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Daniel Raffel
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Daniel Raffel
@danielraffel
Recovering thought leader
Katılım Temmuz 2006
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@sampullara Partly because OpenAI was very individual driven (and biased towards action) so very hard to align. Look across surfaces for evidence. Also, because they wanna catch-up to Claude revenue without being constrained. Lots to rebuild now, it prob will be.
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New areas also take years to mature @ goog. In earlier eras, a team could secure enough funding to survive 3–5 years of iteration and refinement. There’s far less appetite for that now, which means more products ship half-baked and never get the runway needed to deliver.
Gergely Orosz@GergelyOrosz
Google’s internal incentives are to build new stuff to get rewarded/promo’d. Maintaining something existing is not that promo-worthy. It’s why every year there’s a new product for the same thing. Oh, migrating customers also not promo-worthy. Why Google is so chaotic
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@simpsoka I think it's because the pace of technological change right now is historically unprecedented. Most of our priors served us extremely well for a long time, which is exactly why adapting this quickly is so difficult.
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I don’t know why people talk in absolutes about agentic design. Especially for coders and builders.
We just invented this stuff. It’s wild to think it won’t radically change over the next year. We’re at the very beginning.
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@simpsoka @ajambrosino Did you all ever explore removing the browser runtime entirely and building with web-style primitives directly on top of Yoga → Dawn → Skia instead?
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I'll admit, I was concerned about the strategy here, and talked with Andrew a bunch about why not native before joining the team.
I haven't felt any of the typical perf or consistency issues you'd normally feel from a non-native app with Codex. This team did a bang-up job on the details.
Andrew Ambrosino@ajambrosino
and there was a lot of *very specific* effort on this
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@sampullara @OfficialLoganK @DynamicWebPaige Because all they care about is the momentary flash of hype they can generate for themselves and their org so they can claim impact when perf rolls around. These folks are not serious and are just playing games. It’s really lame how much they are underserving their customers rn.
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@OfficialLoganK @DynamicWebPaige It is neither fast nor cheap. Why is it called flash?
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Gemini 3.5 feels like the start of a new era for Gemini, we spent the last 2.5 years putting the infrastructure, products, team, etc in place (learning lots of lessons along the way).
The model is the product, please keep the feedback coming!
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Amazing how much the orgs at google self-sabotage and allow their politics to get in the way of their customers. developers.googleblog.com/an-important-u…
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@Dimillian so painful waiting for Mac Studio supplies to replenish
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The bottleneck for iOS dev is truly the CPU now.
It's hard to work on features in parallel and testing if the app is compiled locally.
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@sampullara @praveen27 i dunno why i can't attest to something and allow it to pass all responsibility on to me. it's basically operating in a disabled nanny state.
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this is why it is impossible to use google's creative ai tools for almost anything. the refusals are just constant and that hasn't changed with omni.
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@sampullara this has nothing to do with it press.aboutamazon.com/2022/7/aws-sel…
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i am glad they are choosing a connectivity provider because of their retailing capability. maybe you will able to get free wifi if you agree to deliver a package at your destination.
Sawyer Merritt@SawyerMerritt
Delta Airlines CEO in new interview on why they chose Amazon Leo over @Starlink: “Amazon brings a lot more than just satellite technology. They bring great retailing capability and Amazon Prime and video gaming technologies, which Starlink does not have. I think the opportunities, in terms of the improved bandwidth with a much lower price point than what we’ve ever seen from Starlink, will make a big difference. Of course, we expect Starlink will be warning people that we’re going to go with an inferior product. But I’m not too worried about partnering with Amazon.” bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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Early days but I’ve been building a cross-platform audio framework for standalone apps and plugins that can run React-based UI as fully native, GPU-accelerated interfaces without shipping a browser or WebView. danielraffel.me/2026/05/16/pul…
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someone just asked me to swap their aisle seat a little bit in front of mine with my aisle seat in the same class. a fair exchange like what happens 99% of the time. sorry no drama today.
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@simpsoka start with a cold install on a clean machine and focus on putting on the hat of a user who is not very technical. set up a clean VM and you will stumble on many confusing messages that make it tricky to get up and running quickly.
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Windows Codex users. Tell me the good bad and ugly. Where do we need to dig in?
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Anthropic is on record saying this is their biggest bet after code (they have or are actively developing a wet lab for simple tests)
Krinza@krinza
in the next 3 years, every major AI lab will spin up its own bio arm and in-house wet labs. biology is the next big bet in AI after code pay attention.
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I suppose the one upside of running out of Codex Pro and Claude Max quota each week is that I am encouraged to test other models.
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I've left OpenAI and the Codex team to build Blackstar: A new hardware company building the future of human-computer interaction.
We believe that software is solved. Building apps is now easy, but the next meaningful improvement in human-AI communication requires changing the OS & hardware. That's why we're building a new device entirely.
I'm also excited to announce our $12m seed round led by @AbstractVC, with participation from @naval, @SVAngel, @chapterone, and Timeless, among other amazing angels who've supported us from the old Alex days.
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@simonw This is a very good post, Simon. I appreciate you spelling out the importance of access across tiers. Thank you for forcing me to reconsider my earlier perspective.
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Wrote up Anthropic's self-own about Claude Code pricing from this afternoon on my blog - it turned out they'd reversed course just as I hit publish, so I've tried to update it to reflect the current state
simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/22/cl…
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