Varun Rau

opus and me (we were both wrong)

@NickADobos there’s probably a lot of inference done remotely not tied to his account

I expected Anthropic devs to have way more than ~$200,000 token spend

@mc_anthropic @geoffreylitt @NotionHQ @claudeai congrats on the launch michael!

@varunrau @geoffreylitt @NotionHQ @claudeai this was so cool to see happen. super glad to have been able to support you throughout all of this. PLEASE keep the feedback coming :)

something i’ve been working on! combines the zen of @NotionHQ with the intelligence of @claudeai waitlist here if you want to try for yourself: notion.pages.dev.notion.co/dbf98aa0df7147…

i think this is one of the most thoughtful sandbox apis i’ve worked with. more powerful than most but mostly one-shottable for a coding agent to implement

come hang and chat with us about one of the tools that is McLuhan-ly shaping us!

@Kuntalgo we’ve been vertical, now we’ve gone horizontal… there’s only one direction left!

@varunrau Notion blocks in physical dimension ? holograms ?!

secret to a successful launch: - build a feature - launch it to a small group of people - wait 5 years - 🚀 you're not gonna believe what's coming out in 2030

@mitchellh this exact pivot is almost word-for-word applicable to most software companies these days

Here’s what I’d do if I was in charge of GitHub, in order: 1. Establish a North Star plan around being critical infrastructure for agentic code lifecycles and determine a set of ways to measure that. 2. Fire everyone who works on or advocates for copilot and shut it down. It’s not about the people, Im sure theres many talented people, youre just working at the wrong company. 3. Buy Pierre and launch agentic repo hosting as the first agentic product. Repos would be separate from the legacy web product to start since they’re likely burdened with legacy cross product interactions. 4. Re-evaluate all product lines and initiatives against the new North Star. I suspect 50% get cut (to make room for different ones). The big idea is all agentic interactions should critically rely on GitHub APIs. Code review should be agentic but the labs should be building that into GH (not bolted in through GHA like today, real first class platform primitives). GH should absolutely launch an agent chat primitive, agent mailboxes are obviously good. Etc. GH should be a platform and not an agent itself. This is going to be very obviously lacking since I only have external ideas to work off of and have no idea how GitHub internals are working, what their KPIs are or what North Star they define, etc. But, with imperfect information, this is what I’d do.

@KontroldChaos so cool! was this using custom instructions?

Notion's AI meeting notes just drafted 3 follow-up emails from a single design meeting. Client updates, action items, owner assignments, deadlines all pulled from the conversation automatically. I didn't write any of these. I just hit record. Two things worth noting: The emails were already sitting there when the meeting ended. No prompt, no "generate follow-up." It just did it. That's the friction reduction that matters the work is done before you even think to ask for it. Project names and details here are fictional. Real meeting, real output, swapped for privacy. This is what "AI" actually looks like. Not replacing judgment. Replacing the 45 minutes after every call where you're rewriting the same information into 3 different emails for 3 different audiences. @zachtratar This is game changer! 🙏🏽 @NotionHQ

@alexhaobao the only game i know how to play

@varunrau truly playing the long game

@getheroik @NotionHQ @TomFrankly it can!

@NotionHQ @TomFrankly Can Notion AI read all tabs?

New block: Tabs 🗂️ Sometimes a page has a lot going on. Tabs let you organize it in a new way… no subpages, no mile-long scroll. Type /tabs to try it out (rolling out now).

@jitl @craigaryhart i was listening to the beatles when i first wrote it -> lucy in the sky with diamonds -> lsd -> tabs ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

@craigaryhart @varunrau damn, i can’t remember — that’s a good q for @varunrau

swan song from Alex Rosalia, who did the Hard Parts and departed for a new adventure this week [no twitter], and @varunrau who wrote the first version of this like a zillion years ago

been begging her to declassify this guide for ages and it's finally happened!

i was hired for my looks

biggest achievement of the day

ty @lalizlabeth for help on the design and assets and @cursor_ai for building it for me :)

the game is free to play here: team-drawing.vercel.app!

for this month's dinner party, the theme was "restaurant dupes". so last night's game was "team draw!"