Chris Smith

IRS: you owe us taxes Me: how much do I owe? IRS: you get to figure that out Me: can I just pay what I want? IRS: no we know exactly how much you owe but you have to guess the number too Me: what if I guess wrong? IRS: jail Happy tax day!

Missed out on generational wealth and it's not even lunchtime

Shoe company pivots overnight to AI company, stock price spikes. It's not April Fool's Day? This isn't The Onion?

the fucking wildest 7 days in U.S. defense history - pentagon revealed they used Claude to capture venezuelan president Maduro - pentagon demands anthropic gives them unadulterated access to claude for mass surveillance and autonomous killing weapons - anthropic says “fuck you” - trump blacklists them calling them woke pussies, Pete Hegseth designates them a “supply-chain risk” - Openai swoops in with better terms stealing anthropic’s deal, securing ChatGPT as the military’s preferred ai model. *5 hours later* - U.S. starts war with Iran and kills supreme leader Khameini insane timeline.

most dashboards don’t provide any insights, let alone actionable ones

It's funny, I'm hearing from friends at different companies that there are two kinds of product teams right now: a) Those that are getting friction trying to move from docs / slides / endless meetings to a more all-hands on deck prototyping approach with AI and thus still shipping slow OR b) Those who are in absolute chaos because everyone is vibe coding everything and now there are 1000 new feature and product ideas, and there is no strategic direction whatsoever, just spaghetti against the wall Truly the renaissance.

even the government is launching a chatgpt wrapper bro

The obvious solution here is to let both Netflix and Paramount have one Warner brother

Thank you Jeff, for solving the mystery of why people interested in making toys no longer visit my website. It was a puzzle why, recently, traffic fell to zero - since my website had always been a helpful resource to answer questions about toy making. The interested individuals would read a few Q and A's and often email me and I could work with them to make toys. Now all that is gone. I didn't know where it went or why it disappeared. It's because you scraped my website and used my work to build an AI based system that cuts me off. Thanks!

a former Disney Channel star creating the most evil thing I’ve ever seen in my life wasn’t really what I was expecting

you either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become an AI notetaker

“OK Claude, build me a $100B hedge fund to that will outperform Jane Street and Renaissance Technologies. Make no miskates.”

50 cent is now $1.09

A bunch of things CEO can ask for that are more specific than “AI” - every engineer on an AI stack (ide/cli + agentic automations) - every idea comes with the v1 prototype, from marketing decks to new products - designs now need to be interactive, not static - track % of product and design team w access to GitHub and create a sales gong like channel every time they push a merged PR - move everyone off their Gmail chatgpt/claude accounts onto an enterprise agreement - data science builds a data dictionary and starts to use MCPs not raw SQL to pull analysis - transfer budget for stock creative to midjourney and veo3 - revops outlines the sales process and automated as much CRM hygiene, customer follow up, coaching, etc as possible in the stack - sales mgmt uses MCP not salesforce to pull status updates - 1 named DRI per function responsible for AI tooling, upskilling, and knowledge share in their team - integrate AI competencies into job families/ladders/promos - exec team hack week, everyone ships - CEO (non technical) ships small PR - hourly company wide AI show and tell - public ai show and tell slack channel - finance and IT orgs clear path for budget and compliance approval for new tools, implement simple guidelines - give G&A functions 2 engineers for a month to build tooling they need - block 1 hr/week company wide for “automate toil” time - give your EAs Zapier

Claude Code: no evals [well known code agent company]: no evals [well known code agent company 2]: kinda halfassed evals [leading vibe coding company]: no evals [ceo of company selling you evals]: mmmmm yess all my top customers do evals, you should do evals [vc's in love with ceo of evals company]: mmmmm yes all my top founders do evals, must do evals (NOTE: i -do- also think that evals are impt, but the eval pilled ai engineers have also noticed that it is not a strict requirement for success and, at least for 0-to-1 stage, may even be anticorrelated, think thru why)

Here’s how tariffic to your website differs from ChatGPT and Perplexity. We took 32 websites, all of which generate a minimum of $100 million in annual revenue and at least 150,000 monthly visits. 12 of the companies were B2B and 20 were B2C. Check out how their visitors interacted with their site by platform.

Can’t wait until they unify all the apps into a new app called cable.

AGI is here, everybody.

GPT-5 is here. Rolling out to everyone starting today. openai.com/gpt-5/

gpt-oss is out! we made an open model that performs at the level of o4-mini and runs on a high-end laptop (WTF!!) (and a smaller one that runs on a phone). super proud of the team; big triumph of technology.