Michael

Ten years ago I was building factories. Today I'm building the tools I wish I had inside them. @TenkaraAI raised $7M led by @trueventures.

> be anthropic > see an indie project built on your model > it sold more of your $200/mo subscriptions than your incompetent marketing ever could > ban accounts for using it > copystrike its funny name that drives more discovery of your products @DarioAmodei do you hate success?

@Nick_5anchez playkit report

In 2025 Playkit paid out $1.1M+ in ugc creator spend. The return -> 755M+ views accross TT and IG. We've consolidated all our data from this past year to break down the biggest insights in the app space: - best app categories for ugc - average cpm per campaign - avg campaign benchmarks for month to month + more report read time (10m) comment "playkit report" and ill dm you

@AviSchiffmann Where are you now. Today. If you are in SF I eat my words.

@MichaelLee04 I have lived in sf the past 3 years sir

I've never seen a startup done so dirty by old founders before

@Austen They have such an incredible moat that they still have 24 more shots to get this right before it’s a major issue. But they’ve burned 19 shots so far. So incompetent.

It’s still insane to me that Apple just has zero serious AI initiatives or products. You have insane market share. Unlimited money. You control the OS and all the hardware. And you give us fkn Siri and “you can use ChatGPT with your action button.” Just incredible bag fumble.

@sporadica get a second cat

my cat gets visibly upset every time i leave my apartment and it’s beginning to negatively affect my social life

@iamgingertrash All I see is that humans don't obey this rule...

In Mammals, The quicker the pace of a beating heart The quicker the death Lifespan is directly correlated with heart-rate Startups that attempt to viral-market Like Nikita Bier flash-in-the-pans Or A16Z garbage Or the Korean boy Die equally fast as they ascend Build Silently

@Calclavia How is it possible that every general purpose agent that someone releases they HAVE to do: - Booking flights - Booking a restaurant Some of the worst examples I could think of...

Flight booking AI demos smell like the classic "solution looking for a problem"

@traestephens I made a map for this around 6 months ago - cultural relevance is size of name, distance to center is price (not that accurate), and there are three main axes of relevance. DC and Houston got their own for me.

There are only four tier-1 cities in the 🇺🇸: New York (finance) DC (government) San Francisco (tech) LA (media & entertainment) No other cities are power centers for aspirational talent. Sorry.

@charlieholtz I was building something similar but this is way better. But a killer feature for mine was one-click previews. It allowed me to click to cherry pick the commit over to my main branch so that hot-reload would show me the result immediately. Can you add something like this?

Just realized a new version of Conductor (0.16)! The terminal panel now persists across workspaces, so you can have multiple long running commands running at once. We also fixed a bunch of bugs. More coming soon :)

@elonmusk This one is good ahahahaha

How to make a totally invisible plane

@faisal_sayed05 People will tell you to take l-theanine, but in reality... You are probably pretty sensitive to caffeine. Literally just keep halving it until you stop feeling anxious. Then do that until that becomes fine.

is there a good alternative to caffeine / celsius? it helps me wake up and focus on work but at the same time my cortisol level spikes like crazy and i get hella anxiety what's the fix here

@paularambles Can confirm, I did this.

when a16z invests in your company you get to rub marc andreessen’s head and he grants you three wishes

@charlieholtz What shell/env is this using under the hood? I'm getting git: 'worktree' is not a git command but worktrees work for me fine elsewhere...

We made a Mac app that lets you run a bunch of Claude Codes in parallel. Introducing Conductor!

@elonmusk Which was the bigger hoax?

Wow I can’t believe Epstein killed himself before realizing it was all a hoax

@roubalsehgal @sama Yeah my opinion on this is that this will get a good amount of buzz PURELY because it is being released to Plus/Teams users who have never had access to Operator.

@sama why does it feel and look like the operator? launched a few months back. doesn't seem like something newly launched.

this is a very cool one! live in 4 mins.

@sama The biggest part of this is easily that it comes to Plus/Teams users.

Today we launched a new product called ChatGPT Agent. Agent represents a new level of capability for AI systems and can accomplish some remarkable, complex tasks for you using its own computer. It combines the spirit of Deep Research and Operator, but is more powerful than that may sound—it can think for a long time, use some tools, think some more, take some actions, think some more, etc. For example, we showed a demo in our launch of preparing for a friend’s wedding: buying an outfit, booking travel, choosing a gift, etc. We also showed an example of analyzing data and creating a presentation for work. Although the utility is significant, so are the potential risks. We have built a lot of safeguards and warnings into it, and broader mitigations than we’ve ever developed before from robust training to system safeguards to user controls, but we can’t anticipate everything. In the spirit of iterative deployment, we are going to warn users heavily and give users freedom to take actions carefully if they want to. I would explain this to my own family as cutting edge and experimental; a chance to try the future, but not something I’d yet use for high-stakes uses or with a lot of personal information until we have a chance to study and improve it in the wild. We don’t know exactly what the impacts are going to be, but bad actors may try to “trick” users’ AI agents into giving private information they shouldn’t and take actions they shouldn’t, in ways we can’t predict. We recommend giving agents the minimum access required to complete a task to reduce privacy and security risks. For example, I can give Agent access to my calendar to find a time that works for a group dinner. But I don’t need to give it any access if I’m just asking it to buy me some clothes. There is more risk in tasks like “Look at my emails that came in overnight and do whatever you need to do to address them, don’t ask any follow up questions”. This could lead to untrusted content from a malicious email tricking the model into leaking your data. We think it’s important to begin learning from contact with reality, and that people adopt these tools carefully and slowly as we better quantify and mitigate the potential risks involved. As with other new levels of capability, society, the technology, and the risk mitigation strategy will need to co-evolve.

The biggest part of this is easily that Operator capabilities are coming to Plus and Teams users = way more usage, and that it isn't in some weird menu.