Harj Taggar
Robots still need human intervention to deploy at scale. Avea is building intervention software low-latency enough for the human operator to be anywhere. That changes the economics of deploying robots and removes one of the biggest bottlenecks to getting them into the real world. Congrats on launch!
Ary Indarapu: We're building the human-in-the-loop system for robots. It's inevitable that robots will make mistakes during deployment- what matters is how you respond.
Sentinel makes it possible to intervene in real-time. No lost ROI. No safety issues.
Book a demo: http://avearobotics.com
OpenAI + Amazon Bedrock:
Amazon Web Services: Now generally available, @OpenAI GPT-5.5, GPT-5.4, and Codex on Amazon Bedrock.
Deploy frontier AI models with automatic scaling through Bedrock's next-gen inference engine.
With these offerings on Bedrock, customers can:
◽ Build autonomous agents that handle multi-step
Eric Topol
Big progress vs cancer, folks.
The kind of event curves from randomized trials that we've not seen before for a couple of the most deadly cancers. Congrats to the oncology research community for getting these trial done. #ASCO26, @ASCO
Steve McGuire
Two Berkeley professors:
“Admissions offices have fallen victim to ideological capture.”
“We were subject to an academic experiment during the pandemic, which clearly failed. It is time now to return to the SAT and objective measures of merit.”
Wall Street Journal Opinion: The University of California needs the SAT back. Even the overwhelmingly liberal Berkeley faculty are fed up with the admission of unprepared students, write Svetlana Jitomirskaya and Zvezdelina Stankova
https://on.wsj.com/3RHHbFo
Ben Clavié
very excited about the upcoming @aiDotEngineer is going to be very nice, looking forward to meeting a ton of people I only really know through their profile picture
title undersells it - this @workos talk is doing v well and is the first to seriously challenge @mattpocockuk in weeks. team is ab testing
Nick Nisi: My talk from AIE Europe is up! Come learn the lessons I learned while shipping real production AI systems.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vy7o1g2iHY8
vibecon
tigris: omg
Off by 100x 😂😂😂
Deva Hazarika: FYI this is the actual wager they agreed on
“Skillify it” is the way you should write most tasks
Write markdown that makes code
Don’t make elaborate Foxconn factories to call agents
Let agents make their own tools, kaizen style
Aravind Srinivas: We’re moving away from search as a web fetch tool call to search as codegen to be future proof in a world where code execution inside agent harnesses is the way to do almost all of our knowledge work.
Doing this lets you compose multi-step primitives far more naturally and be
Daniel Jeffries
AI will become our interface to the world.
It will sit higher in the stack than the OS. It will collapse current SaaS layers, chat, communications, apps, app creation, into a single new kind of interface that doesn't exist yet.
It's got to be open. It's got to be a cypherpunk solution that makes privacy and security the number one priority.
If a closed source solution wins this layer, it's a disaster for the world. Especially if it's built by a single company with a single closed source model.
Why?
Because what we share with AI will be more intimate than anything we've ever shared with a machine.
It will be our friend, our sounding board, our advisor. It will know our business ideas before we've told anyone. Our medical issues. Our financial picture. We'll talk about the fight we had with our partner. About feeling lost or depressed. Our kids will talk to it about problems at school, about bullying, about heartbreak, things they won't tell us.
It will know us more intimately than we know ourselves.
Right now the world runs on a surveillance economy. We traded free stuff for apps that peer deeply into our lives.
If we replicate that model in the AI era, it's not just surveillance economy 2.0. It's surveillance economy squared. Social scoring. Legal conversations you thought were privileged showing up in court. Random people making $2 bucks an hour on the backend from God knows where reading the most intimate details of your life. Every insecurity, every fear, every half-formed thought you whispered to your AI buddy at 2 AM, sitting in a database somewhere, searchable.
This interface might eventually become an OS, like the OS in Her. But it will take a long time to reach down to that layer and it will require a fundamentally new kind of operating system design. You can't retrofit this onto Linux or Windows or Android or iOS. It's a new layer of the stack entirely.
And whoever controls that layer controls our lives.
We've got to make sure it's us. Not them.
T Wolf 🌁
A note of caution to elected leaders in San Francisco. It's critical you don't virtue signal. If you're going to ban mobile distribution of Crack pipes, then you need to actually ban it. There's little political risk here, only liability.
Erica Sandberg 舊金山的神奇女俠: CAUGHT IN THE ACT! Tonight we found SF AIDS Foundation passing out meth/crack pipes and fentanyl foil- flagrantly breaking city policy. They didn’t like the cameras so packed up. @SF_DPH, we assume you will consider this multiple violations now? @kunalmodi @DanielLurie
Conductor has the distinct edge of being an IDE born for coding agents. An ADE if you will.
Agents will take remote dev mainstream. At most large and sensitive organizations, “local” isn’t a thing. But this future wasn’t evenly distributed.
Excited to power their Sandbox!
Vercel: Conductor's parallel coding agents were local-only, but now they can run remotely on Vercel.
"Our customers can't tell the difference because Vercel's Sandboxes are so fast." https://vercel.com/blog/how-conductor-moved-parallel-coding-agents-from-the-laptop-to-the-cloud-with-vercel-sandbox
one of the quotes i find most inspiring on a hard day:
"Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might, for in the realm of the dead, where you are going, there is neither working nor planning nor knowledge nor wisdom"
Ecclesiastes 9:10
Sam Altman
one of the quotes i find most inspiring on a hard day:
"Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might, for in the realm of the dead, where you are going, there is neither working nor planning nor knowledge nor wisdom"
Ecclesiastes 9:10
I have to say @meetgranola's pre-meeting briefs are 😙🤌.
More automated and useful AI features like this @cjpedregal - maybe weekly recap brief?
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Replit Canvas has a few new updates! ⭐️
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Re Better mobile experience
People are saying SaaS is not dead.
I think larger enterprise SaaS that can do multiple jobs are probably fine (e.g., Figma).
But if you’re building a simple SaaS for a narrow use case, I think it's harder to monetize now because:
1. AI skills can often solve the same problem in a much more flexible, personalized way.
2. AI-native agents like Codex / Claude Code that have a user's personal context and memory have far more knowledge to solve the user's problem vs. a standalone SaaS website or chatbot.
3. People are willing to pay hundreds or thousands for services (human touch is what's rare these days) but charge $20 / month for a SaaS and people will compare it's value to their Claude / ChatGPT subscription.
Curious if others feel the same way? I guess I'm in a bubble and most people have not set up their own AI skills yet.
Peter Yang
People are saying SaaS is not dead.
I think larger enterprise SaaS that can do multiple jobs are probably fine (e.g., Figma).
But if you’re building a simple SaaS for a narrow use case, I think it's harder to monetize now because:
1. AI skills can often solve the same problem in a much more flexible, personalized way.
2. AI-native agents like Codex / Claude Code that have a user's personal context and memory have far more knowledge to solve the user's problem vs. a standalone SaaS website or chatbot.
3. People are willing to pay hundreds or thousands for services (human touch is what's rare these days) but charge $20 / month for a SaaS and people will compare it's value to their Claude / ChatGPT subscription.
Curious if others feel the same way? I guess I'm in a bubble and most people have not set up their own AI skills yet.
Suhail
It is astounding how much and how fast you can learn anything with LLMs. On one hand, you could devalue intelligence / sulk or you can just be some guy in a small room learning the absolute frontier of your field at any given hour. Self-teaching has never been so diffuse.
Ankit Gupta
we should re-legalize the triple decker in MA and not let localities ban it
Burhan Azeem, Cambridge Vice Mayor: The triple decker might be the most Massachusetts thing there is. It's also illegal to build in almost every city and town.
Look around your block. Most of what you see couldn't be built today.
In Cambridge, 85% of our buildings were illegal until I helped fix it last year.
Brian Armstrong
Aging is arguably the root cause of most major diseases (loss of function in our cells). Four years ago, we made a bet that aging was treatable, and NewLimit was born.
NewLimit now has a prototype drug that reverses the age of some human cells (restores function they had when they were younger), and a clinical trial scheduled for next year (with more drug candidates in the pipeline).
Grateful to Founders Fund, Thrive, Greenoaks, and the rest of the investors for this latest round. @jacobkimmel and the team are just getting started.
NewLimit: Following breakthrough results, we’re bringing longevity medicine to human trials.
We’ve raised a $435M Series C led by @foundersfund to make it happen.
Reprogramming cell age has the potential to create more healthy years for everyone. We're closer than ever to realizing it.
This is what education in the age of AI looks like. Start with the language: the linguistic surface is your roadmap. Much like an SDK has a set of function definitions, human language is the new API to the world.
It also always has been… there's never been an expert in any field without mastery over its language. The distinction is that English alone could not produce tangible things. You had to translate it into machine instruction, through learning or delegation to others. You can now go direct.
Emil Kowalski: To get good animations from an AI you need to get good at telling it what you want:
- "stagger this list of items"
- "make this animation direction-aware"
- "spacial consistency", "crossfade", "layout animation",
I made a motion vocabulary for this:
http://animations.dev/vocabulary
Michele Catasta
Most AI coding benchmarks miss what actually matters: how models perform at the application layer.
Introducing ViBench, an open-source benchmark for evaluating agents on end-to-end web application development.
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derek barry miller: This looks like a festival lineup 😭😭
Shail
Nobody talks about this:
As a solo founder, I've been running Claude Code + Cowork side by side for NinniTales.
Cowork for product thinking, planning, research.
Claude Code (with @garrytan's gstack) for coding, QA, and code review.
They're not the same tool.
They complement each other.
Took me a session to figure out the right split.
Worth it.
Model routing is an important thing
Controversial idea: the frontier labs will want their AI harness to be the moat, but ultimately the best case for consumers is that model capabilities flatten and commodify
Preview of the AI Harness Wars of 2027
Factory: Introducing model routing to Factory.
Factory Router picks the right model for every task, automatically.
Maintain frontier performance while cutting costs by 25%.
SWE benchmarks don’t necessarily capture app building capabilities. ViBench does.
Michele Catasta: Most AI coding benchmarks miss what actually matters: how models perform at the application layer.
Introducing ViBench, an open-source benchmark for evaluating agents on end-to-end web application development.
You can have a CEO, a designer, and an engineer look at your plan in plan mode before you and Claude or Codex write a single line... and that's powerful
Shail: Nobody talks about this:
As a solo founder, I've been running Claude Code + Cowork side by side for NinniTales.
Cowork for product thinking, planning, research.
Claude Code (with @garrytan's gstack) for coding, QA, and code review.
They're not the same tool.
They complement
It's election day. If you're in the Bay Area and wondering what is common sense, we aggregated our favorite voter guides of the most common sense groups. Here it is:
https://garrysguide.org/elections
Garry's List
Since today is Election Day, a reminder that civic life is not just voting. It is showing up for the people who protect our communities.
SFPD Officer Brittney Taylor is recovering from life-threatening gunshot wounds suffered in the line of duty. If you can, please support her and her family here: https://www.mealtrain.com/trains/7g5ngn
Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼
We just decided to stop teaching everyone math, in the hopes that this would make society equal because everyone would be equally incompetent
Josh Kraushaar: “At UC San Diego, the number of freshmen failing to meet high-school math standards grew nearly 30-fold between 2020 and 2025. By fall 2025, 1 of 12 entering students was placed into remedial math to learn material taught in elementary and middle school” https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-university-of-california-needs-the-sat-back-711afae7?st=CGZwGZ
Brooke Jenkins 謝安宜
1/ This April, @CaSupremeCourt ruled in a case titled “People v. Kowalczyk” that only individuals accused of violent crimes can be held without bail. For other accused criminals — including repeat offenders or drug dealers — bail must be set at a level that is “attainable.”
Excited to partner with @Microsoft to enable everyone in the enterprise to build and deploy safe & secure Fabric data apps.
This is possible thanks to Microsoft's new Rayfin SDK.
Amjad Masad
Excited to partner with @Microsoft to enable everyone in the enterprise to build and deploy safe & secure Fabric data apps.
This is possible thanks to Microsoft's new Rayfin SDK.
Garry's List
Oakland installed Flock cameras to find stolen cars.
The cameras found them: 210,000 stolen-car and stolen-plate alerts in 6 months.
The problem? OPD couldn’t keep up.
Turing Post
Love that in this high-tech age of AI @swyx still uses paper 🥹
Han Xiao
Re @swyx @Microsoft @NoPriorsPod @latentspacepod @satyanadella looking good
Thariq
http://x.com/i/article/2061850535708483585
Paul Graham
The startups from the spring YC batch that I did office hours with today have some of the biggest ideas I've ever encountered. There is so much more going on now than just "AI for x". Just as there was more going on during the microcomputer revolution than "software for x".
YES-CODE
An entire category of software, "no-code", was built under the presumption that code is expensive, difficult, and scarce.
Coding agents have forever changed the equation. Code is now cheap, easy, and abundant.
I remember @cramforce being asked by an analyst long ago: "soo, is @vercel like a no-code platform?" Without hesitation he goes "no, it's the absolute opposite. It's a yes-code platform." 😁
A key thing we set out to do was to be uncompromising in quality and sophistication of the things you could host. No-code solutions took shortcuts and set hard ceilings, typically on performance and sophistication.
Our mission is to create the easiest cloud for agents that you never graduate from.
PS: welcome http://warp.dev to Vercel!
Warp: Our warp[dot]dev site gets 10M visitors/year. We migrated the whole thing from a no-code editor back to code in just 3 weeks.
Very few hiccups, and SEO actually improved. Plus, the marketing team is free to use Warp to ship future changes
Have to give the Devin/Windsurf team flowers for staying disciplied through the ups and downs and keeping at it.
I know many AI native builders who love Devin now. Will hopefully find some more time to try it myself.
Jeff Wang: Today we are saying goodbye to Windsurf
…and we are transforming it to Devin Desktop
Windsurf has been an absolutely amazing experience for me and the team. Though it has been rocky at times, we have seen every phase of AI coding and we want to keep embracing where things are
Ryan Shea
http://x.com/i/article/2061935366655905792
Yann LeCun
Re @DavidSacks If Trump really were "the most pro-innovation president we’ve ever had" he would not attempt to cut research budgets by half.
Julien Barbier 🙃❤️🏴☠️
For those starting with AI coding, I just shared my CLAUDE.md (also works with Gemini and Codex BTW - see how-to). Since working with this my efficiency went way up. A lot of ideas come from @garrytan & @karpathy, while others are mine from my own experience.
Make sure to personalize it and add/remove what makes sense for you. And please LMK if you have ideas to make it better, always happy to learn more :)
dl it here: https://github.com/jbarbier/CLAUDE.md
