integrating good system design and thinking, not just into software, but into all agentic ai interactions is a massive design space/opportunity right now
@mattpocockuk with @swyx, @latentspacepod

my normie friends know i work in buy-side and often ask "what're you using codex, claude for?" -> implying that they're still in the LLM era and these agentic tools are just for developers
that's a huge misunderstanding because gone are the chatbot days (static action of: user -> interface); as personal agents become the product (dynamic two-way action of: user -> agent -> user)
and all we do is talk to a high-context assistant who knows us well enough to handle vague asks, execute online tasks, and eventually act proactively
Peter Yang: http://x.com/i/article/2052504136990838784

Just wrapped up a local meetup teaching people how to build their MVP in an hour using @Replit.
Participants walked out with their first web/mobile app and a new appreciation for what’s possible with AI.

In a world that is completely zero-sum this would be true. Luckily it's not and we make new valuable things for other people all day long. When you create wealth for others and for yourself.
Marco Foster: AOC: “There’s a certain level of wealth and accumulation that is unearned. You can’t earn a billion dollars. You just can’t earn that. You can get market power, you can break rules, you can abuse labor laws, you can pay people less than what they’re worth, but you can’t earn

they hate us cus they ain't us
Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼: Sorry @latentspacepod I love you guys but it had to be done 😭😭😭

What a moment of acceleration
Breathtaking moment in Silicon Valley (and the world)

Absolute banger explanation of why AOCs recent comments about it being impossible to earn a billion dollars is not only wrong, but societally harmful
Brivael Le Pogam: AOC vient d'expliquer qu'on ne peut pas "gagner" un milliard de dollars. Que c'est mathématiquement impossible. Que tout milliardaire est forcément un voleur, un abuseur de lois du travail, un payeur sous-évalué.
Ce niveau d'ignorance économique de la part d'une élue qui

This poisonous mindset is creating a wave of young right-wingers. It's breathtaking.
Marco Foster: AOC: “There’s a certain level of wealth and accumulation that is unearned. You can’t earn a billion dollars. You just can’t earn that. You can get market power, you can break rules, you can abuse labor laws, you can pay people less than what they’re worth, but you can’t earn

Re @AOC The idea that all billionaires got their money by exploiting peopl doesn't hold up to any scrutiny.
JK Rowling wrote books about cheeky wizards. I invented a better way to make virtual reality headsets and games to play on them. We just made things people wanted.

Paris, we're back for one day only on June 29th! The founders of Datadog, Supabase, PostHog, AMI, and many more will be sharing the real stories behind their companies. See you there 🇫🇷
Y Combinator: Startup School is coming to Paris! 🇫🇷
Hear from founders like @lxbrun of @amilabs, @oliveur of @datadoghq, @kiwicopple of @supabase, @james406 of @posthog, and more.
And join the best builders and hackers from across France and Europe for a day of talks and sessions with YC

I gave a viral talk recently, and @swyx asked me to put something together to explain how I did it - to help future AIE speakers and anyone who wants to learn.
I am, oddly, extremely qualified to do this because I spent 6 years as a voice coach. So I've not only given countless talks, but also taught people how to do it well.
I've put together a list of things I think about when I'm preparing and giving a talk. These are applicable to literally any situation where you're presenting a deck - but also to most in-person interactions. Enjoy.
Flowing and Choking
The thing I think about most when I'm giving a talk is tension. Tension is bodily constriction that interferes with the voice. Tight intercostals, neck muscles, and muscles around the larynx.
Tension is different from anxiety. Anxiety is the nerves, stage fright, the feeling of being watched. Stage fright is curable only through repetition. You get your reps in, you do larger and larger talks, and it goes away. I have negligible anxiety when I do talks, usually because I can always picture a bigger gig I've done.
Anxiety feeds tension. You are nervous, so you get physically tense. Your voice catches, your breathing collapses. Your hand start jerking, face freezing, voice going monotone. This is choking - the failure state of any talk.
Its opposite is flowing - an integrated performance state where voice and body move together without friction. It's not effortless - my heart rate is usually through the roof when I'm giving a talk. But it's a state without tension or anxiety.
Breathing
Tension is a physical problem. The wrong muscles are working too hard, and the right muscles aren't working at all.
This manifests as clavicular breathing. This is breathing led from the upper chest and shoulders. It's the natural 'nervous breath'. And it's a recipe for choking. The more clavicular breaths you take, the more tense you become, the more anxious you feel.
Ironically, the advice to 'take a few deep breaths' can fuck you over. If you're not breathing right, you'll immediately breathe into your clavicle, and start choking.
The fix is diaphragmatic breathing. This style of breathing has you relaxing the belly as you breathe in so that the diaphragm can descend. It's the first thing I taught every student who walked through my door. I'll link to an old video of mine where I talk about it.
Breathing this way is totally free of tension. It's invisible to anyone watching - you just look as if you're completely relaxed. So you can do it on-stage to reduce your physical tension and prevent choking. It's the foundation everything else rests on.
Aim
Most speakers - I would say 95% of tech speakers I've seen - don't aim their talk at their audience. They are not keeping their audience in mind. They're not even thinking about their audience as they speak.
This manifests in two ways. The first is that they're talking past their audience. They are projecting past them to an imaginary audience that they pictured during practice. They are aiming at the world, not the room. This reads as loud, performative, and hollow.
The second is that they're talking inwardly. They're rehearsing their next line. They're monitoring themselves. This is commonly caused by anxiety, but not always - even relaxed speakers do this. They're aiming at themselves, not the room. This reads as disconnected.
Aim at the room. Read the audience in real-time and adjust. Calibrate to their energy levels. Consider what they might be thinking. Ignore the world, focus on the room. Look outwards, not inwards.
Slides
Let's finally talk about slides. People focus way too much on their slides, but they are worth of some attention.
Your talk should be speaker-led, not deck-led. The deck is there to support you. It is there to emphasise your points and give you reminders where to go next. If the deck is the talk, with the speaker narrating, why did the speaker even bother to show up.
Slides should be bare. Minimal information per slide. A single phrase. A single quote. A single image. The audience reads it quickly and returns attention to the speaker. Cluttered slides mean the audience pulls attention away from you.
Keep your slides paced. Don't rapid-fire through a bunch of them - nothing will stick. Give each slide, each point, time to land.
Summary
Anxiety can only be cured by reps. But tension is the battleground of the speaker. Fix it with diaphragmatic breathing, and notice whenever you do clavicular breathing. Flow, don't choke.
Aim your talk at the room, not yourself or the world. Keep your audience in mind. Make your talk speaker-led, not deck-led. Use bare slides, and pace them well.
I don't make money off teaching voice any more, so if you enjoyed this, then a donation to Oxford Food Hub would be very welcome. Link below.

We are less safe as a society by keeping Mythos (or any other smart model) tightly gated so only a few companies get it.
Protecting 100 companies is not enough. There are 96 million open source projects on Github alone.
What about securing all of those projects?
What about the other $820 billion worth of closed source software that has hidden cracks too?
It's like patching a 100 buildings in a city of 10 million buildings and saying we just saved the city. You did not.
Open source alone alone has an estimated economic value of 8.8 trillion dollars to say nothing of its societal value. It is embedded in almost every other piece of software, closed or open on the planet.
Society becomes stronger by wider distribution of technology not by adding gatekeepers.
When we tried to gatekeep encryption, the gates were so high that most Americans didn't even bother getting the 128 bit encrypted browser. They just used the easier to get 40 bit one that was totally unsafe. When we finally took the restrictions away the era of ecommerce took off like a rocket because now it was feasible.
The world did not become smarter in the era of the monks scribbling every text by hand in caves in the dark ages. It became smarter when we scaled reading, and as a byproduct, intelligence, with the printing press.
Wide distribution raises the bar for everyone and makes society safer and more secure. Simple as that.
It's counterintuitive but also true.
Haider.: Dario Amodei says Mythos is not limited by compute
Anthropic can scale it 3x or 10x without creating a conflict between government and private-sector access
The harder problem is who gets it
"because giving access to too many organizations could create serious cyber risks"

很多 AI 编程翻车，不是因为代码第一版写不出来，而是需求没想清、设计没人挑、review 没做深、QA 没真跑、发布前也没人收口。一个人做项目时，这些环节最容易被跳过。
`garrytan/gstack` 把这件事做成了一套 Claude Code 工作流。README 里说它是一个 open source software factory，用 slash commands 把产品、工程、设计、QA、安全、发布这些角色压进一条流程。
它的核心就一句话：
让 Claude Code 不只是写代码，而是按 Think -> Plan -> Build -> Review -> Test -> Ship -> Reflect 推进交付。
· Sprint 主线清楚：README 明确写了 `Think -> Plan -> Build -> Review -> Test -> Ship -> Reflect`，每一步都有对应技能接住。
· 命令面向真实工作：`/office-hours` 梳理想法，`/plan-ceo-review` 看产品判断，`/review` 抓生产风险，`/qa` 打开真实浏览器测试，`/ship` 做发布收口。
· 安装路径明确：推荐把仓库 clone 到 `~/.claude/skills/gstack` 后运行 `./setup`，团队共享还可以走 `./setup --team`。
· 不只是角色扮演：README 里强调每个 skill 会把产物传给下一步，例如 design doc、test plan、review 结果和发布检查可以串起来。
它适合已经认真用 Claude Code 做产品、做长期项目、做交付的人；不适合只想让 AI 快速改一个小脚本的人。gstack 的价值不是让 AI 多生成几行代码，而是把最容易漏掉的工程环节固定下来。
Repo:
#ClaudeCode #AI编程 #开发工作流 #GitHub开源

This is spot on... the era of mass adoption will come from simplification/normalization of the power that the coding focused tools bring.
Peter Yang: http://x.com/i/article/2052504136990838784

Wow. https://www.thefp.com/p/tgif-too-crazy-and-not-crazy-enough?utm_campaign=email-post&r=2smju&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

We're entering a new era of software where a single person, working with AI agents, can build products that previously required entire teams.
In this episode of the @LightconePod, they break down the rise of AI coding agents, "tokenmaxxing", and the emerging workflows behind tools like Claude Code and OpenClaw. They discuss why AI systems today feel less like productivity tools and more like collaborators, why the future of AI should be personal and user-controlled, and how founders are starting to build software in completely new ways.
00:00 — Will you control your AI?
00:47 — Coding again after 13 years
01:56 — Rebuilding a startup with Claude Code
05:50 — Software that thinks like a journalist
07:09 — The rise of “tokenmaxxing”
10:07 — The accidental creation of GStack
14:21 — The workflow behind 400x output
20:59 — Thin Harness, Fat Skills
24:35 — AI agents are like Ferraris
27:12 — The future of personal AI
38:37 — Buying back time with tokens

Garry Tan’s custom instructions are based.
It pushes any LLM past half-finished bullshit and into actually useful answers.
Add this to your SOUL md:

Read this if you want to know what YC and Sequoia are actually betting on in AI space right now:
rico: http://x.com/i/article/2050889515783565312

"75% of the unsheltered homeless self-report having a Substance Use Disorder." -@SecretaryTurner
UCSF Benioff Homeless and Housing Initiative has been telling us it's only 45% which we know is false
Let me tell you why. 🧵

Bill Gates helped make personal computing mainstream. Sergey Brin dramatically expanded access to information. Jeff Bezos gave the world quick & cheap access to goods.
AOC gets a taxpayer-funded salary to do political theater.
Yes, it is possible to earn a billion dollars.
Marco Foster: AOC: “There’s a certain level of wealth and accumulation that is unearned. You can’t earn a billion dollars. You just can’t earn that. You can get market power, you can break rules, you can abuse labor laws, you can pay people less than what they’re worth, but you can’t earn

Almost all of my chat-shaped work is now happening in Claude Code
The context that sits on my machine enables it to give me 10x more usable output, even if the type of exchange remains quite similar
@petergyang nails it as usual
Peter Yang: http://x.com/i/article/2052504136990838784

Hiroki Asai spent 18 years as creative director at Apple under Steve Jobs. He was described as "a silent force who could channel Steve."
He taught Brian two of the most important principles:
"The first was simplicity. Startups are naturally simple because you have no money.
Lack of abundance creates natural constraints.
Once you raise money and hire a bunch of people, you go in a lot of directions and lose your sense of focus.
You start to lose your muscle for simplicity.
Hiroki taught me that simplicity is not removing things. Simplicity is distilling something so fundamentally that you understand its essence.
The second was a sense of craft and details. How you do anything is how you do everything. Everything must be perfect.
John Wooden, the winningest coach in college basketball history at UCLA. The first hour on his team, he spends an hour teaching you how to put your socks on.
Bill Walsh said the way you tuck your jersey into your pants was one of 10,000 details that determined whether you won.
Don't focus on winning. Focus on getting all the inputs perfect.
We do focus on growth, but we kind of stopped focusing on growth. We started focusing on making everything perfect.
If everything is perfect and you don't grow, then you focus on the wrong inputs. But if you have the right inputs and make them perfect, then you'll grow really fast."
Patrick OShaughnessy: My guest today is Brian Chesky (@bchesky), founder and CEO of Airbnb and one of the great consumer founders of the last 20 years.
Paul Graham coined "founder mode" based on Brian's experience running Airbnb. This conversation is about what comes after it, what he calls AI

Summer vibes ☀️🍃🐱
Built with Marble, Spark, and Three.js. Persistent World Models let you design for cohesive spaces instead of isolated frames.
World Jam ends this weekend! There’s still time to build something magical with Marble. More info 👇

.@ssankar is one of my favorite Americans. He's built much of what Palantir stands for.
It’s rare somebody you hire becomes a billionaire. But (yes, AOC) he earned it, and taught us all so much.
He's a patriot, Lt Col in Army Reserve, and author of a great new book: "Mobilize"
American Optimist: EPISODE 153: Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar on Heretics, AI Weapons & Rebuilding the Arsenal of Democracy
@JTLonsdale sits down with @ssankar to discuss PLTR lore, protecting heretics, and his new book "Mobilize"
(00:00) Episode intro
(01:45) Mud hut in India to life in America

Congratulations to all the @Replit 10th Birthday Buildathon winners! Stories of creativity coming to life in app form. Solving specific problems AND making it fun!
Thank you for coordinating this huge effort and making it so smooth and enjoyable for us!
@MannyBernabe @Franciscocrz @raymmar
Thank you for the magical gift:
@amasad @HayaOdeh @pirroh and the rest of the incredible team!

SF spends $102k a year per homeless person.
It spends $20k a year per resident.
SF spends more per homeless person than the 10 largest US cities combined spend per resident.
Maria Davidson: 5 of the 10 cities that spend the most per homeless person are in California.
SF alone spends more per homeless person than NY and Portland combined.

🚨Breaking. Friends of Lowell legal battle against SFUSD "Voices" Ethnic Studies Mandate hits Mayor Lurie's office with 53 pages of legal attachments. “The city government sends roughly a quarter of a billion dollars per year to the SFUSD, which in return gives us ongoing budget deficits, declining enrollment, and repeated violations of California’s Brown Act. We’re asking the mayor to engage now — because, if these failures continue, the imminent public scrutiny and consequences for our students will be significant.” - FOLF Board Member https://thevoicesf.org/legal-challenge-to-sfusd-voices-hits-mayor-lurie/ 🧵

HTML is the new markdown.
I've stopped writing markdown files for almost everything and switched to using Claude Code to generate HTML for me. This is why.
Thariq: http://x.com/i/article/2052796100608974848

"Technical writing completely changed my life." -
@trq212
In less than 2 years, Thariq (@AnthropicAI) cracked the code on writing technical articles that consistently pass 1M+ views.
In this 15-min workshop, he breaks down: 
→ his exact writing workflow 
→ tactics behind articles that go viral 
→ how he leverages AI to write faster (without losing his voice) 
→ why technical writing is the most underrated way to drive mindshare
Technical writing is one of the most powerful (and completely free) ways to gain views, build authority, and teach the world what you know.
This is the 4th [Technical] Write & Learn, a curated workshop series cohosted with @swyx and @KernelLabs_ai.

Oakland is sadly becoming all taxes and no services. I've been working downtown recently. So many empty storefronts and office buildings. Oakland needs to improve its business climate, not further increase its taxes on residents, particularly the most economically disadvantaged ones.
Oakland Report: Oakland's Measure E parcel tax will hit deep East Oakland's homes up to 48% harder than Rockridge's.
Effective parcel tax burden as % of median home value:
🟫 Elmhurst (94621): 2.22%
🟧 East Oakland (94603): 2.15%
🟨 Rockridge (94618): 1.50%
In a city with a troubling

"Voices" Power Wheel forced onto every 9th grader at SFUSD in Ethnic Studies. If you are in the inner circle, you are powered, privileged and labeled an oppressor
Liz4SF: 🚨Breaking. Friends of Lowell legal battle against SFUSD "Voices" Ethnic Studies Mandate hits Mayor Lurie's office with 53 pages of legal attachments. “The city government sends roughly a quarter of a billion dollars per year to the SFUSD, which in return gives us ongoing budget

Re The mechanism is not:
"Be a famous founder."
That helps, but it is not the repeatable part.
The repeatable part is:
1. Build in public
2. Ship working artifacts
3. Show proof
4. Let builders save, fork, test, and ask for features

Hard to believe this list is real. Thank you to everyone who read early and endorsed Incorruptible.
Out May 26.
https://amzn.to/4hr6yBc

PALO ALTO NETWORKS on MYTHOS: "In our testing, three weeks of model-assisted analysis matched a full year of manual penetration testing, with broader coverage."

Apparently airbnb created housing scarcity.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: Someone can certainly *make* a billion dollars. That’s not the same thing as earning.
Growing fast and disrupting markets also often means chasing and wielding market power, political influence, and scale.
Take Airbnb. They heavily lobby politicians against passing housing laws

Actually I'm a young person and Airbnb has saved me at least $1000 and counting through my lifetime over hotels. So I do not share the disdain for this made-up enemy that is already banned in big blue cities to zero positive effect.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: Someone can certainly *make* a billion dollars. That’s not the same thing as earning.
Growing fast and disrupting markets also often means chasing and wielding market power, political influence, and scale.
Take Airbnb. They heavily lobby politicians against passing housing laws

Amjad Masad from Replit might be the coolest founder in the arena right now. And I don't say that lightly.
Not because he went 2.5M to 250M ARR in a year… but because he’s brutally honest about the 10 years before that!!
> Layoffs
> People quitting
> Walking into a cold, empty office
> Feeling investors + partners quietly scrub your logo
And still showing up.
Rarely do you hear a founder being so honest.
Then a tiny “war room” team ships Replit Agent.
Day 1: 1M ARR.
Day 2: 2M ARR.
Suddenly the boulder you’ve been pushing for a decade starts rolling downhill.
He talks about:
> Capital as the only real moat in AI right now
> Pivot until you hit something truly disruptive
> Looking for “boring” markets around you that software hasn’t touched yet (ice rink management!)
Building with his wife because otherwise they might not have made it at all...
I guess I can relate so much, being an immigrant building with my wife.
Great MFM episode!

We’ve spent a lot of time on the framework underneath Codex, so it can move quickly on routine work while stopping for review when the risk changes.
Here’s how we use sandboxing, approvals, network policy, and telemetry to run Codex safely @OpenAI:
https://openai.com/index/running-codex-safely/

Chain of thought monitors are a key layer of defense against AI agent misalignment. To preserve monitorability, we avoid penalizing misaligned reasoning during RL.
We found a limited amount of accidental CoT grading which affected released models, and are sharing our analysis.
https://alignment.openai.com/accidental-cot-grading/

As a Deaf Ed teacher and EdTech founder, I’m excited to help shape a future where edtech reaches the learners, teachers, and communities too often overlooked by traditional tech. I never anticipated winning, but I am honored.
Thank you, @Replit, for creating space for builders, educators, and dreamers to bring their ideas to life.
Replit ⠕: For Replit's 10th birthday, we launched our biggest Buildathon yet, and the community absolutely blew us away.
24 hours. 20,000+ signups. $100 K+ in prizes. Only 10 winners.
Here are the top 10 winners of the Replit 10 Buildathon.
🧵👇

"The housing crisis in the United States (and in France, and everywhere in the West) has a single cause, perfectly documented by 60 years of economic literature: the shortage of supply, created by public regulation."
This is 100% accurate. In fact, even some democrats recognize it (read Abundance by Ezra Klein).
AirBNB didn't cause a housing shortage. A literal housing shortage caused the housing shortage.
Brivael Le Pogam: AOC vient d’accuser Airbnb d’être responsable de la crise du logement américain. C’est exactement comme accuser le thermomètre d’être responsable de la fièvre. Le niveau d’inversion causale est tel qu’on se demande si elle ment ou si elle ne comprend vraiment rien à l’économie

v0 can now run terminal commands, which means it can:
• Spin up a browser session to test interactions
• Look through your commit history to understand past changes
• Write and run unit tests
• Use CLIs to interact with platforms like Vercel and GitHub

Socialists would never back a billionaire for elected office. It would be a contradiction of everything they stand for and they would instantly look like massive hypocrites! Wait...never-mind.

Ok we're hiring a human to report to the AI VP Marketing we built on @Replit
Is this crazy? Is this the future? Could it be ... better to report to an AI?
@amasad and I will discuss next week at SaaStr AI Annual 2026! May 12-14 in SF Bay!!
Bring your team. Leave agentic experts. For real.
Jason ✨👾SaaStr.Ai✨ Lemkin: "We're hiring for a Director of Digital Marketing. 6 figure salary. Mostly remote.
And ... you'll be reporting to 10K, our AI VP of Marketing."
The latest The Agents Episode #004 is out!!

A RADICAL IDEA FOR GOVERNING CALIFORNIA
“Democrats could try picking a young candidate who has a solid record of running a big city.” @TheEconomist

It feels like every other launch is faked now
The comments and QTs are all fake accounts with fake followers, barfing out AI content to simulate an ecstatic reception for their cluelyslop launch video
It’s perpetrated by a fungal bloom of agencies that prey on nervous founders to sell fake engagement
If you’re planning a launch, I hope you take this reassurance: it is far better to get fewer clicks from real people than to go “viral” for an audience of bots. The latter will never pay for your product. They can’t. They don’t exist.
Lulu Cheng Meservey: http://x.com/i/article/2008184661902544896

I’m working hard to make the best hosted version of @gbrainio something that anybody can spin-up in a few seconds and plug it into their agents.
Can’t wait to see what people do when they hook up one brain to multiple agents.
Garry Tan: Many such cases! I'm working hard on making GBrain into the best open source memory option for agents

after weeks of playing, today my hermes + gbrain became my chief of staff. i’m running a team of 20, but it’s still fkn mindblowing that my old $800 macbook sitting in the closet takes active part in running a million plus business.
@Teknium @garrytan - guys, your brains are now my brain too. you’re goat
tom 𝚫: for founders, ai isn’t only for outsourcing coding. it’s also for hiring and training an excellent ea, chief of staff, or exec ops.
9 out of 10 times we talk about how fast we ship with ai. we talk far less about what happens when founder’s time becomes the bottleneck.
ai is

When billionaire Tom Steyer wakes up on June 3 and realizes he lost the primary for Governor of California despite spending $200 million dollars, he will look back and realize this photo is what did him in. Voters could not reconcile the hypocrisy.

.@elonmusk on aliens, and how to make civilization last 100+ years:
“Why have we not seen any aliens? It could be because intelligence is incredibly rare.”
Via @ycombinator @garrytan

“no one can make a billion dollars”
“ok technically someone can make it, but no one can *earn* a billion dollars”
<— you are here
“no one is allowed to have a billion dollars”
“no one is allowed to have 500 million dollars”
“no one is allowed to have 100 million dollars…”
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: Someone can certainly *make* a billion dollars. That’s not the same thing as earning.
Growing fast and disrupting markets also often means chasing and wielding market power, political influence, and scale.
Take Airbnb. They heavily lobby politicians against passing housing laws

hello yes @AOC i would like to report a capitalism
Chris Powers: Apparently ~160 people in Austin, TX may make $100M+ from the SpaceX IPO. 12 will clear $1B.
Don't sleep on Austin - that's a lot of capital formation, very quickly.