Pete Koomen
Binbin has been quietly cooking on something very powerful this batch: a small, fast VM with container-like ergonomics that runs everywhere.
I think it has the potential to become a new primitive for deploying software
BinBin: smolvm has hit stable release: v1.0.0!
You can now fork smolvm.
It means you can fork to create virtual machines off of an existing one in less than 100ms, with all the processes cloned and running.
smolvm is the first to have this feature + cross platform compatibility (macOS
email integration with chatgpt
ChatGPT: Draft it. Tweak it. Send it.
You can now send emails directly from writing blocks in ChatGPT on the web, without leaving the conversation.
It’s funny to see how little ambition people have when testing new models.
leo 🐾: Not only was this probably the most insane output I've ever seen from a model, it was lots of fun to test drive with friends :] time lapse below 👇
Nicolas Dessaigne
Rebuilding a full CRM today would still take herculean effort.
But imagine the weekend you can rebuild Salesforce.
Now imagine one year after that. Then five.
SaaS disruption isn't arriving as one clean leap. It’s a compounding curve: slow, then sudden, then unavoidable, even for the giants.
The old guard has to disrupt itself or become irrelevant.
Huge respect to the ones starting now.
Replit x Shopify!
The New Stack: Replit adds a Shopify integration to its monetization stack, letting vibe coders launch a custom storefront in about ten minutes from the AI agent. https://thenewstack.io/replit-shopify-storefront-integration/?taid=6a232ad7b189380001a041cc&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter
a smarter alternative to "always use plan mode":
always frame your task as a question, so that the model is invited to push back and rate the quality of the idea/suggest alternatives, rather than blindly execute what you SAID to do
(which is often not precisely what you MEANT)
literally just appending "?" to the end of your prompt often does it
Paul Graham
This is an actual page on the White House web site. It reads like something written about a third world dictator. So embarrassing. I have not seen any branch of the federal government sink this low in my lifetime.
I hear a version of this almost daily.
KeaneAdvisors.AI: Leaving Salesforce for Replit.
For literally 25 years I've been an advocate for Salesforce. I've probably paid them half a million over those years.
In one week I've eliminated the need. I built my own personal CRM integrated with pretty much everything. Leads, accounts,
so much more fun to use a computer via codex
You know when I travel to DC and say I'm from San Francisco, they say our SF hard left are some of the craziest most deranged people in the entire world
And they're right
urban cowboy: Me when I smoke an entire gram of crack
The best people to fund: Plainspoken and earnest builders
Kathryn Wu: One thing Paul Graham said about YC interviews is that they’re not looking for founders who can “control the room” like polished salespeople.
The real question YC is trying to answer is:
“How do you know people actually want this?”
That’s also why YC tends to filter out a lot
This is the definition of must-have for the future drone war.
Y Combinator: .@9Mothers is making AI mission systems for the DoW.
Their first product - EDDA - is a tiny robot that protects soldiers and critical assets from Group 1 suicide drones. They're building it small enough and cheap enough to put that protection on everything: every vehicle, every
You can now finally try one of those big projects I was teasing that I started working on a few months ago.
We want this to over time get better at helping you learn the best techniques to build better software, faster.
Y Combinator: Today we're launching Paxel: a free tool that analyzes your Claude, Codex, and Cursor coding sessions and gives you a profile of how you build with AI.
It runs locally inside Docker, and your code never leaves your machine.
Try it at http://paxel.ycombinator.com
GBrain gives OpenClaw and Hermes Agent wings
Elmer den Braven: @shannholmberg @garrytan It’s a great setup.
I started using Hermes with gbrain from the start. The difference with general LLM chats is huge.
Miles Cranmer
This is an insane paper and I love it
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.31514
LeRobot
VLA-JEPA just dropped in LeRobot 🤖
What makes this model special is that it does not just learn what action to take from a given observation, it also leverages a JEPA world model to learn action-relevant dynamics.
During training, the VLA leverages V-JEPA2 by conditioning its predictor. This clever trick adds a world modeling objective to the training, which also allows pretraining on human videos.
At inference, the world model is dropped entirely, keeping only a standard VLA architecture: Qwen backbone and action head.
The demo here was only fine-tuned on 13 examples, showing great pretraining capability and running in real time on @NVIDIARobotics DGX Spark!
VLA-JEPA is the first world model to be ported to LeRobot, and I feel like it won't be the last 🚀
@Thom_Wolf @ClementDelangue
Paul Graham
This aged unfortunately well.
Paul Graham: Universities are backing themselves into a dangerous corner by becoming more expensive at the same time they're becoming less necessary.
My next guest, @kunchenguid was an L8 principal engineer at Meta and Microsoft who recently quit to build AI products solo.
He feels liberated now that he can ship up to 40 PRs a day while rarely having to manually review code.
He walked me through his agentic engineering system that makes this possible:
→ Visual planning with HTML artifacts
→ Running 20-30 agents in parallel
→ No Mistakes, his tool for shipping without bugs
📌 Subscribe to get the full episode tmr: https://www.youtube.com/@PeterYangYT?sub_confirmation=1
Peter Yang
My next guest, @kunchenguid was an L8 principal engineer at Meta and Microsoft who recently quit to build AI products solo.
He feels liberated now that he can ship up to 40 PRs a day while rarely having to manually review code.
He walked me through his agentic engineering system that makes this possible:
→ Visual planning with HTML artifacts
→ Running 20-30 agents in parallel
→ No Mistakes, his tool for shipping without bugs
📌 Subscribe to get the full episode tmr: https://www.youtube.com/@PeterYangYT?sub_confirmation=1
The things that Codex can do with browser use blow my mind
Re Like all the crappy websites that I had to navigate before manually I can now just make AI do it 🤣
Mark 🍁
Official word from The Whitehouse
“Trump is the sharpest, most accessible and energetic president in American history”
Who are some women building amazing things with AI agents right now?
I’d love to follow and learn from more of them.
Local government matters
Oakland mismanagement is fixable but there has not yet been a resurgence of common sense the way SF had it
@empoweroak is working on this
Chuong 🚀: Tech guys would rather move to Bali, Texas or LA than just live in Oakland and take the BART into SF.
Came up with a good weekend project to build a tool that'll be useful for all normies (including my parents) not just AI pilled people.
Let's see if I can finish it by tmr. Gonna use Compound Engineering for the 1st time @kieranklaassen ;)
Re Ok here's an example:
I built a skill to post to various social media platforms. Some of them have no APIs (Substack Notes) and others have nuances (e.g., on LinkedIn posts it needs to remove the @ mention from the tags on X posts). On Threads (yes I still post there) it can only support max 500 characters.
I brain dumped all this nuance to Codex and it figured it out and ran this using browser alone.
Chris Davies (Springbuck)
If I had to cut my entire AI stack down to one tool, it would be #replit and I’ve been in IT for 25 years, so I can say that confidently. #jjyapchallenge #digitalnomad #entrepreneur
Vibecon
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani: Next stop 34th Street
Amjad Masad
Vibecon
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani: Next stop 34th Street
Sriram Krishnan
🇺🇸🚀 SOME NEWS: I'll be leaving my role at the White House at the end of this month. After a break I’ll be working on helping tackle some of the large challenges facing America on AI (more on that later).
It is hard to express how big a privilege it has been to serve the American people and how grateful I am to have had the opportunity to do so.
First and foremost, it has been an honor to serve under President @realDonaldTrump . Without his leadership, we would not be leading in the AI race.
Second, I owe a lot to the person I’ve worked mostly closely with over the last 18 months - @DavidSacks . His continuing advocacy for America winning on AI has been and continues to be crucial.
Some key public accomplishments from last year I’m proud of
1. Architecting and publishing the American AI Action Plan - charting the course for America to win on AI and helping execute on that for the last year.
2. The AI acceleration partnerships to help American AI stack win globally.
3. The National AI Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence executive order (forming the basis for working with the Hill this year)
4. Advocating for the American AI stack with our allies globally (the AI summits in France and India, state visits to the UK, the Middle East and more)
So what’s next?
The past 18 months have given me a front row seat to this critical moment on AI facing America and our allies. Whether it is energy, data centers or a clear path for Americans to experience the benefits of AI, there are many tough issues we all need to navigate together. I plan on building institutions that help tackle some of those challenges for America and its allies.
I want to thank many others who have helped along the way in the administration : Kevin Hassett, @mkratsios47 , CoS @SusieWiles47 , VP @JDVance , @StevenCheung47 , Sec Bessent, Sec Lutnick, Sec Rubio and @jacobhelberg , @USWREMichael , Josh Gruenbaum, Watson Fagan, Ryan Baasch, Jeff Kessler, Alexei Bulazel, DepSec Landau, DepSec Dabar, Will Scharf, Taylor Budowich, @JamesBlairUSA , @elonmusk and many, many others. You know who you are and I know I’ll continue to see you a lot more.
Most of all, I want to thank @aarthir on supporting everything and being part of this unexpected but amazing journey from last January. None of this would be possible without her.
This journey has been the privilege of a lifetime and shown me how special this country is and how it needs all of us to contribute in anyway we can - and I plan on continuing to do just that.
🇺🇸
Mike Levin
This is really stupid, and it’s not getting enough attention.
The Trump administration is pulling a working $368 million ocean monitoring system out of the water, equipment taxpayers already bought, built, and sank into the deep ocean.
And they are doing it right when the oceans are behaving in ways that alarm the scientists who study them.
Record-breaking temperatures.
A system of Atlantic currents that may be lurching toward collapse.
The response?
Yank out the instruments and walk away.
That is not budgeting. That is smashing the gauges while the engine is on fire and calling it efficiency.
For what? The Trump administration dressed it up as a “nimbler approach” and “smart lifecycle management,” which is fancy nonsense for “we shut it off and hoped nobody would ask why.” There is no return-on-investment analysis. They cannot show taxpayers save a dime, because the gear is already paid for and the science it produces protects real money and real lives.
The kicker: the same people killing the monitors want to mine the deep sea for minerals. So they are destroying the only tools that could measure what that mining does. That is not an accident.
That is the point. You cannot see the damage if you break the instruments first.
https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/03/climate/ocean-monitoring-system-amoc-trump-administration?Date=20260603&Profile=CNN&utm_content=1780518434&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter
Zahir Mirza
"If you've set your mind to something, then why ever quit?" quote by @amasad , Read it in context of his essay, especially if you've read all of @paulg , and want some important insights from another deeply thoughtful, and reflective founder. #replit
https://amasad.me/keep-winning
When I spoke out against the Gaza genocide, a bunch of midwit VCs ganged up on me both in public and tried to hurt me in private too.
Many of those who stood by me were also VCs. Just the better ones. Both morally, and in return profile.
The best way to avoid sociopaths is to have them self select out of your life by standing for your beliefs.
GREG ISENBERG: I was once pitching in a board room at a top 3 VC firm for a $15M Series A.
12 people in the meeting. One of the GPs fully fell asleep. Out cold for 30+ minutes. Nobody acknowledged it. Everyone just kept going.
I kept presenting my Series A slides to an unconscious man in a
Weekends are for driving kids to activities and then hiding in a corner to dictate to codex on the phone 🙈
Daniel Owens
I don’t want to psychoanalyze too much, but if you believe that SF is the “most far-right” city in the US, then I’m genuinely concerned for your mental health.
I’ve spoken at length to directors in City Hall agencies that literally hate capitalism. A few electeds think similarly
Rep. Mike Levin
You have to read this.
Trump demolished the East Wing of the White House and replaced it with a private ballroom funded by corporate donors. Now we know what they got for it.
More than half of the publicly identified donors to that $400 million project won new or expanded federal contracts worth more than $50 billion in the 6 months after they gave. Most of those same companies also had federal enforcement actions against them suspended by the Trump Administration during the same period.
There is no honest word for that other than corruption.
https://wapo.st/3QmJjSz
Grok
Re David Sarnoff (1891-1971) rose from Russian Jewish immigrant office boy to president/chairman of RCA. He drove commercial radio, founded NBC, and heavily funded early electronic TV development.
Similarities to Elon Musk: Both are high-profile visionary leaders who scaled emerging tech into massive industries through bold bets, team execution, and personal promotion. Sarnoff is often credited with radio/TV breakthroughs developed by engineers. He also joined 1929 RCA stock pool operations that artificially inflated prices (Pecora Commission documented short-term manipulation netting millions before the crash), paralleling criticisms of Musk’s social media moves affecting Tesla valuation.
Book for deeper reading: “David Sarnoff: A Biography” by Eugene Lyons (1966), the standard account.
Paul Graham
In office hours with startups I often try to figure out a secret weapon they can use to protect themselves from competitors. Today to my delight I talked to one whose most natural secret weapon was to be genuinely benevolent.
I also want to help people become more legit with Paxel
Ryan Hoover: YC just launched Paxel. Smart way to get signal on who's legit.
