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We were waiting for @gdb - we got @sama. Not bad. #StripeSessions

The jump from working with a chatbot to having an agent that actually helps automate a process requires a real amount of work. Most companies will need to have dedicated people that are responsible for bringing automation to their teams, instead of leaving this up to every individual employee. Partly because the work is more technical than we imagine today, and partly because it’s just hard to do this as a side project. The job spec is to map out new workflows with agents, implement new systems to deploy agents, make sure the agent has all the right (up to date) context to work with, wiring up internal systems to connect to the agents, creating evals for the agents, figuring out where the human is in the loop, managing the system when there are new upgrades, helping with the change management of the existing business process, and so on. These jobs may come from IT or engineering, or live directly in the business function itself. They’ll be called different things depending on the company, and in some sense it’s the future of software engineering that you’ll see a huge growth of in non-tech companies. Most companies will have to be hiring for this now or in the future, and it’s another example of the kind of new jobs that will be created in AI.

I got selected for @buildclub_'s Women in AI Accelerator! 4 weeks. Live workshops. Real building. Demo Day. AI Champion certification, partnered with @v0 by @vercel 🔥 You don't stay sharp by (only) talking about the work. You stay sharp by doing it. Let's goo! 🚀

Microsoft employees watching Anthropic ship better AI features for office than Copilot.

I have been in San Francisco for over 10 years and the energy right now is unlike anything I have experienced before. It is not just hype. The Bay Area captured $126 billion in AI funding in 2025 alone, roughly 60% of all global AI investment. More than half of every venture dollar in the US went to SF and Silicon Valley startups last year. The density of talent here is staggering. Over 76,000 AI professionals in the region. Hayes Valley got renamed "Cerebral Valley" because of how many AI founders and hacker houses showed up. Office space demand from AI startups hit a record 7.9 million square feet (my office rent doubled 😡). Every conversation at a coffee shop is about models, agents, or infrastructure. There is a compounding loop happening that no other city can replicate right now.

@jocarrasqueira @Google You know I love your videos, but John is the real star ⭐️

‼️This is what happens behind the scenes when you try to record a wrap-up video of @Google partnership announcements and own a cat 😂 I’m so glad he got to interrupt me and is recovering well ❤️‍🩹 We need John 🐈 around for more cuddles and vibe coding demo inspiration!

@ankurnagpal Would love to read this! Thanks for writing this!

I wrote a 20,000+ word Notion guide on every single strategy I know to pay less in taxes this year The catch? Most of these strategies cannot be implemented after December 31 Leave a comment below and I'll DM you the full guide (in return for candid feedback!)

Moving to SF is realizing this show wasn't a comedy, it was a documentary.

At @recallai, we ran 18M EC2 instances last month. We use Rust to process 3TB/second of raw video in real-time. If you’re a cracked engineer in SF, DM me your GitHub – if you interview with us, we’ll gift you a free bundle of K&R’s C, TLPI and TCP/IP Illustrated Vol 1 🔥

McLaren is the biggest Max Verstappen fan.

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“Move Fast and Break Things” vs “Move Slow and Forge Things” “Move fast and break things” was a something we invented at Facebook to get a bunch of entitled Ivy League kids to grind for us. It worked. Then, all of Silicon Valley mistakenly confused correlation with causation and adopted this mode for themselves without questioning it. In a world of AI, those that continue to pray at this altar will be the first to lose their jobs. Moving fast and breaking things is exactly the low hanging fruit that AI will automate. Learn to move slow and forge things. Make things that can stand the test of time. Learn discipline and process and you’ll have a job forever.

@GJarrosson YC

🚀 YC F25 is HERE — and I just published the full breakdown you’ve been waiting for. After weeks of 1:1s with founders and deep dives into the batch, I pulled together: 🔥 The entire YC F25 startup list 📊 Category breakdowns + % share 🤖 Theme analysis (spoiler: AI is still everywhere) 🧠 Insider look at which YC partners backed what ⭐ And our top favorite companies of the batch If you’re an investor, founder, or just YC-curious, this is the most comprehensive look at F25 anywhere. 📩 Want to read the full analysis + download the complete list? Comment "YC" and I'll send it to you ⚡ Curious what surprised us most this cycle? Why certain founders are breaking out? Or which categories YC partners are really leaning into? Drop a comment!

@tomcrawshaw01 Agent

I've built 50+ AI agents and every single one started with this simple blueprint... Most people jump straight into building and wonder why their agent doesn't work. The Agent Blueprint fixes this in 10 minutes: - Forces you to define the actual problem (not just "automate stuff") - Maps out exactly when and how it runs - Identifies what data it needs access to - Breaks the logic into clear steps - Specifies where outputs should go Once you fill it out, you can just describe it in plain English to an AI tool that builds the entire agent for you. Perfect if you're non-technical. No connecting nodes, no dragging boxes. Just chat your way to a working agent. The blueprint includes: - The 5-question framework - Full live tutorial showing me go from idea to working agent in under 10 minutes - Cheat sheet with common trigger types, action verbs, data sources, output destinations, and 5 quick patterns you can steal - Follow + comment "AGENT" and I'll DM you the blueprint

@calcsam BOOK

icymi we wrote a new agents book: patterns for building ai agents it has everything you need to take your agents from prototype to production, like agent design patterns, the basics of security, etc reply to this tweet with BOOK and we'll dm you so you can get a copy

I swear we’re gonna get AGI before reliable A/V setup

@Zephyr_hg News

I never run out of content to post anymore. Built an automation that monitors 50+ news sources, scores articles for relevance, and writes social posts automatically. It finds trending topics in my niche before they explode everywhere else. Saves me 15-20 hours monthly and keeps me ahead of every trend. Comment "NEWS" and I'll DM it to you (must be following)

If I were launching a services business today, here are the 10 tools I'd use to hit $1M in year one: 1. @n8n_io - Build an AI workforce. Automate proposals, client onboarding, reporting. We saved 20 hours/week on repetitive tasks within month one. 2. @SpaceChenst (Good Operator) - Your outsourced finance department. Real-time P&L by client, cash flow forecasting, and fractional CFO guidance. Know your margins before they know you. 3. @NotionHQ - Operating system for everything. Client wiki, project tracking, SOPs, team knowledge base. Start with templates, customize as you scale. 4. @WisprFlow - Dictate proposals/emails/anything. 3x faster than typing. Perfect for busy founders. 5. @useMotion - Calendar that thinks. Auto-schedules tasks around client meetings, ensures nothing drops. Like having an EA before you can afford one. 6. ContactOut - Find decision-makers fast. Email and phone for any LinkedIn profile. Turn cold outreach warm by reaching the right person immediately. 7. @TallyForms - Beautiful forms with conditional logic, payment collection, and Notion integration. Goodbye, Google Forms. 8. @loom - Async communication superpower. Record SOPs once, use forever. Client updates in 2 minutes vs 30-minute calls. 9. @mixpanel - Track what matters. Which services drive retention? What's your client LTV? Data-driven decisions from day one. 10. @mercury - Banking that scales. Virtual cards for each client project, expense management built-in. Clean books from the start. What should I add to this list?

And this, is exactly why you need to build the application layer with agents natively embedded.

🚨 Introducing the AI Apps 50: Startup Edition Ever wondered how startups are spending their money when it comes to AI? Our team at @a16z worked with @mercury to crunch the numbers and rank the top applications by spend. The list + what we learned from it👇