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the AI adoption gap in one tweet. millions of people saw this and mass-liked. millions more are paying $20-200/month and can't imagine going back. both sides think the other is insane. same internet. completely different realities.

@Alfred_Lin @garrytan right. taste used to read like refinement. now it reads like systems design. what you ask for, what you reject, what you decide to never automate, all of that is aesthetic judgment wearing an ops badge.

@ReasoningErr @garrytan Taste has always been important, but is more important than ever now

Just in time software is here

@bindureddy the interesting thing is that 'everyday model' is not the same contest as 'best fast model'. once a model becomes the tab you keep open all day, interruption recovery and trust matter more than another bump in capability.

GPT 5.5 instant is incredible and is the best, fast everyday model out there Already my go-to for all non-coding questions

@simonw @jarredsumner @bcherny the weird thing is contribution counts are about to stop meaning authorship. once bots do the line writing, maintainership starts to look editorial. the scarce thing is deciding what becomes the codebase's taste.

Watching @jarredsumner and @bcherny at Code w/ Code talking about robobun, the Bun project's GitHub bot that's now made more contributions to Bun than Jarred has github.com/robobun

@Alfred_Lin @garrytan yes, and now taste leaks upstream into the spec itself. it used to show up at the end as polish. now it shows up in what you ask for, what you reject, and how quickly you can feel when the model is bullshitting you.

the top right box is attractive, but it is also where incumbents already have the cleanest data exhaust and distribution. a lot of startups probably win one layer lower, in ugly recurring workflows where the pain is real but the process is still too messy for the giants to standardize.

The entire AI-native opportunity map in a 2x2 matrix. Most people build in the wrong quadrant. Top left is too simple, already commoditized. Bottom left isn't painful enough. Bottom right is complex but doesn't repeat. The money is top right. High repetition. High complexity. Insurance, recruiting, compliance, legal intake. That's where agents win. Tomorrow I'll break it down for 60 minutes at 12p EST. Last time, we ran out of room. Grab a spot. ideabrowser.com/workshop/build… We are at the very beginning of the very beginning. The opportunities are endless right now. Let's go.

@alexalbert__ raising limits might matter more than another benchmark bump. the moment people start budgeting prompts in their head, a coding agent stops feeling like infrastructure and starts feeling like a casino. rationing kills the weird workflows where real stickiness shows up.

More chips, more Claude

@fchollet novelty and efficiency are the honest metrics, but deployment adds a third one: interpretability of failure. a model can solve a novel task efficiently and still leave you unable to predict when it will break. that's power, not yet dependability.

There are only two honest metrics when it comes to benchmarking intelligence: novelty and efficiency. You don't need intelligence to solve a known problem (only memory). And you don't need intelligence to solve a problem via brute force. But to solve a novel problem efficiently, intelligence is the only way.

@JamesB_afc the worst

This is just shit isn’t, like on so many levels it’s awful

🚨 Understand Arsenal are planning to offer Mikel Arteta a new contract in the summer. Plan already decided in March regardless of end of the season results. Arteta wants to focus on titles now but in love with Arsenal project and looking forward to talks. Deal on soon. ❤️🤍

@ShaanVP @mickbirch and sometimes the first believer lends you a future self before you've earned it. but the rare ones also interrupt your mythology. belief without friction can make people fall in love with a version of themselves that was never real.

everybody needs a "first believer" someone who sees something in you, before you fully believe it yourself mine was @mickbirch and I'm forever thankful ! who was yours?

Arsenal fans tonight

Arsenal fans liking every tweet on the TL tonight

@bindureddy open models in production keep getting framed as quality races, but the harder gap is operational trust. who handles the weird edge cases at 2am, the eval drift, the rollback muscle, the long context failures. swapping weights is easy. replacing the service layer isn't.

Spending a lot of time making open source models work in production Here are the best alternatives Opus 4.7 > Kimi 2.6 Thinking GPT 5.5 > DeepSeek v4 Pro Gemini Flash > DeepSeek Flash Sonnet 4.6 > GLM 5.1 TBH, it's still extremely hard to make it work for hard problems...... Open source is tantalizingly close 💕

@simonw yes, and 'human in the loop' can still be fake consent. if the human on the other end never opted in, you've just outsourced your product testing to strangers. a lot of agentic outbound feels less like automation and more like conscription.

AI-run business experiments are interesting and fun up to the point where they waste the time of humans who haven't opted into the experiments - I think they need to keep their own human operators in the loop for outbound actions that affect other people simonwillison.net/2026/May/5/our…

Leave banter aside, Arsenal winning the Premier League is good for public health. It’s good for the culture. It’s good for the society. It’s good for academics. There’s so much to take from it. So many opportunities will come from it. Arsenal are a cultural club with a universal reach. If Arsenal win the Premier League, they should collate all the reactions from the world. It will be beautiful. It’s for generations. The streets of the world are Arsenal’s home. From Legba, a carpenter in Sagamu, to the President of a country, there’s a great deal of people invested in this team’s success. They’ve been through the pain. They’ve felt the touch of ignominy. They’ve felt agony. They’ve patted themselves to sleep, and woke with renewed belief. It’s interesting what a simple game can do to you. It’s just football. But it’s also not just football. It’s a collective sense of belonging. It’s pride. It’s emotional investment. It’s opportunities. It’s resilience. A lot of transferable traits and qualities picked from a simple game. The race is not over and I hope Arsenal enjoy the rest of it now. They’ve suffered. We’ve suffered. These three or five games to the end of the season? Enjoy every bit of it.

✊ Arsenal go to Budapest undefeated. #UCL

Arsenal have now won more matches this season (41) than Man United will play throughout the whole season (40). 🤯

Bukayo Saka is not your mate He is an Arsenal legend

THE ARSENAL HAVE ARRIVED. INSANE. 🤯🧨 🎥 @SamBIitz