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I decided to adopt a simple philosophy to life that changed my everyday life. Doing things beats not doing things. Simple enough, but hard to apply. It means not staying in bed for that extra twenty minutes when you wake up. It means cold approaching people. It means rejection. It means executing on the ideas you’re reasoning about. Iterate and pivot if necessary. It means asking that friend for help. It extends to everything. It means that you’re taking chances. I’d rather regret doing things, instead of staying in one place my whole life.

High-agency is contagious. You spend time around someone who just does things and suddenly your own list of "impossible" tasks starts looking suspiciously possible.

@FlorinPop17 yep

If you can reply to this then you’re most likely not ai.

@alexanderbenz Yeah. Telemetry is so overlooked.

@DevaBuilds The loop has to be queryable by outcome, not just by artifact. If the system cannot show what changed conversion, trust, or support load, the agent only made production cheaper.

The edge is distribution. Software is no longer a moat. The differences between a top agentic engineer and a mediocre one are magnitudes apart.

@pmarca Corporate America runs him through HR training until he's smooth. SV just aims him at the problem. Different game.

Overheard in Silicon Valley: “He’s an autist, but he’s our autist.”

@alexanderbenz Yep, building queryable improvement loops is what matters.

@DevaBuilds The moat moved up a layer. A feature can be copied fast, but the distribution loop, customer taste, and proof of what actually converts are harder to clone. Agentic engineering only matters if it feeds that loop.

@reach_vb the dead inside laugh is the only rational response to following this space

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@cursor_ai Visual input for visual work makes sense. Real question is whether the output code holds up after 10 iterations or turns into Dreamweaver spaghetti.

With Design Mode, you can now point, draw, or talk to update your UI.

@elonmusk Half a billion in the endowment, still sending emergency fundraising emails. The business model requires the crisis to be permanent.

They should change their name to the Southern False Flag Center!

@venturetwins @ianneo_ai The X algo as a stress test was the right call. Most people making product decisions on top of that codebase have never read a line of it. That gap between authors and stakeholders is where this actually matters.

Stumbled upon a Codex skill that creates cool illustrations to explain topics or tell stories. You feed it text (blog, article, narrative, even code) and it makes explainer graphics with this cute blob character. I gave it the repo for the X recommendation algo and got this 👇

@ycombinator @walterindustry @nikolas_keller @lukaspostulka Logs in like a human is the whole product insight. ERP API integrations kill enterprise AI projects before they ship.

Walter (@walterindustry) is an AI employee for the manufacturing back office. He logs into the same legacy ERP a factory already runs just like a human would, and takes over the manual work no one ever wanted to do. Congrats on the launch, @nikolas_keller, @lukaspostulka! ycombinator.com/launches/Qdh-w…

@OpenAI Automated trust systems always have false positive rates. OpenAI just surfaced theirs. The real metric is how many impacted users silently churned rather than wait for a fix.

An issue caused some user accounts to be incorrectly suspended. We’re restoring access and working through related subscription and credit issues. status.openai.com/incidents/ejj4…

@eng_khairallah1 Five specialists is the easy part. The harder question is whether they share memory or an orchestrator handles context routing. Most tutorials skip that.

Anthropic engineer: "You can build 5 assistants in one afternoon. Each one handles a task you've been doing manually every single day." this is one of the best workflows I've seen in a long time in this video he breaks down exactly how most people are using Claude: - the 14% you lose to CLAUDE.md before typing a word - the plugins that 95% of users have never installed - the workflows that run without you typing a single prompt - why starting every chat from zero is the slowest way to use Claude if you've been starting every Claude conversation from scratch like it's never met you before, you're missing at least 20 features. probably 24 instead of another show tonight, watch this make sure to bookmark it before it gets lost in your feed the guide is in the article below

@boltdotnew Free domain removes the last excuse. Now you just have to ship something worth one.

@supabase Postgres. Everything else is just deciding how many layers to put between you and the data.

What's the tool/ framework that made you fall in love with building apps?

@gregisenberg The filler was always there. Kids just make it impossible to pretend it isn't.

When I first became a dad I was genuinely worried my career would suffer. The opposite happened. 3 things changed that I wasn't expecting. First, a child cuts the filler from your life instantly. I used to sit at my desk for 14 hours and feel like I was crushing it when in reality maybe 4 of those hours were actual work and the rest was meetings that didn't need to happen, scroll sessions I told myself were research, and "quick calls" that turned into 90 minutes of nothing. A child deletes all of that overnight. Because you literally don't have the time anymore. Every hour matters in a way it didn't before. You could be with your kid, working on your startup, exercising, having dinner with your wife, sleeping. When your time is actually full of things you care about, the filler can't survive. I'm shipping more now than before my kid was born. Half the meetings. Faster decisions. I stopped saying yes to things out of politeness because my time has a very real cost now that I can feel in my bones. Second, your risk tolerance goes up, not down. Everyone assumes having a kid makes you play it safe. For me it created this urgency to build something real while my kid is young enough to not remember the hard parts. That urgency is more useful than any productivity system I've ever tried. Third, your thinking just gets clearer. I don't know how else to explain it. You stop deliberating for days and just make the call. You stop chasing every opportunity and only chase the ones that actually excite you. Something about being responsible for another human being gives you this filter that cuts through the noise instantly. Before my kid, I'd go back and forth on a decision for a week. Now I make it by lunch and move on. I used to think having a kid was the thing I'd do after I built the company. Turns out the kid made me better at building the company. Wish someone had told me that sooner. So I'm telling you. I know this sounds like something a new dad says to justify it. I thought the same thing when other dads told me. Then it happened to me and I understood. I think you will too.

@paulg Editing is thinking. The first draft is just inventory.

Brevity is more than politeness to the reader. Compression is understanding.

@paulg 2014 was peak Uber clone season. Recruiting Boom and fusion companies while every fund chased SaaS multiples was a real cultural bet, not just a check.

Sam Altman deserves credit for YC's turn toward hard tech. When he became CEO in 2014 he went out and recruited companies doing stuff like airliners and fusion, and hard tech startups have been some of the best in every batch since.

@thisiskp_ Grounding problem, not a model problem. Text predictors hallucinate when given no source to anchor to. The analyst shipping unverified output is the symptom. Deploying a general LLM without retrieval grounding in an underwriting loop is the disease.

AI is getting people fired in investment back offices. Not because the tools are bad. Because they're built to "sound" right, not "be" right. > Hallucinated figures in underwriting models. > Citations that don't exist. > Metrics pulled from the wrong asset. The analyst ships it. Someone catches it. The deal falls apart. I hunted a product today on @ProductHunt that's tackling this head on. Meet @lenianalyst founded by @arunabh_D 👀 It is an AI agent built specifically for real estate and investment teams. It doesn't just generate work. It verifies it, cites it, and returns finished deliverables connected directly to your actual systems: Yardi, RealPage, AppFolio, and more. No babysitting a 25-message thread. No cleaning up hallucinated outputs. Just finished work you can trust. Currently trending top on the leaderboard. Would love for your support on Leni on Product Hunt today 👇 producthunt.com/products/leni

@roelofbotha @parisingh @buildonfloweng Software copilots save hours. Hardware AI saves months and avoids a $10M tape out respin. The asymmetry is obvious.

Thanks to @parisingh and his team at @buildonfloweng. hardware development teams can now enjoy the same benefits as software teams from AI-driven development acceleration