Matt Walker

Recently authored a white paper w/ Wisk on Urban Air Mobility (UAM) in the U.S. based on qualitative & quantitative research conducted by Hypothesis. Flying taxis are a lot closer than you’d think. Electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL). Oh, and they won’t have pilots.

@balail These are extraordinary. So unbelievably cool

Artemis ii

Liftoff. The Artemis II mission launched from @NASAKennedy at 6:35pm ET (2235 UTC), propelling four astronauts on a journey around the Moon. Artemis II will pave the way for future Moon landings, as well as the next giant leap — astronauts on Mars.

@TomZarebczan @gmail How many were saved??

@gmail How many AI startups were killed by this post?

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@mhauken A brilliant mind to even think of this..!

Had to play with pretext today. What if you had to keep your phone perfectly straight to read anything?

@kevinrose @alexisohanian To be fair, isn’t that what all frontier labs have been doing already?

ok, theory, a frontier model creator lands a real breakthrough, they won’t ship it to the public first - they’ll aim it inward. their own products get supercharged, & suddenly you see a flurry of releases in rapid succession that feel almost unfair. everyone will wonder how they’re moving that fast…until the model finally gets announced.

@NorthSpursSG @quxiaoyin Haha quite a range. From sharing something specific with his little sister, to helping cook breakfast (mix crepe batter), to trying to learn a new song at daycare. It just cannot be "standard/generic" (e.g., brushing teeth, eating dinner, being nice to his sister...).

@The_MW @quxiaoyin Thanks man. Dun mind me asking, wat answers do u get? Appreciate it

I have kids. I work in AI every day. And honestly? I have no idea what their careers will look like in 15 years. But I know what will carry them through. First, and this might sound unromantic: make money and save it for them. We can debate educational philosophy all day, but the world is changing so fast that financial security might be the most practical gift we can give. Buy some gold bars. Seriously. Second, nurture their imagination. AI rewards people with initiative and wild ideas. The kid who daydreams, who asks weird questions, who wants to try ten things at once? That kid will thrive. AI can execute. AI can be disciplined. What AI can't do is dream up something nobody's thought of before. Third, build resilience. There are no more iron rice bowls (guaranteed lifetime jobs). Any stable, predictable job is exactly the kind of job AI will learn to replace. Our kids will likely switch directions many times in their lives. Learn something new, get replaced, pivot, repeat. It's more like being a hunter than a farmer. Schools don't teach this. Schools teach you to follow a linear path: high school, college, grad school, stable job. That linear path is becoming the most dangerous one. Last, invest in their ability to connect with other humans. Not networking. Not schmoozing. Real emotional connection. Building trust, offering support, making people feel seen. As AI handles more of the rational, analytical work, the human ability to genuinely relate to other humans becomes more rare and more valuable. I don't have all the answers. But I know that imagination, resilience, and genuine human warmth aren't going out of style anytime soon. #AI #Parenting #Education #FutureOfWork

@gothburz Entertaining take (genuinely). The first 3 months I tried learning how to ride a bike when I was 4 was grueling. Blood, sweat, and definitely tears. Two decades later, I biked from SF to LA. Feels like a parallel (but the bike tech was effectively identical decade-over-decade).

My company rolled out AI tools 11 months ago. Since then, every task I do takes longer. I am not allowed to say this out loud. Not because there is a policy. There is no policy. There is something worse than a policy. There is enthusiasm. There is a Slack channel called #ai-wins where people post screenshots of AI outputs with captions like "this just saved me an hour." There is a VP who opens every all-hands with "the companies that adopt fastest win." There is a Director who renamed his team from Operations to Intelligent Operations. There is a peer review question that now asks: "How have you leveraged AI tools to enhance your workflow this quarter?" If the answer is "I haven't, because I was faster before," that is a career decision. So I leverage. Emails. Before the tools, I wrote emails. This took the amount of time it takes to write an email. I did not measure it. Nobody measured it. The email got written and sent and it was fine. Now I write the email. Then I highlight the text and click "Enhance with AI." The AI rewrites my email. It replaces "Can we meet Thursday?" with "I'd love to explore the possibility of finding a mutually convenient time to align on this." I read the rewrite. I delete the rewrite. I send my original email. This takes 4 minutes instead of 2. The 2 extra minutes are the enhancement. I do this 11 times a day. That is 22 minutes I spend each day rejecting improvements to sentences that were already finished. In #ai-wins I posted a screenshot of the rewrite. I did not post the part where I deleted it. 23 people reacted with the rocket emoji. That is adoption. Meetings. We have an AI notetaker in every meeting now. It joins automatically. It records. It transcribes. It summarizes. After each meeting I receive a 3-paragraph summary of the meeting I just attended. I read the summary. This takes 3 minutes. I was in the meeting. I know what happened. I am reading a machine's account of something I experienced firsthand. Sometimes the account is wrong. Last Tuesday it attributed a comment about Q3 revenue to me. My manager made that comment. I spent 4 minutes correcting the transcript. Before the notetaker, I did not spend 7 minutes after each meeting correcting a robot's memory of something I personally witnessed. I attend 11 meetings a week. That is 77 minutes per week supervising a transcription nobody requested. I mentioned this once. My manager said "think about the people who weren't in the meeting." The people who weren't in the meeting do not read the summaries. I checked. The read receipts show single-digit opens. The summaries exist not because they are useful but because they are there. I read them for the same reason. Documents. I write a weekly status update. Before the tools, this took 10 minutes. I typed what happened. I sent it. My manager skimmed it. The system worked. Now I open the AI writing assistant. I give it my bullet points. It produces a draft. The draft says "Significant progress was achieved across multiple workstreams." I did not achieve significant progress across multiple workstreams. I updated a spreadsheet and sent 4 emails. I rewrite the draft to say what actually happened. Then I run my rewrite through the grammar tool. It suggests I change "done" to "completed" and "next week" to "in the forthcoming period." I click Ignore 9 times. Then I send the version I would have written in 10 minutes. The process now takes 30. I have been doing this every week for 11 months. I have added 20 minutes to a task that did not need 20 more minutes. I call this efficiency. I have been calling it efficiency for 11 months. That is what efficiency means now. It means the additional time you spend to arrive at the same outcome through a longer process. Nobody has questioned this definition. I have not offered it for review. I kept a log once. 2 weeks. Every task, timed. Before-AI and after-AI. The after number was larger in every case. Every single one. Not by a little. The range was 40 to 200 percent. I deleted the log. I deleted it because it was a document that said, in plain numbers, that the AI tools make me slower. And a document like that has no place in a company where AI adoption is a strategic priority. I could not send it to my manager. He championed the rollout. I could not post it in #ai-wins. I could not raise it in a meeting because the notetaker would transcribe it and the summary would read "[Name] expressed concerns about AI tool efficacy" and that summary would be the first one anyone actually reads. So I do what everyone does. I use the tools. I spend the extra time. I post in #ai-wins. I write "leveraged AI to streamline weekly reporting" in my review and my manager gives me a 4 out of 5 for innovation. I have innovated nothing. I have added steps to processes that were already finished. I have made simple things longer and labeled the difference with words that used to mean something. Every week in #ai-wins someone posts a screenshot. And 20 people react with the rocket emoji. And nobody posts the part where they deleted the output and did the task themselves. Nobody posts the revert. Nobody posts the before-and-after timer. Nobody will. Because "I was better at my job before the AI tools" is a sentence that cannot be said out loud in any company that has decided AI is the future. Every company has decided AI is the future. So we leverage. Quietly. Adding steps. Calling them optimization. Getting slightly less done, slightly more slowly, with slightly more steps, and reporting it as progress. My yearly review is next month. There is a new section this year. "AI Impact Assessment." It asks me to quantify the hours saved by AI tools per week. I will write a number. The number will be positive. It will not be true. But the AI writing assistant will help me phrase it convincingly. That is the one thing it does well.

@trq212 Is there any chance you'll add a feature to show token usage per prompt for Pro? I sent a couple prompts this morning before 8am and hit my session limit (nothing code-related even). I was using Opus 4.6 but could not believe how fast credits evaporated.

To manage growing demand for Claude we're adjusting our 5 hour session limits for free/Pro/Max subs during peak hours. Your weekly limits remain unchanged. During weekdays between 5am–11am PT / 1pm–7pm GMT, you'll move through your 5-hour session limits faster than before.

@imkylelambert Forgot about Clear! Beautiful app.

if you know, you know

This Figma MCP update is honestly insane. You can now use Claude Code to design directly in Figma with FULL context of your design system. Claude knows your components, spacing, colors. Everything. This is going to 10x how fast we ship UI.

@united Absolutely love the idea (so obvious in hindsight), but flight attendants are going to hate navigating feet in the aisle as the carts go by.

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@SaraInSF2 Wild it could be seen from such a range!

@The_MW Seen in SF

Anyone else see a meteor (I think) scream across the sky in LA tonight? Short clip from our dashcam driving home at 8:18pm (comes in from the top right)…

@petergyang @JoshKale Said data was being misinterpreted, so he took it down: x.com/karpathy/statu…

@JoshKale Damn why did he delete it

Karpathy scored every job in America on AI replacement risk. Then he deleted it. It went viral Last night. Elon replied. News outlets picked it up. So I brought it back to life. Cloned the entire repo to play with before it went down. Every file. The scoring data, the full pipeline, the interactive visualization. All of it. It's back up here: github.com/JoshKale/jobs The data was too noteworthy to let vanish. 342 occupations scored 0-10 on how much AI will reshape them. Average exposure across the entire US economy: 5.3/10. If your job lives on a screen, it's worth taking a look.

Incredible breakdown of the power of Figma Make and why Reframe is an amazing tool you designers should be using! Great video Asaad!

@daniel__designs Woah! Stunning

Light shimmering on the water

@ShopifySupport @fbissometa @kylesshortcuts @ashvinmelwani @Shopify Please don't move to DM. Had this been discussed more publicly, it would have saved us an entire day of getting absolutely crushed, while being left in the dark about what was happening on your end. Fortunately the public discourse on X led us to a [hopeful] solution.

@fbissometa @kylesshortcuts @ashvinmelwani @Shopify We appreciate you reaching out with your concerns. Let's move this to a DM, please send us a message with more information so that we can continue to assist you while keeping your account information secure.

Go to your shipping profiles. Re-enable anything that looks like it was disabled. We had 0 orders come in for 2 hours. Fixed and immediately orders started coming in again.

@ashvinmelwani Hooollly sh...opify. Thank you @ashvinmelwani . Wish I saw this earlier. Maybe Shopify should stop only vibe coding updates/releases... Cannot believe there wasn't any proactive communication on this. Expensive day.