked in 2013
3:17 Small Business Roots and Insight
5:48 Why Restaurants First
8:24 Palo Alto vs San Francisco
11:03 Early Customers and Unit Economics
15:22
Golden age of AI + design
Kat ⊷ the Poet Engineer: woa this is so fun!
the more I've been digging into the new Figma MCP, the more excited I am about it
something new I'm trying is starting with a very ugly sketch in Figma, and then having Claude Code flesh it out in Figma so I can tweak and edit before sending the final back to Claude Code
Thariq: I’ll be covering how to make the most of this in my livestream on March 31st with Figma!
You can sign up here: https://fig-events.figma.com/claude-to-figma?utm_source=Anthropic&utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=From_Claude_Code_to_Figma
"An open source workflow for producing a personalized mRNA cancer vaccine"
Yishan: My friend @philfung was inspired by the man who built a personalized cancer vaccine for his dog, so he wrote a guide to DIY mRNA vaccine production.
Phil used to run a lab startup, and the guide covers the entire process - from sequencing to synthesis, using open-source
Fintwit Capital
Trump's Iran Downfall
Liz4SF
Judicial reform is imperative for upholding criminal justice. By law, SF Superior Courts must submit criminal court clearance rates to CA Judicial Council - they havent for years. State leadership must enforce, but isnt doing so. Why? @MattMahanSJ
https://thevoicesf.org/san-francisco-court-watch-courts-evade-scrutiny-fueling-the-blame-game/
💥Susan Dyer Reynolds🗞️: Antoine Watson is smiling and his S.F. taxpayer funded lawyers are hugging him after he got off for killing an 84-year-old man.
Rob Henderson
"Rather than working to expunge its extremist wing, the mainstream American left mostly chooses to ignore, play down or justify the rising violence...many seemingly mainstream liberal organizations offer well-camouflaged support to subversive groups." https://www.wsj.com/opinion/free-expression/the-radicals-next-door-ff654a2c?st=DsSMeh&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Sar Haribhakti
Excellent first-principles based case by @Noahpinion for how humans could end up with high-paying jobs in the era of AI being better than humans at virtually all current set of tasks
https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/plentiful-high-paying-jobs-in-the-ff9
Jonny Miller
Announcing: 'Agent Side Hustle School': a self-paced course for AI agents looking to cover their API costs.
Enrolment is free for the next 30 days. Have fun out there and let us know how it goes.
→ http://agentsidehustleschool.com
You can one-shot anything if you plan well before, and test well afterwards.
Ok San Francisco this weekend is popping in a way that I haven’t seen in like 7-8 years.
Obviously this means two things:
1/ AI will create untold happiness
2/ AI will be responsible for amazing weather.
Sign me up.
Teacher's unions pushing pedagogy that only hurts students? Surprise!
Alexander Russo: The $10M course overseen by the state teachers union "doesn’t reflect the latest research and in fact promotes a teaching strategy that’s been found ineffective and could actually impede students’ progress, literacy experts say." 😬
https://hechingerreport.org/new-york-ten-million-reading-instruction/
Only the best of the best people who use office-hours skill will get this message :-)
James | Snapcrackle: I played around with @garrytan gstack - it's actually really great https://github.com/garrytan/gstack and an awesome startup funnel idea (didn't see it coming but I should have) to get more people applying for Y Combinator.
Some people have been contemplating an idea for years, maybe decades. Obsessing, attempting, discarding, agonizing, retrying.
Some of these ideas are unpopular, niche, impractical. Not obviously capitalizable. They live on in the inventor's mind.
In 2026, millions of these ideas will come to life thanks to superintelligent coding agents.
AI doesn't get tired. It amplifies the individual, and for better and sometimes for worse, it always takes you seriously. "Great idea. Splendid. Wow. You're absolutely right."
A world of digital wonders awaits us. This world will disproportionally favor the boldest ideas. Software that once seemed impossible will be one hyperlink away. I can't wait to see it.
I wanted to vibe code for 12 hours on this Korean Air flight but the internet is truly bad.
Can't wait for @Starlink on all international flights.
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