Zac Walberer

Rippling launched its AI analyst today. I'm not just the CEO - I'm also the Rippling admin for our co, and I run payroll for our ~ 5K global employees. Here are 5 specific ways Rippling AI has changed my job, and why I believe this is the future of G&A software. 🧵 1/n

Tonight, we reached an agreement with the Department of War to deploy our models in their classified network. In all of our interactions, the DoW displayed a deep respect for safety and a desire to partner to achieve the best possible outcome. AI safety and wide distribution of benefits are the core of our mission. Two of our most important safety principles are prohibitions on domestic mass surveillance and human responsibility for the use of force, including for autonomous weapon systems. The DoW agrees with these principles, reflects them in law and policy, and we put them into our agreement. We also will build technical safeguards to ensure our models behave as they should, which the DoW also wanted. We will deploy FDEs to help with our models and to ensure their safety, we will deploy on cloud networks only. We are asking the DoW to offer these same terms to all AI companies, which in our opinion we think everyone should be willing to accept. We have expressed our strong desire to see things de-escalate away from legal and governmental actions and towards reasonable agreements. We remain committed to serve all of humanity as best we can. The world is a complicated, messy, and sometimes dangerous place.

Vibe coded apps aren’t replacing shit: A lot of analysts miss the fact that businesses buy software from vendors not because they can’t build it themselves. It’s because they don’t want to maintain auxiliary software is not core to their business. Imagine a restaurant vibe codes delivery app & somehow even manages to convince its employees to deliver. Now every few days, they need to maintain their delivery app. They need to fix bugs. Some library update breaks some part of the code, they now need to update the software. Suddenly they’re running a software shop instead of a curry shop. Unless your core business is literally building and maintaining software and you’re willing to maintain long term wear and tear of your auxiliary supporting software, vibe coded apps aren’t replacing shit.

February is Heart Month—a great time to take a look at your cardio fitness or VO₂ max. ⌚️❤️ Apple Watch automatically tracks the max amount of oxygen you can consume during exercise—an indicator of overall health—and can notify you if it’s low, so you can take action.

Denmark has their players drinking Coca Cola after line shifts