Multitasking was a bad idea. Now it's an advantage.
Amjad Masad (@amasad) on ADHD as a superpower in the agent era: with 20 agents running in parallel on Replit.
You still need one thread for deep focus. But the rest of the time, jump.

If you have this weird gut feeling that the rich pay little tax in the US, your gut is spot on... Source: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/10/06/opinion/income-tax-rate-wealthy.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage

[AINews 15 May 2026]
Everything is Conductor
https://www.latent.space/p/ainews-everything-is-conductor
Everything is @conductor_build!
GitHub: Cooking up something new 🧑‍🍳
Join the waitlist for early access to technical preview of the GitHub Copilot app 👇
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Matt Mahan: "We need change…Billionaire Tom Steyer's offering higher taxes and bigger government. Fox News talking head Steve Hilton's offering fear, division and more Trump. And let's be honest, Xavier Becerra is not offering change, he's the embodiment of the status quo."

As you watch this man be brilliant tonight, I want you to know that he was up at 2:30am last night with our six year old who has the stomach flu. He is our hero and we are so proud of him.
Mayor Matt Mahan: Priority one when I’m governor: lower costs for all of us.

You vibecoded a website somewhere other than Replit?
That’s not wise, but okay… we’re going to let you import it and get a free mobile app.
Yes, FREE MOBILE APP!
Zhen Li: You can now import your project from Lovable, Base44, V0 into @Replit for free.
After importing, Replit Agent will build a free mobile app for it and get it onto the App Store in minutes.
All free for a limited time:
http://replit.com/free-import

Not building datacenter is economic self-sabotage. It's also civilizational sabotage, but let's stick to the level most people can relate to.
If there's a datacenter built in your area, that means a massive increase in tax revenue flowing into local coffers, which can be used to improve the lives of local residents. It'll mean a few extra jobs, and (because datacenters now have to bring their own power) more abundant available energy, likely at cheaper prices.
It's relatively quiet after construction is done, and the only byproduct is heat. They use some water, but not much. Concerns over water have been greatly overblown due to fearmongering and outright lies.
There are zero significant downsides. How often can that be said for anything this big?
Opposition to datacenters is the height of irrationality, and I just hope enough people realize the benefits before they're all forced up into space.
Payton Alexander: Data centers are generating trillions of dollars in value for the economy.
Data centers don’t consume water, they return it to the environment.
Data centers lower household energy costs by producing their own electricity and generating stable demand that reduces operating

There is a case to be made that the future of Mathematics is very bright. In my mind, proofs have always been a tool to achieve a goal.
The goal was and still is to understand, and reading/writing proofs (or just know that they exist) will remain part of it.

Had the opportunity to catch up with @latentspacepod's recent episodes on a long road trip. Strongly recommend the one with @swyx x @jacobeffron. Today most thought pieces on where AI is heading that try to go all macroeconomic end up being a giant waste of time - and I was getting tired of those. But swyx's takes are always super frank, super grounded. Listened to this one twice on the road, can highly recommend.

talked to a bunch of current YC batch founders today
The ones hitting $1m+ ARR (there are several this batch) are just ripping the same outbound playbook every time:
1. build your lead lists using tools like Origami or Clay
2. Run an auto-connect + DM sequencer on LinkedIn
3. aim for 200 connects/week. linkedin is a goldmine
4. when writing Linkedin DMs, send 2-sentences, ideally with a warm thread (shared school, mutual, etc)
5. Post on LinkedIn 5x/wk minimum
6. get good at AEO (yes, you can get results in a few weeks )
Spend 20 hrs/wk doing this properly, and you will start consistently booking demos

Replit mobile app updated to Agent 4, time to update the app from App Store
Finally!
Controlling multiple tasks on mobile app is so much more fun
Amjad Masad: We worked things out with Apple, and just published our app for the first time in 4 months.
Thanks to all our customers and creators who helped out.
It’s been a journey, but we never give up and stay winning!
Enjoy the updates! Lots of new things coming.

On the current scale of things the Trump phone is a minor corruption, and only goes to show how incompetent everyone in his family is. If you think that any other president would have done things like this (relatively minor for this president) then you are a member of a cult.

At one point my son and his friend kept looking for shortcuts to getting rich. Over and over I told them the way to do it is just to make something people want. If this is what I tell my own kids about getting rich, why won't politicians believe this is how a lot of people do it?

Re I can't help answering my own rhetorical question. I think the reason politicians think you can't get rich without doing bad things is that they treat it as an axiom that economic inequality is bad. And if it's bad to be rich, how could you get there by doing good things?

Any arguments against open source and open weights are mendacious and malicious by their very nature.
Open source is the foundation of modern society worth 8.8 trillion to the economy and the foundation of every major cloud, your home router, your phone, your operating system and more.
These anti-open source anti-freedom arguments are especially nasty when they use weaselly hawk coded words like "dual use."
Linux is dual use. So is your operating system. So is your phone. So is your kitchen knife.
Dual use was used against encryption. Once this stupid and spurious restriction was lifted eCommerce took off like a rocket and was worth trillions to society.
Choke points, gates and centralized controls are inherently limiting and benefit the few at the expense of the many. They choke out growth and development in society.
We don't need monks in a cave deciding what books to copy.
We need the printing press.
Anti-open source arguments have no moral ground to stand on. They are inherently self-serving and have no other purpose than to create centrally dominated monopolies and regulatory capture in an underhanded, unscrupulous way.

The most revealing thing about this AI leadership paper is that it reads less like a vision for innovation and more like a glossy whitepaper for a 21st century East India Company.
Every generation of incumbents discovers a new moral vocabulary for why they alone should control transformative technology.
In the 90s it was cryptography. We were told strong encryption was too dangerous to spread because terrorists, rogue states, chaos, dual-use, etc. So the US crippled exports, weakened products, slowed adoption, and kneecapped parts of its own software industry. Right up until reality steamrolled the policy and we woke up to its stupidity and then eCommerce, secure communications, software signing, and the modern internet exploded and gave us tremendous benefits.
Now the exact same priesthood has returned with AI.
- “Dual-use.”
- “Strategic advantage.”
- “Model distillation.”
- “National security.”
- “Responsible access.”
A few different nouns but mostly the same ones. Same instinct:
Centralize control, gatekeep compute, fuse state and corporate power, and call it safety.
The funniest part is that this strategy is almost perfectly designed to accelerate the thing they claim to fear.
You do not stop a rival superpower (who happens to be the absolute best at scaling energy and manufacturing and who has a choke-hold on rare Earths refinement) from building domestic capability by permanently attempting to strangle them.
You create the economic and political incentive for total self-sufficiency.
We have already done that as Jensen warned. We went from 100% market to nearly 0%. Huawei is now manufacturing millions of chips. DeepSeek v4 trained on them. They have more energy than the rest of the world combined. Meanwhile, we have activists and anti-economic fools like AOC and Bernie pushing for data center moratoriums and we can't build a single bullet train in 20 years and folks fighting to not expand the energy grid here and new nuclear plants getting tied up in environmental regulation for a decade.
The sanctions did the exact opposite of what the hawks wanted. They jumpstarted a moribund, dinosaur of a Chinese chips industry. We basically said to the people who happen control the most powerful manufacturing engine on the planet "we intend to squeeze you."
They rightly saw it as an existential threat.
The sanctions become the industrial policy.
Huawei. SMIC. Domestic lithography. Packaging. Memory. Entire Chinese supply chains that did not exist at serious scale a decade ago now exist precisely because Washington convinced Beijing they had no choice.
Brilliant work.
So the endgame here is what exactly?
1) Push China into a Manhattan Project for chips and AI.
2) Increase the strategic value of Taiwan even further.
3) Once China reaches self sufficiency that can invade Taiwan and choke off our own super advanced chips where are made there exclusively (and no we don't have even close to enough TSMC factories in Arizona or anywhere else in the world).
That's every NVIDIA chip. Every Google tensor chip. Every Apple chip. Every chip in you iPhone and Android phone. Every Amazon chip. The chips in your car and truck and hair dryer and washing machine.
4) Escalate a cold tech war into a permanent civilizational bloc conflict that is likely to turn into a shooting war at one point.
5) Fragment the global software ecosystem.
6) Create American AI aristocracies protected by regulation and compute licensing.
And somehow call this “open innovation.”
Meanwhile the actual history of software keeps screaming the opposite lesson:
Knowledge diffuses, open ecosystems win, developers route around gatekeepers, and attempts to permanently contain computation usually fail.
What really jumps off the page is the assumption that a tiny cluster of frontier labs should become quasi-sovereign actors, deciding who gets intelligence, who gets compute, who gets models, and which countries are permitted to participate in the future.
Not elected governments.
Not open markets.
Not open-source communities.
A handful of corporations sitting beside the national security state, insisting that concentration of power is necessary to protect democracy.
You almost have to admire the audacity.
Anthropic: We've published a paper that explains our views on AI competition between the US and China.
The US and democratic allies hold the lead in frontier AI today. Read more on what it’ll take to keep that lead: https://www.anthropic.com/research/2028-ai-leadership

Guess who's coming to QuakeCon? 👀👀👀👀 Check out Hugo & Josh's announcement: https://www.youtube.com/live/DcmrBC2usYM?si=hX2D7jJN0m0SW7j8&t=6968

Phenomenal conversation with @garrytan and @RickRubin
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/tetragrammaton-with-rick-rubin/id1671669052?i=1000767537076

Back at it. At the mothership. Grateful to be amongst the world's best and brightest founders at YC. @garrytan as group partner. He was also Webflow's group partner when we both had less white hair.
Can't wait to show ⬜⬜⬜⬜ to the world

It's astonishing that Democrats can't unite around this guy for Governor of California. It just shows how fractured dems are. @MattMahanSJ can unite California. Not pander to the hard left, but moderates, too. He is the right choice and has my vote.

The @SFChronicle endorses NO ON PROP D!
👉 “Prop D is a tax on businesses disguised as an executive-accountability measure. And changing the rules again so quickly after Prop M makes San Francisco look unstable to employers and investors. It may, in fact, be the final straw that compels those affected businesses to leave the city altogether. We recommend a no vote.”

A preview for Pro users: a new personal finance experience in ChatGPT.
Pro users in the U.S. can securely connect financial accounts, see where their money is going, and ask questions based on the information they choose to connect.
Your full financial picture, now in ChatGPT.

Check out My second app now on Apple!
Made completely in @Replit while adding some of my own hand-drawn characters 💚
Link :
https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/bamboo-timestables/id6766042948

Yann LeCun says LLMs are strongest in domains where language itself is the substrate of reasoning, like math and code
They can solve problems, prove theorems, and write programs — but they are not creative mathematicians, software architects, or computer scientists
"their role is to help humans build"

A PhD student just got into YC building a spy drone that looks exactly like a bird.
Counter-drone systems ignore birds.
Too many false positives. So the drone flies completely undetected.
To stop it, you'd have to shoot every bird out of the sky.
That's not a product insight. T
hat's first principles thinking at its sharpest.
It reminded me of Elon spotting a toy car with a single-cast chassis.
That observation became Tesla's gigacasting advantage.
The outsider sees what the expert stopped questioning years ago.
YC is backing more of these founders now. Domain expertise helps. But it's not the ticket.
A clear problem, a defensible insight, and proof you've done the work. That's what gets you in.

Fun demo of @KeyframeLabs' real-time video avatars. Have AI Garry and AI Dave talk about any topic, and drop questions live into the chat! The internet is about to get weird.
https://demo.keyframelabs.com/lightconelm

Happy Friday! We've reset everyone's 5-hour and weekly rate limits.

We were promised banning Airbnb was the solution. Apparently not?
They should try more rent control. And demonizing developers more to put people first. That will do it
Mark D. Levine: NEW: Manhattan rents just hit another record high.
Median rent for market-rate apartments in April reached $5,099/month. Up 6% in past year. Vacancy down to 1.55%.
This is what a housing shortage looks like: intense demand, too few homes, and rents pushed higher and higher.

EBM are so back!
@ylecun has been pointing here for years: AI reasoning needs systems that check structure before they answer.
Aleph from @logic_int now leads the major formal reasoning benchmarks – let me explain what it is -> 📺

still thinking about yesterday 🥹 so grateful I got to speak at @artistatmachine on behalf of @Replit and demo what we’ve been building!
it was so fun getting to share the stage with Andy and Teresa as they showed their own Replit-built projects too. such a cool room of creative tech people!

You know we had to do it @ID_AA_Carmack
Nathie 🔜 AWE: Happy to report that Doom is now playable on Meta's smart glasses.

Music meets code.
Vibecon takes over NYC June 17–18, with performances built at the intersection of software and stage.
Two days where the work doesn't sit still.
Get your tickets at http://vibecon.ai

Banning building new datacenters basically means:
we’ll get stuck with the old ones
Instead of better designs we’ll get stuck with evaporative cooling (consumes water) and low energy efficiency.
Data centers are not only for AI. They run your critical infrastructure for hospitals, banks, phones, schools - stuff you use every day.
Instead of banning new construction - ban bad designs or outdated hardware. If you ban new construction existing datacenters won’t have any reason to innovate, they’ll just crank up the profit.
New equipment runs hotter so it makes companies innovate - direct to chip cooling, submersive cooling, adiabatic and hybrid approaches that reduce water usage to almost zero. For example Nebius doesn’t use active cooling in their DC in Finland, they recover the heat and actually use it to warm up houses in local towns in winter.
Careful regulation and rebate/tax credit systems can encourage data centers improve quality of life for people around them - improving connectivity, reducing their electric bills (by constructing their own power generation facilities with clean energy), enriching local communities with taxes, all while consuming less water than a couple of green lawns in front of their houses.

1,058 GTME job listings (983 open), 1,167 named practitioners, and 867 hiring companies — sorted into eight archetypes that show how the role is taking shape across the market.
The role is blowing up and I tried using engineering skills to try defining it. I even used @Cursor to build the video highlights.
If you want the Notion database with all the roles and practitioners (it updates every day) let me know below.

day 1 of @aiDotEngineer singapore is in the books!!
an awesome day of workshops and leadership sessions that saw nearly 2/3rd of the conference attendees rock up - no amount of rain can stop the builders!
the builders are well and truly here at aie sg
@swyx @agrimsingh @adlinzainal @unprofeshme @aimuggle @ivanleomk @gabrielchua

Introducing Zero
The programming language for agents.
I wanted a systems language that was faster, smaller, and easier for agents to use and repair.
Explicit capabilities. JSON diagnostics. Typed safe fixes.
Made for agents on day zero.