Rod Breslau

My dog Bowie, the goodest boye in the world and my lifelong best friend, passed away at the ripe old age of 15. I wish he'd live forever. May you chase balls forever in doge heaven. I'll see you again sometime. 💔

@ThePrimeagen if we mass shame those who use LLMs to write their posts and scripts we can make a difference

A small piece of advice to up and coming creators. Do not let LLMs write your scripts. Find your voice, even if its semi-coherent like mine. Its better than just sounding so average

@far33d you could also refine your thinking through the process of writing

@Slasher I shamelessly use AI to refine my thinking and write.

Agent-native products are coming. Every product on the internet was built for a human with eyes, a cursor, and a credit card. Agents have none of those things. Most companies are teaching agents to pretend to be humans. That's a hack. The real opportunity is products designed for agents from scratch. Everything inverts: • Discovery → protocol registries, not ads and billboards • Trust → machine-readable reputation, not brand • Onboarding → full capabilities upfront, not a narrow slice • Payments → spend authorization, not checkout flows • Retention → zero. Agents switch between API calls. 30 years of human product design. Day one of agent product design.

@BlightYoakam @lambgoat @WideyMcKnacker SMNnews > Lambgoat since 2002.

@lambgoat @WideyMcKnacker i get all my news from @Slasher

I only ever got my metal news from @BlightYoakam anyway 💅

@punishedgarage mentioned already but written by AI

obsessed w this guy on reddit who was spending $60 a week on burgers for himself and his roommate

@krispursiainen find Mike Brown's burner Kris

Mike Brown was asked if he tunes out noise during the postseason, if he watches sports TV He went on to list, like, four HGTV shows that he's very into. "I'm human, and if I read something, 'oh, Knicks are this, and Mike Brown is this,' I got a big head anyway, but it can get bigger...distract me from what I do...I've never tweeted anything, I've never Instagrammed anything. Even though I have those accounts, cause my sons have them and I try to follow them...really try to ignore the noise"

@KOT4Q Frank should be thanking you for not taking all three hours

This is weird. Dont hate the player, hate the game.

@ianmiles 'the X algorithm is broken' says Ian who wrote this entire post with AI

The X algorithm is broken, and it's killing the platform from the inside out. It's gotten measurably worse, and it now barely registers something as fundamental as how many people chose to follow you. Small accounts can't grow organically. Large accounts watch their reach collapse month over month. Post too much and you're throttled. Post too little and you're forgotten. There is no winning move because the system isn't designed for anyone to win. It's designed to keep everyone anxious, posting more, and dependent on whatever the model decided that morning. I'm personally down 95% from a year ago. Ninety-five percent. I get more views and replies on Instagram with 20,000 followers than I do here with a following many multiples of that. Every serious creator, journalist, and news account I know is reporting the same collapse. This isn't a handful of cranks complaining but a structural failure visible in the numbers across the entire creator class. The damage runs deeper than impressions. The algorithm has quietly redefined what kind of person you're allowed to be on this platform. If you stay relentlessly inside one "niche," you get rewarded. If you post like an actual human being with multiple interests — politics, tech, gaming, culture, memes — you get punished. The system literally works against diversity of thought, which is supposed to be the entire point of a town square. It funnels everyone into narrower and narrower lanes until creators stop being people and start being content categories. The user experience is just as broken as the creator experience. Imagine subscribing to a dozen tech and science channels on YouTube and being shown unrelated slop instead. That's the For You feed now. Most of the accounts on my timeline are random accounts I never asked to see, while the people I actually chose to follow get buried. The "systems-first" approach the team is so proud of has turned a social network into a slot machine and the engagement numbers everyone is whispering about in group chats prove the experiment isn't working. Here's the part nobody at X seems willing to say out loud: followers used to be social capital, and the algorithm has retroactively devalued every account on the platform. All of us, aside from the legacy celebrities who arrived with audiences pre-built, clawed our way up from zero. We posted through the woke years, the bot waves, the policy changes, the verification chaos. We built something. And then one day a model decided our followers don't really count anymore. Treating creators this way is the digital equivalent of how communist regimes treat entrepreneurs: confiscate the value they built, redistribute it to whoever the central planner prefers this week, and call it fairness. It also makes no business sense. Creators are not a cost center on this platform — we are the platform. The reason anyone opens the app is because someone they want to hear from is here. When you suppress that signal in favor of algorithmic guesses, you don't just hurt creators — you train users to leave. People are already migrating their best work to Substack, Instagram, YouTube, and TikTok, where follower relationships still mean something. X is speedrunning the same mistake every dying platform makes: confusing engagement metrics with actual loyalty. The fix isn't complicated: Give us back a real Following feed that respects the explicit choice users made when they hit the follow button. Let the For You tab handle discovery — that's its job — but stop overriding the social graph people built deliberately. Make follower count weight something meaningful again. Stop punishing topical range. Stop boosting unverified randoms over accounts users have actively opted into. And stop pretending an opaque ranking model is more legitimate than the user's own stated preferences. X is supposed to be the free speech platform. But suppression by algorithm is still suppression — it just has better PR. If the team is serious about this being a town square, the people who showed up and built it deserve to actually be heard by the audiences they earned. Fix the algorithm. Give followers back their meaning. Let creators be human again.

Over the last year, I've watched a rise in AI content on basically every internet platform. Seeing a viral AI-generated post used to be a rare find. Now it's a daily occurrence. Four months ago, we launched the @pangramlabs bot to help people check long posts and articles for AI slop without leaving the platform. And it blew up. We went from a niche tool used by academics to a core piece of cognitive security infrastructure. Today, we're taking it one step further. We're launching a Chrome extension that proactively scans all social content as you scroll, flagging AI content in real time so you can save your attention for what really matters: content authored by humans. At launch, the Pangram Chrome extension will proactively scan posts on X, LinkedIn, Reddit, Substack, and Medium. And we'll give you a feed health summary, so you can see exactly which accounts are putting AI slop on your feed. I'm so excited to share this with you all, and I hope you find it as useful as I do.

@IQfor3 look at this way. it could be worse

didn’t realize it was this bad

@gregisenberg don't worry Greg I can tell by the fact you used AI to write this

@VirtualElena i thought new media a16z people were supposed to be smart not just as clueless as the GPs

yeah not sure how i feel about a socialist mayor standing directly outside of a named private citizen’s home saying incendiary class-warfare type axioms. what makes it even more disgusting is that luigi shot the unh ceo A BLOCK away from where mamdani is standing.

@saranormous if you truly believed in what you were posting wouldn't you be proud to say you used AI to, 'in your own words', make yourself a better writer? also you gotta use the one that actually works

@Slasher lol

I believe AI will deliver enormous gains to the global consumer: better products, better services, better healthcare, and tools that make ordinary people more capable, even superhuman. The upside is so large, and the geopolitical stakes so real, that we should move decisively toward it, not choke it off. But people do not experience technological change as an aggregate statistic. They experience it through their bills, their communities, and their jobs. So the issue is not whether AI will create value. It will. The issue is whether the path to those gains asks particular communities and workers to absorb too much of the cost upfront. The institutions building AI cannot externalize the local costs of scaling and call future abundance the answer. If datacenters place major new demands on power and land, they should invest enough to strengthen the grid, ease pressure on bills, expand the tax base, and create durable jobs. And if AI compresses some of the entry-level work people used to learn on, firms should help build new on-ramps and training pathways into the new work that growth is creating. This is not an argument for slowing the buildout down. It is an argument that rapid technological progress has to be socially durable.

@edels0n ed i see everyone else is already chiming in but you should understand concurrent live viewership is not total views. in fact if you check the twitch or youtube vods of any large streamer after they end it will usually always surpass clip views

Clips are no longer the byproduct of the main product — they’re the main product. No matter the size of the show, they drive the ultimate reach 👇

@angel_0f_deathx it would be cool if there was an auto AI detector for all tweets and posts across the internet that we could then auto ignore...

stop using ai to write your twitter replies!!! everyone hates you!!!!!!!!!

@somewheresy Working on this

I have an idea. It's called Shame

@Gresham2x @MurrayHillGuy1 Not even

@MurrayHillGuy1 Did you really write all of this about a guy you don’t even know at 8am

We all know this guy. He’s got "He/Him" in his bio right next to a link for his failed SoundCloud, and spends 40 minutes explaining why "positionless basketball" is a metaphor for late-stage capitalism to a girl who just wanted to watch the Knicks. That’s the look of a woman realizing she’s dating a guy who wears a vintage sweatshirt from a thrift store and uses the word "visceral" to describe a layup. Every man dreams of finding the beautiful mid like this to match his unique quirks and listen to his weird takes on life

@MurrayHillGuy1 look man I know Grace hurt your feelings because she echoed what everyone in this city thinks about you but it's also very funny that you're so stupid you needed AI to write this

@LSXYZ9 it's incredible the level Flash JD and Bisu are still playing at, all with real chances to win. it's a shame they're in the old man bonjwa group of death as this might be Flash's retirement tour but what a swan song it would be if he could pull through into an ASL finals run

20 years after being considered essentially the 3 "gods" of their race from SC1, they've been seeded into a group together. If FlaSh gets 1st again in his first return tournament idk what to even think lol The LoL equivalent of "The year is 2040, Chovy vs Faker meet again in the finals"