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product usage ≠ user intent

@Gena_I_Gorlin @mbateman This is so awesome thanks for sharing! Your kids are brilliant!

What Montessori kids talk about when they both wake up early

@BoMiaoFinance @zhengyaojiang What good is the eval if you can just start at a taller hill?

The common thread: every example has a tight, objective metric. Parse+render ms. FLOPS. Pitch velocity RMSE. Autoresearch doesn't know what "good" looks like — it just climbs whatever hill you give it. Which means the bottleneck isn't the loop. It's eval infrastructure. The Shopify and GPU kernel cases work because those teams already had benchmarks running. Most codebases don't. The first question before running this isn't "which domain" — it's "which part of my system actually has a metric precise enough to optimize."

Autoresearch has been out for 2 weeks. The community is trying to apply it to everything with a measurable metric, here are some successful attempts: 🧵 (1/6)

“The market is always optimizing for where the river flows” #economics

@intrepid_p @newlightvisuals @SuperRare Your work and story is worth holding on to!

Just noticed I’ve quietly made it to #6 on @SuperRare's trending artists list for the past 12 months, with 38 sales at an average of 0.81Ξ. In a market like this, that feels pretty surreal, and very humbling. I’m genuinely grateful to everyone who has supported the work, collected a piece, or simply followed along. I’ve lived my life a little differently to most, way out on the fringe of society more often than in the centre, and that has more often been met with scepticism than celebration. So finding support here, in this community, has felt incredibly special. Massive thanks 🙏🫂

@bunsen 👀

Who is building the craziest stuff in Miami?

@pratyushmaini @joecole Would you think this is not different than children?

If I had to compress my PhD into one idea, it is this "The data a model sees early in training leaves an imprint on its representations that is very hard to undo later" This thread runs through - Rephrasing the Web - Safety Pretraining - TOFU This is the Finetuner’s Fallacy🧵

@samtwtss lol. Says a designer who used only designer known words to prompt AI to design.

bro, it's so over for designers google stitch is insane. 🤯

@dawufi I want your product.

its me using a product. just set it off to go do stuff. 3 day free trial, i just like seeing what is out there and working. highly doubt this thing will be effective for me today, but if it works for selling headless saas i might use it for the auto gtm system which is built more around content and sales than billing etc. worst case scenario i learn what i dont like about it

ngl this is pretty cool

@jfeiwell Pre-ordered! Looks absolutely beautiful!

And if you're interested: arenamag.com/silicon

Here's the thing about this book, I didn't want to do it When Max first told me about the plan to publish Silicon my initial reaction was that it was a distraction. It's clear that Arena has pmf and the only bottleneck is awareness. So doing a book seemed like a side quest that would result in losing focus Max disagreed and went on a journey to find the best book printers in the world. I would hear "the Italians are quoting us at x" and "the Belgians want y". He would be plucking through different packages of real silicon wafers to place in the cover (really!). There would be times we'd be doing last minute updates to the magazine and the team would be working into the wee hours on small details of the book We have a culture of 'disagree and commit' so I was priced in, we needed to do everything possible to make this book successful. @mualphaxi @juliasteinberg @JHupfl @zaitoon @theointhearena did more than that, creating what I believe will become one of the most recognizable and lauded books in Silicon Valley lore Additionally, the process helped forge our vision as a business. We have been stuck trying to figure out how to do "news", when in reality that was trying to fit a round peg into a square hole. We aren't a news company, we're a storytelling company. One that prides ourselves on turning green stories evergreen Thus, our vision as a business was codified in the beginning of 2026 as I wrote the team: Our vision is a multimedia empire that tells Great American Stories. A print magazine. A books division. An audio division. And eventually, a film division None of this clarity would have been found without Max's dogged ambition to do this book. When they first came to the office last month my reaction was immediate, if there was any doubt left, there's none anymore. I was wrong. So so wrong This book is a work of art and truly one of a kind. It's the first of many and just the start. Enjoy

@walls_jason1 Cool story. Glad you took Mark’s advice. Keep telling it!

Yesterday Mark Cuban reposted my work, DM'd me, and told me to keep telling my story. So here it is. I'm a Master Electrician. IBEW Local 369. 15 years pulling wire in Kentucky. Zero coding background. I didn't go to Stanford. I went to trade school. Every week I'd show up to a home where someone just bought a Tesla or a Rivian. And every time, someone had already told them they needed a $3,000-$5,000 panel upgrade to install a charger. 70% of the time? They didn't need it. The math is in the NEC — Section 220.82. Load calculations. But nobody was doing them for homeowners. Electricians upsell. Dealers don't know. And the homeowner just pays. I got angry enough to build something about it. I found @claudeai. No coding experience. I just started talking to it like I'd explain a job to an apprentice. "Here's how load calcs work. Here's the NEC code. Now help me build a tool that does this." 6 months later — @ChargeRight is live. Real software. Stripe payments. PDF reports. NEC 220.82 calculations automated. $12.99 instead of a $500 truck roll. I'm still pulling wire. I still take service calls. I wake up at 5:05 AM for work. But something shifted. Yesterday @vivilinsv published my story as Claude Builder Spotlight #1. Mark Cuban saw it. The Claude community showed up. And for the first time, I felt like this thing I built in my kitchen might actually matter. I'm not a tech founder. I'm a dad who wants to coach little league and be home for dinner. I just happened to build something that helps people. If you're in the trades and thinking about using AI — do it. The barrier isn't technical skill. It's believing you're allowed to try. EVchargeright.com

@karsenthil I wish i could work on this problem.

Looking for a creative co-founder to build NYC's next great indoor playground and a neighborhood institution I bring: capital, 20+ yrs as an operator/founder + NYC resident, and 8 yrs of parent experience You bring: a strong design/aesthetic POV and genuine obsession with creating spaces kids (and parents) love. DMs open if this resonates with you or someone you know.

@cryptoseneca this also gave me pause because the amount of steps we’ve taken from getting from today’s power tools to yesterday-years manual tools was very crude process. Which makes me think how crude today will look relative to tomorrow-years.

@lesgreys 🎯🎯🎯

it's actually nuts that we used to write every single line of code. wtf were we thinking

@Yuchenj_UW This feels completely wrong since it doesn’t capture the increased context window a human brain.

Building products for AI agents will become bigger than building for humans. Human attention is finite: 8 billion people × 24 hours/day. And with declining birth rates, the global attention pool is shrinking. AI agents are the opposite. Their population grows with compute.

@SheisWorthyCo @synthesischool No it didn’t. She does a lot of math in her head but not multiplication table.

@lesgreys @synthesischool Just wondering, Did it help ur littles memorize the multiplication table? Like head math

Very impressed with @synthesischool math tutor. My 6yo is really enjoying her interactions with addition, multiplication, and division. The interactive games are fun and fairly intuitive when paired with the AI voice instructions. Love how it also requires her to respond via voice in some portions. I wish it intertwined more voice interaction when explaining instead of giving the entire instruction to her. Had some very lite bugs that my kid notices more than me eg. Voice wave not properly moving. Restart fixed it. My favorite part is the emails telling me what she worked on, for how long, and how she did. I’d say it can be a little more explicit but overall I think it’s a great tool and will be incorporating it for the long-haul.

@MikeyShulman Congrats! You guys have APIs to integrate with?

We launched Suno 2 years ago to let the world feel the joy of making music Since then, over 100M people all over the world have used Suno, from music lovers to Grammy winners. We reached a new milestone: 2M paid subscribers, $300M ARR. We are building the entertainment platform of the future. Endless scrolling and passive consumption have flattened culture and reduced people’s taste to a homogeneous, lowest common denominator. People yearn for more, and the future of consumer entertainment is creative. Suno lets everyone actively participate in music culture creation, bringing to life the music that’s inside millions of people. The future is creative entertainment. PS: We’re hiring. If you love the nexus of technology and art, please get in touch: suno.com/careers

This holds good water! I’ve gone from ~skeptic to “okay some of the ground work has been done, we can actually create a decent tech-forward city”. Here for it.

@pfista If I just stay unemployed this is never a problem. lol.

Think twice about that side project of yours

Decentralized chip manufacturing coming soon.