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@TheStalwart @stevehou @codeOfRobin Yes. Hope you trust this source: bloomberg.com/news/videos/20…

@stevehou @codeOfRobin Didn’t Mark Zuckerberg once offer to name his first born Jinping um order to get access to the market? Maybe I’m hallucinating that

We’ve come a long way since this. Just to jog our memory, Meta (Facebook) once had big ambitions in China.

We take these reports incredibly seriously. In my time on the team, this has probably been the most complex investigation we’ve had. The root causes were not obvious, and there were many confounders.

@TheAmolAvasare So good!

Opus 4.7 is a much more thorough and precise model. It does use more thinking tokens, and our new tokenizer can also create more tokens (up to 1.35x for the same input content). To offset this, we've increased Opus 4.7 rate limits accordingly on our subscription plans. Enjoy!

Introducing Claude Opus 4.7, our most capable Opus model yet. It handles long-running tasks with more rigor, follows instructions more precisely, and verifies its own outputs before reporting back. You can hand off your hardest work with less supervision.

@trq212 I used Claude code + playwright MCP to do my taxes (using olt dot com) while watching TV. Would recommend 10/10 (but did require a lot of context resets)

there's a turbotax connector in Claude Code now, so glad I procrastinated on taxes 😭

Give this legend a follow

@chrislevan @AnthropicAI @WesternU He's so hardcore that he survived winter at Western without a parka

the head of growth at @AnthropicAI did a semester abroad at @WesternU.

@TimSalimans Cya at onboarding tomorrow!

Touching down now in SF for onboarding at Anthropic! After 7 great years at Google, I'm excited to take on a new challenge and help make Claude even better. Grateful for everything I learned at Google DeepMind and Brain, looking forward to what's next.

@devahaz @tonydunsttv @tenobrus What platform do you use to take a position?

@tonydunsttv @tenobrus Ossoff and Shapiro where I have sizable positions now, but the race won’t start until after midterms and things will quickly get a lot clearer then

i can't fucking believe this is really our roster man. what the fuck did we do to deserve this

@TheStalwart Joe, I dream about the oppression of a sideways market :'(

@TheStalwart Give me some +/- 5% daily swings like 2020 to really make me feel alive

When you're accustomed to a bull market, moving sideways feels like oppression.

@sandeepDshah @courtne @cognition Julian Sheinbaum is a sales legend

@courtne That’s exactly why top sellers are at @cognition, winning in the largest enterprises. AI in enterprise isn’t just about the tech, and F100 companies have learned that the hard way.

openai and anthropic probably have terrible sales reps they're talented, but they've never actually had to sell anything. ben horowitz said it best in a recent conversation: "right now with openai and anthropic, everybody wants to buy ai. they're already predisposed to buy." that's order-taking, not selling. let's zoom in on this distinction. 1) the order-taker problem cloudflare's CEO admitted in 2023 their product was so good that "many of our sales team succeeded largely by just taking orders." deals were like "fish jumping right in the boat." then the economy shifted and they fired 100 salespeople who'd contributed just 4% of new business. when your product sells itself, mediocre reps look like rockstars. they crush quota, win the president's club, and get promoted into leadership. nobody knows they can't actually sell until the fish stop jumping in the boat. 2) why hard sells matter ben won't shut up about ptc, a 90s cad/cam company. the product "wasn't that great." "the windshield wiper didn't work." but that forced discipline. you had to map accounts systematically, lay traps for competitors, and build airtight technical cases. his favorite hire was ryan gabrisco at databricks, who came from a company selling secure ftp as a public company. think about how good you have to be to make quota selling that. when ben hires sales leaders, he looks for people from companies where the product was hard to sell because that's the only way to test if someone can actually sell. 3) what happens when markets turn every hot market eventually cools. i'll give you a few examples. salesforce in 2001. facebook ads in 2012. aws in 2015. the order-takers got exposed every time. modern AI sales reps don't know how to qualify prospects who aren't already sold or how to systematically lock out competitors or how to build pipeline when inbound dries up. ben's story about hiring at Okta: two candidates, one super enthusiastic, the other said "let me talk to your customers first." ben told the ceo: "you want the guy qualifying YOU. that's what good salespeople do." 4) openai scaled their sales team from 10 to 500 people in under two years. anthropic is scaling fast too. but how would anyone know if they're good? you can't test sales ability when customers are lined up begging to buy. when real competition arrives, the kind where enterprises have three viable options and care about pricing, support, and vendor risk, AI companies will discover which GTM leaders can actually sell and which ones were just processing waitlists. 5) how to hire right if you're building a GTM team right now, think like a value investor. resumes don't matter. look for human capital that the market has significantly underpriced. someone who's had to sell a product that didn't sell itself, someone who's built discipline through necessity, not abundance (no order-takers). find the person who sold enterprise software at a company nobody's heard of. find the person who had to fight for every deal because the competitor was already embedded in the account. the person who figured out how to systematically lock out competition even when they were the underdog. those skills matter. for AI companies, the question is whether they can close deals when the market shifts. because when inbound dries up (it always does), you'll discover who can actually sell.

@levelsio I couldn't. Long time follower but a very occasional commenter. I think you'll end up filtering out randoms like me and potentially lock in a smaller group of people who can comment (especially if a lot of your mutuals do the same)

Okay and who of you couldn't reply to this? Please please only if you couldn't okay?

@matthewstoller I'm back in Australia for a week and every 5th car in my parents' Sydney suburb is a BYD electric vehicle. Many houses have solar panels / batteries so charging is free. BYD cars are great and cost ~US$20K. Even thogh I agree with the EV tariffs, we're missing out big time :'(

U.S. imports of Chinese EVs are verging on inevitable. Our automakers are refusing to compete on price and quality. The public won’t stand for this forever.

@signulll I once left a party, felt that I’d left too early and came back and had a great time. But most times it feels good to leave with a bit of regret

the optimal exit from a party is almost always slightly before you wish you’d left.

@iaindunning B

How do you talk to Claude? Say, when using Claude Code, at the end of a session you asked it to write its learnings in a text file. In a new session: A: "a previous claude wrote this summary, read it" B: "you previously wrote this summary, read it"

@SFMTA_Muni A free pass would make that even better 😋 But I will be back!

@SFMTA_Muni Thanks for entertaining me! Appreciate it. We gave up and got an Irish coffee instead. Good luck

ATTN: California, Hyde & Mason Cable Car lines currently holding position due to heavy traffic. Bus shuttles supporting service. Will update.

@SFMTA_Muni Interesting. Is this the main reason why?

@gitpushoriginm8 Exactly, gridlock means cars are bumper-to-bumper and blocking intersections, so the cable car can't move forward without causing issues. Bus shuttles work because they're not track-bound as they can pull over, change lanes, or take different streets to get around the congestion.

@SFMTA_Muni Helpful to understand. So are you saying that literally no cars are moving on the street? How does the bus shuttle work then?

@gitpushoriginm8 SF's cable cars run on tracks and are physically attached to a moving cable beneath the street. When traffic gridlocks, they literally have nowhere to go & can't switch lanes or take alternate routes. That's why we have to stop and wait. We do have bus shuttles in place.

@SFMTA_Muni Why does traffic stop public transport, no matter how whimsical it is?

@gitpushoriginm8 We don't have an ETA at this time. We'll update once it clears. Thanks for your patience.