Brett Hogan

“Vision is now just a virtual machine running in their head”

Is the pursuit of intelligence (see: equal rights/access to top models) an unalienable right? I don’t have a defined viewpoint on this yet, except that it’s obviously going to be a huge issue over the next 5-20 years.

@kevinweil Classic ‘task v purpose’ — most jobs AI will decrease tasks and increase purpose.

It turns out, the job of a radiologist isn't to read x-rays. It's to cure people. And if AI can help speed the process of understanding x-rays, radiologists can see and cure more people.

@saranormous @thogge Very sad. We are built for community and connection with other humans. Tech should enhance that, not displace it!

@thogge know friends / researchers who do not feel this way

@KyleSamani Hard disagree — Anthropic will create more stakeholder value by creating a platform (that sells to millions of businesses…most not yet created) than displacing said businesses. Will debate over dinner and/or drinks anytime :)

@HoganBrogan with enough intelligence, you don't need the businesses anymore

Once you understand this You understand why all pure software is going to 0 Don’t be short intelligence

I’ve been battery (and solar) pilled since installing both 4+ years ago… so awesome to see Base scale this to millions of folks 🔋

This is a remarkable interview — on many levels. Irrespective of your faith or politics, I highly recommend. Thank you and godspeed @BenSasse 🙏 nytimes.com/2026/04/09/opi…

If you're under 53 years old, you have never once been alive while a human was farther than 250 miles from Earth. Tonight, four astronauts are heading 252,000 miles out. That's a thousand times farther than any person has gone in your lifetime. The 250-mile ceiling is where the International Space Station floats. Every astronaut since December 1972 has been stuck in that zone. Spacewalks, science experiments, cool photos from orbit, sure. But nobody left the neighborhood. The last crew to go farther was Apollo 17. December 1972. Nixon was president. The internet didn't exist. Cell phones were 11 years away. The youngest member of that crew is now 90 years old. The farthest any human has ever been from Earth is 248,655 miles. The Apollo 13 crew set that number in 1970, and they didn't mean to. Their oxygen tank blew up, and the emergency route home took them farther out than anyone before or since. Tonight's crew will break that record on purpose. And the crew itself. Victor Glover becomes the first Black astronaut to leave Earth's neighborhood. Christina Koch becomes the first woman. Jeremy Hansen, a Canadian fighter pilot, becomes the first non-American to do so. When they come home, they'll slam into the atmosphere at 25,000 mph, faster than any human has ever traveled. The Moon's south pole has ice. Water ice, sitting in craters so deep that sunlight hasn't hit them in billions of years. A 2024 NASA study found way more of it than anyone expected. You can split water into hydrogen and oxygen, which gives you rocket fuel, breathable air, and drinking water, all made on the Moon instead of hauled up from Earth. George Sowers at Colorado School of Mines calculated that Moon-made fuel could shave $12 billion off a single trip to Mars. The Moon is a gas station on the road to Mars. NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman announced last week a $20 billion plan to build a permanent base at the South Pole over the next seven years, with landings every six months. China is developing its own lunar lander and spacesuit, aiming for a crewed landing by 2030. The Artemis program has burned through $93 billion so far, and the first actual surface landing is penciled in for 2028. There's a real question of who gets there first this time around. Harrison Schmitt walked on the Moon in December 1972 as part of Apollo 17. He's 90. Asked about it this week, he sounded pretty relaxed. "Mars is attainable," he said. "We're humans. That's what we've always done."

@OfficialLoganK any plans on improving/hardening deep-research-pro-preview-12-2025? When it works, it’s fantastic but is a complete black box. API can run for 10-20m and burn insane amount of tokens and only feedback during is ‘in progress’. Appreciate all you’re doing!

I used to work 12 hours a day. But thanks to AI, I now work 16.

@ColinGardiner @martinbowling Codex with ChatGPT 5.4 (Extra High) — best setup for coding imo.

Here's my OpenClaw token optimization setup using Claude: • Main chat: Haiku 4.5 (cheap, fast for conversation) • Subagents: Sonnet 4.6 (for standard tasks) • Complex/coding: Opus 4.6 (spawn manually when needed) What else are people doing to optimize? h/t @martinbowling

This.

@thogge What’s the differentiation vs semaglutide and Tirzepatide?

This drug is going to change the world. I have invested a large amount of money behind this belief.

@TrentKrupp I use it every few years… when I get a new Apple laptop and try to open a CSV/Excel extension for the first time before changing defaults 😂

How is numbers still so bad and useless? Feel like any junior PM could go in there and get it from trash to serviceable. Fixes are so obvious only people who have never used a spreadsheet wouldn't be able to fix it

Wow, just over here spawning new agents via OpenClaw ACP. Game changer!

@KyleSamani It’s cliche at this point but I’ve had Eight Sleep for 5+ years and it’s still one of my favorite all time products — sleeping anywhere else is so sub-optimal.

Congrats to the Eight Sleep team! I’m a longtime customer and investor

@thogge @dmbkparker GLP-1?

@dmbkparker Cheated so it’s not really. But Ty

The good news: I’ve lost 50 lbs The bad news: i still don’t have a jawline wtf

@ColinGardiner 🤚

Feedback needed. I'm looking to put together a meetup for Austin Tech Dads. It could take a lot of different formats. I'm first thinking get together/networking but eventually as it gets larger would like to maybe put together cool guest speaker panels. The number one thing I want to do is get together this awesome community of people that are relatively new to Austin. Please give me feedback in the poll but also comment on what would get you excited and coming out. If you want to be on the list also, just comment with the 🖐 and I'll DM you. I don't have a space or sponsor set up and if anyone's got any thoughts on that or are interested in doing it, also let me know.

The implications of this are pretty profound. Are we playing or building — or both?!