I'm on my way back to Vancouver to be with my mom but wanted to take a moment to celebrate crossing 100K subs on YouTube.
Excited to share a lot more practical interviews soon to answer your most burning AI questions:
1. @HamelHusain and @sh_reya (AI evals experts) on how today's AI models have changed evals completely
2. @amoljain_ (Head of Product Engineering at Replit) on which vibe-coded apps have actually become real businesses
3. @ebloch (Product Lead at OpenAI) on how ChatGPT Finance can help you save both time and money
4. @poteto and Roman (SpaceXAI) on how the Grok Bot team uses Grok @bot
📌 Subscribe to get the episodes soon:
https://www.youtube.com/@PeterYangYT?sub_confirmation=1
Peter Yang
I'm on my way back to Vancouver to be with my mom but wanted to take a moment to celebrate crossing 100K subs on YouTube.
Excited to share a lot more practical interviews soon to answer your most burning AI questions:
1. @HamelHusain and @sh_reya (AI evals experts) on how today's AI models have changed evals completely
2. @amoljain_ (Head of Product Engineering at Replit) on which vibe-coded apps have actually become real businesses
3. @ebloch (Product Lead at OpenAI) on how ChatGPT Finance can help you save both time and money
4. @poteto and Roman (SpaceXAI) on how the Grok Bot team uses Grok @bot
📌 Subscribe to get the episodes soon:
https://www.youtube.com/@PeterYangYT?sub_confirmation=1
https://fx.sh 0.0.5 gets even smaller
fits in 2 floppy disks 💾💾😁 (𝚡𝚣-compressed)
shipping tomorrow with our most-asked feature!
RT @PeterHotez: There was no misuse: Covid mRNA vaccines saved 3.2 million American lives during the pandemic. Instead of 1.2 million Ameri…
Trae Stephens
That’s weird…it’s almost like not banning TikTok has had real world consequences as the US population continues being poisoned by CCP propaganda. Who woulda guessed?!
FORTUNE: “If I were the mayor of a town or governor of a state and I had a chance to get a big plant in, an AI plant or a data center, I would absolutely want it," President Donald Trump told reporters on Wednesday. https://bit.ly/3TXuQy9
Michael Robinson
Re @amasad "make programming more accessible."
15 years in the making.
2011: open-sourced a browser IDE from Amman. Then Codecademy, helping millions learn to code. Then @Replit , so we didn’t have to learn to code first. Then Agents, so the machine could build with us.
And now, @Replit + @OpenAI: Free mode so there's no tax on creation.
One by one, the barriers keep coming down.
Same mission. All the way through.
Now it’s changing how the world builds.
Turns out 'a lot of impact' was right.
Amjad Masad: @replit Oh and we're also building a business around this with early signs of success! If you like to build developer tools, interested in making programming more accessible, and would like to join a team of 4 having a lot of impact on the world then reach out to me.
Ankit Gupta
career ending answer from Markey imo
Seth Moulton: Not understanding the basics of AI - the most important technology of our lifetime - should be disqualifying for a U.S. Senator. This is why we need a new generation of leadership. The future is now.
Paul Graham
The way to win at capitalism is to focus on what it actually does (make customers' lives better) rather than the socialist caricature of it (squeeze every penny out of them). The latter gets you 2x returns at best, whereas making new things for people can get you 10x.
How dare it look me up 😅
Nico Schriever
This week I am cleaning up and improving the codebase of http://Skillsail.com a lot in order to better serve the many channels which we support (web, mcp, Teams, Slack, etc.).
Adding Telegram as the second channel after web should have been a big rewrite in the first place.
I will try to fully incorporate this idea "support zero, one, or unlimited" in the future.
Pretty cool article from @swyx about this topic (got it from @jacobmparis):
https://swyx.io/preemptive-pluralization
jacob paris ▲: Only supporting zero, one, or unlimited
I think it was a @swyx tweet that put me onto it, but building in support for 2 of a thing inevitably leads to later needing 3
So the moment you need more than 1, make it unlimited
Legalize building societal infrastructure again
Sam D'Amico: data centers are the first thing that, via market forces, broke the consensus to freeze the built world in amber (decided in the mid-late 1970s)
what if the “singularity” is “allowing people to resume building stuff like they could pre-1978”
Reminder: the datacenter discourse is a documented psyop and they’re winning
Garry's List: Two reports from @SamLyman33 and @bitcoinpolicy document a coordinated foreign influence campaign against American AI — running through CCP state media, a Shanghai-based Marxist's nonprofit network, and foreign billionaire dark money that has funneled $2B+ into US advocacy
Daniel Di Martino
That's it. That's the sign
TheFrenchAIGuy
You can build a whole app for free now.
Replit now has a free mode powered by OpenAI's latest model (Aug 18). Not a trial. A free tier to actually build.
If you have been waiting because it costs money, that excuse just moved.
Asian American erasure, example #107492
SFGATE: The city of Cupertino is 70.9% Asian. A new TV show set there ignores this. https://www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/article/cupertino-tv-show-22395253.php?taid=6a875cca2f77dd0001a5a572&utm_campaign=trueanthem%2B3984&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter
Rahul Sidhu
Yesterday. This guy is now free to kidnap another kid instead because the Flock cameras in the area were cut down.
When someone cuts down a camera, the city pays Flock to install a new one. In the meantime, more criminals and child kidnappers go free.
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/article/houston-child-kidnapping-flock-22396779.php
This is a UC Berkeley CS professor 😳
Chris Bakke: Let’s see how things are going over at The Atlantic.
Oh:
Ben Burtenshaw
TIP: Speak at big, high-quality events like @aiDotEngineer. I did this talk earlier this year, and it was a great learning experience.
- the application process was opinionated and clearly sincere
- the prep and support were super professional, which I've carried into my own events
- you meet and chat with loads of like-minded folk that have turned up to deliver.
2nd Tip: I wouldn't bother half-applying/phoning it in. Give it your all, and make it a major goal.
Here's the talk I did: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JomVvNDjGb8
Not bad!
Poonam Soni: Replit Free Mode vs Gemini 3.7 Flash vs Grok 4.6 vs Claude Opus 5
I asked each of them to create a Subway Surfer clone.
Which one wins for you?
hell yeah
Daniel: made a website on Replit in 24 hours just by typing "do this, do that, change this, ok make it look like XYZ, add this, remove that"
that looks so good design-wise it would have cost at least 5-10k and taken weeks of back and forth with a dev
genuinely love replit so much
Idea to $$, fast!
MakerThrive: woke up to INSANITY!!!
look at all these stripe notifications 👀🚀🔥
1. saw http://outbid.lol by @jonathan_wilke
2. built http://1milllionpixels.com on @Replit
3. bought $42 ad
4. sales exploding!!!!!!
so many cool companies!
Barb McQuade
This is really outrageous. Not only did a judge find probable cause to believe that sensitive national defense documents would be found at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort, the documents were actually found!
https://apnews.com/article/justice-department-trump-maralago-b561cf695c2b8476a4320b03155c3d90
it was a blast covering Build Fest this year - they didnt know this but I learned to code with MongoDB over 10 years ago (shoutout MERN stack) and now in the AI Engineering era seeing SF builders rediscover MDB was so gratifying - this was a *huge* step up from last year!
MongoDB: ICYMI: Everything announced at #MongoDBlocal Build Fest is designed to help developers stay in flow and ship production AI, faster.
From the new Atlas Managed MCP Server for Agents and native Atlas access inside @claudeai, Claude Code, @ChatGPT, Codex, @grok Build, @DevinAI, &
Instinct is very well done.
I'm particularly impressed by how smooth the onboarding experience is to connect iMessages, Google Workspace, and my MCPs. The best builder prioritize onboarding and new user needs :)
Instinct also feels more proactive than some of the other assistants - it'll suggest things it can do right away after connecting a MCP.
However, I can't see myself doing real work with Instinct since it's all just in one thread. This is the same issue I have with @bot, the UX is very clean but often I want to have multiple threads going with the same bot.
I think I'll use Instinct more as an assistant for random chores and tasks.
For actual work, I'm still sticking to ChatGPT Work and Codex.
P.S. I asked Instinct if I have any invites to give out and it says invites are paused, so don't ask me for any (yet) 🙂
Peter Yang
Instinct is very well done.
I'm particularly impressed by how smooth the onboarding experience is to connect iMessages, Google Workspace, and my MCPs. The best builder prioritize onboarding and new user needs :)
Instinct also feels more proactive than some of the other assistants - it'll suggest things it can do right away after connecting a MCP.
However, I can't see myself doing real work with Instinct since it's all just in one thread. This is the same issue I have with @bot, the UX is very clean but often I want to have multiple threads going with the same bot.
I think I'll use Instinct more as an assistant for random chores and tasks.
For actual work, I'm still sticking to ChatGPT Work and Codex.
P.S. I asked Instinct if I have any invites to give out and it says invites are paused, so don't ask me for any (yet) 🙂
Philip Johnston
I'm super excited to share that we have raised $250M at a $2.3B valuation to build a LOT more AI compute capacity in orbit 🚀
Thanks so much to our supporters, including Manhattan West, who led the round, and new investors, @NVIDIA, @Cisco_Invests, @CedarCapital, Goanna Capital, and @Standard_Cap, as well as continued investment from existing backers @Benchmark, @EQTVentures, @Soma_Capital, @NFX, @SevenSevenSix, and others.
Next week, @Starcloud_ will move into a new 100,000 square ft facility that will enable us to ramp up our production rate to 100 satellites/week.
This is just the beginning! @EzraFeilden, @AdiOltean🏃🏻➡️🏃🏻➡️🏃🏻➡️
William Geronco
You now have 0 excuses not to be building something amazing! @Replit gives you a full ecosystem from A-Z, including a very powerful free version. Best of all, you can do it from your phone! Go, now!!!!
Poonam Soni: Replit Free Mode vs Gemini 3.7 Flash vs Grok 4.6 vs Claude Opus 5
I asked each of them to create a Subway Surfer clone.
Which one wins for you?
Erick Erickson
I have written a small defense of Flock cameras. I know someone whose child was kidnapped and recovered unharmed within hours due to Flock. https://www.ajc.com/opinion/2026/08/opinion-opponents-of-the-flock-camera-system-are-misguided/
sarah guo
from the union workers:
the American dream requires growth and production, not just redistribution
AI and energy are the economy’s productivity and growth engine. to be anti-datacenter is to be anti-labor
MakerThrive
holy crap! @Replit (@amasad) just bought a block for $1,000.00
what is happening right now?!?!
http://1milllionpixels.com is 🚀🚀
Amjad Masad: @MakerThrive Just bought the biggest block! But can you fix the aspect ratio for me? Sorry am on my phone and can’t figure it out. Brand kit here: http://Replit.com/brandkit
You can just make money from your phone!
MakerThrive: Update: 53,000 pixels sold on my little app i made on my iphone via @Replit
@kensavage is still at the top of the leaderboard!
will anyone overtake him?
http://1milllionpixels.com
http://1milllionpixels.com
Niall O'Higgins
Replit Free Mode chat is like an incredibly powerful ChatGPT where the agent has access to a full cloud and it can build anything.
Charles Fain Lehman
Scott Taylor is accused of carjacking an elderly woman at a red light and leading cops on a chase that hit nearly 140 miles per hour.
"Flock cameras tracked this guy all the way down 95," [Volusia County Sheriff Mike] Chitwood said. "Flock cameras enabled us to know what direction he was going till police can get visual on him again."
http://flockstopscrime.com
Our Python team is making rapid progress
Vercel Developers: Celery now runs Python background tasks natively on Vercel.
• Workers run as Vercel Functions
• 𝚟𝚎𝚛𝚌𝚎𝚕:// broker, zero config
• You only pay for active CPU
https://vercel.com/changelog/run-background-tasks-with-celery-on-vercel
I'm seeing people use Gauntlet Loops for so many things, not just games. Super exciting!
If you've modified the loop for something other than a game, share your prompt below:
This was wild to watch unfold. We ran 𝚒𝚜-𝚊𝚐𝚎𝚗𝚝𝚒𝚌 in a loop against http://is-agentic.com until it got to 100/100.
It made us close quite a few gaps. We worked hard to make sure the criteria is high quality and worth your time & tokens.
Vercel Developers: Introducing http://is-agentic.com, a tool to measure how well agents can read your site. Backed by @oradotai's research, you can run:
▪︎ Audits with 100+ checks
▪︎ Visualizations of agents using your site
▪︎ One-click prompts to fix problems
▪︎ A CLI for agents
Steve Rattner
President Trump promised there'd be no cuts to Medicaid.
Then he pushed through his One Big Beautiful Bill, which cut Medicaid by nearly $1 trillion and has already caused over 5 million Americans to lose health insurance.
Read my take in @nytopinion: http://nyti.ms/4xOJVR6
Kim-Mai Cutler
Where are the Big Alfalfa protests?
Scott Wessman: Graphic showing how the Colorado River's water is used.
More water goes to alfalfa than ALL household + non-ag industrial use combined. Is this the correct regional priority?
Long term answer IMO: make water abundant (energy + the ocean)
2024 study:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-024-01291-0
Richard Hanania
In Houston, someone tried to kidnap a third grader.
There were Flock cameras nearby. But someone had cut them down, so the attempted kidnapper is still at large.
I'm becoming radicalized against the anti-Flock activists.
You people have no arguments.
Children get raped and killed. You shrug your shoulders. "I don't care if a thousand children are tortured to death as long as one cop doesn't look up his girlfriend's license plate."
You are unable to reason about public policy issues. You are the reason we can't have nice things. You should be ashamed of yourselves.
More here. https://www.richardhanania.com/p/flock-mass-surveillance-and-the-collapse
Will Bryk
Excited to announce that Jeff Pinner has joined Exa as CTO!
Jeff was formerly CTO of Robinhood, a distinguished engineer at Cruise, CTO of Lyft, and way back a systems engineer at NASA.
We have humongous engineering and research to do at larger-than-google-scale and we need to do it quickly. Pinner has scaled massive ML systems before, super excited to work together on this one.
Matt Shumer
Re @elonmusk http://AgentMail.to is by far the best way to do this!
sarah li
the team shipped some good stuff this week 🛴
my favourite part: you can create, inspect, update, and publish @Replit projects from ChatGPT, Claude, Slack, or another MCP client.
also new:
- Choose a workspace region in North America, Europe, or Asia
- Move eligible apps from Replit Auth to Clerk Auth
- Share workspace skills across your team
- See inline charts in conversations
OpenAI
As we continue to push the frontier of capabilities while improving efficiency, we're dropping API and credit pricing of GPT-5.6 Sol by over 20% for the next 3 months.
Steve Rattner
In 2024, Trump claimed to have “a concept of a plan” to replace Obamacare and bring down health insurance costs.
No plan was ever enacted, but he still sabotaged Obamacare.
Now millions of Americans are paying thousands more on premiums every year.
My final @nytopinion Chart:
Hate to say it but the luxury belief industrial complex is alive and well
Sam Lyman: "Ban data centers!" is the "Defund the police!" of the current moral panic.
It's a luxury belief policy idea that, if actually implemented, would have disastrous downstream consequences for the country.
Love them or hate them, the entire global economy runs on these bad boys.
Sheel Mohnot
Interesting to me that so many people on Twitter are anti-Flock.
I wonder what the data would be like if you just cut it for SF, where we've seen meaningful quality-of-life improvements from Flock cameras.
Crémieux: Which of the following best describes your views on Flock and data centers (DCs)?
Garry's List
"We are living through the largest departure of Asian Americans from the Democratic Party in our nation's history. But it isn't because we've changed; it's because the Party has moved away from our core beliefs."
@notGarryTan writes about his family's flight from communist China, the party that welcomed them in San Francisco, and what it means to continue believing in safety, schools, and prosperity while the party drifts.
i have another saas to kill
(will share results of Kill My SaaS 1 next week!!)
swyx: btw if you havent set your {codex | claude | gemini | devin} automations to autoresearch how to improve your seo/aeo every week you are really truly missing out on free, should-be-commoditizing-but-weirdly-untapped alpha
🤯
MakerThrive: it's been a wild day to say the least.
$24k in revenue from my weekend @Replit project i built on my iphone.
grab your spot: http://1milllionpixels.com
Hey Instinct, it's not cool to index and retain my emails without my permission and not let me delete them from your records?
I can't recommend this to anyone until this is figured out. Thanks @clairevo for spotting this.
I think its easy to say "Simulation is a new scaling law" and treat it as marketing hyperbole, but midway along this interview you can hear me go from somewhat shitposting to very very serious.
I am 2 years late to this but finally understand why @karpathy and @drfeifei backed @joon_s_pk @msbernst @percyliang et al - Smallville at the time had zero commercial applications, but if you take RSI seriously, from models automating increasingly large parts of ML research and AI engineering, the last* barrier is simulating humans and human feedback, and Simile is obviously the team to do this and already finding PMF at Fortune 100s even at this early stage.
I've never been so happy to be so wrong.
*or second last ! :) more soon on the Science pod
Latent.Space: Simulating Humanity: 85% accurate digital twins, behavioral foundation models, social physics, & 8 billion agents https://www.latent.space/p/simile
@simile_ai CEO @joon_s_pk explains how AI can move from predicting what people will do to simulating how to shape outcomes, why today’s
