Andrew Li

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Andrew Li

Andrew Li

@andrewchli

builder and designer. ex-palantir & bytedance. startup person.

San Francisco, CA Katılım Şubat 2019
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Henry Song
Henry Song@HenrySo18176763·
Join us this Friday evening for the Voice Coding Mini Hackathon, hosted by @VoiceCursor, @photon_hq, @convex, and @RespanAI. 📍 450 Bryant St, San Francisco
🍕 Food and drinks provided
🏆 Thousands of dollars in prizes Meet fellow builders, experiment with voice-first development, and spend an evening shipping projects with the latest AI tools. Register: luma.com/sr3ay38v
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Andrew Li@andrewchli·
I think learning has two modes: bottom-up and top-down. Bottom-up is like what Karpathy said: take on concrete projects, learn on demand, and summarize what you learned. This worked well for me in the past. I basically picked what I want to learn as my “job”, and learned a ton a long the way. But top-down learning is also important. Some foundations are hard to accidentally pick up through projects: reading, writing, arithmetic, persuasion, and programming, etc. I have to be honest about my own weakness and deliberately study these basics, because they create leverage across many domains. The best learning probably comes from switching between the two: projects pull me toward frontier knowledge, and basics help me get there with greater velocity.
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Dreamina AI
Dreamina AI@dreamina_ai·
Meet Dreamina Octo at AI on the Lot | Quick Highlight Recap That’s a wrap from Los Angeles! The "Meet Dreamina Octo" panel at AI on the Lot 2026 has officially concluded! @aionthelot The electric energy from our incredible audience and global community made this a moment we won't soon forget. We were honored to be joined on stage by Phil Nibbelink, Lauren Indovina, and Jesse Wellens, who shared inspiring insights on creativity, AI collaboration, and the future of content creation. When the prompt isn’t the point, what truly matters? Dreamina Octo believes: the point was never about getting things done — it's the creative flow between you and what you're making. The wait is almost over! Dreamina Octo is officially launching soon! Thank you all for your incredible enthusiasm and support. Stay tuned for more exciting moments with Dreamina AI. Want to step into the flow early? Fill out our survey now to secure your spot for early access to Octo: forms.gle/K5vSMf8W12au2Z… #DreaminaOctoAIonthelot #DreaminaSeedance2 #DreaminaAI #DreaminaOcto #DreaminaAIonthelot
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Andrew Li@andrewchli·
just visited Shenzhen again. if you’re building a hardware company, it’s hard to ignore this city. the ecosystem here is incredibly complete, manufacturing, supply chain, capital, and most importantly, ambitious people from companies like DJI, Insta360, and many more. one of my investor friends even rented an apartment right next to DJI’s office, just to stay close to the talent pool and meet people who might want to build startups.
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Andrew Li@andrewchli·
@TrungTPhan I am in a top CS program now, and even here professors are still figuring it out. the hardest part is redesigning the course so AI becomes part of how students learn and build
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Trung Phan
Trung Phan@TrungTPhan·
Conan delicately handling the AI issue at his Harvard commencement speech: “AI is not a problem at Harvard. Here, professors have been able to flag the use of AI using the sophisticated AI software they use to grade papers…despite your fears, AI can not replace you. It is too busy replacing the creeps from Princeton.”
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Conan salvaged 2026 commencement speech season with his Harvard commencent roast: “The first graduating class in 1642 had only 9 graduates…and somehow they were all legacies. No university in our nation has produced more Nobel laureates or white-collar criminals. So, whether you choose good or evil, know that you are among the very best.”

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Andrew Li@andrewchli·
A friend told me something today that really stuck with me: “I hate my brain now.” Why? He’s super smart, highly educated, and constantly learning. New papers, new tools, new ideas every day. But he realized that because he spent so much time learning, he barely leaves himself time to actually build anything. And honestly, I think a lot of ambitious people fall into this trap. Learning feels productive, so you keep going. One more article, one more podcast, one more skills. But after a while, your brain gets optimized for consuming instead of producing. I’ve definitely made the same mistake before. Recently I’ve been thinking maybe life works better in phases. A few years learning, gathering skills, building taste and leverage. Then a few years just building aggressively from what you already know. Then repeat. Not every season has to be about preparation. And honestly, I think it’s time for me to build again.
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Andrew Li@andrewchli·
feels like the first time ADHD is actually useful
Nicolas Dessaigne@dessaigne

So many people are stuck doing boring work because they don't have the right background or aren't in the right community. But now? Anyone can use ChatGPT for free. And it doesn't cost that much to access the superpowers of Claude Code and Codex. These tools giving people capabilities that used to belong only to highly trained engineers. It doesn't cost much to start building. The people who are going to win, whatever their background, are the ones who just do things. Don't wait to be told.

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Andrew Li@andrewchli·
@Prathkum I felt so useless today on a flight with no access to AI!!!
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Pratham
Pratham@Prathkum·
Confession: I can't do anything without AI anymore. Coding, writing, brainstorming, travelling, cooking, fashion. All with AI.
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Bennett
Bennett@b_nnett·
Codex pets, now on Apple Watch
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Andrew Li@andrewchli·
I've been using @Claude Code's built-in voice dication, and the biggest issue is that it lacks context from the coding environment. File names, commands, and technical terms get mistranscribed into random words. That breaks my workflow. So I built something better: a context-aware voice input that understands my terminal and turns speech into clear instructions for any coding agent.
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Andrew Li@andrewchli·
@garrytan this is also good advice for people who already have work experience. the hard part is not getting trapped by what you already know, but learning fast, staying close to the problem, and eventually seeing something others miss
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Garry Tan
Garry Tan@garrytan·
The companies I love working with in office hours are the ones where the founder has a specific, weird, earned insight that nobody else has. Not "AI for X." A genuine edge that came from living inside a problem. The ones that are dying almost always have the same pattern: technically competent founders building something nobody asked for, moving metrics that don't matter, avoiding the conversation with the one user who'd tell them the truth. The lucky thing is that 2nd type of founder can become the 1st kind if they don't stand still, they are willing to talk to people, try things, and always seek high rate of learning.
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Andrew Li@andrewchli·
I’ve been feeling this more and more recently. Don’t get too trapped by what you already know. The real edge comes from learning fast, staying close to the problem, and slowly noticing things other people miss.
Garry Tan@garrytan

The companies I love working with in office hours are the ones where the founder has a specific, weird, earned insight that nobody else has. Not "AI for X." A genuine edge that came from living inside a problem. The ones that are dying almost always have the same pattern: technically competent founders building something nobody asked for, moving metrics that don't matter, avoiding the conversation with the one user who'd tell them the truth. The lucky thing is that 2nd type of founder can become the 1st kind if they don't stand still, they are willing to talk to people, try things, and always seek high rate of learning.

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Daniel Smidstrup
Daniel Smidstrup@DanielSmidstrup·
I am a founder scare me with 1 word
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Andrew Li@andrewchli·
This resonated: context is everything, especially for coding. I've been exploring the same idea from the voice side by building a context-aware voice dictation tool for developers. Without coding context, file names, commands, and technical terms get mistranscribed too easily during voice dictation. I’m working on something that uses terminal/IDE context to turn speech into clearer instructions for coding agents.
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OpenAI Developers
OpenAI Developers@OpenAIDevs·
It’s Codex Thursday, and yes, we have updates for you. First up: Appshots, a new way to bring the context of what you’re working on into Codex. On your Mac, press Command-Command to attach your app window to a Codex thread. Codex gets both a screenshot and text from the window, including content beyond what’s visible onscreen. Appshots are available across plans on Mac, with enterprise access coming soon.
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Andrew Li@andrewchli·
As a product person, I shipped three features into production code and dropped two live demos in our team group chat in just a week. Ideas move fast in my head, and now I can turn them into demos and code almost immediately. The feedback loop is so short that it reminds me of being a CS student ten years ago, writing code late at night and watching things come alive. Honestly, I missed that feeling. I love where this is going.
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