Aditya Vardhan

@prateeks Hmm... smart founders always 'AI optimise' their decks... 😅

Founders, when you share your decks with investors, please share formats that are easier for humans and AI to work with. It is a good assumption that the investor you are reaching out will have some AI processing step in their workflow. PDFs work great! The docsend, gamma and other web formats create friction for the consumer of your deck and do not add much in terms of experience.

@Tocelot @speedrun Not messing with that content quality for sure...

a16z @speedrun request for startups: GUIs for Agents we’re still in the MS-DOS era of agents today - CLI, terminal sessions, file directories deleted by openclaw etc. while a small slice of silicon valley are power users, we're SO early for the rest of the world at Speedrun, we’re looking for bold founders excited to bring the power of agents to normies everywhere. there's a whole slew of products to be built here - from agent builders to marketplaces to managed infrastructure one broad idea we’re excited about are visual abstraction layers for agents. if you don't know exactly what you want, a command line / chat interface is paralyzing - you need to see options 1 example - think of a GUI or visual command center inspired by strategy games (ex. Factorio) where agents and workflows are represented graphically. skills, tools, MCP connections, background processes, etc could all be configured and shown visually in a workspace on UX, strategy games have long perfected agent management. zoom to get a birds-eye view of your agents, batch and queue orders via shortcuts, assign agents in multiplayer etc. a well-designed agent command center would make multi-agent orchestration for normies feel easy & intuitive most folks today still haven't moved beyond ChatGPT. the potential is enormous - just as Windows unlocked mass-market use of personal computers, the right visual abstraction layer could unlock agentic work for everyone - from individuals to enterprise teams if you share our vision, we'd love to chat!

@Shwinnabego Taste is what you need… claude will handle the rest

So far am getting great outputs with claude design (am building off a robust, pre-existing design system). I also think you need some baseline design sensability + experience; otherwise a bunch of small things end up being off in somewhat imperceptible ways, but those minor things in aggregate make a thing look and feel kind of shitty Took about a day to go from idea to 11 fully designed email templates (to get this level of output would have been ~1 week). Having lived in figma for 8+ yrs designing all kinds of assets from websites to email its stunning to experience in real time how radically work + flows are changing; and how i even *think* about approaching the work

@gopikl $2M ARR for which product?

$2M ARR in three weeks. Launch isn't the bottleneck anymore. The bottleneck is the distribution you built before you launched.

@ShubhAgrawal26 Are you okay?

I went to a meetup for founder and GTM leaders who are active on LinkedIn, and when I told them I don't use Claude code for every single thing, they took me to the back alley and shot me in the leg.

@PaulYacoubian You mean this is not true?!

My understanding of a16z is that Marc Andreessen reads all the books, the rest of the team just films him talking about them and then Casado makes all the investments 😂

Do things that don’t scale. @thepatwalls - inspiring 👏👏

Genuinely asking - Why kwikads and not a normal performance marketing agency?

@alexgarcia_atx For sure. Have been seeing your content. Insane value

one of the best things i did on IG to grow my newsletter past 150k subs

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Stream keeping YouTube in mind. Restream it to any other platform. Pick questions, comments from everywhere.

Ab sab microdrama hi karenge kya?

@harshilmathur @karpathy Aaj kuch sawal jawab ho hi jaaye...

Built this weekend - autodecision a Claude Code/Cowork plugin that applies @karpathy's LLM Council + autoresearch to business/strategy decisions. Most people ask ChatGPT something, iterate twice twice, and move on. That’s not enough for deep decisions. This: • pulls real data • runs a council of POVs (optimist, pessimist, market, competition, regulator) • models second-order effects • stress-tests worst cases + black swans • finds stable/weak effects → then iterates until something holds up Basically: force the model to argue with itself. Try it on Claude Code/Cowork: github.com/harshilmathur/…

How many Instagram accounts have been suspended today?

No AI agents for this?

@asidorenko_ @wesbos Correct.

@wesbos Probably AE, top-notch motion designers, and a lot of time. These videos are absolutely brilliant The number of comments saying you can JUST generate this is mind-boggling. Even if ai involved, it still takes tons of time and superb motion design skills to make this

WHO IS MAING THESE VIDEOS they are so well done. I need to see the process they use to slice up and animate the UI

@nitprashant Kafiiii crazy! Live broadcast karo YouTube par bhai...

Interesting #1 trend

@MaginAbheet Good old days are back

thanks youtube.

@DanKulkov Never too late lol

fuck i guess i need to do that "marketing" thing

@paulg Creating a new ig account is a nightmare.

I finally tried to create an Instagram account. (I've managed to avoid it so far.) It was instantly suspended, before I'd even finished the signup process. The final screen of the signup process told me I'd submitted an appeal.