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@DCoulbourne Peak Muse era

WITHOUT GOOGLING: What 2000s rock band do you think made the most money? Fine print: - their most popular music must have been between 2000 and 2010 - they must have a permanent drummer and guitarist

Maybe an absurd idea, but would it make sense for @laravel to have clean solution for ACP/A2A. I know the scope is really for text editors at the moment, but would love to let users BYO claude/Gemini etc. to my Laravel app. agentclientprotocol.com/get-started/in…

@signulll CDOs come and go depending on the market cycle lol

which product in the market today has effectively lost product market fit after once actually having it?

Maybe foundational models won’t be commoditised because you just know GPT is Pepsi everytime.

@edels0n The founders have sold everything that the company was and are just using it as a vessel for their next thing right? Surely keeping everything as a public company makes this way more difficult (and expensive) though...

That was quick

@AlasdairGold At least we didn't panic 😏

Cristian Romero's season with Tottenham is indeed over due to that knee injury. In keeping with an utterly ridiculous season that Roberto De Zerbi has lost his captain and Mohammed Kudus in his first week in charge.

@simonw I suspect it's Bing and Brave indexes augmented by additional data from Reddit and other direct partner deals.

The feature I most want from AI labs right now is documentation on which underlying search engines they use when their chat tools run a search OpenAI and Anthropic and Meta AI all have search and I have NO IDEA what index they are using (I would hope tha Gemini uses Google!)

@reidjjackson If they want to achieve Google Search levels of ubiquity the issue isn't reaching and persuading TBPN's audience. It's literally everyone else in the world that's the problem.

Ben Thompson pulling absolutely zero punches on the OpenAI/TBPN deal this morning:

@ryanflorence P1 moves down to P2 because of AI, the market is going to produce more software while spending less. That's salaries going down, and less headcount in orgs. Unsure how you come to your final conclusion?

1/3: You're probably not going to lose your job. Here's some Econ 101 AI shifts the supply curve to the right. We can produce way more software with way less So we increase "Quantity Demanded" (not "Demand") with the same resources You don't lose your job, you just make more.

@paulg Another read is that differentiation is often greatly overstated, and rarely exists. Most companies are simply competing on distinctiveness. Lots of research on this from the Ehrenberg Bass Institute. marketingscience.info/news-and-insig…

The Brand Age: paulgraham.com/brandage.html

@sama Same energy x.com/Oracle/status/…

First, the good part of the Anthropic ads: they are funny, and I laughed. But I wonder why Anthropic would go for something so clearly dishonest. Our most important principle for ads says that we won’t do exactly this; we would obviously never run ads in the way Anthropic depicts them. We are not stupid and we know our users would reject that. I guess it’s on brand for Anthropic doublespeak to use a deceptive ad to critique theoretical deceptive ads that aren’t real, but a Super Bowl ad is not where I would expect it. More importantly, we believe everyone deserves to use AI and are committed to free access, because we believe access creates agency. More Texans use ChatGPT for free than total people use Claude in the US, so we have a differently-shaped problem than they do. (If you want to pay for ChatGPT Plus or Pro, we don't show you ads.) Anthropic serves an expensive product to rich people. We are glad they do that and we are doing that too, but we also feel strongly that we need to bring AI to billions of people who can’t pay for subscriptions. Maybe even more importantly: Anthropic wants to control what people do with AI—they block companies they don't like from using their coding product (including us), they want to write the rules themselves for what people can and can't use AI for, and now they also want to tell other companies what their business models can be. We are committed to broad, democratic decision making in addition to access. We are also committed to building the most resilient ecosystem for advanced AI. We care a great deal about safe, broadly beneficial AGI, and we know the only way to get there is to work with the world to prepare. One authoritarian company won't get us there on their own, to say nothing of the other obvious risks. It is a dark path. As for our Super Bowl ad: it’s about builders, and how anyone can now build anything. We are enjoying watching so many people switch to Codex. There have now been 500,000 app downloads since launch on Monday, and we think builders are really going to love what’s coming in the next few weeks. I believe Codex is going to win. We will continue to work hard to make even more intelligence available for lower and lower prices to our users. This time belongs to the builders, not the people who want to control them.

Pretty consistently get better outcomes using Gemini over ChatGPT for general work. The ChatGPT app is a bit nicer, but Gemini responses are pretty clearly better for me.

@awilkinson @VijarKohli It’s not that Gemini is good is that Google Search is already LLM based. AI overviews and AI mode dwarf ChatGPT. Google search will be the next Google search.

@VijarKohli I'm not dismissing Google at all. I'm saying legacy google search is dead - LLMs.

Every financial journalist seems to be shouting about how we’re in a datacenter bubble. The bears say that OpenAI and Anthropic are burning money, and that AI isn’t adding real economic value. It reminds of how people attacked Google in the early days because it didn’t have a business model (we all know how that turned out). I would argue that: 1. Nobody is going back to traditional search. We increasingly demand the intelligence, reasoning, and analysis that LLMs provide. This requires inference compute (in addition to massive amounts of training), which requires datacenters. Insatiable demand for compute is here to stay, and it’s going to keep compounding for decades. 2. OpenAI has captured consumer intent far beyond Google Search. Monetization is only a matter of time (they are slowly rolling this out, but I expect it will quickly become one of the world's greatest businesses). 3. If you want to demonstrate economic value from AI, look no further than the world of programming. Talented programmers were previously one of the world’s most finite and expensive resources. Now, 100 of them live in my Mac’s terminal in Claude code. Me and my companies are pouring tens of thousands of dollars into Claude credits each month because it’s finally delivering real, economic value—doing $200,000 of human work with $5,000 of AI tokens. This is about to ripple through the entire economy, delivering GDP growth, massive amounts of innovation, and empowering everybody to build. Ignore the noise. LFG. (Keen to hear from the bears 🐻)

@JackEllis At best he's rage-baiting

Time to block this guy. Imagine waking up and deciding to attack Jeffrey Way of all people. Jeffrey has done so much for our community and the idea that he is selfish is completely unhinged. Small business layoffs are not the same as big corporation layoffs. They are painful.

@dvassallo The alleged failure has an echo of success that still rings louder than most.

In ~5 years the Tailwind creators made millions of dollars for themselves and enough money to never need to work again by monetizing a beloved open source library, something that almost no one manages to do. Where’s the failure in that? I would be very proud of that story.

@coffeinatus @37signals I mean you’re always going to have a single source of failure with DNS. I actually don’t think the cloud exit was really about this at all…

@37signals I have serious question - what is the point of "leaving the cloud" besides money you save, if there is still a single point of failure? Can you build at least your own status page that would be immune to this? Thanks 🙏

We're having widespread trouble on all of our apps. We're looking into a fix now. So sorry about this.

@typesfast Still required in California?

With Europe finally eliminating the cookies law which has plagued the internet with pop-ups since 2011, we can finally take stock of it's impact. How many total people were prosecuted for this crime?

@samlambert Hilarious that people rage about the removal of a free tier for one product, while there's also people raging about the addition of a free tier for Affinity by Canva. Some people just love having problems.

This is probably the last thing i will say about the free tier. Time to move on and build the future.

@PovilasKorop The value of a channel to an advertiser doesn't grow with their reach linearly, it's exponential. If I want to reach 100k people there are 1,000s of alternatives, if I want to reach 90% of the world I have two options. That's why the platforms can skim so much off the top.

Your kids wanna be YouTubers? Show them my numbers. YouTube itself pays me $300/month (that's pre-taxes) for a channel with 150k+ subs and 200k views per month. So, to EARN from YouTube, you have to be closer to Mr Beast level. Or earn from other products, on top of YouTube.

@jbrooksuk Shad Vue components, or something else?

We chose to stick with Vue for the Forge rewrite and it’s been fantastic for us. No complaints!