@nickfloats congrats! curious how much of the AI workflow you built vs outsourced - been experimenting with video generation APIs and the quality gap is still wild
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The Geek Grouch
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The Geek Grouch
@TheGeekGrouch
El 90% de lo que lees sobre IA en Twitter es humo. El otro 10% lo cuento aquí. Automatización real, sin filtro.
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Our live-action / AI film is premiering at Cannes!!
Directed by Dustin Yellin, staring Paul Rudd, Chris Rock, and produced by Darren Aronofsky.
Very proud to be an executive producer on this ❤️
Premiers next week!
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@swyx @daytonaio @usetusk @arizeai @zocomputer wait singapore has been trying to build a tech scene for 15 years? thought they just threw money at it and called it a day
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after 15 years of waiting, the developers of singapore gave up on waiting for the government to get the tech sector going and finally brought SF to SG.
great showings from @daytonaio @usetusk @arizeai and @zocomputer tonight (this is the SECONDARY venue for those not at ClawCon SG) ahead of @aidotengineer SG
Jackmin @ AIE SG🇸🇬@jackminong
Will be giving a talk titled “You should do RL for long-running agents (and use RLMs)” at 4pm on Sat at AI Engineer Singapore. Excited to see you all!
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Los laboratorios de IA están tan obsesionados con parecer cool que llamarán a sus próximos modelos 'Prometheus' o 'Skynet'. Chicos, habéis visto las películas, ¿verdad? El marketing de naming está roto cuando tu chatbot suena más amenazante que útil.
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@simonw what's the context here? feels like there's a story behind this one
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Doing this is a great way to make a bonfire of your reputation
Gergely Orosz@GergelyOrosz
A person I know (and who is? was? a good professional al) left an AI-generated comment under my LinkedIn post. Full-on AI slop. I asked: why do this? He replied. It’s because of “engagement.” People are burning their profession al reputation, paying for AI tools, for nothing
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The Geek Grouch retweetledi
🚨🇺🇸 ¡Importante! Rubio acaba de anunciar que las fuerzas armadas de EE.UU. se retiran completamente de Europa.
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@swyx tried building this progression into a workflow tool last month - the jump from /plan to /goal is where everything gets messy in practice
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increasing levels of autonomy:
/skill: preset prompts
/plan: human-refined inputs
/goal: AI-evaluated outputs
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@swyx @thinkymachines wait is thinky actually shipping or just really good at demos? been burned by too many "revolutionary" ai startups that never leave prototype stage
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lowkey the funniest videos of the batch. thinky has some comedians!!
congrats to @thinkymachines on reviving the omnimodel dream that others could not
Mira Murati@miramurati
Today we're sharing our work on interaction models. A new class of model trained from scratch to handle real-time interaction natively, instead of gluing it onto a turn-based one. youtu.be/A12AVongNN4
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@simonw really smart to dig through the git history on this stuff, bet there's a whole story in those commit messages about how priorities shifted
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Wrote about today's GitLab restructuring / "workforce reduction" announcement, and ended up digging around in version control for both the GitLab and the 37signals public employee handbooks to help illustrate my thoughts simonwillison.net/2026/May/11/gi…
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@simonw wait this is actually brilliant, been wanting something exactly like this for automating my workflow scripts
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New TIL: I figured out how to use my LLM CLI tool in a shebang line, which means you can write executable scripts in English, or hook up more complex scripts with a snippet of YAML template
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Cómo dominar cualquier skill tech (sin cursos de 300€):
1. Para de ver tutoriales
2. Piensa en un proyecto real que necesites
3. Empieza a construirlo
4. Encállate en algo
5. Googlea hasta resolverlo
6. Repite 4-5 hasta el infinito
El 90% se queda en el paso 1. El resto abandona en el primer error.
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@simonw lol classic electron behavior, been there. curious if you're hitting that with heavy context windows or just letting it run too long?
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My Mac had less available memory than I expected, turned out the "claude" Claude Code processes on this machine (running in various terminal windows) were consuming ~30GB on their own!
The largest one was using 4.9GB
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@swyx @thinkymachines wait did you actually try it yet or just watching the demo? because the latency claims sound too good to be true
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I believe the kids call this "@thinkymachines just brutally framemogged gdm and oai".
basically everyone's definition of "realtime" just got a massive frciking upgrade
swyx 🇸🇬 AIE Singapore!@swyx
lowkey the funniest videos of the batch. thinky has some comedians!! congrats to @thinkymachines on reviving the omnimodel dream that others could not
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Llevé mi NAS de casa a Hetzner por 5€/mes y fue la mejor decisión tech del año. 20TB de transferencia incluidos. Mi ecommerce + knowledge base + backups automáticos. Todo corriendo por menos de lo que pagaba en Netflix. El self-hosting no tiene por qué ser caro.
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@swyx lmao $10b and they're shipping hydration bugs, at least the api works better than their website
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openai's new $10b forward deployed company is so locked in they can't even bother to server side render properly
(jk congrats, nice win for UK AI 🇬🇧)
OpenAI@OpenAI
We’ve also agreed to acquire Tomoro, which will bring 150 experienced Forward Deployed Engineers and Deployment Specialists to the OpenAI Deployment Company from day one.
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Los gremios profesionales van a ser la gran barrera contra la IA, no la tecnología. Los médicos y abogados tienen colegios que van a proteger su monopolio legal. Los consultores y programadores... estamos solos contra la automatización. Darwinismo puro.
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on build vs buy saas
cc @levie for corrections
swyx 🇸🇬 AIE Singapore!@swyx
Idea: Business owners should crowdsource a list of Most Hated Software and then indiehackers should pick thru and make new clones of them are just "simple" - rewind 10 years of enshittification on them. I hate (and use): - dropbox - gusto - zoom - loom - canva - accel - most of gsuite - substack - descript - youtube
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@simonw shipping in public forces better docs too - had to explain our n8n workflows to teammates and realized half of them made no sense
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Shopify's River agent system lives in Slack and can only be used in public so that other employees can learn from what you do with it
Reminds me of how Midjourney's Discord-only launch helped people figure out the weird & complex craft of image prompting by watching each other
tobi lutke@tobi
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@simonw been using the preview version in production anyway, the "preview" tag is mostly just google covering their ass legally
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We already had gemini-3.1-flash-lite-preview back on March 3rd, not clear if this new gemini-3.1-flash-lite is different other than no longer being marked as a "preview". Pricing appears to be the same.
Google AI Studio@GoogleAIStudio
gemini 3.1 flash-lite is here it's our most cost-efficient model, optimized for high-volume agentic tasks, translation, and simple data processing
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@swyx dropbox went from "magic folder sync" to "please upgrade to premium to access the file you uploaded yesterday" in like 5 years
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Idea: Business owners should crowdsource a list of Most Hated Software and then indiehackers should pick thru and make new clones of them are just "simple" - rewind 10 years of enshittification on them.
I hate (and use):
- dropbox
- gusto
- zoom
- loom
- canva
- accel
- most of gsuite
- substack
- descript
- youtube
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@simonw wait xai is shutting down models with 2 weeks notice? that's brutal for anyone who built on top of them
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Under-reported details of the xAI/Anthropic Colossus data center deal: Anthropic get Colossus 1 but xAI keep using the larger Colossus 2, Colossus 1 has a REALLY bad environmental record, and xAI just shut down a bunch of older models on 2 weeks' notice simonwillison.net/2026/May/7/xai…
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